Hey, guys. Welcome back to the Girl Gone London Channel.
If you're new here, my name is Kalyn.
I'm an American who's lived in the UK for almost ten years.
And today I'm in the UK.
But actually I'm in Florida.
So I am at Epcot's UK Pavilion in Orlando, Florida, a Disney World theme park.
And they have an entire section dedicated to the UK.
So I'm going to take you around.
I feel like I'm qualified now after ten
years to determine if it is accurate or not.
But I thought I would let you see what
Americans think the UK looks like based on their research.
So come along with me.
The first thing we have is kind of I think I'm just like a neighborhood.
So we've got
some of the terrace houses here.
Let me take you along. Okay.
Yeah.
So we've got this kind of rot iron gate, this very typical British looking.
I mean, maybe do we have balconies like that in the UK?
The very UK style windows.
These are the sash windows that you guys are telling me about.
When I say my windows open out and you say some of them do open up.
So they've gone with these.
This is cast members only.
Again, this is what they think the UK looks like.
We've got some lanterns, a nice - let's see if we can Zoom out some nice gardens.
Take a look at these lamp posts.
I mean, definitely looking at this.
Here's a thatched roof over here.
So we've got some teacups in the windows over here.
And of course, attaches.
Again, my house looks more similar
to these ones, but only one of these because it's a small mid terrace house.
If you look over here again, you can kind of see what they're going for.
Now, there's a lot more to explore.
So I'm just going to go ahead and keep you on record as I walk around.
So we've got some nice flowers.
And here's our terrace house that we're looking at.
I think that looks obviously fake but relatively accurate.
And we've got some tea cups in the window.
So here's kind of a 360 degree view of this section.
So if you walk over here, we're going to be able to see some more gardens.
So we are in the outdoor space right now
that more to me resembles like a park or a neighborhood.
Soon we're going to get to go onto a high street.
But let's see what we can find over here.
Okay. So we've actually come into more like
London style housing to Upper Regency Street.
So they've got the street signs pretty accurate.
And then we come over here.
We've got a nice gazebo in the park.
So, yeah, let's go to the door and see what we can find.
Again, we're in Orlando, Florida, right now.
The weather is not very British.
It is scalding hot.
So let's go and see what's going on up this door.
I'm going to say this looks like a British door again.
It's obviously fake.
That looks like a painted mail slot.
We've got a door knocker.
What else can we find?
Some benches outside.
Okay, so there's that section.
So again, it's called Upper Regency Street.
This is what they think the UK looks like.
Now we'll come over here, I see something called Tutor Lane.
And this looks like it's going to have some stuff in the window.
So we'll go show you that
so you can see the upstairs portion of it and some Disney trash cans.
Not very British, but there you go.
Check out this UK themed Disney stuff in the window.
And of course, a Corgi.
But we've obviously got some Winnie the Pooh stuff in here.
Winnie the Pooh being a British creation.
And we've also got some Alice in Wonderland stuff as we walk further on,
as well as just some general kind of UK stuff to see here.
Downton Abbey jewelry.
Okay, so I'm outside now and we are on another part of Tudor Lane.
Just wondering this what I'm assuming is kind of a high street.
So we'll take you multiple places.
Let's go ahead and come back to where we left off.
We've got the Sportsman shop, which unfortunately is closed.
This reminds me of a building in Oxford.
It looks like the Prep in Oxford.
That looks really fancy.
I know you guys are going to be like,
all you can compare it to is the Prep in Oxford.
But yeah,
we've got this
again.
We've got kind of different types of British architecture altogether.
So it's not meant to be like one particular area.
There's some darts in that window,
the toy soldier.
And so here's where we came from,
where I took you to the London looking terrace houses.
Okay, so let's come back this way.
We've got the Crown and the crest.
Now, what I'm about to show you
on the left is actually modeled after Hampton Court Palace.
So you can see how well of a job you think they did.
And then I'll take you down the high
street to check out the pub, the fish and chips, and this telephone booth.
So there's sportsmen shop again.
So we're going to come around the corner.
Obviously, there's a bunch of Americans here, so that does not look British.
And this is literally called
the high street.
They've just named it High Street.
So, yeah, this is our high street.
And this is their kind of version of Hampton Court Palace.
So does it make sense geographically with where everything is?
No, but we've got a mini Hampton Court Palace in Orlando.
So comment below.
What do you think so far?
Does it look like the Britain you're used to?
I guess this is mostly England, though.
They call it the UK, but I don't really see any kind of other influences.
I think they've kind of done the American thing where it's all lumped into one
and if you walk down here, we'll find more Americans,
as well as a sign leading us to the restrooms and not a British saying.
And of course,
could it possibly be a replica of the UK if you didn't have the classic mailbox
and the telephone boots?
I will say this is obviously the first
version of the UK I ever saw coming to Disney World as a kid.
So
this was what I had to compare the real UK to.
And over here they've got a little Ireland food stand.
That's for a specific event that's happening.
It's not usually there, but it's kind of place there because
geographically, Ireland is to the left of Britain.
Now we're back on the high street coming back.
And if you're still watching comment
and let me know, what do you think about all this
here? We've got the ROSENCROWN Pub.
And of course, they have fish and chips, which people say are good.
And people who are familiar with real fish and chips say they're good.
So we'll take their word for it.
I'm not going to try them today because it's like 100 degrees Fahrenheit outside.
And here we have some Disney employees with their garbage cans.
And so we've got more. So what do you
think? Is this a good fake replica? What looks wrong about it? What looks right?
I'd love for you to comment.
And we have like a little nice little house over here.
And we've got just one more section.
So I don't think I took you right around the corner here from this angle.
So this is a thatch roof house from the front.
And we've got Yorkshire County fish shop over here.
So ROSENCROWN is our pub and they've got the chippy over here.
Now the one thing I wanted to mention
about this, come over here with me and let me show you what's on the menu
so we can go ahead and check out here.
Fish shop, fish and chips, Cuties, Mandarin, three pack.
Now they're talking about oranges, oranges, Mannerings, Mannerings.
They're not sold at a fish and chip shop usually.
So I'm not entirely sure where they got that idea from.
Come around here. And that's where we started in.
I was kind of over that way.
And this is a little bit of a panoramic view of Epcot at the UK Pavilion.
Okay. So we've made it to the end of the tour.
There are other country pavilions in Epcot.
So we're right next to France,
which actually has a little stream with a bridge in between the UK
and the France Pavilion meant to represent the English Channel.
So things like that, Disney touches.
Again, this is all meant to be fake.
So it obviously all does look fake,
but I think it's a pretty good it captures the feel of the UK pretty well.
I feel like in a lot of places.
So I'm standing in front of the batched roof house over here.
And again, we're back and I've got
the gardens behind me so leave a comment below.
What do you think they did? Well what stood out to you as something
that doesn't look like what you're used to?
Would you be fooled if I sent you pictures?
I know that in the video you can kind of tell a little bit more that things are
maybe painted on or not real but if I sent you a picture of some of this stuff could
you be fooled into thinking that it was part of UK?
Definitely comment down below. Let me know.
Make sure to hit the subscribe button if you want more UK versus us content.
I'm not even sure how I could get more UK versus us than this video which is why I
wanted to do it for you guys to show you the only really replica of the UK
that I know of in the US right here in Orlando, Florida.
So I am off to go and enjoy the rest of the day at Epcot but thank you guys
very much for watching and I'll see you next time.
Bye.