Spoiler Alert: Why We Avoid Disney POV Videos Before Our Trip

Should you watch Disney ride POVs and park walkthroughs before your vacation, or does it ruin the magic? In this episode of Dis and Hers, Eric and Lauren dive into the ongoing debate around Disney spoilers, from attraction POV videos to hotel walkthroughs and vlog coverage. They share their own spoiler-free approach ahead of an upcoming Walt Disney World trip while also discussing how previews and reviews can help with trip planning, accessibility concerns, dining choices, and resort decisions. Plus, they break down the latest Walt Disney World additions, including the Muppets takeover of Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster, Bluey’s arrival at Animal Kingdom, and the new animation courtyard at Hollywood Studios.

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Episode Highlights

• Eric and Lauren debate whether Disney spoilers ruin the park experience
• The pros and cons of watching ride POVs before a trip
• How Disney vlogs can help with food and resort planning
• Why hotel walkthrough videos are worth watching before booking
• Early reactions to the Muppets-themed Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster
• Bluey’s new dance party experience at Animal Kingdom
• First impressions of the new Disney Animation Courtyard updates
• The role nostalgia and Easter eggs play in Disney fandom

Lauren Hersey: Welcome to Disney Hers, the show about what’s happening in the Disney community from his, hers, and your perspective. I’m Lauren.

Eric Hersey: And I’m Eric and on today’s show we talk about spoilers in the parks. Do you watch the ride POVs and coverage before you go on vacation? We then follow up with a spoiler free look at all the new things that’s happening down at Walt Disney World that was released this week.

Lauren Hersey: But before we get started, we want to remind you that Disney Herds can be found on all your favorite podcast platforms and also in video format on YouTube and Spotify. We’d love it if you could head over to Apple, give us a quick review, and let us know what you want to hear us talk about on an upcoming show.

Eric Hersey: Alright, Lauren, so this is the big question because lots of stuff is going down, coming out really. As the at the time of this recording, I think it’s the big day, the twenty sixth or is

Lauren Hersey: Yes. Is the big day.

Eric Hersey: When everything is coming out, there’s what is it, Cool Kids Summer and a lot of stuff that goes along with that, including things like the rock and roller coaster re-theme. I think Bluey is coming out, there’s like a new Jesse’s roundup show at the Golden Horseshoe. So there’s all types of stuff going on and it is all over the internet, but I have a hard time kind of jumping headfirst in, primarily because like we have a trip coming up and I’m not a spoiler guy. I just don’t care to like spoil everything.

Lauren Hersey: Yeah. Yeah,

Eric Hersey: and know everything that that’s out there beforehand. And I just never we’ve never really discussed this before. Lauren, are you are you into the spoilers?

Lauren Hersey: it depends on the context. Like if I’m watching a show on TV and it is really dramatic and like high stakes, if I just can’t take it anymore. But as far as Disney World, I would say I’m more a lurker in the communities and the comments and I wanna see perception from a high level because I am the type of person that once I’m strong minded. Like I wanna make the decision myself if I’m gonna like it or hate or whatever, but I do wanna know what people are saying. But as far as like full POVs, no, I can’t like I don’t do it. and it’s not that I don’t support you if you do. Like my mom is not a big rider and so she watches every single POV, for every ride just to see if she could, you know, tolerate it or not. But like I saw a rock and roller coaster this week and I had to like I had to swipe up.

Eric Hersey: Yeah, that and that’s kind of my thought process on it. And I know there’s a lot of people and that’s the big thing for a lot of the coverage. You know, everybody goes out there and they take pictures of everything. They walk around and show you everything. They talk about Easter eggs and and all everything that you need to know about it. And I mean that is essentially a lot of people that aren’t going, probably want to know this stuff. And I think that is the the key for me a lot of the times is a matter of do we have a trip coming up? It or is it a place that I plan on like can I wait? Can I hold off long enough? So for our case, we’re going in a couple weeks. Like I don’t want to know what’s all new with the rock and roller coaster. I kind of want to walk in there and see it myself. But it’s impossible to be part of the Disney community and follow this without seeing some things. And

Lauren Hersey: you have to like dive head first and like know every single thing. But as far as like the news like and coverage and stuff, like I think that’s all fine.

