almost like a scam disney took everybody's money okay this one wins is my favorite i will say the
grand floridian feels like you're in the middle of a construction site right now they do have a
sign right here no trespassing walt disney world project team only no photography all right guys we
are the magic kingdom parking still Magic Kingdom tram is the only one that is back i don't get why
the other three parks do not have trams yet like imagine you go to a store right you need to go to
the second story and for your entire life there's always been an escalator to take you up there tell
people with mobility it can make your experience a little easier right but then you come back
and it stares you're just like what happened to escalator oh no it's right there it's work it can
work perfectly fine we have a lot to cover it's been a rough week for disney we're gonna have
a lot of hot takes we're gonna explore all the resorts and we're gonna see the new easter eggs
so i'm gonna show you guys a little easier way to get to the polynesian first stop of the day
we're going to the palio it's a little loud again resort hopping isn't what it used to be you just
can't show up and go park you literally have to like take the monorail in there's a little secret
if you're over here in the hero's lot just walk where the tram is right and then over here there's
a crosswalk to get over to the pilot this is like the cast member parking so you can't park here
but you can walk through it and then you can just walk right across the street and you're at the
polly so you don't have to waste your time with the monorail and all the security and everything
you save like a half an hour just by taking this little shortcut all right so again i parked over
there and here's a lot just walk right along the tram area because the cast member parking
and here's the crosswalk that goes right over to the poly one of those
like little hidden secrets that only like cast members really know about this little shortcut
look at this retro like fence this is straight out of the 90s right there so you just follow
this little sidewalk it'll take you right to the poly one of the things we're doing today right
we're gonna be looking for the easter eggs if you didn't know disney does for the easter like week
the culinary team and the bakery team create these elaborate chocolate eggs that are like disney and
they're so beautiful and they like change them out every single year so i love like resort hopping
and spotting them all i don't remember if the polly has any though i do love their trash cans
here little maui right there trash please mahalo now one of the first little things i want to
talk about is the guardians of the galaxy cosmic rewind previews it has gone horrendously for me
that has not gone very well so first off they did a d23 like preview that you could get now as a d23
member i pay like 120 a year they send you like four magazines and you're supposed to get these
offerings for these different private events at disney they're kind of like special and unique
to d23 members now d23 is like the official disney fan club i've gone to the events years in the past
with chris and they're pretty easy to get into now i'm sure you see like these advertisements
for the d23 club all over disney property now is lilo's playhouse even open right now and the
answer is no lilo's playhouse is currently closed now so they were having a special preview just for
t23 members is gonna be like kind of my first opportunity to see if i could get a preview
right i get online like 45 minutes before the time is supposed to drop i then wait there for an hour
and then wait i get in and they're sold out within seconds and it's just like you got to be kidding
me so every single d23 thing i've tried to get all these events they've sold out in seconds i've not
gotten any of them i almost feel like it was like a scam it's like disney took everybody's money
and there's only probably what there's probably a thousand spots for this guardian's preview right
there's millions of d23 members the ratio just doesn't make sense because they're not capping how
many members there are your chances of getting the preview are very very slim and then today is the
annual pass holder previews right log on wait in line for an hour right and they're sold out it's
so frustrating because when universal had their velocity annual password previews and previews
for everyone i literally rode the velocicoaster like a half dozen times before it even like
opened because there's so many annual pass holder previews i just feel like disney dropped the ball
with like this whole preview event for kha'zix rewind i know very few people that actually got it
now they redid the monorail loading platform but the beams just looked a little too industrial they
just look like these giant steel beams painted brown i do like the new entrance though it feels
a little more wide open and peaceful you gotta come visit maui now they did bring back delays
so if you do come stay at the polynesian you can get laid we got some new arrivals here this is
actually pretty cool these are like coasters and it has the retro tickets from how disney used to
operate 25 for those coasters that's honestly like a bargain i'm really surprised i think
they would be like 40 bucks and it comes with all the tickets and you got this simple ceramic plate
the green design is interesting but 30 bucks for that they did get some new stuff over here seven
piece hospitality set 100 i think it comes with like a chip tray put your dips and little hors
d'oeuvres pineapple i guess you can drink out of them i leave these like coconut mugs disney's
