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Welcome, Parkgoers! Join Dustin, Logan, and Nate on Parkgoers Go!, your ultimate theme park podcast for everything Disney, Universal, and beyond. From thrilling roller coasters and must-try theme park foods to immersive attractions, insider park tips, and exciting trivia games, we cover it all. Dive deep into the magic of theme parks, discover hidden secrets, and get expert advice to make the most of every park adventure. Perfect for theme park enthusiasts, families, and thrill-seekers alike!
00:00:00 Dustin: Konnichiwa Park goers. In this episode of Park Goers Go, we follow Logan and Nate to Tokyo Disneyland. Let's go.
00:00:10 Nate: Arigato gozaimasu.
00:00:11 Dustin: Arigato gozaimasu.
00:00:27 Dustin: Hello, everybody, and welcome to another episode of Park Goers Go! This episode we are going to be doing our little a little thing.
00:00:39 Nate: Just one of them little things that we do.
00:00:42 Dustin: Yeah. Well, these little things.
00:00:43 Nate: Like we do every other episode.
00:00:46 Dustin: Which, uh, but no, this one is a recurring kind of segment, which is park goers go to where we, the park goers go to certain places. And today's is.
00:00:58 Nate: Batta batta, batta batta batta batta.
00:01:00 Dustin: Tokyo Disneyland. So I did not have the pleasure of going. But our two world travelers, Logan and Nate, did get an opportunity to go.
00:01:12 Nate: Hello.
00:01:13 Dustin: And, uh, they had one son. Dwell time, am I right?
00:01:17 Nate: Konnichiwa. Pocos de gato. Eczema.
00:01:21 Dustin: All right, so in this episode, we're going to break it down with, uh.
00:01:25 Logan: Break it down.
00:01:29 Dustin: What do how do we normally break it down?
00:01:30 Dustin: First impressions. Uh, the parking lot is apparently one that we always talk about.
00:01:35 Nate: We actually can talk about the parking lots again. That is what our day, the best of Disney days start.
00:01:42 Dustin: Okay. And then the yeah, the parking lot. And then we thought we'd talk about the lands and your guys experiences with the lands. Then we'll talk about food shopping and some shows. And then, uh, your last impressions. And also, we're celebrating Tokyo Disneyland's birthday today.
00:02:04 Nate: Yay! AKA probably top two best parks in the in the world. Yes. And it's also Emma Watson's birthday. All right. Happy birthday girl. Yay! Sure. Shout out to Emma. She's a big friend of the pod.
00:02:22 Dustin: She played Belle once.
00:02:24 Nate: That's true. There we go.
00:02:25 Dustin: Um. But yeah, no, Tokyo Disneyland is gonna be forty three. I think it's rude to ask how old Emma Watson's gonna be, so we're not gonna say it. Forty three.
00:02:34 Nate: She's like forty something.
00:02:36 Dustin: All right, so let's talk about Tokyo. Disneyland. Tokyo Disneyland became a thing in.
00:02:43 Nate: forty three years ago.
00:02:44 Dustin: I just was talking about. Yeah, forty three years ago. Um, in nineteen eighty three. Today on, um, April fifteenth. Yeah, it was the very first Disney Park built outside of Disney or the United States, but it was the. What number park is this? It is the fourth Disney Park ever made. Yeah, because Magic or Disneyland was nineteen fifty five, magic Kingdom nineteen seventy one, Epcot nineteen eighty two, and Tokyo just on the heels with nineteen eighty three.
00:03:18 Nate: Oh, so the.
00:03:19 Dustin: fourth park.
00:03:20 Nate: Forced International Park. Fourth Disney Park. Nice, nice.
00:03:25 Dustin: We wouldn't see another park in Tokyo until two thousand and one, which puts Tokyo Disney Sea at number ten on that list.
00:03:34 Nate: But number one in our hearts.
00:03:37 Dustin: Yeah. That's right.
00:03:38 Nate: That's right.
00:03:39 Dustin: All right. So let's talk about first impressions. First impressions. Uh, you guys are walking right up to the park. What do you see? How do you feel?
00:03:47 Nate: I can't see anything because I'm crying.
00:03:50 Dustin: first of all.
00:03:51 Nate: Yeah, well, actually, should we give some context for us? Because this is our this was our second time at the Tokyo Disney Resort. This was our first time at Tokyo Disneyland. And it was also our first time. But we didn't stay on property, but we stayed at a, uh, what do they call it here when it's like a hotel is like with Disney, but not with Disney.
00:04:16 Dustin: In California, they call it good neighbor hotels.
00:04:18 Nate: I don't know if it was actually a good neighbor, but it was essentially like an equivalent. I would say it's definitely they have some sort of partnership because also the Disney buses drop like it's a, it's like a big circle, kind of yeah, like a, like a little circular area. And you can they have their Disney hotels. And then the ones that we stayed at, but they drop you off like the Disney buses go to each of these hotels and like drop you off and we'll pick you up and stuff. It was definitely worth the extra money to stay next to the park. I will say that. Anyway. So, um, what are we doing? First impressions? Yeah. Are we talking about the parking lot?
00:04:56 Dustin: Yes. We can talk about the parking lot. I feel like that is kind of a staple of these conversations. So.
00:05:02 Nate: So the in classic Tokyo fashion, we had to get there very early to get in line because there's a million people already waiting. We did cross the parking lot to get there. Good parking lot parking structure. Seemed like there was plenty of spaces. You basically wait inside the parking lot, which is an interesting experience. You're in this like long queue and you have the I think it's the is it the Disneyland Hotel that's next to us? That hotel. So that's like where the entrance of the park is. So you're right next to it. That hotel is absolutely gorgeous. And I think we've said this in our previous DisneySea episode. Yeah, it is stunning. And it's so beautiful in the morning as well.
00:05:47 Logan: I feel like we said that last time, but I feel like we said the opposite last time, but I think it has gone up.
00:05:52 Nate: But it is such a nice like start to the day to have this like beautiful hotel with this beautiful courtyard right behind you as you enter the gates.
00:06:02 Logan: According to my photos, it was six fifty two and by six, probably around seven a m, we got to the front. Um, and then we were still in line around eight thirty a m. Geez. Um, at the front, ready to like, go through security and go, go in.
00:06:22 Dustin: What's the, what's the benefit of showing up so early?
00:06:25 Logan: Um, you don't have to wait in extremely long lines and you can go rope drop. Um, because it's just, it's just crazy.
00:06:34 Nate: I was gonna say you probably, it's honestly, it's the opportunity to rope drop like one ride.
00:06:39 Dustin: Yeah. I was gonna say essentially the quote unquote rope dropping that one ride, you waited two hours for it. So wouldn't that be the longest wait time?
00:06:47 Logan: No, because also also, depending on where you're going and when and why. A lot of the guests aren't rope dropping. They are going to like, get seats for parades and stuff because they do. Like you can sit down, you kind of like claim an area. And most of the time they stay like they stay there, they sit and they stay. Um, because we went, the one that we're talking about our trip was it was actually Halloween when we were there. So there was like all of the. Yes. Um, a lot of costumes, a lot of incredible costumes. The, our Japanese friends, our Japanese Parkgoers do not mess around. And a lot, so many people went straight to where the parades happen and set up like a little blanket. And then they sit down and they're there from the open of the park all the way until the parade happens, and it's like hours later and they just sit there the whole time. and we'll just wait for the parade. Um. It's not. It's no joke. So there was a decent amount of people that did that. So that also helps with like the lines and stuff or explains a little bit more as to why there's so many people so early. Like it's, it's a line game. It's a waiting game.
00:08:08 Dustin: Wait, so. Well, never mind. I could talk about it more when we get into parades and shows.
00:08:13 Nate: Well, the parades, well, we didn't see any parades.
00:08:16 Logan: We did see one, but we didn't like. It was when we were walking to go to something else.
00:08:21 Nate: Oh yeah, because we got stopped.
00:08:24 Logan: Yeah, we got stuck. But also, I mean, I guess overall holistically, like the entrance, the way that you enter into Disneyland is like, we're already here. Like it just, it's just very, you're right there. Like once you get up to it and it's like, there you are, like it started go, you're in the park. Go, go, go go go.
00:08:41 Nate: Go go go go go go.
00:08:42 Logan: Yeah. Like there isn't, I feel like, because also just thinking in general, I think a good theme here too is that it's a compact space. Not that it's a small part. I mean, like, I guess it is comparatively it's small, but it's still it's a healthy size, but the space is compact. So like a lot of the things are really close together or what we would typically expect to be probably bigger isn't. Um, so once you're like the like the front entrance and stuff, um, but it's still really, really pretty.
00:09:10 Nate: And covered main Street.
