he even announced like churros more great news churros are back churros are back no
no touch churros are back now guys it is a big day uh destination d23 happened if you don't know what
that is it was kind of like a little mini expo D23 is the official disney fan club so they were
gonna announce all these new rides and new shows coming and it was interesting we're gonna do a
full rundown of everything we got a package from d23 so we're gonna open that up in a little bit i
tried to get the tickets because i'm a d23 member and it sold out in like two seconds and without
contemporary like 15 minutes down the road so i had to watch it from tv now going into the event
and the panel for the disney parks i was expecting they were gonna announce a bunch of grand amazing
things disney has to announce this stuff now because it takes several years for the stuff to
be built and uh universal studios is opening a brand new theme park epic universe which is
gonna be top of the line i was really excited that Disney was gonna come with their a game to
show all this brand new technology and rides to really give universal a run for its money
because epic universe will be opening in a couple years it didn't go off to a smooth start
bob chapek was originally supposed to be there and then he mysteriously vanished
from the schedule so then walt disney world news today kind of put out that jpeg is gone and then
an insider told him that the reason jpeg didn't want to be there is because he was afraid from
being booed by hard disney fans no comment on that one but then disney pr responded with this
the walt disney world news today okay so the response was from the disney spokeswoman bob has
a conflict in la on friday night and couldn't make it back to orlando on time your post is ridiculous
and you've stooped to a new low by making this up so uh bob i guess is no longer showing up to d23
to kind of give an introduction so doing the whole little spiel is going to be josh demaro
he's the chairman of disney parks experiences and products now josh is constantly seen in the parks
talking to cast members interacting with guests and he just has a better presence of you know
showmanship but i don't think with bob not being there that is going to make that much
of a difference now i want to be kind of covering pretty much just the domestic parks so disneyland
and disney world first off for disneyland for toontown they kind of announced some new hills for
toontown at ayapa they kind of announced they're kind of renovating and refurbing the entire area
to kind of bring people back because honestly when i go to disneyland i just go ride roger rabbit in
the back and uh leave but so they announced to do hills they announced fantasmic is coming back and
also world of colors coming back we all know world of color has been under construction because uh
they didn't really maintain it during the shutdown so don't maintain things things don't work when
you try to start it up so that's what they've been kind of fixing and renovating for the past yeah
you'll see in my disneyland video the construction site that it looks like and then they also
announced for downtown disney they were originally supposed to build like a hotel where the amc was
so the amc has kind of been left abandoned i know earl sandwich reopened but so those are gonna be
closing forever and they're gonna renovate the entire area kind of be like a little park area
which i think will be nice so they're gonna build a little park with some new shops and um
tear down amc it's just an empty building so i'm okay with that um they also talked about uh
the new dvc tower at the disneyland hotel i love it i'm really excited for the dvc tower um they
showed kind of some of the concept artwork behind the beds it's like sleeping beauty's castle and i
think the artwork looks fun uh hopefully when it opens i can go and stay there probably the biggest
news for disneyland is magic bands are coming which i think is gonna be great they've never had
magic bands at disneyland in 2022 the new magic bands will be coming out now my question is will
these magic bands work in disneyland and disney world will you have to buy two separate magic
bands like let's say you know i'm going to disney world i'm hopping on a flight can i just attach
my disneyland ticket and clock in i don't know uh so it's all gonna be kind of incorporated with um
genie plus over there so you can tap in and tap out and now the new magic bands they haven't
announced the price for them current magic bands i think are like 35 or 40 dollars so this has like a
little light in it i'm gonna guess these are gonna be 50 to 60 for the new magic bands just because
there's new technology it's pretty much the old glow of the show technology uh pretty much when
there would be fireworks or a show your ears would light up a certain way and everything but they
only did that for like a couple years and they just stopped supporting the service it's going to
be interesting about these new magic bands because i thought magic bands were kind of going away but
they're bringing them back they also announced the electrical light parade will be returning in
2022 to disneyland that nighttime show will never go away now it's time to talk about disney world
now disney announced that festival fantasy will be returning in 2022 i'm so glad there will be
a parade coming back but the cavalcades are also here to stay they said they're not going away ever
they're building a brand new cavalcade it's gonna be their biggest cavalcade ever i feel like it's
just kind of like a mini parade at that point so it's gonna have miguel from coco moana claire bell
cow blue and king louie mulan elena and the three caballeros and more to be announced you know what
i'm okay with the cavalcades as long as there's a parade you know i feel like they're trying to use
the cavalcades as a parade but i want the parade man i want that whole 20-minute experience of just
fun and music and everything the cavalcades are nice to look at and wave at but the one
thing i'm worried about this right so let's say you know they're investing all this money into
cavalcades does that mean they're going to cut back on character meet and greets i feel like
that's almost like a nail in the coffin for like the citizens of hollywood and stuff like that
because they're just gonna have them do cavalcades and just hire you know college program kids just
to wave and be fur characters so you don't have to pay equity performers to do like the citizens
and like the mayor on main street and stuff like that so i feel like that's what's gonna happen i