polynesian resort we're gonna have twenty dollars for that now disney's made this whole collection
of all the resorts as ornaments this is gonna be 30 so there's the polynesian and then in the
back they have the lobby little maui mini and mickey they still have all the olu merch that
they brought over for milani they have luggage aloha sunny days all the characters hanging
out you're looking at 225 for this luggage and on the back it has this design a little
shell right there fifteen dollars they have this really adorable keychain with the overall on a
little wrap forty dollars you can get your standard little oh loop plush now everything
does say a lonnie on it i think it's really cool that they did bring some of the ilani merch over
here to the poly uh boutique is the only bit of easter that i can find this one's gonna be 75
this easter basket is 105. this one is 160. this comes with with some coffee some chocolates and
a mug not too much easterness going on in the polynesian um now we're going to go to the site
of where the new dvc hotel is going to be big news i find is interesting right because reflections
was supposed to open now that's been kind of wiped from disney's search history so i don't know when
that's coming out let's go take a look at where this new hotel is going to be a lot of people
are upset about it they used to have a thing called the spirit of aloha over here the spirit
of aloha is going away i'm okay with that i did the thing once it was just kind of like the quick
service food from captain cooks and the show was fine there were all these pillars in the way and
you couldn't see anything unless you paid a crap ton of money to get a good seat so i'm okay with
spirit of aloha going away it was one of the shows you like do once and you never do again unlike
hoopty do where you do that every couple years because it's such a fun experience now so this
is where the hotel's going to be i think this is where the pool is supposed to be then there's the
main tower now the main tower looks interesting again all we have is one piece of concept art
we'll see when they start building it did recently refurb all these rooms they kind of made them like
moana themed so right here is where the pool is going to be again it's not blocked off literally
just walk to the sidewalk this is where the sign used to be the check-in little water fountain over
there now you can only walk up to this area fenced off but so there's a spirit of aloha
back there this is kind of like a little waiting room you'd wait in so yeah this is probably all
gonna be torn down this water fountain i'm gonna document it before it all goes away probably just
like an ice chest and you can see some of the trays for that the food would go on right there
i just find this strange that you can literally walk like all the way up to the entrance that's
not blocked off yet they just ripped off the sign right there you can see the pipes all rusting
it's kind of sad that this kind of like unique foliage area is going to be going away
there's another little pathway over here again if you walk over it's all ripped off it's gonna
be interesting transition right you got the polynesian one of disney's original resort
date the exact same then you're gonna kind of have a modern polynesian hotel
and then you're gonna have the grand floridian we'll see how it looks disney needs more resorts
because literally every single room is like booked up and it's crazy because they're charging five
to six hundred dollars a night for just basic standard rooms and they're all booked up they do
have a sign right here no trespassing walt disney world project team only no photography or video
recording unless authorized just let this place sit he got like grass growing out of the gutters
here let me know down in the comments what do you think about the new dvc resort are you excited for
it what do you think of the design i wonder what's going to happen to this walkway when they're
building the hotel it is a great waterfront view we're going to the dvc villa right now i don't
know why they put these banners up all over every single resort the world's most magical celebration
like so everywhere just have these posters kind of plastered everywhere and they just
look kind of like cheap they don't really fit the theming in any of the resorts right here we go
now they always have this bald eagle egg that's chocolate but they've added these little bunnies
are these chocolate and i think these are ceramic now these bunnies fit the theming
right kind of the victorian era and they have this chocolate sculpture this is of the fountain
in the lobby here this one is year round a little shot of the fountain this is one of my favorite
fountains here disney got mary poppins penguins that's kind of the new theme that they're going
for the grand floridian is like mary poppins here's a little sign su what does this stand for
the penguin then you have some of bert's chalk art it's all street art i do always love that lobby
but they just kind of put out a couple ceramic bunnies when that was it kind of wanted a special
egg or something in the lobby now the grand floridian they have refurbs on the rooms recently
there's a new initiative to like refurb the entire thing the four seasons chapeck went and was like
our flagship resort isn't our flagship resort the four seasons is the best hotel on property we
have to retheme the grand they've been working on the past couple years my problem is the grand is
supposed to feel like luxury and it feels almost like imitation luxury it's like on the surface it
looks luxury but then when you kind of dive deeper it seems kind of like cheap disney's grand
