finally they're giving kermit some love but they're not giving him love on his uh triple
chin going on right there what no now today is officially the first day of festive arts you're
probably wondering why am i at animal kingdom right now well there's no more reservations for
epcot there's a secret little hack to get over there today even if you don't have a reservation
so let's go visit jared first get a little nature fact then we'll head over to epcot so they've
added in a new little photo spot they got kevin i guess kevin had kids you know life will find a way
a little doug and russell over there jared what's our nature fact of the day
that tigers are actually pretty closely related to like house cats that you might have at home
so they actually share 96 of their genetic code now people right now are really confused on the
new park hopping system the way it works is after 2 pm once you've scanned into your
original reservation so like my reservation was Animal Kingdom i've scanned in i can now
go to any park that hasn't hit capacity so you can take a bus over you can drive over however
you want to get to the next park you just go on that note it's time to leave animal kingdom
and head to epcot now when i was leaving animal kingdom there's just a huge mass exodus out of the
park because everybody can now park hop so i think everybody's literally heading to epcot right now
oh yes it is sir and here we are the festival of the arts now this is my first time seeing
the fountain and it is gorgeous i just didn't realize how massive the sculpture was gonna be
okay we're starting to enter in and there's so many like butterfly instagramable walls one two
three four five six and they have these wonderful pictures of figment my thing is like they use
figment for all the merchandise the festivals but they give his ride no love refurb the figment ride
this looks like some watercolor artwork of the showcase now this is always one of the best parts
of the festival is the chalk art oh this one's really good of sorcerer mickey so every time
you come back to epcot it's gonna be different artwork here every single time okay let the fun
begin we finally entered into the world showcase now i thought the mission breakout at disneyland
was the biggest eyesore at a disney theme park but i think these new harmonious floats might
be it oh i i love the view of italy over there now i think there's gonna be four or five more barges
out here now they will become i believe fountains but still they're gigantic we have the princesses
the first part of the day we're going to go to is pop eats now since it's the opening day
everything's a little busy it's called pop eats modern cuisine inspired by modern art okay we've
gotten our food you got to come to these festivals first week or second week because after that
quality of the food kind of goes down the hill the first thing i'm going to have is from pop eats
is going to be the popping bubbles cocktail it's going to be a sparkling wine with
colored boba balls in it what's a nice sweet wine are you supposed to burst the balls to
go into the wine or you just slurp the ball and that's oh god i don't like where this
conversation is going right now i would give 6.5 like i'm not going to go raving about it but
i enjoyed it and then to eat this one i'm really excited about it's going to be a tomato soup with
a french onion and bacon grilled cheese so it's a small little portion of the grilled cheese
i love this little tin that it comes with let's try this tomato soup first
it's decently warm not overwhelming with like tomato or very acidic just kind of there try
this bacon french onion grilled cheese i've never had a concoction like this this looks good
well that's good and i know this is what you really want me to do this is the money shop
getting it in the tomato soup yeah the tomato soup adds a little bit like almost creaminess
to the french onion grilled cheese i think they're best together as a combo not separate the grilled
cheeses it wasn't like overwhelming with a french onion or a bacon flavor just kind of there the
wine was all right and the boba balls are more there for the look than the actual taste decent
6.5 for those two items let's go to the next little card so the next thing i'm going to go to
is the one near mexico so we're going to have the pork belly uh pasta pastor marinated pork belly
atop bonata puree and charred pineapple and crispy cilantro all right first off let's start start out
with this pork belly oh that's good that's my type of food i loved everything about that the pork
belly was good the charred pineapple complemented the sauce quite nice nine out of ten i really
enjoyed that i also got the taco del chocolate chocolate candy shell filled with mexican
chocolate mousse with a touch of chili topped with tropical fruit guys honestly i'm looking at this
and i feel like i should have like a like a plastic bag to pick it up with because loki
it kind of looks like dog like no joke i'm sure it's gonna taste good but it doesn't look good
all right let's try and eat it like a taco that's what it looks like that's very good let's try and
break it up and mix it with everything oh that's kind of nice aftertaste i like the
fruit with the chocolate cause the chocolate has a little bit of chili so it's a little
like spicy little kick to it normally this booth i'm never a fan of but this stuff is really good
i did not think i was gonna like it 9.5 not quite a 10 but a 9.5 the next stand we're going to eat
at is the painted panda we got the old shanghai shizu probably didn't say that correctly but it's
a pork and watercress meatball served with taro root looks interesting it's like the
biggest meatball i've ever seen in my entire life where it kind of looks like a giant donut haul
i don't know how they've ever said that about food but i don't know i can't tell if it's good
or bad it's got like good qualities to it but also bad qualities let's try the tarot root
the tara root tastes like meat yeah that one's a mystery to me guys if any of you have eaten it let
me know down in the comments was it good or was it bad i don't know oh no it looks like they have
brought back the pretzel at the refreshment outport you guys haven't seen the video yet
uh but it's horrendous do not eat it okay i was gonna wait to look at the artwork
after i like eat everything but it's the star wars artwork so it's like i'm off to a flame
that giant canvas of darth vader jango fett right there there's another like butterfly picture spot
right there there's everywhere every construction wall just they slap the butterfly little print on
i know a lot of us were worried they did bring back the voices of liberty
i'll have to come back another day and watch the full performance next stop we're going to
go to is the booth in japan i'm a little confused by this one red bean mousse with
chocolate rocks okay so this is what the stone garden was advertised to look like i got the uh