Eric Hersey: Yeah, yeah. I so I mean I’ve been i if from my perspective is that yes, it makes me slightly less of a good podcaster because I’m not in there and I’m not reporting, there’s an Easter egg here that you’d w expect this, expect this. I’m kinda going in because at first I’m a fan more than anything and like I wouldn’t give that up for it for anything in the world. I I don’t necessarily need to be like the first breaking of the news and and have all this information and have to go in and watch twenty videos to be able to perform. If that’s what I have to do to be you know

Lauren Hersey: Ha ha ha.

Eric Hersey: a a great cov someone that covers the parks well, not willing to do it just because that gives up the the the fun that I have walking into something for the first time and seeing it with my own eyes. But I will tell you there is a lot of scenarios where like, you know, I’ll watch a walk around or a POV for an international park. ‘Cause I don’t have it on my agenda. I don’t plan on going over there any time soon. I would love to, but I think for for a lot of the releases today that’s coming out, I have enough information to be dangerous, like you.

Lauren Hersey: Same.

Eric Hersey: I’ve been out on the internet, I’ve seen some aspects, but I’m not necessarily walking around with my favorite vloggers right now showing everything. So today we’ll talk a little bit about that, but I also wanted to find out like where do we lie? Are there more people like us or against us? So of course we head over to the internet and I went to Reddit to find out do other people spoil? Like are there are there a lot of people that go online and watch all these things prior to ever going. So did you see the the one that I grabbed here from the Walt Disney World Reddit?

Lauren Hersey: Yeah, this is Absiabbe. If I didn’t butcher that. but she says my husband and I are going to Walt Disney World next year for a two week break from the UK. It’s her first time and she is like really feeling pleoning. She says she loves watching all the Disney vlogs because it satisfies her excitement and like it’s relaxing. I agree with that. but her husband keeps saying that it’s gonna spoil it for her. So she’s asking, Will it ruin my trip experience by familiarizing myself with the parks? no, for one, you do you boo. but what are the people saying?

Eric Hersey: Well, I think it’s it is fun. It’s a nice little mixture. It’s some said would hold off on full ride through of attractions, right? Because they can diminish the magic. And I agree with that. If it’s a dark ride, I don’t necessarily think that you because a a dark ride you can get a pretty good POV. Now granted you’re not getting full three sixty, you’re not getting all the immersions, you’re not actually sitting in the physical thing, but you know, if there’s a some gags that come out or so forth, it’s in my opinion that’s kind of part of the magic, is seeing it for the first time and remembering that. I don’t necessarily know if I’d watch a lot of the ride through attractions. but Regan Beanus or Reagan Bass some says sometimes they can be helpful if you have a small child who is nervous of what to expect on newer rides. Not always though. my kid says she would ride Tron based on the POV video, but once we got there and saw the ride, she didn’t want to go on anymore and And and once again then quiet commenting basically came in and says y disability is sensory concern. So I think that’s smart. Yeah.

Lauren Hersey: That’s go go. I mean, especially if you’re t I we’re talking about Disney, but like universal. They have so many screen rides. Like and if it’s gonna make you give you a headache or make you physically sick, like you need to you need to know what to expect.

Eric Hersey: Yeah, and I think that’s the smart thing. So if you are a nervous rider, like I would probably willingly look at maybe some roller coaster ones, just because you know, like I don’t necessarily love heights, I don’t necessarily like It there’s a roller coaster, I believe it was like maybe it might have been at Hershey Park or it might have no King’s Island that it’s a fine roller coaster, but then all of a sudden they put you right and you stop and then they drop you almost like they do at Hagrid’s and I hate that sensation. I do not like a drop sensation. So if I knew that was the case going in, I might not have done that roller coaster just because it makes me anxious and nervous. So there are elements I think if you have conditions and or if you’re not sure, then unfortunately you have to give up a little bit of that magic and some of that like first hand experience to say, all right, is this safe for me? So like a point of point of view like YouTube video is very helpful for that. But I also think that there are other wa you know, we’re not just talking watching the POVs. We’re talking vloggers or people that are kind of experienced the park in a day in the life kind of thing and providing it for you. Have you seen any scenarios where it also could help by kind of watching something like that?