floridian all right what's your favorite thing at the grand floridian terry my great my favorite
thing is the grand ceridian yeah yes the gasoline thank you all my nice guests that's my favorite
thing at the resort and now the grand is where they could just go balls to the wall with all the
eggs here i look so excited to see these so here's the first one it's a gator looking after its egg
i think it's a gator on a nest interesting that they have a gator chocolate sculpture at the
grand oh this one is great oh my gosh guys see if snow white with her little cottage then you have
the seven dwarves down there and there are mine carts and you can see the mine all lit up it looks
just like seven doors mine train that's great i love this sculpture i didn't even recognize
a little dopey over there all right so i think that's baby pegasus right there we're trying to
figure out this egg and then we can't figure out this egg it's got little ponies over it i think
it's fantasia but i also think whoever made it was definitely like a brony we have one here with chip
and dale fighting over a little egg look down here this little easter eggs they have a little mickey
egg right there i can't even imagine how many man hours to make these eggs this is new grand cottage
estate 2022 for christmas they have a gingerbread house here now they have a little cottage doesn't
look like a cottage the little bunny over here on the side of the cottage they have a thing called
a hot cross bun i thought it was a pretzel at first look at this giant cinderella carriage
it's got jewels on it i think it's massive they got the 50th anniversary license plate it says
cindy 50. love that little detail now you have canine crunchies right here this is the commercial
all the dalmatians watched during 101 dalmatians you can see it on the tv in the back i love the
amount of detail they have on this okay this one wins is my favorite it's mr and mrs potato head
taking pictures with little aliens this photo spot on a piece of paper mrs potato head but then in
the back you got an alien that's like drunk and hungover eating in the back so that's the college
program spirit animal in the back they ask you how you are you just have to say that you're fine when
you're not really fine but you just can't get into it because they would never understand here you
just have a basket of bunny bread and eggs now this is the up house again all those wonderful
balloons right there then the detail in here is great you have carl and ellie's mailbox you have
carl in the window sitting in his chair just look how much detail right just the amount of care and
when they even have a little doug back there they have doug in the back window they have grogu right
here then they have the navarro nummies down there little macaroons they make a little hit of mickey
all right so we'll move on from mando to the honey pot then over here we just have
horses and they have an encanto egg butterfly surrounding it you can see the house right there
is bruno hiding in there though i don't see him and then down here they have the candle and over
here they have spaceship earth that's all lit up right with the new lights and then the king on top
figment just so impressive all these sculptures and over here we have walt disney right here
this is really cool because it's like him like going like the blueprint right for the castle
and then a little bit of tinkerbell magic pixie dust turns it into the current castle
and then walt's nametag then you have the little bird from the pixar short
with the little crustacean next to him a lilo surfboard was stitched right there now i love
this a113 this is the easter egg that they put in all pixar movies never thought in a million
years i'd be saying this but here's an egg of treasure planet that is crazy the map right there
i would say they're going for the princess and the frog but it's the rainforest cafe frog that
they have interesting choice and they have civil wars black widow cap hawkeye avengers tower iron
man on the side now these are all hand painted and then here they have the avengers logo now this one
is here year round of cinderella's castle no i personally really enjoyed luca they have a luca
egg right here and if you look closely the little fish that luca farms is down here but
down below this is just amazing i think they have outdone themselves this year here's raya
looks like remy was painting eggs of all his favorite people and then they have gusto's
cookbook right here and then you even have ratatouille right there i can't get over how
impressive these all are and then over here they have a giant elsa egg all the eggs are
double-sided so on the back side of one with wall they have the door for the casting agency
and then they have mickey down there and now on the back right here of this egg you have thor
captain marvel there's a little shot at the back of the encanto one the whole familiar right there
i'm speechless they outdid themselves this year the culinary team of the bakery team wow those
eggs are so much detail so many easter eggs i love it it is worth a trip out to disney from
like tampa or something to come see those easter eggs so good i really thought they were gonna like
budget cut this year because right that's what we've kind of seen everywhere but i feel like
they went so hard with those easter eggs now one of the things i want to talk about is there's
a rumor that they're going to refurb the lobby here at the grand as we know everyone loves this
lobby i know they have live music of the piano every now and then i haven't seen it in a while