00:09:13 Logan: Love a covered main street.
00:09:15 Dustin: Well, now, now we're hopping into our very first land. So we passed underneath the well, we're just walking the we passed underneath the threshold. Um, well, we pass underneath the threshold of, you know, welcome to Tokyo Disneyland. And now we are entering into the World Bazaar, which is what they call their main street. Correct.
00:09:38 Logan: I couldn't tell you.
00:09:39 Nate: Couldn't tell you.
00:09:40 Dustin: Okay. Well, that that is what they call it according to, uh, you know, they're online. It's their equivalent of Main Street USA. But tell us, tell us what you see. Because as you just pointed out, that there's is a bit unique because it is covered.
00:09:56 Nate: Correct. This main street is. Dustin, I feel like you would love this main street because first of all, all the stores, like all actual stores like the Magic Shop is an actual magic shop. Okay. Like the, the exteriors match the theme inside the arcade. The penny arcade is a penny arcade.
00:10:14 Logan: It's not just a facade.
00:10:16 Dustin: It sounds like Disneyland so far.
00:10:18 Nate: Yeah. But not only do they have like the main main street, but they also have like alleyways, which is really cool. Like you can like it's more, there's more depth to the main street. Well, it does feel more, I guess like a land than like a main street. USA is just like a strip. Like there's a lot to like explore and see in that in that area.
00:10:40 Logan: It's kind of split up into like four quadrants.
00:10:44 Dustin: That sounds cool.
00:10:45 Nate: It is really cool.
00:10:46 Dustin: Okay, so then we walk through the World Bazaar, and then we make our way to. I'm guessing they have a hub.
00:10:52 Nate: You gotta have a hub.
00:10:53 Dustin: So we go into the hub. I'm guessing one of the first things we see is their castle.
00:10:58 Nate: The castle? Yeah. And the classic colors.
00:11:00 Dustin: Okay. Tell me, tell me about the castle. And then also the hub if there's anything interesting in the hub. Uh, full disclosure, I know nothing about Tokyo Disneyland.
00:11:10 Logan: Oh, and I know I.
00:11:13 Dustin: Well, I don't even know. I just looked up what lands they had, and I was very surprised. I knew a little bit about the whole covered Main Street. But besides that, I don't know anything about it. So yeah. Tell tell me about the hub. Tell me about the castle.
00:11:26 Nate: Do you want to take it or should I take it? No, I'll take it. Okay, so you walk into the hub. There was some gardening activity happening, which is very nice. Most importantly, I mean, you see Cinderella's castle, you.
00:11:41 Logan: Make it sound like they're actively gardening.
00:11:43 Nate: No, that was like these. Like those. Like those. Like circular. or like God and like structure with like a statue in the middle. Very similar to like, um, I think Disneyland or Disney World has that. Yeah. Um, but it's more like they don't.
00:11:56 Logan: Instead of those like grass patches, it's like.
00:11:59 Nate: Yeah, that's what I'm trying to say. You have the castle. The castle is actually very cool in my opinion. It's exactly the same as Magic Kingdom's. Um, it's in the classic colors, which Magic Kingdom is now in the classic colors as well. So that was my first time seeing it in the classic colors, which was cool. Um, but more importantly, you can go inside. You can go inside the castle. I loved it. You can walk up the stairs. You can, um, go on the balcony outside inside the castle. They have a, I don't know, I forget what it was called. It was called like something to do with like princess experience thing. I don't know if you have the app.
00:12:42 Dustin: Was it Bippity. Boppity.
00:12:43 Nate: Well, they did have a priority, but that's not what this was. This was kind of like.
00:12:48 Logan: It's just a it's like a walkthrough experience that has some like artwork and like some, um, like different drawings of different princesses. And I think each room is kind of geared towards one of them, but it's just very like very royalty, very.
00:13:02 Nate: It's like a museum for Disney princesses.
00:13:06 Logan: Yeah, that's a good way of saying it.
00:13:08 Dustin: So Disneyland itself has a walkthrough of the Castle. Have you guys done that one in California?
00:13:14 Nate: Uh, yeah. That's more like they have like those little like window stuff, right? Like you.
00:13:19 Dustin: Correct.
00:13:20 Logan: It's called the just jumping back real fast. The thing it's called Cinderella's fairy tale hall.
00:13:26 Dustin: Okay. Cinderella's fairy tale hall. But is do you think that it is similar to that one or not so much.
00:13:32 Nate: Not so much. Those different like art interpretations, I guess, of like the Cinderella story. So like different art styles, different artists that did different things like someone like sculpture, somewhat different paintings, things like that. So that that was really cool to see. And it's just a cute little experience. We saw a lot of people like taking, it seemed like a popular place to take pictures.
00:13:58 Logan: Yeah, there's a lot of shadow boxes. Um, and like different, different scenes of the movies and stuff. But yeah, then they have the photo op at the end that had a decent line to sit on the throne and like try the different things.
00:14:12 Dustin: I love it when they do stuff like that because I know the one in Magic Kingdom you, I mean, you have the restaurant, which is pretty awesome. And, um, I don't know if Bippity Boppity still in the I don't think it is. I think it's around the corner. Um, but I love it when they put actually put stuff in the castle as opposed to just walking through it. So that's always fun. So we have a little thing inside the castle and then we talked about the hub outside of it. Now let's go and start, I'm guessing all the way to the left, which would be Adventureland.
00:14:46 Logan: Uh, yeah.
00:14:47 Nate: Yeah. Are you just guessing? That is it. Eventually.
00:14:51 Dustin: No, it had the list of all the lands, and I assumed they were in order from left to right. So, um. Yeah, Adventureland is the first one to the left.
00:15:00 Nate: Oh, okay. Okay, okay, okay. Can I say that, um, before we went to this park and the reason that we didn't go the first time we were in Japan is because I thought this park was just going to be like any other Disney park that we've been to.
00:15:12 Logan: Thank you for taking ownership.
00:15:14 Nate: I will I'm taking accountability. I'm putting it on the record.
00:15:18 Logan: I wanted to go.
00:15:20 Nate: I you did and we did. We went this time. This land I think was this wasn't the false.
00:15:27 Dustin: Land is your land. This land is mine. This wasn't.
00:15:32 Logan: The.
00:15:32 Nate: Land that we went to doing this day, but it was the land. But I was like, wait a minute. I was like, this is not the same, which is perfect.
00:15:43 Logan: Okay.
00:15:43 Nate: Because it's like, it's not stress.
00:15:46 Logan: That's what you want.
00:15:46 Nate: Yeah. It's like you, you, you don't feel like you're missing out on stuff if you don't get to it, but you get to see how stuff is different, if that makes sense.
00:15:54 Logan: Sure.
00:15:55 Nate: This Adventureland is interesting. It's like all green, which I think is odd.
00:16:00 Dustin: Wait, wait, hold on, hold on. What do you mean, all green?
00:16:03 Logan: Like, I.
00:16:03 Nate: Mean, like, the floor is green.
00:16:05 Dustin: Oh, okay. I was gonna say there's a lot of foliage in Adventureland. Yeah. If I had to describe it with one color, it would be green. But you're saying everything.
00:16:14 Nate: Everything is green. It's very like.
00:16:16 Logan: Everything is awesome.
00:16:17 Dustin: Everything is green when you're.
00:16:18 Logan: Part of a team.
00:16:19 Nate: It's very open, which I'm not used to for Adventureland. Like big open spaces.
00:16:25 Logan: It's super, super pretty though.
00:16:27 Nate: A lot of like really good smelling food, which was very distracting.
00:16:32 Dustin: You're complaining about that?
00:16:33 Nate: No, I mean, like in a good way, but like, I just that was like one of the stronger memories.
00:16:39 Dustin: Okay.
00:16:44 Logan: I think each floor like area as you progress, they all have different colors. Like I think that that's indicate.
00:16:51 Dustin: That's interesting.
00:16:52 Logan: The different land that you're in.
00:16:54 Nate: Oh, really?
00:16:54 Logan: That's what it's looking like on the map after you just said that. And I was like, oh, right. Yeah, the floor was actually green.
00:16:59 Dustin: So in case you couldn't tell by your surroundings, they're like, you know what? We're gonna color code the floor.
00:17:05 Nate: Yeah.
00:17:06 Dustin: Brilliant.
00:17:07 Nate: But yeah, the main focus was probably the Jungle Cruise. Besides like the food store, I don't think they had like any other rides besides the Jungle Cruise though.
00:17:17 Logan: Um, they have the tree house and then Pirates of the Caribbean is there too.
00:17:21 Dustin: Oh, Pirates is in there. Adventureland.
00:17:23 Logan: Mhm.
00:17:23 Dustin: I guess that would make sense. Yeah.