Lauren Hersey: Yeah, this alternate geek says it used to help with food decisions because they’re a picky eater. and it helped them to, you know, make the most of their trip, but they were avoiding like the ride spoilers. You know, the the original commenter saying like it’s kind of gratifying to watch these like Disney vlogs and like walking through and getting familiar. I recently, I mean just within the last year, I do like I do like more of these like food vlogs and blogs. I think that it is it made a big, big difference in our trip to California. I’ve talked about that several times. But knowing what to expect or like some of the best things to try, I am all about a food spoiler. Like Over on the Disney dish, Len’s sister Chrissy, she goes to all like the food and wine festivals and flower and garden. It she gives such like descriptive language of like what to get in the flavor profiles and like what to try. Like I I am a new Disney like food fan.

Eric Hersey: Yeah, no, I d I don’t think you can spoil the food because I truth like you have to taste that. So I am all about that. And I typically do like the walk around vloggers, the ones that are basically saying, Hey, we’re gonna go do this thing. They typically don’t show you a whole ride. They might just show you snippets and it’s a lot more commentary and I’m good with commentary spoilers. Like I’m okay with saying, Hey, I really enjoyed that or hey, this was a little slow pacing, or vice versa. I can that doesn’t feel like it spoiled it. It gives me

Eric Hersey: maybe it gives me an expectation going in and I am strong enough of a human to say like they were wrong, I’m right, or I’m wrong you know, in that case, like I don’t take their opinions as gospel and it doesn’t necessarily sour my experience. I know that hey, just ’cause you didn’t like it doesn’t mean that I’m not gonna like

Lauren Hersey: Right, right. And one thing that I will say 100,000 percent that you should spoil is your hotel or resort. Like I cannot tell you how many videos I personally watch before hitting the book button. And I just got back from Destin with a girlfriend and

Eric Hersey: Yeah, for sure.

Lauren Hersey: And we had a lot like we have a lot of criteria that we want in a beach vacation resort because you’re spending more time there than like if you’re staying on property at Disney or in the surrounding area, like most likely you’re spending time at the park. Well, if you’re at the beach, most likely you’re spending time at the beach and by the pool. And so the amenities I think mean even more. but this hotel that we stayed at. Like it was beautiful online. I looked at the website, it checked every single box. And we got there and I the a commenter that left a review, he’s like, This is like a four star property, but the rooms are like two and a half percent. So it’s kind of kicking myself for not watching more of the like room reviews. So please, I mean, if you’re gonna watch anything, do that. And I think the hotels on Disney property are I think they’re significantly different based on the vibe and like what you’re looking for. And what do you think about the hotel vlogs? I don’t think you don’t watch like that kind of stuff, right?

Eric Hersey: No, no, I don’t I don’t I don’t think it would bother me either though. But once again if you just throw a mattress on the middle of the floor I can sleep on it and

Lauren Hersey: my gosh, you’re such a like minimalist. I need it all.

Eric Hersey: care more about the actual theme park.

Lauren Hersey: Yeah, so when yeah, no, I I’m not gonna watch that.

Eric Hersey: Yeah, so when yeah, no, I I’m not gonna watch that. I would watch I d I think just when it comes down to and this is the tough one for me, is the walkthroughs of the park. Like someone that goes into the park and just walks through and I watch a lot of these, especially We’ve been what the last four months the Disney Unpacked crew has done these walkthroughs of the parks and I’ve been tasked to find the actual videos of where they would be walking. Because they didn’t record themselves. They talk, it’s a audio format, and I’m like, all right, I have to give you the video. So I’ve walked so watched so many of these videos, and I’m like, that is a great way to get the lay of the land, because if you’re spending a lot of money, you’re gonna want to know where things are, and you can look at a map and so forth, but if you walk and kind of feel like

Lauren Hersey: It really is.

Eric Hersey: you’re there, but boy that’s a tough one because there is something about the immersion and going there and seeing it for your f the first time and seeing all this that I’m not sure where I’m at with it. I’m like i if it was a one day trip and I needed to really maximize every second maybe I’d do that pre-planning but I’m just like go in and just experience and know that you’re not gonna be nearly as efficient with where you’re at but

Lauren Hersey: Eric, though we talk about the money though. Like if if this is like your one and done, like by watching a couple videos and being able to save yourself some time, knowing like where you’re going and you don’t need to, you know, be asking people. I just remember how confused we were when we went to California the first time and we’re like, wait, there’s a park, it’s like connected, like this is so crazy.

