Carousel of Progress Gets an Update as Fans Chase Real Disney Experiences
In this episode of Disney Hers, hosts Lauren and Eric dive deep into why Disney fans are suddenly craving tangible, brick-and-mortar experiences in an increasingly digital world. From thousands of fans lining up in the rain for a new Disney Store opening in Pittsburgh to the cultural shifts driving people back to physical spaces, they explore what this means for the community. Plus, the hosts break down the massive internet reaction to Disney’s surprise announcement regarding major timeline updates coming to the iconic Carousel of Progress attraction at Walt Disney World.
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Carousel of Progress Gets an Update as Fans Chase Real Disney Experiences Transcript
Lauren: Welcome to Disney Hers, the show about what’s happening in the Disney community from his, hers, and your perspective. I’m Lauren.
Eric: And I’m Eric, and on today’s show we’re talking about why Disney fans seem to be craving that physical experience again. From a physical Disney store return or themed movie theater merch or immersive lands. We’re also gonna talk about the Carousel Progress update that everybody is talking about online.
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Eric: All right, but what we’re gonna be talking about today is something that you know very, very well, and that is the return of the Disney store. You and a couple of your friends and family all made it out to where was that in Pittsburgh? It was one of the little suburbs or is it w the Ross Park Mall?
Lauren: Yeah. Yes, and it is Ross Park Mall. And so if you’ve listened to I Want That Too, the Consumer Products and History podcast that I do with Jim, we talked all about the actual experience over there. So if you didn’t listen to that yet, go there. but we’re gonna talk about it in a different light today because even a week later at this point, like the Disney community is still really talking about it. They’re excited about it. So we kind of want to see what the community is saying, but I can’t stop thinking about it either. But maybe for a different reason. So it’s not about like what was in the store. To me, it was what was happening outside. And that’s what I keep like thinking about over and over and over again. So I mentioned it, and I want that too. That, you know, there were, I would say probably at least a thousand or thousands of people that were there for the opening. They’re all decked out in their park attire, waiting hours to go into this teeny tiny little straw. And I was we were going into the mall the other night and I was telling you about this and like I just kept asking like why? Like that’s weird behavior, right?
Eric: Well, I think I I mean it’s it’s weird behavior to an extent. I didn’t think that we’d have that many people show up in the greater Pittsburgh area. So I know that it’s a decent populated area, but Pittsburgh’s not it’s not like Chicago or New York or or it’s not like it’s in Florida where you have a bunch of Disney fans. It’s like Pittsburgh. So I was just like, All right, you might yeah, there’ll probably be a little bit of a line that, you know, to get into the store there might be a l sanctions and so forth. But when you shared videos of like the outside And just wrapped around almost the entire mall. And mind you, malls are not like the super hot spot anymore. Malls are in a sense dying. There’s very few that are actually like hot beds. So I was really surprised, and even more so when you start seeing people with Mickey ears and in I mean Disney shirts and so forth. I’m like, wow, I I I know we’re an outlier because Let’s face it, we do Disney podcasts. We’re like annual pass holders. We’re not the norm in West Virginia, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Ohio area. But maybe there’s more of us than we thought, I guess.
Lauren: Right. And that is what I like I realized is that like even though we’re in the I’d say Midwest ish, that there are way more of us. And I mean p people c were coming from Canada and New York and stuff to come down, but they wouldn’t do that just for the merch. ‘Cause I mean I’ve talked about it. You can get merch anywhere, right? You can go on Amazon or Walmart or Etsy or wherever you want to get your Disney merch. So it wasn’t about the merch. So what we was it really about? And so I’m wondering. So we have a a teen daughter and she’s like, I’m like, well, what were you doing today? And she’s like, I was watching the Brady Bunch. So I’m like, hmm, is it like whats old is new again? Like we’ve seen this stuff returning over and over and over again. And Eric, do you remember when we were in high school, like we would go to the mall and hang out. Like in
Eric: Yeah.
Lauren: I think Laney said she’s like, I feel like people are going to the mall again. So I don’t think that this was about the like the merch per se or the store itself or just ’cause it was a grand opening. I think it was for the experience. And if you look at what people are saying online afterward, I besides I mean like if you look at what people were saying online afterwards, like besides complaining that they couldn’t get their Pittsburgh shirt Like I think that they were not talking about what they bought, they were talking about the experience. So what did some people say, Eric?
