let's talk about the mass situation real quick oh man it tastes purpley hashtag the panda is
amazing up there okay we were parking on the top of the garage i haven't done this in years it's
an extremely busy day to get from the entrance to kind of where you like a ticket area two parking
it took 45 minutes to go not too far one thing that universal doesn't do well when it's like
super super busy is the parking the infrastructure is just not here if you're at disney they're kind
of used to those crazy crowds every single day so parking is very easy but when they're just like
overloaded here universal struggles presidents day weekend this week is gonna be like hell week
for everyone here so we're gonna show you guys the crowd do you want to say they have enough
security that there's not any large backups there's tons of security so you just go right
through the national performing arts festival's happening here well there's always performing arts
happy that city walk after 1am okay so we have so many different updates to talk about today
uh maths are officially gone here at universal kind of like disney we're gonna talk about that
there's a bunch of new rumors review some new Mardi Gras food we have a jam-packed full day
like the park right now it is a straight-up pad house there's so many people here all right now
over here used to be a club called the groove i've been there the disgusting place so currently what
they're doing with it they're gonna be turning into an escape room which i think is really cool
kind of bringing some more variety to the city walk i always wish disney did an escape room at
uh disney springs i feel like they would have been very successful with that like a pirate's
caribbean escape room or something so the two rumored escape rooms that they're doing right
here man are you ready jurassic park wait wait you tell me the next clue is inside dino poop
here we go and back of the future okay does anyone see any purple underwear that says calvin klein on
it for the next clue for escape rooms here i'm so excited i really hope there are no black lights
involved to find any clues because if they shine that on the floor they're gonna see some very
nasty things i've seen things happen i'm glad it's gone and i'm glad it's now becoming an escape room
so it's located right between fat tuesday the hot dog place in antejito's over there so i'm excited
to see this open it'll probably open this year you can see where the shiny speed was all rust
i guess that fits into the jurassic park seating but i think they'll remove all of this
so then put in a new sign they have a little photo op for the new fresh prince of bel air
i haven't watched it yet it's on peacock pretty detailed thrown some jewels and everything i
like that they do little photo ops like this i don't know how i feel about the new fresh prince
mailer because like i don't know the will smith's version is just so classic right it was so perfect
i you know what i'm gonna watch it and then review it for you guys and let you know what i think
okay well just finished it's all right 6.5 out of 10. it's uh it's not a comedy
like the original was it's kind of like a hardcore drama uh there's cursing there's violence uh i
i wouldn't watch it with your kids visually it's a good switch up from
the standard stuff that hollywood produces these days so i appreciate that there's
a great soundtrack that i think all the actors are very talented i'm two episodes in i don't
know if i'll keep watching it's fine here we go in the universal studio play to eat some good mardi
gras food today okay i'm looking at the uh wait times it says that rip ride rocket is 150 minutes
escape from green gots is 120. that's the fierce is only a 40 minute wait though now when you get
a park map uh this is one of the craziest things this is one of our friends she's on the cover of
the universal park oh my gosh can i have your autograph ma'am ma'am can i have your autograph
now throughout the day and throughout the crowds they have the performers out
taking pictures and waving to everyone
on saturday nights they have bands playing so bare naked ladies is performing tonight
on the main stage underneath rip ride rock
it looks like the sunglasses that they're wearing looks like they took them from doc brown last week
we were on the hunt for this meatball sandwich sub we couldn't find it i think we figured out
where it is the uh the booths aren't designed well and marketed well what's where there's no pictures
so i believe it's over here by louis so if you're looking for the mardi gras meatball sub
it's here at the little quick service area outside the louise restaurant it's
very confusing not marketing well the only way if you really want to see the menu you have to walk
all the way up here and look at it and you can figure out that this is where the sun is okay so
the first thing we're going to eat we're going to eat the meatball garlic bread pressed slider
italian meatballs topped with mozzarella cheese stuffed between two slices of texas toast and i
think it comes with a side of marinara oh going in that's good oh oh oh a little bit spicy bowl
oh wow wonderful meatball lots of seasoning and the cheese is very good let me dip it in the
oh there's heat to that sandwich on itself is good so when you dip it inside the tomato
sauce got a wonderful kick to it nine out of ten on this thing this thing is solid
the next thing we're having uh we're gonna have the tomato basil orangini this will