Eric Hersey: Yeah, i don’t know, but what are you paying for? I think you’re paying for memories and I’m just like the first step of walking in and seeing it for the first time with your own eyeballs and not having any expectations. I don’t know. I’m I’m a pretty anti-spoiler with a lot of that stuff. I wouldn’t watch any of the Batoo Galaxy’s Edge stuff. Like I listened to it. you could tell me where things are, but I didn’t want to see anything until my eyes were actually stepping through there and and watching. But nonetheless, I do think there is the the governor shows up again. So this the governor, whoever you are on Reddit Reddit, you are

Lauren Hersey: The g we love the governor.

Eric Hersey: on all these threads but they were on a the the it was the roller coaster subreddit and they said I think they’re good for assessing whether you want to spend a whole bunch of time and money visiting a park. But once you decide to go, stop watching. I think that’s fairly good. Like if you want to know, like hey if I want to know if I want to go to Cedar Point and spend money on this and that, walk and kind of see what’s there and so forth, maybe some of those you know, POVs might actually help to say, all right, is this worth the time and the money? but once you know you’re going, then stop and let the immersion kind there but we want to hear from you guys. What do you guys do? Do you watch the POVs? Do you how much do you get do you follow like the vlogs? Are you watching everything going in to get you hyped up? Are you just kind of going in cold and just trying to take it all in? We want to hear from you. Let us know in the comments.

Lauren Hersey: Yes, and when we get back from this break, we’re gonna take a look at all of the new offerings at Walt Disney World, including the rock and roller coaster with the Muppets, Bluey, new courtyard at Hollywood Studios. But before that, there’s this.

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Lauren Hersey: And we’re back. So on the first half of the show, we were talking all about the pros and cons of spoilers for attractions. In our situation, we opted not to watch any of the POV videos and walk arounds. instead, we stuck with what’s available on Walt Disney World’s accounts.

Eric Hersey: Yeah, so I so I went through and I feel like it’s pretty spoiler free on the Walt the official Walt Disney World social media accounts. I was hanging out on Facebook and I’m like, they’re not gonna show you anything that gives away too much. Their job is to promote, right? Their job is basically to get you excited because they want you to pay to come see it. So they’re not gonna give you the whole shebang, but they are giving you some. and I think anybody that’s been online this week or up going into this week, it’s been Rock and Roller Coaster with Muppets has been the big, big, big headline. At this time you you also have Blueie and a lot of these other ones coming out, but

Lauren Hersey: Yeah.

Lauren Hersey: my gosh.

Eric Hersey: Mine was just filled with the Muppets. Lauren, what have you seen and what are some of your initial thoughts?

Lauren Hersey: my gosh. Well, for one, everybody’s excited and I just had to, I got to cover it on I Want That Too, the Disney Merch podcast I did with Jim. And because they brought it as far as Muppets merch goes. which got me like really excited and I did get to see the gift shop and everything. And, you know, I was scrolling in the Facebook groups, you know, the in it to be clear, just opening today as we’re recording this to the general public, but we did have D V C previews, pass holder previews, cast member previews. So there’s been a lot of talk. And I can honestly say I haven’t heard one person that was like, why did they do this? I like the old version better. And again, this is not general public. These are like the Disney biggest, you know, probably fans who’ve invested a lot of money. so I I love seeing all of the people talking about how the touches and how they did it and it made perfect sense. and they did like I did see a couple people say that like it didn’t feel as intense as the initial, even though the ride system is the the same. What about you?

Eric Hersey: Okay. Well, Muppets must make things less intense, I guess, in for your emotional brain. no, I saw it was good. I firstly they had like a rock and roll concert last week with John Stamos was there. So I thought that was really cool how they had like this little opening and they had the electric mayhem. I saw a lot of people getting their pictures with the Muppets, which is not gonna be something that the general public is gonna be able to do because there are literal, you know, hand people people with hands behind stage talking and so but I thought that was a really cool experience. And I don’t know if that was the AP.

Lauren Hersey: I guess.

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Eric Hersey: Or who had that experience, but I saw a lot of the pictures there. But I was just checking out online, seeing what everybody else was saying. And like, you’re right. They were the fans online were essentially echoing that same statement. There were a couple, though, that were a little on the fringe. I found one here that says by Brandon that says only Gen X and older are excited for this. Disney, this wasn’t the move. You aren’t going to make all the money on this ride than previously. The IP doesn’t sell merch well enough because kids don’t like it. And then Ellen comes back clapping back. back saying, please, children are still watching Sesame Street and still seeing the Muppets. The merch will sell, so will the food. Where do you fit on this? Do you think that like d I mean our kids, they’re not a Muppet crowd, but I mean, d were they there for Aerosmith? Like are I mean, I guess the argument here is what else were you gonna put there? Yes, we you could have put some other franchise, but I think the Muppets fit perfect.

