Episode #182: The Secrets of Epcot

Unlock the fascinating world of Epcot, where the spirit of Walt Disney's imagination and innovation lives on. Ever wondered how a vision for an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow transformed into the unique theme park we love today? We promise you’ll gain insights into Epcot's evolution from a permanent World's Fair to a magical blend of history and forward-thinking attractions. With engaging stories about Walt Disney's passion, including a touching moment from his final days, this episode captures the essence of what makes Epcot a timeless experience.

Join us as we explore beloved attractions and hidden gems that sprinkle nostalgia and wonder throughout the park. From the whimsical nods to the original Figment attraction to the thrilling Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind, each corner of Epcot offers a tribute to the past. You’ll feel the buzz of Mission Space's contrasting experiences and discover clever Easter eggs in Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure. We also reveal how Frozen Ever After honors its predecessor, Maelstrom, with its enchanting details. Tune in for a delightful mix of trivia, personal stories, and a challenging Disney question that’ll keep Epcot fans guessing!

Transcript

Speaker 2 0:21

Hello and welcome to Circular Parks podcast episode number 182. Today we are going to continue our secrets series with the secrets of Epcot. There is far too much to see and do. We are here to help guide you through. But before we do that we must talk Disney merch. So this week at DisneyStorecom there's this new mini backpack by Stony Clover Lane, priced at $198. It says Carry happy memories of the most magical place on Earth with you wherever you go with this mini backpack from Stony Clover Lane. The all-over design features popular walt disney world attractions, including cinderella castle and the monorail. The zip pockets and slip compartments will help you keep your essentials organized on your next trip to the park or elsewhere. And let me just say, like I know a mini backpack for that much I was kind of like when I first saw it yeah, 198 dollars I don't think so.

Speaker 2 1:29

But there's like figment pop out and go hey but it's disney, it's by disney parks, the way they have some of the icons on here in the monorail like it's. It's very well done and it's a light pink, uh. So I know the price is a little steep, but it is sold out, guys, so you might want to check that out.

Speaker 1 1:51

It's at disneystorecom and that is this week's disney merch don't recommend buying from epcot I'm sorry, not from epcot from ebay, I'm gonna I've got epcot out on the mind yeah don't buy them from ebay, don't, don't, don't support those people who go and hoard the merchandise and then sell it for twice the price. Don't support those people.

Speaker 2 2:09

Yeah, because you can easily see how much it is, you know, at DisneyStorecom or in the parks and then if you're going to be paying more for that, like, yeah, they're just doing it the wrong way, just don't do it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 2:20

All right. Well, anybody think uh, anyway, sorry. Thank you everybody for joining us. Episode number 182. We're continuing with our series of secrets, this week with Epcot and man. This one was fun. This one was fun to research.

Speaker 2 2:36

Yeah.

Speaker 1 2:36

It's going to be fun to talk about. So I had to do the research because I know a lot of this stuff in my head but I don't know like specific details.

Speaker 2 2:45

Right or dates.

Speaker 1 2:46

Or I want to make sure that you know I have the correct information, not just recalling it. You know vaguely from what I've read somewhere or listened. But thank you If you're new here. Thank you for joining us, I'm Zach.

Speaker 2 2:59

I'm Brittany.

Speaker 1 3:00

We do this show every single week and our goal is A to help you have a better Walt Disney World vacation and two to break your week up.

Speaker 2 3:10

Yes.

Speaker 1 3:11

Just take you to Disney. Maybe you learn some new Disney stuff and just break your week up wherever you're listening to us, on the treadmill, or out walking your dog, or in the car on your break from work, out walking whatever. We just want to give you some Disney magic during your week.

Speaker 2 3:29

Yes, or if you've had a rough day and you need it, yeah, and that really helps us too.

Speaker 1 3:35

So this week we're talking all about Epcot and I thought I love the background music so much in the non-world showcase side of Epcot. Let's just play it.

Speaker 2 3:45

The current one.

Speaker 1 3:47

Yes, the current music, the background music. I think it's so inspirational and forward-thinking. When I'm sitting there listening to it, I'm just like man anything's possible, right, and that's what Epcot represents imagination. And and whatever is possible, you can do if you can. Walt's always said if you can dream it, you can do it. And I know this is not the epcot that walt had visioned, but I still think that essence is there right so all right, secrets of epcot. So let's get right into it. Epcot, that's a weird name, right.

Speaker 2 4:24

Yes.

Speaker 1 4:25

Epcot stands for Experimental Prototype, community of Tomorrow, and in most videos, walt would call it community. There's a couple, though, where he says city, experimental Prototype, city of Tomorrow. Either way right, but Walt's vision for Epcot was only he could have done it. Right, but Walt's vision for Epcot was only he could have done it.

Speaker 2 4:47

Right.