Eric: Well, I mean, I found a coup we found a couple here randomly. It’s s Z Limits or Z Milts. standing in line with a bunch of sickles that love what you love is something not enough people have experienced. So I think you’re right. I mean, I think that’s that that was kind of the deal is maybe people were looking for a gathering of like minded people and I just didn’t expect it to happen. But when we go like when you go to a concert Or, you know, in my case, if I go to like a wrestling event, you are with a bunch of people that have very shared in you know, experiences, and that’s probably about the best you can do in local areas. I guess you can go to like little like live music and so f and aspects, but like if you go to a big old concert, it’s the people that are willing to pay big money to see the same thing. So I guess there might be a sense of community. I didn’t anticipate like the Disney store bringing a community together, but I’m guessing from Disney folk, what else? Where else can you do that? on a grand spectacle, except for maybe like when Disney on ice comes to town, or maybe there’s a local musical. There’s not a lot of hotbeds anymore where there used to be. Cause I mean, mind you, in Pittsburgh there used to be an actual Disney store, an Eisner-esed Disney store with like the old nineties props and everything at the South Hills Village Mall. And when we were craving a Disney hit, we’d be like, All right, we’re gonna go to the Disney store and Just walking in there and seeing the cast members with the normal badge name badges and just seeing some of the props and stuff was just enough. It’s not like a Disney experience, but it was enough to kind of get that hit. Is that kind of what you’re thinking a lot of people were doing this for?
Lauren: Yeah, yeah, I think it’s the experience. And so I, you know, was sharing videos and stuff from the experience. And something that I noticed and a lot of the people that watched the videos were saying was there were a lot of adults. Like many people said, like, where are all the kids? and so that kind of leads us into our next comment. So this one was from somebody, so this was this figment, love, that says, I worked at the Disney. During the late 2010s, and they started finally embracing the Disney adult trend towards the end of my run. I’d imagine these revamp stores will lean way more into that. And it said upper management at the Disney store was really stubborn about stocking things that Disney adults were constantly asking for, like ears, park centric merch, pins, unique clothing and accessories. They thought t shirts and coffee mugs were pretty much all they needed in the store whenever they were consistently. Losing guests because you know you can get much more unique stuff otherwise, or even like hot topic or or box lunch.
Eric: yeah, yeah. And when I was looking so I didn’t go with you guys ’cause I was not about to stand in line or deal with crazy. Like I just listen, power to everybody that wants to be in that community. I am the opposite. I like to be kind of passive and just walk around and get my fix by looking at things I like. But I did see things like the park.
Lauren: Yeah.
Eric: they had some like the park plates, I think, park cups. You know, you didn’t send me any good pictures of You were just sticking around on other aspects. But I saw them peripherally, and other people’s videos as well. But yeah, that’s stuff you normally wouldn’t see in these. Your a normal Disney store was like the plush mountain, you know, of of all the characters and costumes for kids and your like a hot topic box on s even like a Spencer’s. We went into Spencer’s the other day and it’s just Disney merch, but it’s very adult. So yeah, you could definitely see that the people that are making the decisions are adults and people that are going to go out and buy these things and seek this experience. And it might just be a hit from nostalgia too. You know, like if the if the teenagers are also going back to the malls, that’s great for malls. But all of us who grew up in a mall, maybe we’re just like, hey, let’s this is a thing that we haven’t done for a long time because we’re also busy So we wanna get like the Amazon purchases and when we need something we can get it quickly. It’s we don’t have time to go linger and lounge. But maybe as we get a little older, that’s what we end up doing. Instead of, you know, being at McDonald’s drinking coffee with the the guys in the morning, which is the common trend for our senior pals now, maybe we end up doing mall walks and buying collectible mugs.
Lauren: Yeah, I mean you never know. All right, so this is another comment which really made a lot of sense. So they said new regime changes usually bring some interesting changes. I’ll be curious to see how it goes. Is Disney trying to regionalize the magic since air travel and park tickets keep rising? Are they seeing a drop in online sales and trying to bring back brick and mortar? We’ll see. And I thought that was such a fascinating concept, and it’s just like you said, like i like if you weren’t going to like, you know, Disney on ice or show or something like that. Like, how would they, how could they regionalize this? And I was talking to a friend and she was saying it would be really interesting if D23 would do more of these regionalized meetups for the fan community. I thought that was really smart. And someone else had mentioned like having like a droid version of a build-a-bear. So having these other little like small
Eric: The droid depots just kinda hanging out. I mean it could easily work.