00:17:25 Logan: We didn't get we didn't get.
00:17:26 Nate: We didn't I don't think. Oh yeah. Because we, you know, we left early. We were.
00:17:31 Dustin: Interesting. So you skipped there. Pirates.
00:17:33 Nate: We did skip the pirates. I think I did read online. It's like it's the same, but it's the older version.
00:17:40 Logan: Red's not there.
00:17:41 Nate: Oh, well, you don't have red, but like. And like the the pirates are still chasing the women.
00:17:46 Dustin: You have the bride auction?
00:17:47 Nate: I think so.
00:17:49 Dustin: Whoa.
00:17:50 Nate: Which would have been cool.
00:17:51 Dustin: And you guys didn't ride it? Oh.
00:17:54 Nate: I stay. Okay. We were. The jet lag caught up. It also started raining in the afternoon.
00:18:01 Dustin: So hold on, hold on, hold on. So the first time you guys go to Japan and you go, oh, we're gonna go to Tokyo DisneySea, but we don't have to go to Disneyland this time. You go and you're like, oh, man, we should have went the first time. But we don't have to.
00:18:14 Nate: We don't have to stay the whole day.
00:18:16 Dustin: Yeah, I'm starting to see a trend here.
00:18:18 Nate: Yeah, there.
00:18:18 Dustin: Was.
00:18:19 Logan: A lot.
00:18:20 Nate: Next time we'll get to. Yeah.
00:18:22 Dustin: Oh, what a time capsule. That's so interesting.
00:18:25 Nate: We like everything in bite sized pieces.
00:18:27 Dustin: Did they say if they have, uh, Jack Sparrow on it?
00:18:30 Logan: It does.
00:18:31 Nate: It does.
00:18:31 Dustin: Okay, it does have Jack Sparrow. Okay. But that scene is okay.
00:18:34 Nate: Because.
00:18:35 Logan: It says in the description, set sail for adventures and thrills. Captain Jack Sparrow awaits you. Okay.
00:18:40 Dustin: Fair enough.
00:18:41 Nate: But I want to talk about the Jungle Cruise, because the Jungle Cruise is actually really cool on this.
00:18:45 Dustin: Uh, can we skip it?
00:18:46 Nate: I mean, we can if you don't want to.
00:18:48 Dustin: No no no no no no. Let's do it. Full steam ahead.
00:18:51 Nate: All right. Well we don't. Okay. We don't have to, like, get too into like spoilers talking about like particular scenes. But I did kind of just want to say that it is the same, but it's different and it's different in a very, like, grand way. Like it's better, I would say. It's just really cool. It's really cool. There's some really cool show scenes that we don't have in the other parks. And same like we when we talk about Disney, see the scale of everything is just bigger.
00:19:24 Logan: So it's a lot more like technologically advanced. Um, they do have the waterfall.
00:19:30 Nate: You gotta have the waterfall. Yeah, it's all in Japanese. So that's the only joke we got. But that's okay.
00:19:36 Logan: But the. The skipper is still very animated, telling jokes. Like people who understand it are laughing. There's also. They have like smoke and like fog and stuff that they'll spray on the, um, like when you get to certain points over the water. It was very cool.
00:19:52 Dustin: Is this the one where when you get to the veldt, they play, um, The Lion King music or is that a different one?
00:19:58 Nate: The veldt. What's the veldt?
00:20:00 Dustin: I'm sorry. The African veldt. That's the, uh, that's that broad scene where you see the giraffes and the zebras eating the the zebra.
00:20:09 Nate: It is it is that one.
00:20:11 Dustin: Interesting. That's a choice. Yeah. But that's cool. It's it was very funny.
00:20:17 Nate: Oh, it's a lion.
00:20:22 Dustin: All right. Now, if you had to compare it to Disneyland or Disney World, which one do you think it's most like? Because remember Disney World has the temple.
00:20:30 Logan: Oh oh.
00:20:31 Dustin: Does it has piranhas? Disney World. Oh, it has a temple.
00:20:35 Logan: Yeah, it has a temple.
00:20:36 Nate: It does?
00:20:37 Logan: Yes.
00:20:38 Nate: When was the last time I've been on this team?
00:20:41 Dustin: It's been a while. Well. Tell me. Have they updated? I'm guessing there's an updated version of the temple that may include projections.
00:20:49 Logan: Yes.
00:20:49 Nate: It may or may not. I cannot confirm or deny.
00:20:53 Logan: I confirmed.
00:20:53 Dustin: Now, is there also. Is there another scene that has like, um, fireballs?
00:21:02 Logan: Fireball. Yeah. Actually, at one point they pass out. Fireball.
00:21:07 Dustin: Fireball. No, there's one where like you get into this area and I believe like a puff of smoke shoots out of like a statue.
00:21:15 Logan: I don't think so.
00:21:16 Nate: I mean, there is a lot of fog effects, so I don't know.
00:21:20 Logan: Um, I don't recall anything.
00:21:21 Dustin: They have the same boat names as the ones in Magic Kingdom, which is cool, but it also looks like they go the opposite way. So. Oh they do. Yeah. And the jungle in Disneyland and Disney World. They go from left to right and this one, they go right to left. It's interesting that they have, um, English names.
00:21:41 Logan: They have English everywhere, like all the titles of like all the rides and everything is always in English, which is interesting.
00:21:48 Nate: I was at the temple scene was my favorite. I was not expecting it at all. Um, it goes on for a while too, which is really cool.
00:21:56 Logan: Mhm.
00:21:56 Dustin: Oh my gosh, guys, they have a scene. Oh, so they have a scene, um, in their Jungle cruise that was supposed to go in the original Jungle Cruise that was supposed to go to Magic Kingdom, but both of them were scrapped. And there's actually a, um, a pretty much empty area that has a rock formation where this scene was supposed to go in Magic Kingdom, but it was never made. It was designed by Mark Davis, who we talked about in the previous episode. And it's of a gorilla hanging from a, a log basically swinging at a crocodile that's in the water and like, hitting it over the head.
00:22:35 Nate: Oh, yeah.
00:22:36 Dustin: Do you guys recall this scene?
00:22:37 Nate: I have a video of that.
00:22:38 Logan: Let me see.
00:22:39 Dustin: Yeah.
00:22:40 Nate: I mean, that's a I.
00:22:42 Dustin: Oh, I guess that's unique to, uh, Tokyo Disneyland because like I said, in the at least the ones in the States don't have that sequence. So that's very cool that they put that in there. I've never seen it like, uh, materialized. So that's so neat. Wow.
00:22:59 Logan: They also have, I think like the elephant scene is a lot more theatrical.
00:23:03 Nate: Oh yeah. The elephant scene is fantastic.
00:23:05 Speaker 6: Wow. Well, I love how we.v.
00:23:06 Dustin: This whole thing is. It's also very interesting that the snake is right next to, uh, uh, Schweitzer Falls. Oh, they still have the attacking natives.
00:23:15 Nate: Yeah.
00:23:16 Dustin: Do you guys recall that? Okay, so they still have the attacking. So once again, time capsule.
00:23:21 Nate: Mhm.
00:23:21 Dustin: Um. Let's see. And then Trader Sam is still there. Yeah. The the Magic Kingdom Trader Sam, not the, um, not the Disneyland trader. Sam. Oh my gosh. You guys.
00:23:33 Logan: To go.
00:23:34 Dustin: Yeah. So it does look like they've. Taken bits and pieces from both Disneyland and Disney World. But they also added some new stuff too. That's so cool.
00:23:45 Nate: They said.
00:23:45 Logan: We're not gonna reinvent the wheel, but we're gonna make it better.
00:23:49 Dustin: Right? And also, I did watch a ride through of, um, Pirates of the Caribbean as well. And, uh, yeah, no, that's basically Pirates of the Caribbean from Disneyland, except for without the drops. I mean, they even have, like, the Blue Bayou.
00:24:06 Logan: Oh, there's no drops.
00:24:06 Dustin: I don't know if they call it the Blue Bayou. I don't believe so. I didn't see any. And at the end, instead of going up a track, you just kind of end up. But there might have actually, there might have been drops. I could be wrong. They could have used the same method as Magic Kingdom.
00:24:20 Nate: Gotcha.
00:24:21 Dustin: Um, but the dialogue for the, uh, for that, uh, auctioneer scene is the original. It's the original English version and also Barbosa is the original to like his original outfit. Not weird. So, um, yeah, guys, this is looking good for, uh, for Disneyland, uh, or Tokyo Disneyland. I don't know why you guys told me that was so that it was so terrible. It's great. Anyways.
00:24:47 Nate: It's. So.
00:24:49 Dustin: What are you talking about?
00:24:50 Nate: It is so fun to see.