be a fried risotto filled with tomato basil mascarpone with a spicy era bata sauce cheese
all right so the arentini is inside of the tomato sauce that they had with the slider garden chimney
is great big improvement over last year i think i'll do a nine out of ten the only problem is only
three of them for the price that you're paying it's like three little bites and then it's done
so that's kind of disappointing i like the cheese little bits of basil every bite is a
new experience good little spot i'm sad that it's kind of hidden away from everywhere i feel like it
needs its own booth if you're coming here go out of your way louie's restaurant quick service and
order these two options they're so good all right now we're starting to get our hhn rumors right now
that's the furious as we know the most popular ride here at universal studios they're thinking
about turning into an hhn house during halloween horror nights just closing it down for the season
it would be throughout the queue and then also through like the ride path where the screen is
when they shoot you with that terrible fog i hope that happens so they add another house because the
more houses the merrier why did they build this is supposed to be kind of like a table to eat on
it's very odd why is this here they had barricades the other week but now they've kind of like built
like almost like a permanent looking structure right here all right the next place we're going
to is next to the spongebob gift shop it's um i don't know it's an asteroid or a flaming i don't
know i don't know what the title is there's no title on here but this is where we're going we're
going to get um pizza prize i just asked the team members i was like what am i supposed to
call this place with the asteroids they're like it's kid's own pizza but we don't serve pizza
right now that's what they said there's a lot of miscommunication on where things are it took
like 20 minutes to a pizza prize to come out it looks beautiful everything looks great when you
want cutlery or napkins right you just can't get a napkin or get a fork everything is pre-packed
so like alice and i are gonna each use a fork right so now we have two extra knives and napkins
and everything is just i think there's a lot of waste happening it looks so good though and then
guys to drink we got the guava comet margarita it's gonna have tequila guava white grapefruit
and lime juice with agave nectar this is the 12 ounce cup uh it's really cool so it's like a green
cup but that when there's liquid in it it changes colors to like a dark blue let's see how it is
oh it tastes like guava tang that makes sense really citrusy like tart flavor
they get from like tang the drink with like a guava thing to it i don't taste too much tequila
but i enjoy that if you like something sugary and sweet and kind of like i think i'll do like
an eight out of ten on that drink all right so this is what we got from the restaurant
first off we got the toro pan with french fries it's gonna be grilled chorizo
garlic mayo chimichurri tomato and onion cortito on a split top roll let's try this chorizo
that chimichurri slaps i run down the chorizo hot dog sandwich thing i'm gonna do like 8.5
i love the variety of flavors in there the chimichurri sausage was great it was on like
a nice like buttery toasted bun i wish the bun was a little bigger sausage is too big for the
butt but i would get the chorizo sausage at the uh mystery asteroid restaurant and then
they brought back pizza fries but they're a little different so this time we got the sao
chip papas pizza fries chorizo chipotle ketchup mozzarella cheese dijonnaise and crinkle cut fries
with tomato and onion curtido i'm so sorry if i mispronounced that stuff let me know
down in the comments how to pronounce them i feel bad let's try the pizza fries
so this is like a mardi gras version it looks beautiful oh get that cheese pull right there
get some of the onions all right this is like the ultimate whopper right here it's good there's
nowhere as good as how pizza fries are but it's a good variety to the pizza fry i love that chorizo
it's a good like hearty zesty chorizo and then you kind of like that dijon and kind of like
cools it off you're really gonna get that like vinegary kind of like the oniony flavor then the
crisp french fries so if you're envisioning pizza fries that's not what these are i really enjoy
these though 7 out of 10 on the pizza fries i love the food this year i just feel like it's kind of a
mess hey everything is set up and designed there needs to be a passport so i know like how disney
has so i can see all the different countries and all the different names and everything and i can
kind of like travel and check off my journey throughout the mardi gras food festival i don't
know what's where and what i'm eating unless i'm looking literally at the menu it's very confusing
now we're going to the next unnamed booth over by where the bar is for four nights outside
transformers i wish i knew what to tell you guys but it's uh it's where the texas chainsaw
booth used to be for four nights last year okay it's time for uh next unnamed food booth uh so we
got we got the um category five punch it's gonna be myers dark rum cruzan age dark rum fashion
fruit puree orange and lime juice grenadine agave nectar now since we have the souvenir
cup it's a cheaper refill so the refills are only eight dollars but they fill it full of ice it's
like filled up to the top with ice so you probably only get like an ounce or two of uh actual drink