Lauren Hersey: Well, I wouldn’t have thought they did until, you know, the way that this was laid out and you know, a couple people in our community even said that like Imagineering hit a home run with this one with all the little details. But going back to Brandon, we’ve talked about this before. The rock and roller coaster is a excuse a little bit older demographic. It’s one of the few actual thrill rides in the Disney parks. And I think you had a lot of unhappy people removing the Muppets courtyard and so they’re like, We’ve got this over here, it needs like facelift and we’re getting rid of the Muppets and people are mad. Like, can we make some magic with this? And I think they did. And I kids are not the ones with the money anyways. So, just saying. And I will tell you, when I was talking about like the Muppet plush dropping for the first time in a decade.

Eric Hersey: Yeah, and I mean

Lauren Hersey: like everybody was so excited for it and I I know I’m talking in a vacuum because I’m on like TikTok or Instagram or whatever and these are Disney people, but people were thrilled.

Eric Hersey: Yeah, i well I’m thrilled because the Easter eggs and the gags from the Muppet Vision like pre-show is all translated over. So I have not I did not go through every single one, but I do know there are a couple things or are still keys beh under the mat, which I think is hysterical because you’ll see that on your own. There’s the picture, there’s the Muppet version of Jim Henson’s there. There’s a lot of the gags that were brought over. I heard the pre-show is amazing. I hear Scooter is great, so I am all for it. This

Lauren Hersey: Yeah.

Lauren Hersey: Yes, yes.

Eric Hersey: is the thing that I am most excited for. And mind you, I don’t ride the rock and roller coaster too often. The one time I like threw my shoulder out, oddly enough, and I was like, well, that’s it for me. But I did go on it, I think our last trip just because we knew this was coming. And I will be very happy to go on this and I will wait, you know, sixty to ninety minutes. And please put me in the queue. Let me lounge around. I’m very excited about this. but there were a couple other Yep.

Lauren Hersey: Yeah. And I’m gonna go on it too when I’m not a big coaster person.

Eric Hersey: Yeah, yeah, you know. And so I’m excited to see what’s going on. But there are a couple other elements that I thought this was funny was Jane basically she says, I wish husband says seventy two is too old to go, even though she’s healthy. Do you like do you think that’s a problem that there are people that are just like not gonna be able to experience I say just walk through the queue. Right?

Lauren Hersey: Yeah, just walk through the queue and then just don’t go on the ride. People do that all the time. I just told, you know, a friend of ours to do that at Universal to experience Green Goths. Like it’s it’s such a cool, immersive queue that you definitely wanna see.

Eric Hersey: Yeah, yes. But before we move on, so that was spoiler free. There’s not much there. It’s it’ I’m very excited. Before we move on to Bluey, is there anything else that the Muppets that you need to need to address?

Lauren Hersey: Okay.

Lauren Hersey: Yes. Yes, yes, yes. So we all know that Blueie first made her grand arrival at gisne land earlier this year. And so our East Coast friends, everybody was so excited to be getting Bluey at Disney World. not where I think we thought Bluey would be headed, but Animal Kingdom does need some love. So today, May twenty-sixth. Bluey and Bingo are making their grand arrival at the conservation station at Animal Kingdom and people certainly have thoughts.

Eric Hersey: Yeah, yeah. Well I think that, there are a couple of different things. Number one, there the big issue with Disneyland was that they weren’t a meet and greet even though they were advertised. But here yeah, it is now a like dance party. So have you seen any of the spoilers on this? ‘Cause I’ve s I’ve only looked at comments.

Lauren Hersey: Yes, stage show.

Lauren Hersey: Not no, no, I’ve not seen spoilers per se. I mean it is like a dance party over there, but this comment, Kenny White says you’ll need a virtual cue. Is that real?

Eric Hersey: Yeah, i think you do, right? You need a virtual queue right now. That’s that’s the the big thing is that I mean this is gonna be madness.

Lauren Hersey: Like they’re anticipating that this okay. Okay.

Eric Hersey: Yeah, it’s gonna be well there’s not gonna be the like the biggest arguments was all right, this is over in the conservation station, in which you have to take a train and you also can’t take I don’t believe you can take your stroller. I don’t I always parked ours, so I I maybe you can take your stroller, but there’s lots of little kids that need strollers, so there’s gonna be a tremendous amount of strollers over here and just kind of a mess and then if you’ve taken the train then you gotta walk that whole path back there. I just think it’s gonna be limited capacity over there.