00:24:52 Logan: He's baiting you.
00:24:54 Nate: I know, but it's so fun to see similar. Don't fall.
00:24:56 Dustin: For his tricks.
00:24:58 Nate: In a different, like lens. Sure. Like it's just cool. It makes it really enjoyable.
00:25:08 Dustin: Well, with the Jungle Cruise in particular, it seems like a director's cut from like, I don't know, an earlier version, you know what I mean? Like, it's not like there's just more. Yeah. And it looks very enjoyable. Oh, love it.
00:25:22 Nate: Love it, love it.
00:25:23 Dustin: All right. Well, what else do we have in eventually.
00:25:26 Nate: That's it for Adventureland. Yeah. I mean, they have like the Crystal Palace, which we didn't go to again. They have like, I think Logan mentioned the tree house. The train. There's a train station there. Sure. They got the tiki room. We didn't go to that.
00:25:40 Dustin: I though you guys skipped the Tiki Room.
00:25:42 Nate: We always skipped that. I've never been to.
00:25:44 Logan: It's the stitch one I wanted to go. Nathaniel didn't stitch.
00:25:48 Dustin: one. Oh.
00:25:49 Nate: Oh, yeah, because we saw stitches.
00:25:51 Dustin: Stitch comes out and does a little hula.
00:25:53 Nate: Yeah, his like his, like ship is like, crashed outside. It's cute.
00:25:57 Dustin: Oh.
00:25:57 Nate: Is it. Yeah.
00:25:58 Dustin: Oh, that's so cool.
00:26:01 Nate: I swear I haven't.
00:26:02 Logan: Nathaniel swears up and down that we haven't, but we one hundred percent have because I remember sitting through it with him. Anyway, can.
00:26:07 Nate: We move on to the next land? What is that? Um. What's the one above it?
00:26:10 Dustin: Western land.
00:26:15 Nate: Oh, yeah. Western that.
00:26:17 Dustin: Now Western land is. Why? Why why is it called Western land? Why why why why.
00:26:22 Logan: Because it's themed like Western time.
00:26:26 Dustin: Yeah. I'm guessing there was a more clear translation when it comes to Western as opposed to frontier.
00:26:33 Logan: But it is frontier land.
00:26:35 Dustin: Yay! And what did we experience?
00:26:38 Logan: There's not too too much. What we experienced was Big Thunder Mountain.
00:26:43 Dustin: Yay! How was that?
00:26:46 Logan: It was good.
00:26:46 Nate: It was great.
00:26:47 Logan: So smooth.
00:26:48 Dustin: Okay.
00:26:49 Logan: What's the one thing about Japan? The rides are so smooth.
00:26:54 Nate: Mhm.
00:26:55 Logan: You're not gonna be jerked around. You're not gonna have your knees clanking. You're not gonna be smacking off things. And if you do, it's cushioned. There's a cushion.
00:27:03 Dustin: Oh, nice.
00:27:04 Nate: I loved Big Thunder. I love Big Thunder in general. But again. All right. That's very familiar but very different on a grand scale. Do you remember like that valley that you go into? You're like, surrounded by like, mountains, basically. I like it's just, uh, it's so big. Like you're in the valley at some point and it's great. That was I always remember that as like my favorite part of that ride.
00:27:30 Logan: It is really, it is very it is a different experience. It's very reminiscent. Like it's obviously, I mean, it's the same thing. But they do have like they do, I think Japan does a really, really good job at making the things feel new. At it's core, it's the same ride and has the same stuff. But then they're like, they, they really do just elevate well.
00:27:49 Dustin: How much do you think it's elevating versus just good maintenance and upkeep.
00:27:54 Logan: Are its elevation.
00:27:56 Dustin: Do you think its elevation as well?
00:27:57 Nate: I think it's I do.
00:27:58 Logan: Think I mean, I think there's a huge aspect of upkeep. Like I would be, I mean, just because of what they're capable or, um, like able to do. And I think just the like industry wise and professional, just like culturally, like I feel like that they do that there's probably a lot more. What's the right word?
00:28:20 Dustin: Pride.
00:28:20 Logan: I want to say. Yeah, I guess pride. Yeah. Pride is actually a lot better of a word than I, I was going I feel like that there's also probably a difference in prioritization just between the Oriental Land Company and like Disney and how they prioritize their attractions.
00:28:35 Nate: But also it's also the creativity. It's like the staging and everything. I think it's just better. Like they really try to immerse you. They really try to take you to, you know, the lands and the experiences you're supposed to have. Like they, they take those meticulous care into making sure that your immersion isn't broken when you're on these rides, when sometimes with other places, other parks, they're like, well, you know, if you see a haunted mansion when you're on Big Thunder, that don't matter.
00:29:09 Logan: They do not play. They do not play with their immersion, how they get you immersed into the environment and like into the ride you will not see, you know, like when sometimes you're riding rides at Disney and even universal and you're just like, oh, blank, dead space. Like this weird blank where clearly this is where someone would exit or like a cast member is coming in to do something or like maintenance is coming in, you're not going to see that. You're not gonna see it. Everything is just so well hidden, so well designed, and even, which I think is a part of that, like elevation, like that. They are always elevating the experience. That's just, it's kind of it's mind blowing.
00:29:49 Nate: Yeah. And some of this might be like what people call like the Japan glaze. Like this was our first time doing it. It's well, probably seeing it through a different lens than like people who would go more regularly. But as people who do go to the parks and ride these particular rides regularly in the States, you, I, I mean, I would say we pick up on those differences and see like those improvements a lot better. Does that make sense?
00:30:15 Dustin: Sure. Yeah, that makes sense.
00:30:17 Logan: And also just no, no t no shade to our Disney World cast members, but the cast members in Disney. Tokyo in general. Disney. See Disneyland top notch.
00:30:28 Nate: Like I was like, you could have said that without mentioning the US. But yeah.
00:30:32 Logan: I have to. Yeah. Because then it's just if we're if we're literally comparing.
00:30:35 Nate: Yeah.
00:30:36 Logan: They have their customer service at the top of their list and smiles, happy greeting, making you feel excited to get on and be there. So it is a big, it does impact the experience a lot.
00:30:49 Dustin: Very good. Well, I'm glad we did our, uh, final impressions, uh, in the middle of the episode, but let's, um, I mean, let's wrap up, uh, Western land. What else do they have there? They had country bears, but you guys didn't do that. Correct.
00:31:03 Logan: They have Tom Sawyer's, um.
00:31:06 Dustin: Uh.
00:31:06 Logan: And the riverboat.
00:31:07 Dustin: Time capsule. Yeah.
00:31:11 Nate: Um.
00:31:13 Dustin: They have this makes me want to go there so much. Oh, and there's.
00:31:16 Nate: I'm telling you, you would love it. You would.
00:31:20 Logan: Probably cry. You would cry. Multiple times actually. But there's also which we did not do the Beaver Brothers Explorers canoes. So you can canoe.
00:31:29 Nate: Yeah. Like in Disneyland.
00:31:30 Logan: Yeah, yeah. And and I didn't know you could do that in Disneyland.
00:31:34 Nate: More importantly.
00:31:35 Dustin: You.
00:31:35 Nate: Can. Logan. What do they have?
00:31:37 Dustin: I think a week.
00:31:37 Nate: Your favorite land.
00:31:39 Logan: Critter country, which technically is a different.
00:31:42 Dustin: Critter country. Well, that is, that is the next one we're going to be moving to, but we can incorporate it into Western land. So yeah, tell us about this little, little patch of grass.
00:31:51 Logan: You know what I think? Oh, it's actually a good segway because the Beaver Explorers is in Critter Country.
00:31:58 Dustin: But.
00:31:58 Logan: It's really hard to tell the difference because they're basically the same thing on the map. It's just on the opposite side of the. They're still connected. Anyway, um, we didn't do anything in Critter Country, actually. We did one thing which was get a very specific ice cream that I kept seeing everyone have, and I was getting really upset and jealous because it had like caramel corn and a churro in it. And I'm like, where is this? And we found it. It was in Critter Country and it was like this really weird, like kind of hidden, tucked away, like under. It's a very interesting.
00:32:30 Nate: Um, yeah, it's like a.
00:32:31 Logan: Tunnel place.
00:32:33 Nate: You go through like a tunnel that goes.
00:32:34 Logan: It's almost as if it was like, like gophers, like dug it, dug it.
00:32:39 Nate: That is.
00:32:40 Logan: Such.
00:32:40 Nate: A good.
00:32:41 Dustin: That's cute.
00:32:42 Nate: I like I think that's what it's.
00:32:44 Logan: Supposed to be.
00:32:45 Nate: It probably is. That makes so much sense.
00:32:48 Logan: It was like a very.