feel like a lot of those equity performers aren't gonna come back i think this is you
know it's just cheaper just to pay a college program kid just to stand on a float and wave
so i feel like that's gonna be kind of the future i don't feel like there's gonna be as
many face characters as there used to be back in the day now i do think the equity performers the
ones who work for disney i think they're gonna send them all to the galactic star cruiser it's
gonna be run by a lot of college program kids but they're gonna have face characters in there
that have to be able to riff in everything and that's where the equity performers come so i
don't know if they're officially having equity performers in the star cruiser i hope so now for
hollywood studios fantasmic which is my favorite nighttime show um they announced it's coming back
they've been working on it a lot um backstage for the stadium and everything so they announced
there's gonna be a new scene kind of some new projections and everything they said it would
be kind of replacing the stunt scene which is pocahontas i think that's where the new scene will
go sorry i had something in my eye um so on the concept art it looks like there's moana aladdin
and frozen characters that'll be there so it's gonna be interesting to see what new sequence
they're gonna put in there that's all i'm gonna say about that but i'm i'm really excited for
fantasmic to come back i think the new sequence is gonna be great so i'm really pumped for fantasmic
in 2022. it's just weird that like you know we have to wait till 2022 to experience like shows
again i'm afraid with the shows coming back that the ticket prices are gonna go up even more once
they bring all this stuff back they're like oh we got new stuff we're gonna raise the ticket prices
annual passes that's what i'm worried about they also announced that mickey's magical friendship
fair will be returning they're gonna add some new um outfits a new beginning and a new end i think
that's a great show it's always fun to be walking through the middle of the hub and hearing the
music and tiana dancing and singing i'm excited for that show to come back but again that'll be
2022. they also announced that the finding nemo music will be returning to animal kingdom they
need it they don't have too many shows they have kind of a botched best of the lion king
without the tumble monkeys i don't think they'll ever come back so the new show is called finding
nemo the big blue and beyond the triple beat big blue beyond um supposed to be take place during
finding dory just to kind of be in the like the aquarium firm finding dory and then kind of like
watching everything and that some of the old songs from the original nemo music will be returning so
i'm excited about that they also kind of talked about indiana jones stunt spectacular returning in
december it's not going to be the exact same show that you know it's going to be a little different
i'm excited for that show to come back because there's not much to do around hollywood studios
honestly they also showed a behind-the-scenes look at the sculpture for epcot of walt disney
i think it looks gorgeous and i cannot wait to see this sculpture at epcot they also announced
like a new quick service for epcot it looks fine just kind of generic with some artwork on the wall
the big thing we want to talk about the star wars hotel the galactic star cruiser i want to go so
bad i don't think you understand like i'm ready to sell a left kidney to go they kind of gave a
behind-the-scenes look of josh damar going in and kind of testing out the stuff so on stage he kind
of showed the kind of real life lightsaber so it like you know ignites it looks very fragile
like josh demaro was holding like some ancient artifacts so that kind of worried me right so
then i'm like okay how am i supposed to be dodging lasers right and using this lightsaber and then
they go to the lightsaber kind of interactive laser thing and um you don't get to use the light
the real life lightsaber i guess it's only going to be for like rey and the performers they'll be
able to use those fancy lightsabers but that was one of the biggest straws i was like i saw i was
like oh my god i can use a real life lightsaber or ignite by just by pushing a button so you're
gonna kind of use a generic lightsaber and the lightsaber training is they're just gonna shoot
a beam laser and you're just gonna kind of move the lightsaber to hit the laser that's
that's it i don't know what i was expecting i was expecting something like life-changing
but it's literally just like a laser shooting out and just kind of move the lightsaber to go
i don't know because it's it's several thousand dollars to stay there and i've been to like laser
tag places where they shoot lasers and you like knock it with your hands that's pretty much the
same thing with just a lightsaber then they kind of showed like the the battle station area where
you're gonna like fight and it um it looked like you know when you're exiting out of spaceship
earth like that kind of like area where they have like those mini games that's what it kind
of like looked like i like it look it looked cool and i'm sure it's gonna look different
in person than it did on video but i was just like that's it you know this is just what disney
released they've already shown this before they kind of talked about this new um performer suit
for like either like a wampa or the whole kind of an exoskeleton uh so yeah josh used some
interesting wording okay then i gotta ask uh rashard maybe what can you do with these hands
well richard can do all kinds of things yeah he really said that i'm excited for that but it's
we've already saw this stuff like all like the new stuff we've kind of already seen so i feel
like the biggest part of d23 was the announcement of magic bands coming to disneyland josh made a
big deal he was like oh we this you know we're bringing back all this stuff so if you don't
mind i'd like for us to take a couple of minutes to celebrate what we're bringing back around the
world so he starts naming all this stuff and i'm like the trams betty shambles the drummers in
pandora and then opening day treasure hats off to the dapper dance on a great return and it's
just like he was like oh we have the dapper dance coming back i'm like the dapper dad's been back
since forever beauty and the beast live on stage has returned and it's just as enchanting as ever
he even announced like churros more great news churros are back churros are back no
no touch churros are back so he just like named off all the stuff that has already been