Lauren Hersey: Yes.

Lauren Hersey: Okay.

Eric Hersey: So it’s I’m very curious to see how this goes, but I would imagine like you don’t want to get all the way there and find out it’s a ninety minute wait. So I think a virtual queue actually makes a lot of sense here and I don’t know how long that’ll work or last. but that that’s the big thing. The other question that just kept coming up was is the animal care teams and like the wellness check procedures like is that still around Meg Hahn says, pretty sure that they still have the vet windows there, but I was looking and I d I don’t know. I think they I don’t know if they’re all masked up or not. but we did go yesterday, which is a couple days ago for everyone out there, I did they did have previews and we did find on Walt Disney World subreddit basically a preview. So you wanna kinda give a synopsis of some of the stuff that we see here?

Lauren Hersey: Yes.

Lauren Hersey: A Yeah, this is not the o only thing I’ve I’ve heard about this very same thing. but it’s just that it wasn’t planned out well, that it’s taking place in the middle of a room and not like a dedicated area for this. So everyone just kinda huddles around making like a they say human circle, while the kids interact with characters and do games in the middle. And it says the execution is on par with something at an elementary school that they would put on in a gymnasium, not a theme park. what’s worse is the line to get in is also in the middle of the room. So you watch the entire thing first before it’s your turn to do the same exact thing. So n yeah, they go on to basically say that the kids seem to enjoy the games, but it just seemed like it was thrown together without a ton of

Eric Hersey: That’s awful.

Lauren Hersey: polish and like they kinda expected better from Disney, especially because this is gonna be so popular as a part of Cool Kids Summer. I also have heard people say that, you know, conservation station was not the place to put Bluey, that like they deserved their own like special, you know, setup unless this is a temporary attraction.

Eric Hersey: Yeah, i could see that being the case. lots when I was searching for comments and concerns, lots of people asking about where the animals went, the petting zoo area, lots of people are asking, lots of complaints about the you know, the animation, which we know is being relocated, but it’s also being altered and adjusted, so we won’t open up that can of worms. But more videos will be coming out.

Lauren Hersey: Yeah.

Lauren Hersey: Yeah.

Lauren Hersey: Yes.

Eric Hersey: By the time you’re listening, you will be able to probably watch a full show of Bluey and I’m sure the kids, you know, these are adults and these are the diehards critiquing. The kids will not care and the kids will be very happy. So I think the last thing and and I wanted to find out how long it’s about ten to fifteen minutes, says the Red Herring twenty three. So thank you for giving us up that update. But I wanna move

Lauren Hersey: And I do s I mean, like, when we’re going in a couple of weeks, like I wanna go over there and just check it out. Like obviously we don’t we are not going with kids for this visit. but I just wanna see what the lay of the land is.

Eric Hersey: Well, the g thing is we won’t be the only weirdos without kids going there. I promise you that. So all right, so this is Yeah, yeah, sure. There you go. I mean, wit’s we’re not gonna be looking weird at all. there the I will I will be perfectly fine wearing my my normal castle shirt or maybe something Lion King, ’cause this is Animal Kingdom and that is the

Lauren Hersey: People love Blueie.

Lauren Hersey: Adults love Blueie.

Lauren Hersey: I might wear my bluey shirt, just saying.

Eric Hersey: default role of the dad. Larn, I’m more excited about this than I thought I would be. I did see some of the pictures, so I didn’t go any walk arounds. This is the one that I was avoiding spoilers, because I think this is where I’m gonna nerd out the most. And this is the Walt Disney Studios courtyard, which is opening at Disney’s Hollywood Studios, and I am jazzed.

Lauren Hersey: I mean, what has you so excited specifically?

Eric Hersey: Listen, they have I love an Easter egg and I love like old the old cartoons. So I’m a Disney history nerd, so I enjoy that stuff. So when I saw like Sir Hiss from Robin Hood statue sitting on like a ledge and I’m like, holy cow they are bringing like all these old characters. And then you look, what I really enjoyed is that for those familiar of the like the hand prints and the footprints in front of the Chinese theater, they have this over in front of the animation courtyard, but with our characters, like the animation characters. So like they had Big Bad Wolf. and Oswald and all types of these other characters and I think that was just super clever and cute and fun to go around and match that. But all types of things. Like I think it looks amazing. W what’s your general first thoughts?