but so the rumor is modern you know they've kind of updated the rooms they redid citricos
and they had the enchanted rose here it kind of looks luxury but it's like they shoehorn in the
ip i'm okay with them kind of like refurbing it right hear me out right i know you're upset the
grand floridian died for me when they took away the band here there's no turning back i think
by them taking away the band that was kind of like the final straw for me where the grand no
longer was one of my favorites because that's what really made this resort different you come in you
hear the live band playing disney music there was so much synergy going on and they removed it and i
feel like its soul was taken away by removing that band now we're kind of left with this kind of like
lifeless shell of the victorian era they got to do something i don't know how modern it's going to be
i'm okay with change but it's got to be done right and that's what kind of worries me because i think
with the current state of how the grand floridian is it will never be what it used to be 1900 park
fair is still not back yet as you can see all the construction crews are going in yeah they
are really tearing that building apart matted up these walls the villas at disney's grand floridian
spa resort a brand new way to stay magical he's a little better shot of the construction disney's
filming some sort of commercial over there i will say the grand floridian feels like you're in the
middle of a construction site right now it's not as peaceful and elegant as it used to be it
makes sense i gotta refurb and build stuff but if you're thinking about stay at the grand think of
um maybe someplace else if you want some peace and quiet it's just a giant construction site a bunch
of you guys were asking about uh the bud rentals because we just went on that fishing excursion so
pontoon boats right you still can come out and rent them the little sea doos the little like
uh boats i believe they took them away i don't think they're coming back i think there was like
they're leaking oil and stuff and it wasn't good for the environment which makes sense so they've
taken those away so i think the only thing you'll be able to do is the pontoon boats we're going to
head over to magic kingdom real quick i do want to say the service here has been grand service
and i haven't experienced that in a long time here every single cast member you walked by they
greeted you and hello and are smiling and happy and it was kind of nice and refreshing because i
haven't experienced that in years now at a disney resort where almost every single cast member you
interacted with was engaged in the conversation and interesting and happy we still have to review
that weird thing that i got now narcosis right here is gonna be going under refurb i have no
idea what this thing is there's like butter on top that's stuck to it looks like a little top
hat it feels like a loaf of bread there's raisins in it i thought there's like chocolate chips but
to my disappointment i think they're raisins yeah this is utterly disappointing okay imagine oh
like a wheat dinner roll with raisins in it with like a honey glaze on top a little bit
of cinnamon on the back end of the taste but i just feel like i'm eating a weird dinner roll it
doesn't feel like a dessert or a pastry a 6.5 i think if you like raisins and dinner rolls
you like this but i would not be going out of my way to eat this thing we're waiting for the boat
right now to take us to magic kingdom so far i've had a pretty good day right i feel like visiting
the disney resort it's kind of hard to get to them right i feel like it's still a disney experience
now we're gonna be going into the parks and we'll see how this experience is i feel like the parks
aren't as fun as they used to be well they were gonna talk about the reservation system once
we get in there so far i'm really enjoying my little trip to grand floridia and our chariot
oh wait okay so guys we're back at home right now you're gonna have to wait for part two
of our little journey from that day that'll be dropping later this week interesting time
exploring the disney monorail loop love those easter eggs the cast members work
so hard creating those masterpieces and they're more breathtaking in person because you can
just kind of like stare at them because they're like a work of art and you see all the detail
okay so let's take a second and talk about the dvc resort that's coming i think the concept
part says 2024 i don't know how they're going to pull that off that's two years away toronto
they're still working on that so i don't see it coming out in 2024 they got to be real quick with
that i don't think everybody should judge it by the concept bar i think we'll have to wait and
see for when more concept art is released to us hopefully at like d23 or something guys let
me know down in the comments your thoughts about the new dvc resort do you like the look of it are
you excited for a new resort and then we got the grand the grand is under construction i feel like
i can't figure out its identity it's like it's kind of living in the past kind of being more
modern but i don't feel like it's the standard of what bob chapek wanted it to be superior
and better than the four seasons here i don't see the grand coming anywhere close to where the
four seasons is with the current changes when you like really look down at the nitty-gritty details
it's missing luxury well guys i hope you enjoyed our little journey i'm sorry it's kind of like
delayed i filmed it back a couple weeks ago i've just been so backed up with everything if
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