00:32:50 Dustin: It's.
00:32:50 Logan: A very well executed. Um, it was so stinking cute. And the and I can confirm, I can tell you what it was. Couldn't explain it any other more than I have previously. But the ice cream was good, but we didn't do anything over there. The only thing that they have over there is Splash Mountain, which is the OG Splash Mountain. Um.
00:33:11 Dustin: Okay.
00:33:12 Logan: And then.
00:33:12 Nate: Time capsule.
00:33:14 Dustin: Time capsule.
00:33:15 Logan: Yes. And actually that's it. It's just those two things. Everything else is technically Western land.
00:33:24 Dustin: Okay, so Country Bears is in Western land, not in critter country.
00:33:28 Logan: Yep.
00:33:28 Dustin: Interesting.
00:33:29 Logan: It's in the very beginning of, um, like once you transition from adventure land into critter. Oh, no, no, no into Western land. It's the first thing that you're you encounter.
00:33:40 Dustin: Very interesting. Very cool. All right, so now we're leaving critter Country. We're gonna make it to our next land, which is fantasy land.
00:33:49 Nate: I say my favorite land. I love this land.
00:33:52 Dustin: This land is.
00:33:53 Logan: Your land is your land. This is actually where we started our day. Because we rope dropped Haunted Mansion, which, if you didn't know, Tokyo Disneyland also does an overlay for Halloween of Nightmare Before Christmas.
00:34:11 Dustin: And does.
00:34:13 Nate: It?
00:34:13 Logan: It does. And I have to tell you, I thought that the Disneyland one was jaw dropping. This one at the very same on brand, with Japan seemingly going above and beyond. There's the right. When you get into the buggy, the first scene that you have is an animatronic of Jack dressed as Santa and Sally, both moving.
00:34:35 Dustin: Whoa!
00:34:35 Logan: Talking above you because they're on a stair staircase talking about it. And then you go in and it's like, what do you mean you installed two? And like, it's just, it's mind boggling. And then not only that, but Sally makes a physical appearance as a full sized animatronic several times throughout the ride. Same with Jack. And there's just so many, uh, what are they called? Eggs. Easter eggs.
00:35:04 Nate: Like so many eggs.
00:35:05 Logan: There are so many eggs.
00:35:07 Dustin: In this Christmas Easter eggs.
00:35:10 Nate: Yeah, throughout.
00:35:11 Logan: The whole thing. A lot of it. There is a lot of, um, very similar or the same aspects like throughout throughout it. But it's it's wild. It's so they I want to know how long it's down for them to do this overlay.
00:35:25 Nate: I think they do it longer than Disneyland. I'm not sure. Well, not in terms of like downtime. I just mean like having it running for the Christmas special, the elevator, not the elevator scene. What do they call it?
00:35:37 Dustin: Stretching room.
00:35:38 Nate: Yeah. The stretching room scene is also very different to.
00:35:40 Dustin: But real quick, the exterior and the ride throughout is more reminiscent of Magic Kingdom than Disneyland's. Uh-uh. Actually, the exterior looks exactly like the one in Magic Kingdom. And also you, you start in the same spot as the one in Magic Kingdom as well. Instead of walking through the library, you do that. But this looks extraordinary.
00:36:04 Nate: Yeah, the queue is a little different. I think if you do go when it's not Nightmare Before Christmas again, don't quote me, but I think it's more like OG Haunted Mansion, right?
00:36:17 Logan: Nathaniel, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but we are literally recording, so we are going to quote you.
00:36:26 Nate: I'm like, ChatGPT, you have to check facts.
00:36:30 Logan: But we're gonna share them.
00:36:32 Dustin: Well, one thing I do want to point out with this overlay is that there is a huge lack of Oogie Boogie, but a whole new wave of lock, stock and barrel. The three kids. Yeah, because they are in a lot of places in this ride and it's very cool to see.
00:36:49 Nate: And, and, and zero zero like.
00:36:53 Logan: And the little.
00:36:54 Nate: Everyone's making healthy appearances.
00:36:56 Dustin: Especially Sally.
00:36:57 Logan: That little like the little toy, the black toy with the with the angry face guy.
00:37:03 Dustin: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think he's a vampire. But yeah, I know what you're talking about.
00:37:07 Nate: He's just a very angry boy.
00:37:09 Logan: Yeah, he's just a little guy. He's just a little guy. Yeah.
00:37:12 Nate: It's great. It's fantastic, I love it.
00:37:14 Logan: The other ones in this area that we did not do, we did not do. Peter Pan's flight, which I believe is exactly the same. Um, Snow White's adventures, which I believe is exactly the same as Disneyland. The castle carousel. Alice's tea Party, or Alice's. Um, yeah, Alice's tea Party, which is just the spinny, the teacups. Um, and then it's a small world with Groot. We did not. We did not do that.
00:37:38 Nate: Yeah. That's how he.
00:37:39 Dustin: Grew. Wait, was it still with Groot when you went?
00:37:41 Nate: No, we didn't see it.
00:37:42 Logan: It was just normal.
00:37:43 Dustin: Okay.
00:37:44 Logan: Oh, and there's also Pinocchio's daring journey, which I believe that's also in Disney World or Disneyland, isn't it?
00:37:51 Dustin: Yes. Yeah.
00:37:52 Nate: Before we get to the last ride, because that we did do they did have this really cool restaurant though. It was called Queen of Hearts Banquet Hall. We didn't eat there, but we did go in because I was like, we have to see this. Like we waited.
00:38:07 Logan: In line to go in. I thought we were eating there. I didn't know that we were just gonna leave. We walk in and we look around and then we like. And then I was like, okay, like, what are you talking about? We're not. He's like, no, we're not eating here. I was like, okay, so we turn around, but it's like an entrance. And we were like trying to tell the lady because obviously they spoke and I was like, we want to leave. Like we need to leave. And she's like, oh, okay. Yeah. Like just come out the front, like right there.
00:38:33 Nate: She's like, why did you wait in line? It is so cool. It's, it's obviously it's the Queen of hearts from Alice in Wonderland. The theming inside is goes all out. It's a beautiful space. I don't know if the food is good, but.
00:38:46 Logan: I'm sure it's really good. All the foods we had there was really good.
00:38:50 Dustin: I do want to add to the Snow White's enchanted wish. It does. As of like a year ago, it does look like the original one where, um, it was a little scary.
00:39:01 Nate: Okay, we have to when we go, we have to ride it because I do want to see what that is.
00:39:06 Dustin: Scary one is like.
00:39:08 Nate: The scary version.
00:39:09 Dustin: Now, did you guys ride anything else here?
00:39:12 Logan: No.
00:39:13 Nate: Yes we did. You were raving about it. What is your favorite ride?
00:39:18 Logan: Oh, because it's currently suspended right now. It didn't show that it was a ride. Yes. We rode one of the most incredible rides in Disneyland Tokyo ever. Do you know what it is?
00:39:31 Dustin: Okay, so this could be one of. Well, I have two guesses because both of these rides have been touted as the best. One of them is Enchanted Tale of Beauty and the beast, and the other one is Pooh's Hunny Hunt.
00:39:44 Logan: So where's Enchanted Tales with its.
00:39:48 Nate: It's to the right. One of them. Yeah.
00:39:50 Dustin: Okay, so is it Pooh's hunny hunt?
00:39:53 Logan: Yes, it's Pooh's hunny hunt.
00:39:54 Dustin: Pooh's Hunny Hunt.
00:39:56 Logan: I it's just. Oh god, it's so annoying for me to have to articulate things because I cannot, I can't keep saying things are jaw dropping and overwhelming. Chef's kiss even I like it. I can't even put into words how phenomenal this ride is. Not only in of it, like in of itself. Like it is a incredible ride itself, but it's not even comparable to any PW ride that currently exists.
00:40:28 Nate: Yeah, rise is the epitome of like the top.
00:40:32 Dustin: Rise of the resistance.
00:40:33 Nate: Rise of the resistance is the, is the staple of trackless rides, I will say. Yeah. Pooh's hunny hunt is the staple of trackless rides in a dark ride sense. Does that make sense? Sure, it's done so well. Like it takes full advantage of being a trackless ride like rise does while incorporating all these very cool special effects, all these cool illusions while having a grand Ole time.
00:41:02 Logan: Because it is such a small like they deal with such compact spaces and everything that they put into it is so extravagant. You. There is this one strategy that they use multiple times in a couple different rides where they put a lot in one room, okay. And they bring in a lot of cars and move you around. So you're always seeing something new, but you spend like, um, maybe a minute or two minutes in the space. So you're spending a couple seconds, maybe like ten, fifteen seconds in one space where you kind of get to like look around and enjoy it before it moves you all in the same room. But it's such a vast room and there's so much happening. And to see that you're like, it feels so much longer than it actually is, right? And then you're just like, you're able to. And it's such, it's so mind blowing too, because like that is so ingenious, like keeping keeping your audience in one space, but putting so much in it that they're not even gonna be be able to see everything, even though they're giving you time to be able to kind of take it in and look around and enjoy this joy. What's happening? You will have to ride it again to be able to see more things.