stowden garden it's like deconstructed you create your own one i asked the cast member
if it was dessert they had no idea um i don't understand it so my friends the stone garden has
red bean mousse with chocolate rocks and a rare rice cracker pebbles and here we go oh god oh
oh that bean moose nobody ever asked for that okay i just finished the stone garden not the
worst thing i've ever eaten for a dessert but i definitely would not be buying that again um
2.5 out of 10. it got better the longer you ate it because you got kind of used to the the bean
the moose but if you like a sweet dessert i'm just not a fan of that one no no no okay next
to morocco is the next stand that we're going to go to vibrant and vibrato so this whole
little stand is based off the artist mary blair i found a little spot in the back of morocco r.i.p
morocco pavilion so the first thing we have is the chilled seafood cocktail
octopus scallops shrimp black garlic aioli tomato coconut sauce and a serrano lime oil now i think
aesthetically disney stepped up their game with how these dishes look because they all look very
nice i'm not a fan of that scallop you can see the purple tentacles right there
all these sauces that they have on the bottom are very unique and the shrimp is very good
standard chilled shrimp personally i wouldn't get this i think it looks nice seafood's all right
it's not amazing it's all right to a 5.5 out of 10. and then for dessert we're going to have the
passionfruit mousse with a dragon fruit jam i know this one i'm really excited about
the passionfruit mousse it just looks so fun i love the look of this that's cut into it
all right there's a little shot of the inside
i like there's a lot it almost tastes like like a dragon fruit yogurt it's nice and refreshing
i would love this as if it was like a popsicle 8.5 out of 10 on this now i'm just sitting here
eating my food and i've never seen so many people with cameras in a theme park in my entire life
it's crazy how many like vloggers there are when i started this six years ago there
was like nobody there was like a handful of people though they come to parks with a camera
and now it's like every 10 feet there's like somebody out with like
a camera i think it's great that people like are out and documenting like their day and everything
but it's just like i feel like there's more social media people than actual like guests in the park i
don't know it's weird i don't even like consider myself like a vlogger a youtuber i'm just a dork
who runs around with a camera on to the next step i honestly think mary blair would be glad to have
her name associated with that moose the seafood er i could do without but if you're coming i
would say get that moose alright the next little card is going to be the one in france now miss
tori do we know how to pronounce the croissant what is the croissant croissant i'll truffle
what's in it trouble really i don't know i call it croissant i know jared and allison always get on
me on how i mispronounce it but that's just that's i call it crouson now it's a truffle croissant
besides that i have no idea it looks a little like if it was burnt it's like a zebra croissant
that's weird it's like buttery it's like a truffle butter but it's not
there's not much truffle because truffle is such a potent thing there's not much truffle on that
it feels like if you've ever like cooked the pigs in a blanket and you took the pop dog out
and then bit into it where it has like a weird like kind of like a cooked meat flavor with the
croissant that's the best way to describe it i don't think i would get this again i know people
are going to look at this picture be like i want the chocolate croissant i mean more of the filling
who has ever asked for truffle in a croissant it's time to go into the now festival center kind of
looks like the blue man group building i love the little grogu the paint brush they have right there
looks like this is where you can purchase your artwork and then there's a checkout over here
there's not too many food options in here i really enjoy this stitch one so cool
i don't think i've ever seen this artist before they're so dramatic with the colors but so vibrant
so far dr vasilier enziano right there oh this is a really cool one the scout
trooper on the speeder bike there's just like cardboard boxes with brooms they're talking to
a bunch of bucket heads look at this one with ichabod and the headless horseman
then over here they have the new merchandise for the festival eat sleep art repeat like a
plastic plate but this is their spear jersey i don't know i feel like if it's just a white
spear jersey with that design i feel like it'd look cool but this almost looks like a
preschooler's napkin you know the cheeto dust and like grape kool-aid figment loves pigment
okay this is really funny now with mushu now we're about to go into the mexico pavilion right
now um there was a soul that was sadly lost this year and we're gonna go pay our respects to him
poor donald he was too young too young they even made plushes to remember him by remember donald
now over there is living on the land we've been looking for this for like the past half an hour
of the wall that you can paint during the normal day time they give you paint and a color and you
paint like three different blocks and towards the end of the day it creates a giant mosaic but i
think they got some work to do but don't worry we will be back another day to paint this wall
we gotta be basic and paint the wall okay let's try and guess what you think this painting is of
i'm gonna say an aardvark definitely looks like an aardvark they're going for here in epcot i had
a really good day at epcot today a lot of good food we're gonna end the day by looking at this
wonderful new fountain i am loving this again the video does not do this fountain justice if
you look there's a giant beam of light going up into the sky i'm a big fan of that fountain now
now guys we were back home let's kind of talk about our little adventure today
i really enjoyed festive arts it's personally one of my favorite festivals at epcot and it
felt like normal the other um i guess like the holidays and events within disney have kind
of felt a little like off and not normal but festive the arts felt like alive and like how
it kind of always is which was kind of nice and refreshing it was very busy it was opening day
but for january it was more busier than normal so i would say the crowds are just kind of like the
steady normal sized crowd i don't think things are gonna get slower i think they've just plateaued
with the amount of guests coming into the park now i wanna know what your guys thoughts are let
me down in the comments of the giant barge that disney is erecting in the middle of the park guys
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so there's so many different types of booths here at epcot today if you burton the penguins had a
booth what type of food would you have it will i always call them penguins advice raspberry eyes