Lauren: Yeah. I mean, so I I get that. so going back to I talked about the earnings call a little bit and I just I have to say this again because I feel like we as Disney fans, we know what we are we want more of right now. And I feel like the company knows and understands and they’re trying to figure out ways to kinda like deliver on that without the financial risk. So you know, Josh DeMarrow, like his background, people know him from Disney experiences in the parks, but he also has the consumer products. So I think he understands that Disney, you know, fans they don’t want to just consume digitally anymore. Like do you think that there is a little bit of like a digital fatigue going on?
Eric: Well, I think a lot of people after COVID essentially were locked in and we loved it for an extent because it was like a break from the the the grind. Then everything became digital. So I think there is an aspect of like, yeah, going out and experiencing things. I think there was a huge boom right afterwards is because we’re finally free. So I I don’t know over years. I mean, someone like myself has got to the point where I’d much rather just watch a movie on Disney Plus at my own house. But there’s a lot of people on the other hand are like, No, let’s go experience it and be in a theater with other individuals And hear the, you know, the crowd erupt with applause at, you know, when something big happens. So I I don’t know. It’s just this weird circumstance where we’re in where things are more convenient to us to not have the physical, but the physical probably makes a lasting memory or at least gives you an experience to get out of that kind of mundane hustle bustle efficiency world. And I think it’s just getting in like with things like AI that makes your life even easier to do certain little trivial tasks, you’re gonna either have more time to do Things that you want to do, or you’re gonna seek human interaction. I it’s it’s gonna go either way, and we’re right in the brink of it right now.
Lauren: Right. And even if you look at we’re talking about culturally, but even if you look at Disney as a company, so if you go back 20 years, the parks were real the like the parks weren’t the physical like they weren’t the centerpiece of the company. The movies were, the animation was. And the parks were important, but they were almost treated like a byproduct of the stores. So now just listen to that earnings call, it’s almost the opposite. So when Disney is talking about growth, they’re talking about all their new cruise ships and their park expansion and their new experiences. Like you hear that over and over and over again. I think I even said on I want that too, like it’s like a drinking game when he says immersive experiences. So I feel like they’re treating everything now like in attraction and people want that physical. So it’s physical, you know, places and experiences and environments. And if you think about going to the movies now, like twenty years ago, Disney just wanted you to buy the ticket. But today they want you to buy the ticket, get the, you know, refillable popcorn bucket, get the collectible cup, take a picture, share it on Instagram and show people that you participated in something. So it’s it’s a different way of looking at the like consumer cycle, I think.
Eric: Yeah.
Eric: Yeah, why you also look at it, it’s very more you know, back in the day there would all right, Disney movie, here’s an animated movie. You won once a year, maybe two other studios did some type of animated movie. Well, it’s very competitive now. Not only do you have multiple studios, anybody can make pretty much anything now. You’re competing against all these other aspects online. I mean, if you think about it, there were no YouTubers. There were no you know, there were television cable stations and there were maybe thirty seven, maybe to a hundred if you’re in a big market. And now it’s just so much of an option. So you have to divide diversify and what are you competing with in an immersion immersion land now? There’s not that much, right? Like I’m looking at things like all right, you have your Universal Studios, you have your regional theme parks, Netflix as like a Netflix house in Philadelphia that I’m excited to like kind of explore and learn more about. There are some like some museums regionally. So if they got back into that game and found spaces like malls to give some type of immersive experience, then that would be great. I think people would love to witness that, the question is how long will that last? I’m the infrastructure and money to put into that has to be you know, th th there’s a lot more to that than saying, hey, we’re gonna make this this show and if it doesn’t do anything, we just kill it on the streaming platforms, you know, like hard physical environments cost a lot of money and there’s a lot of, you know, money that needs to go into it with training, labor, getting labor, you know, all that. So I’m I’m interested and I think we could, but like how long will that last? And I think there needs to be feasibility studies, hence why they’re doing these limited stores, right?
Lauren: And they’re doing with a partner and everything. So it makes sense because I mean I think you and Jim talked about the the Horror Knight like experience that you did in Vegas and how like I mean it was really elaborate and you know, there weren’t a ton of people there and experiencing it. So I get it. And so they’re trying to be strategic, but you know, like I said, all the growth areas are are physical right now and I don’t think anybody does those, you know, physical Experiences the way that Disney does because people don’t remember even what they bought, or they don’t remember their digital experiences as much as like if you think about going to the parks, like the smell and seeing the castle for the first time and buying the souvenirs to preserve those memories. I mean, like they are really uniquely set up to win in this space. I’m hoping that they will invest in it. So, anyways, to bring this full circle. I think that the experience is why thousands of people stood in line in the rain to go to the d the Disney store in Pittsburgh. I don’t think it was about the store at all. so you know, what experience do you miss the most? Is it the Disney store? Is it something that was in the parks that’s gone, a ride, show, attraction, a parade? let us know. We want to hear from you. and after the break, we’re going to be talking about one Disney experience that fans definitely have strong feelings about. Disney just announced major updates that are coming to the carousel of progress. So let’s just say the Disney is commu the Disney community is having mixed emotions. But before that, there’s this.