00:42:18 Nate: It's making sure that everybody who rides the ride has an equal experience instead of having. Which seems to be the popular tactic. Three. Track list. Three or four track list vehicles go into the same room. One of you has maybe a better position than the other, but you know that's the luck of the draw.
00:42:39 Logan: Runaway Railway.
00:42:40 Nate: Yeah, like they really make sure that you get to do anything that the person before or after you gets to do, which is nice. You're not missing out on anything.
00:42:54 Dustin: Yeah. And I know Pooh's hunny hunt is often cited as being the first of the modern trackless rides, and I mean for being a first. All I hear is positive things about it, so.
00:43:06 Logan: They crushed it.
00:43:07 Dustin: But yeah, so that was Pooh's hunny Hunt. Now um, you said that was on the left. Are we now moving over to the right.
00:43:14 Nate: This boogie on.
00:43:14 Dustin: A fantasy land?
00:43:16 Nate: Well, no one leaving fantasy land. I was gonna say.
00:43:19 Logan: I don't know what you're talking about.
00:43:22 Dustin: Okay, wait, so you did you guys do the enchanted towel?
00:43:25 Logan: I don't know where that is. I don't see that.
00:43:27 Nate: Is that the castle? Yeah, yeah, we talked about the castle.
00:43:31 Logan: That's Cinderella.
00:43:32 Dustin: No. Cinderella's fairy. There's a castle. There is a castle. An enchanted tale of beauty and the beast. And it's like their new ride came in twenty twenty. Oh.
00:43:42 Nate: Yeah. We're not there. Yeah, we're making a.
00:43:44 Dustin: I'm not looking at a map. I'm looking at a list.
00:43:47 Nate: Hold your horses. Hold your horses. That's it.
00:43:50 Dustin: I'm looking.
00:43:50 Logan: Alyssa thinks, oh, technically.
00:43:52 Dustin: It's in Fantasyland.
00:43:53 Logan: Oh, okay. Yeah.
00:43:54 Nate: Okay. Well, let's talk about it. Let's talk about the other like, okay. Um, height of trackless technology, if we will.
00:44:00 Dustin: But just to be clear, you guys did this one, correct?
00:44:02 Nate: We did. We paid. No, you have to do this one.
00:44:06 Dustin: Okay, well, I mean, you guys skipped pirates, I don't know.
00:44:08 Nate: No, this is the whole point of going.
00:44:11 Logan: The first thing that we need to address is the castle. Because it is a castle.
00:44:16 Nate: It is a castle sized castle.
00:44:19 Logan: That is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. I love it more than the Disney castle. I think it is so incredibly well done and it's so beautiful that I stopped to continue filming it when we were in the line. Because it's just so.
00:44:37 Dustin: Wait, hold on, hold on. Magic Kingdom has the Beast Castle in their park. Are you saying this one's better than that one?
00:44:45 Logan: Listen, please.
00:44:46 Nate: That little.
00:44:47 Logan: That little doll house. Yes, the little better than the doll house.
00:44:53 Nate: Yes.
00:44:55 Dustin: That's fantastic.
00:44:56 Nate: It's so.
00:44:57 Dustin: No, it looks great.
00:44:59 Nate: It's so cool to go.
00:45:00 Dustin: Is it jaw dropping?
00:45:02 Nate: It is jaw dropping.
00:45:03 Logan: I don't even have a jaw anymore.
00:45:06 Nate: We did pay to skip this line. I highly recommend skipping the line. Oh, you know what's really cool though? Outside the castle before you get in line. They do have, like, that little carriage that comes to life and takes, um, like, Belle's dad and stuff. I thought that was cute. They have like a square or two that's like the village. And I think they have, like, Gaston's. Mhm. They have like, a statue there and like, Gaston's tavern and stuff, which was cute too.
00:45:29 Logan: That's why we even. That's why we skipped it. Because it's not it's not technically connected with the rest of Fantasyland. So it's kind of it's like in between tune. Yeah. It's like off to the side by itself. So it's not. That's why we were like, what are you talking about?
00:45:46 Dustin: What are you talking about?
00:45:48 Nate: You would think that this was the weenie of the park if you didn't know that Cinderella's was just right over over yonder.
00:45:55 Dustin: Oh, really?
00:45:56 Logan: Yeah, it's mind boggling.
00:45:59 Dustin: This is actually crazy. Yeah.
00:46:02 Logan: The ride itself. I love it, but it is actually. Well, we'll just. I guess we'll pull back a little bit. The line. So good. The queue.
00:46:15 Nate: Oh, the pre-show.
00:46:17 Logan: The pre-show and the queue after the pre-show is crazy. Pre-Show obviously is incredible because it's the you're in like the main foyer of the, um, yeah, the castle. It really feels like you're in the main foyer of the castle.
00:46:30 Nate: Amazing. Amazing animatronics come out. Amazing projections as well.
00:46:36 Dustin: Do you guys remember way back when when they announced this ride, and then they showed the values of the animatronics.
00:46:41 Nate: With the Lance the bell? Yeah, that's the one.
00:46:44 Dustin: Yes, that's the bell. That's crazy.
00:46:46 Nate: It's great.
00:46:47 Logan: It's phenomenal.
00:46:48 Dustin: Oh, their beast looks so good.
00:46:51 Logan: Unreal. The animatronics that they are working with is unreal. So after after that, like pre-show and you keep going, you're you're walking through essentially walking through the castle. So you go through like different, um, things have so many Easter eggs, like all over the place. There's a board with like all the keys and that has like different things. And then there's like a scratch or like claw mark of one that I think it's like the seller or something like taken from the beast. They use like a shadow effect of the beast where Lumiere and, um, Clogsworth are.
00:47:28 Dustin: It's cog.
00:47:29 Logan: Cogsworth.
00:47:30 Dustin: He's not a plunger,
00:47:31 Logan: With the beast. But you just see like the shadow of the beast. Um, on the wall.
00:47:39 Nate: Yeah.
00:47:39 Logan: But it's so good.
00:47:41 Nate: It's cool because we skipped the line too. So, like, you don't miss any of this stuff when you skip the line.
00:47:46 Dustin: Oh, that's cool.
00:47:47 Logan: And then they seat you into. And then you get into like the big, um, teacup. My only like gripe with this ride in the cart, there's like two half circles of seats. And so you sit in the first one, then we got placed in the second one. It is kind of hard to see.
00:48:04 Dustin: Oh no.
00:48:06 Logan: And they, they put a lot of carts in like the space at a time, which to me feels like there might be one too many in any given space. Uh, and the ride is very much like every, it very lives off the principle that I was just talking about with PW about like being in one big open space and you kind of linger in that space for a little bit and see different things. The only like, I guess downside with that is some of these spaces. There aren't too many things to see. Like there's one where they, they put you in and it's just Belle on one side and the beast on the other. And it's just like an open, like wintery field. And when you're not near Belle or the beast, you're like, okay, like.
00:48:49 Dustin: Yeah.
00:48:49 Nate: Like sometimes you're kind of just like, like dancing against the wall. And I'm like, okay, it is a, it is a different experience. And I think, yeah, like, like Logan said, you're more aware of how much time you're spending in the room. Like you do feel like, like, wow, we've been twirling around Belle and Peaceful Hot Minute because we're playing like the whole song. And it does suffer from what I was kind of praising them about. With Pugh, though, all sodden scenes will position does matter, unfortunately. And like for the iconic transformation scene, if you haven't seen it, go to Japan and go see it because it's great.
00:49:30 Dustin: But um.
00:49:32 Nate: Like we will not the court in front. And like, I couldn't even really get a good video of it, which was a little sad because that's like the whole thing.
00:49:41 Dustin: How iconic. Yeah.
00:49:42 Logan: But that being said to the very first scene that you enter in is absolutely incredible. And it's the, um, be our guest scene where you're like, and you're getting thrown around and just to, I guess to put this into perspective to like, you are constantly moving on this ride. You are spinning. You're moving around like it was so hard to record anything.
00:50:03 Dustin: It tilts to.
00:50:04 Logan: It. Does it? Yes, you. If you can't, if you get dizzy, don't get on it because it's on a. You're spinning. You're constantly spinning. Um, except in like very sim, like very specific instances, but the ballroom, like really the, they bookend it. They did incredible first one with Burgess and the ballroom scene at the end. Phenomenal. Like everything in the middle is still really good and that, but that's where it kind of like you're like, okay, like when you spend a little too much time in some rooms and then other ones, it's like hard to see. And it's like, well, this is still incredible.