back for months and months and months now as if it was some grand announcement i felt really
bad for the guy because they were announcing this stuff and nobody was clapping have you
ever seen a video of like jeb bush where he's like okay everyone you need a clap please clap
there you go let them clap that's like what was hap what kept happening to josh he's like
okay everybody let's clap act excited and everything with a rollout starting
in 2022. now to help get ready for the rollout we've got a surprise
we've worked with our friends at amazon to give an amazon echo show 5 device to someone in this room
well someone in this room are you guys nuts oh they announced there's gonna be some uh
with some amazon alexa in the rooms now which just you say like hey tell me what time it is
or like tell me a fun fact play this type of disney music which i think is nice now
with you being able to talk to it that means it's listening to you so i really hope there's a way to
turn off the listen mode because i really don't want it listening to me the entire
vacation so yeah that's that's kind of everything they've announced for d23 kind of a letdown right
i thought they were gonna announce some big major rides they also announced that guardians of the
galaxy is opening summer 2022 i think it'll be late summer 2022 because i've been there recently
and they still have a lot of work to do i believe james gunn is just filming the stuff with the cast
that's a pretty quick turnaround because it's like the end of the year already and it'll be
open by summer which is normally around like may i think it'll be late summer 2022. tron they showed
some new concept art and they're trying to hype us up about this but that's what is it 2023 i don't
think did they give an official announcement uh chris has ridden the actual tron coaster and he
said it's fine right it's fun but it's really short and it's like a decade old so they're
really hyping up that we have ratatouille and tron those are big things but they're literally
like a decade old so it's nothing super game changing like how ryze's resistance was or fly
to passage so there's nothing really crazy in the pipeline for disney right now which is kind
of scary i think guardians will be good i think that's hopefully a good ride because i really
enjoy mission breakout in disneyland and then there's like no word on the uh play pavilion
um it's like halfway constructed is it just dead in the water are they not ever gonna finish it
who knows what's gonna happen to the epcot play pavilion i'm really worried for the next several
years at disney because you know they're like oh splash mountain's coming we haven't heard
anything about that i don't think splash will be coming until 2025. i don't see anything happening
major with that for a while and then at that point epic universe is opened with all these crazy rides
that are coming so much new technology disney's just gonna be kind of left in the dust and i'm
kind of worried because disney was always like the leader right there's always the disney standard
and i feel like universal might be winning by the end of this decade i think they're gonna be
doing more than disney because they've kind of poached a lot of their imagineering team
josh said this about imaginary well disney imagineering it's been recognized as one
of the best places to work which is interesting because as you know imagineers are kind of being
forced out or they're being forced to move to lake nona here in florida they're going to be shutting
down the entire campus in california so a lot of people are upset about that and kind of morale's
at all time low when it comes to imaginary we probably won't hear anything new about
disney until probably d23 in california in 2022 that'll probably be the next time we kind of hear
new stuff so for the next year at disney's just gonna be kind of bringing back
shows and kind of changing and tweaking the shows a little bit and doing some refurbs
which is fine okay now it's time to open this box now i am a d23 member they set this box
okay it says a d23 walt disney world most magical years of walt disney world see what's in it this
almost looks like a little caesar's pizza box what was that that says welcome to the club it's kind
of got some uh fun little facts about oh there's rory right there got some fun little facts about
disney and how it opens all right let's see what else we got in here this is a vinyl it's got two
songs on it side a is the bear band serenade and then the back is nothing can stop us now
for the mickey and minnie's runaway railway i don't have a record player so here's a little
picture of the record walt disney world nothing can stop us now right here and then the bear
band serenade if you want to get one of these you just have to become a member of d23 and they will
send you one of these oh i have my uh i have my official member id now you get discounts
throughout disney property with us we have uh one of these let's see the official disney fan club
i don't know where i'm gonna hang this up but i do like the colors it reminds me of like the 70s
so this is the final little thing well it's not a little thing it's huge it's a lunch box right walt
disney world we got mickey and donald and chip and dale holding the pluto hat you have tower
spaceship earth tree of life cinderella castle on the side you have typhoon tilly up there
from typhon lagoon you have everest teddy bearer over here you have the nautilus you
have the contemporary with the monorail remy from ratatouille's the water pageant dinosaur that's
a good one and then right here you can see dream finder and then orange bird up there i am digging
this lunch box this thing is cool let's see what's on the inside okay we have these wonderful pins so
you have one of the country bears rex from star tours the yeti from everest orange bird and then
figment right there really digging this lunch box i thought this is a cool set that they sent out to
everyone just for being part of the membership and everything i highly suggest joining d23
you get a bunch of exclusive events offered to you throughout the year from different showings
to different panels and everything a lot of times they'll be at like disney springs and
we'll go to those uh so guys let me know down in the comments your thoughts about everything that
disney announced how do you feel about the new stuff what do you miss most about disney right
now and if you were at the event i hope you got some of that muppet merchandise because
i'm so jealous it looks so cool if you want to stay up to date on all things theme park make
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