Lauren: And we’re back. Before the break, we were talking about how Disney seems to understand that something bigger is happening right now and people are craving experiences and yeah. And we’re back. Before the break, we were talking about how Disney seems to understand something bigger is happening right now. People are craving experiences and nostalgia. and what’s funny is that Disney fans were online talking about how much they missed the Disney stores, sharing all their like memories than practically begging Disney to bring them back. At the same time, Disney is dropping major news about one of the most nostalgic attractions at Walt Disney World, the Carousel.
Eric: Yeah, so this was this came out of the blue to me. I didn’t know I had no idea that they were doing more of a refurb. I originally announced what last year. They were like, All right, the opening scene where it’s just a widget talking to you. You know, it’s like the bright screen and the is gonna be new Walt scene, which I was super jazzed about because I think it was like Walt in a blue like cardigan kind of style, maybe talking about almost like talking about Project Epcot kind of that that era, so to speak. but yeah, this week they they launched that, hey, no, we’re not just doing that. We’re doing like a whole revamp. And I think there was a lot of people out there that are like me, which is like, you know I like I like the idea of this. We like new things, but also a very much like, man, these these are my scenes. This is what I’ve witnessed for the last, you know, Ten years. so what are they bringing? Like what are they doing here, Lauren? I know you’ve kind of kept up with it.
Lauren: yeah. I mean, Eric literally r ran into my office in the middle of the day and was like, my gosh, did you did you see this? Did you see this? Like everybody is, you know, going crazy online and talking about it. so from what I understand, they’re changing up the timeline. So we’re getting the in the sixties, we’re getting the moon landing, the eighties, we’re getting a Halloween scene at 99, New Year’s Eve, the rise of the internet, and then a new futuristic ph finale in Inspired by the original kind of concept. And like I said, the internet has thoughts. So what are people saying?
Eric: Well, on you went to Reddit and grabbed a a decent amount of comments here. It says the carousel progress hasn’t shown progress in so long. The future scene is so outdated, they needed this badly. Silicon Knight said, I’m just glad they’re investing in it. I said it on another subreddit to but to me it’s more historically significant ride. It’s the most historically significant ride at WDW. Walt worked on this and was alive for it. All the other rides are adaptations of things he never really saw. This isn’t to to so to them it celebrates the progress of something the park should. And be shy of. That said it’s hope it’s never removed and always improved. So yeah, I mean that’s the big thing. There’s a lot of cries out there that says, you know, this is a this is the one that Walt touched. Well, yeah, no. I mean, they redid this in ’94, I think. So obviously, everybody knows the last seed is just horribly outdated in every little way. Talking about laser discs and the technology that they’re playing that game on on their
Lauren: my gosh, yeah.
Eric: on on the television. I mean the television itself, yeah, yeah. So I mean, obviously there needs to be some type of update. And I hope Disney understands that, all right, the moment we update this last futuristic scene, it’s going to be outdated. So I hope they kind of go way into the future to the point where almost like horizon-esque, where you know, yes, you have flying cars and stuff that obviously we’re not going to be able to get in the near future. so that way it stays good for a while.
Lauren: It looks like an Atari.
Eric: But a lot of it comes down, I think that when it comes down to it, there’s a matter of we don’t relate to those old scenes, so we’re nostalgic to them. But like obviously I don’t have a clue about I don’t even know what era they’re in. You know, I know anything about a Winnebago or b like circuit breakers. Like like people have no idea like you could blow a cer a fuse and take out a neighborhood. I mean I never think about that when I’m doing too much power here in the basement. So I don’t It’s ill it’s interesting. So I don’t know if they’re updating it because we don’t relate. We’re now if you’re talking about you’re definitely gonna have people that relate to the sixties, you know. We’re gonna relate to the eighties. A Halloween in the eighties, I mean, that is like a perfect mixture. Y two K, absolutely, that is like my entire teenage years, right? So we’re gonna relate to it. So maybe we’re gonna see some enhancements and I d I don’t know, it will will it in involve more people. will it get more people over there? Is anything else going online? What are other people saying? Are they pro or against this?