00:50:39 Dustin: I do find a lot of these trackless rides fall into the trap of being trackless, where it's like, we can move anywhere. Yeah. And then you just end up just floating around.
00:50:50 Logan: It does do great for dance scenes. It is great.
00:50:52 Dustin: Conga.
00:50:53 Logan: It's good for like two seconds.
00:50:55 Dustin: Yeah, well, there was a ride in SeaWorld that they replaced with a roller coaster, thank goodness, because all it was was this journey of this penguin. And it was the weirdest trackless ride I think I've ever been on. There was like, no talking. It was just all penguins going like, ah, oh my God. And it kind of gave like a weird Happy Feet vibe, but it was all pink garbage. But it was, it fell one hundred percent. The whole conceit of it was we can move anywhere. And I do feel like rides sometimes do fall into that. But like you said, the bookends seem to handle it pretty well.
00:51:33 Logan: It was very important. Those two, those two scenes had a very important job and they knew it.
00:51:39 Dustin: And I also love how, uh, you know, they still respect the, uh, animated film. Some might call them toons. Oh, look. Toontown. Okay. Trying to transition quickly over there, but let's talk about Toontown.
00:51:53 Nate: We ate in Toontown.
00:51:55 Logan: We did.
00:51:55 Dustin: We left in Toontown. We cried in Toontown.
00:51:58 Logan: Oh, we got on. We got on Roger rabbit's cartoon spin, didn't we?
00:52:03 Nate: Oh, I think, yeah, we did the same. Pretty much. They had Jessica. It is. They had OG Jessica Rabbit. No detective.
00:52:11 Dustin: No trench coat.
00:52:12 Nate: She has not changed careers yet.
00:52:14 Dustin: Okay. Fair enough. So time capsule once again.
00:52:17 Nate: Yeah. Very time capsule. They had the houses, which is cool. Mickey.
00:52:21 Logan: Minnie house.
00:52:22 Nate: Yeah. They had like the gimmicks, like the, the wait, the Donald's boat.
00:52:27 Dustin: Okay.
00:52:27 Nate: The like the jail cells, like stuff that you can like.
00:52:30 Dustin: Could you go inside of Donald's boat?
00:52:33 Logan: Yeah.
00:52:33 Dustin: Hey, there you go.
00:52:34 Logan: It's like a, it's like a.
00:52:38 Nate: It's for kids. Yeah. Right. Yeah.
00:52:40 Dustin: Right. Yeah. Well, the one in Disneyland, you can't anymore.
00:52:43 Logan: So there's also Chippendales tree houses there. And then there is the.
00:52:47 Dustin: Is there a.
00:52:47 Logan: Gadget go coaster?
00:52:49 Nate: I don't know if there's a ballpark, but there is a picture of kids climbing up stairs.
00:52:54 Logan: So yeah, walking up stairs.
00:52:56 Nate: It's a cute. It's a really good area for kids.
00:52:59 Logan: Dustin we have the same information you have.
00:53:01 Dustin: So well, I'm reading, I'm reading words. I'm not really looking at pictures. So I don't know.
00:53:07 Logan: We're looking at yeah, we're looking at the map on the app and it only shows one picture when you click on it. And it's just of two kids walking upstairs.
00:53:14 Nate: Yeah. And then they have this thing called the Gadget Gadget's Go Coaster, which I think is just like a classic, um.
00:53:22 Logan: Gadget's latest invention.
00:53:23 Dustin: Like a barnstormer kind of thing.
00:53:25 Logan: Yeah. Like it's the.
00:53:26 Dustin: Same, uh, my first roller coaster kind of thing.
00:53:29 Logan: Yeah, yeah.
00:53:30 Dustin: But they also have that one at Disneyland too. They have like all this stuff at Disneyland, but I guess the original.
00:53:35 Nate: Yeah, like the original Disneyland. Toontown. Yeah.
00:53:39 Logan: Um, but that is it in Toontown for us.
00:53:42 Dustin: They don't have to worry about that today. They could probably worry about that tomorrow. What? Tomorrowland.
00:53:48 Logan: Hey. So annoying. So we only did one thing in Tomorrowland, which was Monsters Inc. riding Go Seek.
00:53:57 Dustin: I forgot that was in this park.
00:54:01 Logan: Yes. Yes yes yes. And just the absolutely incredible Monsters, Inc. building. We. So there was a bunch of. Um, because again, we went during Halloween. So many people were dressed up as characters from Monsters Inc. And when we were leaving the ride, they collected together and got a picture in front of the monsters Inc um, building. And it was so stinking cute.
00:54:29 Dustin: That's cute.
00:54:30 Nate: But it was really, it was really cool seeing this because this was like when we went, it was like post announcement of Hollywood studios. Yeah. Like making monstropolis. So it was, it was like we got like a little teaser. It was very cool seeing like the huge monsters Inc building and being able to go inside and, you know, having like the big lobby and things like that. Like it was, it was awesome. And the ride was so cute.
00:54:57 Dustin: Well, hold on real quick. Talking about the facade. Do you guys think the facade at the scale that you saw it in Tokyo, do you think that would be appropriate for what is being imagined for Monstropolis, or do you think it's going to be bigger or smaller? About the same. What do you think?
00:55:13 Nate: I think I think this is like, I think Monstropolis is gonna be bigger because it was I mean, it was a healthy size, but it wasn't supposed to be like.
00:55:23 Logan: It's not a center point.
00:55:25 Nate: Yeah. It's like it's not the center point of the land. So they didn't they didn't go too much with it.
00:55:31 Logan: I would agree.
00:55:32 Dustin: Do you think Monsters Inc in Monstropolis is going to be more akin to the beauty and the Beast Castle is to that ride?
00:55:41 Nate: I hope so. Okay. Yeah, I.
00:55:42 Logan: Hope so too. Yeah.
00:55:45 Nate: And it's, I mean, it's gonna be a lift coaster, so they're gonna need a it's there's going to be a big building.
00:55:50 Logan: Yeah, it's gonna have to be massive.
00:55:51 Nate: Yeah.
00:55:52 Logan: That or it needs to I don't they're gonna have to do they're gonna have to figure out something more, um, like another color to color the show building behind it if they're gonna do that.
00:56:04 Dustin: Oh, but tell me a little bit about the ride. Uh, how was it riding it?
00:56:08 Logan: It was so stinking cute. Um. Very fine, very simple. Um, but it was just really fun.
00:56:16 Dustin: Is it, is it similar to, uh, to the one that was in Disneyland or California adventure, I guess is because it's still.
00:56:24 Nate: I would say like, yeah, but no.
00:56:28 Logan: Like, yeah.
00:56:29 Nate: I mean, the vehicle feels the same. It's still dark ride, but like you have, you know, you use a flashlight and you kind of shine it on different points to get points. So it's kind of like Buzz Lightyear in a sense, but.
00:56:42 Logan: Like.
00:56:43 Nate: Not as much pressure.
00:56:44 Dustin: Or like Men in Black.
00:56:45 Nate: Yeah, like men in black because based on what you hit with your flashlight. Stuff happens, which is very.
00:56:53 Logan: Very cute. Yeah, and boo is in like every scene. She's so stinking cute.
00:56:57 Nate: Yeah. And the animatronics are very good, too.
00:56:59 Dustin: So they're not like the other ride. They're more articulated.
00:57:02 Nate: Right? Exactly.
00:57:03 Dustin: Very cool. So another thing that I guess is kind of like canon is that you, um, you remember that chicken guy who's walking, um, to work where he goes, oh, blah, blah, blah walks to work. Oh yeah. He's like, yeah, he takes three steps and he's there. You see his face in this ride. That's cool. It's he's right next to I guess it's called the really big and tall shop.
00:57:27 Nate: Oh yeah. You do see him?
00:57:29 Dustin: That's funny.
00:57:30 Logan: I don't remember anything.
00:57:31 Dustin: Very interesting. You don't look like a chicken, but cool. Oh, and then Randall gets smushed. He goes into the machine. Wow.
00:57:42 Nate: Yeah.
00:57:42 Dustin: And he gets turned into a block. Oh. How awesome.
00:57:46 Logan: Yes! yes yes.
00:57:47 Dustin: I know it's.
00:57:48 Nate: Really it's a very good ride. I was pleasantly I thought it was gonna be cute, but I was I was surprised how, like in depth it actually was.
00:57:56 Dustin: Yeah. And this has that illusion at the end where the door. There's depth when the door is open. But when you look in the side. Oh. How incredible.