it's like a smoother dark rum you know how sometimes dark rum can just like punch in
the face with the fruits in there it like soothes out it's like a chill dark rum if that makes sense
if you're not a fan of dark rum you honestly might enjoy this it almost tastes kind of like a like an
alcoholic like a fruit punch all right the next thing we got is the mardi gras marshmallow pie
fresh made marshmallow graham cracker cookies chocolate with the mardi gras sprinkles that's
some good marshmallow moon pie is great wonderful graham cracker nice little bit of chocolate
coating the marshmallow is more of like a it's not a dense marshmallow it's like a marshmallow fluff
marshmallow it's like a lighter airier marshmallow they do like eight out of ten on the moon
there's a lot more mardi gras today than it did opening day i love the band being
out here everybody dance hashtag the panda is amazing up there whoever is tech today
you're doing a great job up there dancing and cheering on everyone and then we also got the
notorious king's cake traditional king's cake with cinnamon swirl icing and colored sanding sugar now
our little baby is purple he looks straight up like thanos you should have gone for the head
time for your first baby thanos kings cake all right i'm ready oh man that's good it tastes
purpley no there's cinnamon all over the camera now uh time to go for our little king's cake
seven out of ten needs a little more cinnamon we're dropping it down to a six out of ten
not too much flavor going on kind of dry oh it's got a weird aftertaste pass on the king's cake all
right the more we ate it the worse i got we're dropping that puppy down to a four out of ten
not even high quality bread just kind of tastes like it's like crappy wonder bread
almost with like a hint of cinnamon not very good frosting the purple baby's a plus but if you want
a good like cinnamon roll sort of thing go to cinnabon at citywalk all right joel we have a
question for next year are you going to be on the cover you know that's the goal i have a lot
let's see what you think about the king's cake what flavors are you tasting what flavors are
you not tasting it's very bland it's like a cinnamon roll kind of like melted plastic no
that's the baby that's the baby you're tasting we're heading out right now let's talk about the
mass situation real quick so it's kind of like how disney is right now so pretty much if you're
fully vaccinated you don't have to wear a mask inside or outside now team members same thing
if they're fully vaccinated they don't have to wear a mask if they're inside or outside they're
not checking vaccination status like how universal hollywood is same system that i kind of went over
in the last video about disney about how that mass situation is operating we're going to see
uncharted i'm a massive uncharted fan a huge sony guy right so i'm excited to see the live-action
version of uncharted pop hop is playing nathan drake so that's gonna be interesting
and then mark wahlberg is playing sully which i find is a very odd choice all right kevin are
you ready to go on an adventure of a lifetime to uncharted water will there be spider-man there
uh maybe not you never know okay so guys we're back at home let's talk about uncharted real quick
again being a massive uncharted fan i mean like massive uncharted fan right i liked it i didn't
love it i thought tomahawn was great as nathan drake i don't think mark wahlberg should have been
chosen for sully he was just too much of a jerk i don't i don't really care for mark wahlberg uh it
was really funny my favorite part was seeing the airplane scene in live action that was crazy to
see but a lot of the um action scenes were just kind of generic i think it's a fun popcorn flick
but don't go in expecting a immaculate masterpiece i think the games are incredible the movie's just
all right i am really excited for they're making a last of us tv show that's coming out on uh hbo
in like two years and pedro pascal is playing joel that's gonna be crazy and they had a
trailer for uh batman that comes out in like a couple weeks i'm super excited about this
quick little story so several years ago when i was working at typhoon lagoon i had this guest come in
and he was talking to me about how he built sets uh and he was working on the batman movie i don't
know if he should have told me this i don't know if this is true or not but he said they're
building a set for like arkham says joker's gonna be in it now this is like two years ago right what
i was told this so i was saw the batman trailer before and this other scene that he was talking
about with like water coming through the city was in the trailer so i was like okay maybe
this guy was actually telling me the truth so you might be hearing it first here now let's
kind of finish on the mass situation we didn't fully talk about that now if you haven't seen
the disney mask situation quick rundown if you are fully vaccinated you have the option
to not wear a mask at universal same thing for team members now if you are not vaccinated you
still have to wear a mask okay i would say more people were wearing a mask at disney than they
were at universal that's just what i've observed over the past couple weeks now again do with what
you will with that information let me know down in the comments if you could go to an escape room
based on your favorite movie what would it be i'm really excited to see what you guys come up with
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