Lauren: Well, I feel like there’s probably a lot of people and there were so many comments. But this Scott Hutton says, I get it. Im a Disney purist. I love the attraction. It got it has Walt’s fingerprints all over it. I’ll mourn the changes. But Walt himself would have never allowed it to stay sac stagnant for so long. And the attract current attraction skips from the fabulous fifties to the future, which is a big leap. So it’s time for an update. And so I mean, I feel like you guys weren’t just talking about is the update are the updates a good thing or a bad thing? I think people ha had a lot of thoughts on the eras. even my boss, you know, he was like Halloween, like Halloween in the eighties. Like what is that about?
Eric: Mm. Dude, that’s the 80s holiday. Come on. That like when you got all like the Friday the 13th and the Michael Myers films. I mean, if there’s a holiday for the 80s, it is absolutely Halloween. I like I don’t know how they’ll play that in, but come on, that is perfect.
Lauren: Okay, well what about so we’re getting to like Y two K so we’re getting to the to like two thousand and then we’re jumping to the future. Like I feel like there’s probably somewhere in between, like the rise of the internet, like era, digital like
Eric: Well that that that is nineteen ninety nine and two thousand. I mean, we all had it. It was dial up, but I mean like how interesting it is.
Lauren: Yeah, but I mean we’ve come a long way from dialogue, dial up to the future.
Eric: Well, listen, if we’re talking about the current version where they go from the fifties to whatever that time frame’s supposed to be, right? You you still can jump. I don’t know. I mean, yes, there’s a lot of interesting things, but if you’re looking at landmarks, if you’re doing New Year’s Eve and they’re worried about the freaking world shutting down because the clock, you know, the computers can’t handle it, I think that’s a good opportunity. And it’s not like we can add a bunch of extra scenes there. I mean, there’s only so much.
Lauren: I guess.
Lauren: Right, because they’re still using the current ride system. And I think they’re using even a lot of the animatronics, right?
Eric: I you know, I don’t know exactly what they’re gonna do there. I imagine there’ll be like lots of nods. If we can take something like this is a reskin, so to speak. So if you look at the most recent reskins that they’re doing at the parks, you look at the Muppets, and it turns out a lot of the stuff in the queue and in is all being redone, reskin so to speak. I imagine they’ll have and there’s lots of like nods to the old stuff. So I imagine that they’ll probably do something similar. And that’ll make us all happy if they say things that were in the old scene that like we point and we’re like, hey, I know that one. I that I get that. that would I assume that that’s the way it’s gonna go. And we’ll all be happy for that. I be I think the biggest thing for me is that I like the old stuff and it’s one of those things where like you will see this show for the last time and that will have to resonate with you that like, hey, these are all gonna be pulled apart, they’re gonna be reskinned, they’re gonna re redo these, and you just have to live with that. I think a lot of us who don’t w who remember these things would love to preserve it in a museum somewhere, but that’s just not how it goes with Disney. You’re not getting the museum of old attractions.
Lauren: No, and I mean like I also think that Disney is strategic, right? Like, and they are making the especially at Disney World an investment in the parks that they’ve not made at any one given time before. And so they’re trying to attract in these new audiences. And so even going back to the eras and what they pick specifically, like a lot of times, if you look at the consumer base of these, their ideal customer, like they want people. People that are coming, you know, once every five years or 10 years or whatever that are gonna drop 10, 15, you know, thousand dollars on this trip and spare no expense because they wanna experience everything. And a lot of times, I mean, it’s the grandparents that are are paying for that. So if you have the sixties, you’re covering the grandparents. You got the eighties, now you’re covering the parents.
Eric: Right.
Lauren: And then this 2000, I mean, maybe or maybe not the kids, but like you’re getting that like the future look. So I think that you can’t have an attraction with the carousel of progress. I mean, progress is in the name and having things that modern audiences just can’t connect with. So Im Im Im just looking at the like why, like why this is happening. Do you agree, disagree with that?
Eric: No, I mean I think it’s I look at it this way. I’d much rather have a new carousel progress than no carousel progress. ‘Cause the options are they could have just ripped this out and turned it into something that they did a Disneyland. Here’s a D B C lounge for money, right? Like you so here’s an attraction. Right.
Lauren: Yeah, I do. I think they’re trying to save it. Like I think they’re trying to preserve it.