00:58:05 Logan: Yes yes yes. Yeah.
00:58:07 Dustin: Wow wow wow.
00:58:08 Logan: It's wild. They waste. They, they cut no corners.
00:58:11 Dustin: They did not. Yeah. And then Roz is at the end of course.
00:58:15 Logan: Are always watching all always.
00:58:20 Dustin: I didn't know E.T. was in monsters Inc. but anyways, so we're going to, uh. So now we're in Tomorrowland. Okay, so you've done that ride monsters.
00:58:27 Nate: Yeah. We didn't do the Baymax ride, but we did go to see it.
00:58:31 Dustin: Okay.
00:58:32 Nate: That was only one person dancing, which is not what TikTok promised.
00:58:37 Logan: Um.
00:58:38 Nate: But that's okay.
00:58:39 Dustin: The cult wasn't there.
00:58:40 Nate: The cult was not in attendance that day. Oh, boy. But that's okay. A.
00:58:45 Dustin: It was it was their day off.
00:58:47 Nate: Yeah. They get to enjoy Halloween too.
00:58:50 Dustin: Okay, so in that land, the stitch encounter looks like it's, uh, not the stitch ride we had, but more of the turtle talk with crush kind of thing. And of course, Star Wars.
00:59:01 Logan: I didn't even know it was there. Yeah, until I just saw it on this for this episode. I was like, oh, I did not know that that was there.
00:59:09 Dustin: Yeah. So no attempt at Space Mountain.
00:59:11 Logan: Yeah.
00:59:12 Nate: Okay. Space mountain was closed. So Space Mountain, if you don't.
00:59:15 Dustin: Know.
00:59:16 Nate: Space Mountain is being completely rebuilt.
00:59:19 Dustin: Oh you're correct. Yeah. Yes. Wow.
00:59:21 Nate: It's supposed to open in like twenty twenty seven.
00:59:25 Dustin: Yeah.
00:59:26 Nate: It looks so good.
00:59:29 Dustin: Oh. So good. But, uh, the Star Wars. Yeah. Well, the Star Tours one is the, not the original. So that's whatever. But there is this thing called Tony Solari. Tony Solani show.
00:59:46 Nate: What?
00:59:47 Dustin: Did you guys hear this?
00:59:48 Nate: I don't even see that. Where was that?
00:59:52 Dustin: Uh, it was on a list of things. Let me see if it's actually still around.
00:59:56 Nate: Well, they have Tony Laroni, like Tony. They had. They. Oh, that's probably.
01:00:01 Dustin: What it is. Logan. Tony Laroni oh my gosh. You know what it is.
01:00:06 Nate: What.
01:00:07 Dustin: It looks like it's in a food court area. So it looks like it's similar to cosmic rays.
01:00:13 Nate: Oh, beautiful.
01:00:14 Dustin: But it's like above it, which is crazy. That actually looks really cool. Yeah. And the pizza port or whatever it's called. So I guess you would have only seen it if you ate in there.
01:00:24 Nate: But speaking of show, I mean, that's the end of the lands.
01:00:27 Dustin: Yeah. Speaking of shows, there you go. Great transition.
01:00:29 Nate: Speaking of shows, we did see one show. We did finally get to see a show at Disney because the shows are like lottery based, if you don't know.
01:00:38 Dustin: Oh, interesting.
01:00:40 Nate: So we did get lucky. We did see Mickey's magical music world, which is right next to Belle's Castle. Really good. Really good show. The premise was something like, um, you know, I actually don't know the plot again. These shows are in Japanese, so it's open to interpretation.
01:01:02 Logan: Not really. Only if you don't speak Japanese.
01:01:06 Dustin: Open to interpretation, but directly open to translation.
01:01:09 Nate: Yeah. I don't remember what the storyline was. Phenomenal talent and staging and props like throughout. Like you're basically getting like Broadway level performances, like bite sized pieces.
01:01:25 Logan: This one was really, it was just, it was very nice. And again, like, yeah, same kind of vein, almost like all the shows, like I'm not one hundred percent sure really fully what's going on at any point in time, but beautiful.
01:01:40 Dustin: So just briefly, Um, you said that you just saw a glimpse of the parade. Tell me a little bit about the glimpse that you saw and also the lining up, because you said that everybody lined up at the beginning and waited out.
01:01:51 Nate: Oh my God.
01:01:52 Dustin: Was there a purpose for that or just to be in the front.
01:01:56 Nate: Just to be in the front? Oh, but you know what they did before parade? Yes. Okay. Dustin.
01:02:03 Dustin: Yeah.
01:02:03 Nate: Everybody again! Shut up, shut.
01:02:06 Logan: Up, shut up, shut.
01:02:07 Dustin: Up, shut up, shut up.
01:02:08 Nate: While talking. Like when people coming in costumes, we're talking like full costumes. Like they could be the meet and greet. They often look better than the meet and greets.
01:02:18 Logan: Oh, no they do.
01:02:19 Nate: They look fantastic.
01:02:20 Logan: They do.
01:02:21 Nate: And the coordination? Everything. You'll probably find any. Every character's. So many Kingdom Hearts characters. I was in heaven. But anyway, before the parade, they get a bunch of people that are dressed up. They put them in a line like I'm talking a long line, like the line of the entire parade, and they do a coordinated dance, a Halloween dance as a preshow, like with the guests before the parade. It is the cutest thing I've ever seen.
01:02:51 Logan: All the all the guests dressed up like they're all doing their own. It's really cool.
01:02:55 Dustin: Well, that also sounds like something that necessarily wouldn't happen in in the States. Being able to dress up that well for fear of being mistaken.
01:03:05 Logan: No. They are. It's actually terrifying how well done because we went when we went. I mean, spoiler alert, we also went to, um, Fantasy Springs, which you'll hear about in some other episode I saw. Um, there were several times where I thought I saw the Elsa because they looked so incredible, but nobody was really around them. So I'm like, okay, so that's not her. And then everyone was like super excited and like shouting because the real Elsa came out and I was like her like that.
01:03:40 Dustin: That's her.
01:03:41 Logan: Like it was so like, even the costume just felt, oh my God, it's so good. It's so cute. And they, they celebrate them doing that stuff too, like bringing them and putting them in the parade, like in the beginning, like people participating. That's so cool.
01:03:56 Dustin: Oh, that is cool.
01:03:57 Nate: Yeah. And this is all during the day. You don't need a special ticket. There's no after hours events in Tokyo, so it's just part of your ticket. That's why I if you're gonna go to Japan, highly recommend during the Halloween time. It's so much fun to see, like all these, like creative costumes and stuff.
01:04:14 Dustin: Okay, so what about, uh, last thoughts? What are we, uh, our last impressions when you're leaving, you're walking out.
01:04:22 Nate: I'm crying. I'm sad. The day is over.
01:04:25 Dustin: You're sad that you're leaving. But you left early.
01:04:28 Nate: I know.
01:04:30 Nate: I know, it was raining. Um.
01:04:33 Logan: I was it's funny how that works, isn't it?
01:04:35 Nate: Yeah, I, I am I was.
01:04:38 Nate: Pleasantly surprised with Tokyo Disneyland. I am sad we didn't go the last time we were in Tokyo. I'm excited to go again as soon as we can. Pleasantly surprised. A fantastic time, a fantastic stress free time. It reminds me of Disneyland in California. Just because it's just like fun. It's just easy.
01:05:00 Logan: Yeah, it's just so much fun. And the like. Everything is just such top notch. Even the food, it's cheaper. It's just. It's just really nice. Um, I really am excited to go back. And we will several times.
01:05:18 Dustin: So, uh, it does seem like, uh, you guys would recommend maybe.
01:05:23 Logan: No.
01:05:24 Dustin: No, all this positive stuff and. No.
01:05:27 Nate: Um, one hundred percent. Yeah.
01:05:29 Dustin: I mean, uh, it's, it seems like it has a very healthy balance of new groundbreaking. uh, rides and technologies. But then also some, like we said, throughout time capsule things of like original versions of rides that we have here in the, in the US. So I mean, it just seems like such a great place for both the people who like new Disney and also the people who love old Disney. So very cool. Um, but what do you guys think? Have you guys been to Disneyland? Uh, Tokyo Disneyland, I should say. Uh, you know, the topic of this episode. I know, thank you. The, um, have you guys been there? Do you guys want to go? Uh, what do you guys think? Reach out to us and let us know if you have any questions. Let us know. And I'm sure Logan and Nate would be happy to answer those questions.
01:06:21 Logan: Let us know.
01:06:23 Dustin: Let us know. Yeah. Until then, thank you guys for listening. We'll see you guys next week and we'll see. We'll see.
01:06:29 Logan: You.
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