Lauren Hersey: my gosh, yeah. I think it does look amazing. I love the Sorcerer Mickey hat. taking a page out of, you know, the animation studios in California, which is an Eisner touch, right? and I do I mean the pictures, everything is really, really cute. And it looks like the people are embracing this. the initial

Eric Hersey: Yeah, i think so.

Lauren Hersey: press release and the information being shared. You know, people were frustrated because of the you know, the cast members being taken away and being replaced by Olaf to do the actual drawing. But as far as aesthetics, I mean like I think that everybody is saying grade A.

Eric Hersey: Yeah, I so I I’ve only saw good things there. And I mean granted, th we’ll have come

Lauren Hersey: And it looks like it looks like Disney quality. Like it looks really well done.

Eric Hersey: Right, right. And I feel like they turned this around quickly. Now maybe it’s just because we haven’t been to the park for a while, but I knew there was a whole bunch of walls, but this looks amazing. Everything like I love the idea of Pluto’s Corner. There’s a history nod there. But I was watching yesterday Rapunzel and all types of walk around characters. It felt like Disneyland where there were just walk around characters and they were like circling and and playing duck duck goose.

Lauren Hersey: Yes.

Lauren Hersey: Yes, yes. Didn’t you say Rapunzel was like playing games with the kids? That’s fun.

Eric Hersey: Yeah, yeah. So I think I think it’s is gonna be a home run and man, Hollywood Studios w when you think about it, you’ve got the the Muppets and now you have this aspect. I’m like really excited to go to this park and check out just the aesthetics. listen

Lauren Hersey: It needed it though, right? Like I just felt like it it needed like something else, like a little zh.

Eric Hersey: Yeah, well I th I mean, nobody was really like the Star Star Wars area over there, the the the whole campus in the launch bay was not a a pu pretty sight. There was nothing there really worth seeing. and it was. Right. They once they got rid of the Jawaz it all went down. Right.

Lauren Hersey: It was sad, right? Like I remember when they had the Jawas. Like that was the best thing Disney did. Like I loved the era of Disney when we had the Jawas there. You had several different meet and greets. That’s when, you know, frozen was maybe i the frozen sing along was in a different place, but they had the you know, you wanna build a snowman with actual snow. Like there were some like really, really good things happening and I think that they they’ve just been resting on Galaxy’s Edge. You know, for the last couple years. And I mean we did get Rogu in the in Smuggler’s Run, right?

Eric Hersey: Yeah, i think well that’s what it

Eric Hersey: Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And that and that kinda like there’s a lot of stuff that’s going on that we don’t have the time to talk about today, but we will revisit. Like Soren Over America, The Mandalorian Grogu. there, you know, like we’re talk we talked about Big Thunder, so there’s some updates there. Buzz Lightyear had a big update. The whole Jesse show just came out of nowhere. Like so there are some ad advance and I think there’s a new kid’s

Lauren Hersey: Yes, yes, yes. Yes. Yeah, there’s lots going on.

Lauren Hersey: Yes. yeah. Well I think that one they’re waiting. They were waiting because like I did a video on like the five below line and I’m messaging Jim and I’m like, It’s all Jesse. It is all Jesse. And I think they probably did not wanna like spoil the premise that Toy Story Five largely revolves around that character. Maybe that’s why they waited.

Eric Hersey: I feel like that’s been out for a while. Yeah, i don’t know. I’m the y but I looked at a little bit of that today and it’s not I thought it was a dinner show. It looks like it is like they cleared the stage and it’s like a dance sh like variety show. So we’ll we’ll yeah, but we’ll know. But when by the time you listen to us again, we can come back with a spoiler show if you enjoy the spoilers. But we need to know do you like the spoilers, do you not? And then you let us know, maybe it’s one of those things where we just put out a bonus episode for just those that who like the spoilers. But I I think that’s it for us today, Lauren. I think we’re out of time and we gotta get ready for a vacation.

Lauren Hersey: look at okay.

Lauren Hersey: Yes. Okay, so that’s it for today. For more make sure you’re heading over to Dizinhers.com. There you’ll find articles, updates, and episodes. and if Disney is your vibe, be sure to subscribe.

Eric Hersey: And remember, watch what you say online. You might end up in next week’s episode. Thanks for listening.