Eric: Right. Well, they are. And I mean, so it’s real interesting if you listen to the most recent Disney dish. They talk about this. Obviously, d Jim does the history of it and they talk prominently about, hey, you know, in the future, the core part of this park is going to shift more towards villains land. So having something over in Tomorrowland that can eat people because they’re opening capacity up. I mean, you open up a brand new land, you’re allowing more people in the park that gets things real congested. You need a place that can I think they were saying thirty six hundred people an hour that’s air conditioned, that’s updated, that a lot of people haven’t you know, seen. I don’t think after the initial year, once you’ve seen it, I don’t think it’s just gonna be this thing that’s now creating lightning lanes and everybody needs to see it. It’s it’s it’s gonna be the same carousel of progress that you go see you know, a it once a trip, maybe once every other trip, how frequently you go. I don’t know. But I don’t think it’s just gonna be this
Lauren: Right.
Lauren: But do you think they’re trying I I think this is gonna get a marketing push when it’s done. And I like so if you look at it right now, you have the Disney purists that are are commenting and people are really passionate about it and it’s beloved by like us, like Disney fans, but most of the people that are going to Disney, Disney’s target audience, they’re not the Disney fan. Like they’re not the purist. So like they’re not experiencing it. Think about our
Eric: Right. Right.
Lauren: friends and family that go to Disney World. Like when they come back, like, do you hear anybody talking about that as far as like attractions go?
Eric: Well no, why would you talk about the care self progress right now? But then again, it depends on who you are. If you’re a coast Right.
Lauren: But nobody’s really doing it. And like unless you want to like have that midday AC break. Like people aren’t they probably don’t even know that it’s there.
Eric: Well, how often I mean, listen, if you’re gonna list the top ten things that you did at Walt Disney World and you actually spent a week there, I don’t care if it’s now or later. You’re still not putting a carousel progress in the top. You gotta be a sicko, you gotta be a theme park enthusiast, you gotta really love the history and the elements of it. It’s not a show that you’re like, man, I c carousel progress up there with guardians. It’s never and it’s not gonna be that now. I’m very happy that they are
Lauren: No.
Lauren: But I don’t disagree. I mean, like, it’s not gonna be in the top ten, but they’re leaning so heavily into Walt Disney and like Im thinking that this is like Abraham Lincoln in Disneyland. Like, I think people will go to see Walt Disney’s animatronic.
Eric: The common folk do not care about Walt Disney. N of of course they will, but the co the common folk, the person who loves a Cedar Point or who loves a Kennywood or a Regional S Six Flags Park, the common person who’s making this a once in a lifetime trip does not care about Walt Disney like the fans do. So they’re gonna see it because it’s a show.
Lauren: It’s not true. If you grew up with watching Walt Disney on TV, you don’t think that those people would be like, I really want to go see Walt. Think about the lines of people that just wanna get their picture with the Walt statue in Epcot.
Eric: Those people
Eric: They’re all they’re all people that are diehard fans. The sixty year olds have already been to Walt Disney World. Those are the ones that watched Walt on TV. They’re all sixty, seventy now. The people that are in their forties never watched Walt on TV. We watched Michael Eisner if that. And there’s no Michael Eisner statue or animatronic yet. He’s not even a legend. So at this point in time, I I say this is gonna be a it’s a nice, wonderful enhancement. Im I hate to see this this part of the park go because there are all those lovely renditions and pictures of Walt working on the animatronics and stuff and it looks very similar even though the show has s changed. I imagine we’re gonna get all new outfits, looks. There’s rumors that the narrator isn’t even gonna be the dude. It’s gonna be a female narrator and all types of stuff. And and the wife is gonna be the one. So it’s could be a hundred completely different and I’m good with all of it. But man, it’s it would be nice to have some of these like archives somewhere, but that’s just not how theme parks go. But obviously
Lauren: No, and I mean like we’ve talked about yeah, I mean they’ve talked about having like a like a traditional theme park somewhere in Asia that had like all of the old attractions. So I mean, maybe someday. But we we want to hear from you.
Eric: We want to know.
Eric: Right. It’s a let us know what did they pick the right eras? Are you excited about it? Do you hate this? are you gonna go to it more? Is that is this gonna be Guardian of the Galaxy in terms of your top ten ranking? we wanna know all about it.
Lauren: All right. Well that’s it for today’s episode of Disney Hers. For more make sure you’re hitting up DisneyHurs.com. There you’ll find articles, episodes, and updates. And if Disney’s revived, hit subscribe.
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