Speaker 1 4:47

There is. I've listened to so many biographies of Walt and there's a story where Roy was with him the night Walt passed away and on the ceiling he was laying in his bed. You know how ceilings in hospitals have like the dots on them and stuff, right you know, he was pointing out where certain things would be in Epcot on the ceiling tiles before he passed away. Oh wow, this was his passion.

Speaker 2 5:12

Yeah.

Speaker 1 5:12

And that's what the Florida project was supposed to be centered around was Epcot and we say Epcot and Progress City, kind of both, because Progress City was supposed to be the city part of Epcot, but it was supposed to be a place where corporate leaders and innovators could come and showcase their products and innovate, and bring their families and live here, and they would have a huge community of just forward thinkers. And it was supposed to be a permanent world's fair as well, and there were supposed to be no roads above ground. Everything was supposed to be on monorails and people movers. All the roads the service roads were supposed to be underground so you would not be able to see them when we talked about in the secrets of magic kingdom.

Speaker 1 5:59

You can see part of this model in the people move right, yeah, and so you know now, while Depcot we have is not what Walt envisioned, I still think a lot of the essence is there. The non-World Showcase side used to be called Innovations right. It was where a lot of the companies would come and innovate and show you the future. At&t, all those had pavilions in the Innovations right. Excuse me, and I know it's not quite like that now.

Speaker 1 6:29

One, because this technology moves so fast now it's almost impossible to showcase what's new because by the time you get it out it's already obsolete. But you still see some of that when you walk out of Spaceship Earth, those games and stuff in there. That's still kind of looking back at that Right. And then World Showcase is a permanent world's fair, if you will, and just educating you on the different cultures around the world. I think it does a really good job. So while this is not what walt envisioned for epcot, I still think marty scolar was the imagineer lead on on the on the theme park. I still think it has that essence of Walt.

Speaker 2 7:08

Right, and you're still learning and experiencing a community just in a different sense.

Speaker 1 7:16

Yeah, so I still think a lot of the essence of Walt is still here. It's not what he wanted, but I still think it is along the same lines of what he envisioned. So yeah, so talking about spaceship earth, there are 11,324 panels. Wow, that's awesome yeah, that's a lot did you know, if you stand underneath spaceship earth when it rains, you will not get wet I have been under spaceship earth a lot of people have been do.

Speaker 1 7:48

You know why why, so between every one of those panels is a drain, is our, it's a drainage system and it all goes into the pillars and it filters out into world showcase lagoon oh so you would not get wet. Yeah, also spaceship.

Speaker 2 8:05

Earth is 180 feet tall, just slightly yeah, I guess I can see that yeah but did you know?

Speaker 1 8:11

it goes down underground. As far as it goes up 180 feet the support columns go down 180 feet to support spaceship earth oh, wow that's pretty impressive as well, especially with the low water table that's florida, yeah that's what I was like, really 180 feet, but okay yeah, yeah. So the aquarium, this is like your favorite place well, it's every. It's a way to relax it is a very nice place yes, I could.

Speaker 2 8:38

Yeah, the aquarium in the seas pavilion used to be the biggest in the United States. It's now the second largest and I just I don't know it's very peaceful. I can watch the dolphins swim around the sea, turtles, just all the sea life. You know, it's just a way to like. If you're there in the summer, you know a good way to get out of the heat and relax for a little bit. There's a lot of little nooks in there and places to sit and just, you know, chill out and really enjoy the sea life.

Speaker 1 9:09

Yeah, and go watch Turtle Talk with Crush. Yes, it is a very funny show. Yes, and it's different every time. It's different every time. Yeah, go ahead.

Speaker 2 9:17

Well, it's different every time because, like they're just, you know, asking the audience that's in there questions, and so you don't know what you're going to get or what the little kids are going to ask or say.

Speaker 1 9:27

The cast members that do it just do such an incredible job, and I will say I do really enjoy it here because you're in like the aquarium, right. Right when we went to go see the show out in Disney's California Adventure. I didn't like it as much Just because you're not in that environment out there.

Speaker 2 9:45

You know yeah, just because you're not in that environment out there. You know yeah, you're not like engrossed as much?

Speaker 1 9:48

No, but the aquarium's great. Do you know what the largest aquarium in the United States is now? What is it? The one in Atlanta.

Speaker 2 9:54

Oh, okay, so, but yeah, this used to be the, and you know you can go scuba diving in the aquarium. Yes, I have seen them.

Speaker 1 10:04

Yes, yes, I think it was the last trip we saw them, so if you're ever, wondering where Brittany is, and we can't find her in Epcot she's in the aquarium. It is a relaxing place it is a relaxing place.

Speaker 1 10:15

All right, so in Living with the Land, the number 82 on the mailbox in the farmhouse scene represents the year 1982, which is when Epcot opened Yep. Numbers always mean something. Numbers always mean something. The dog on the porch of the farmhouse scene is the same audio and electronic dog used in Pirates of the Caribbean and A Carousel of Progress, and it is said that this dog is based off of Walt's dog.

Speaker 2 10:42

Aww. What was its name? Did it say? I don't know, Aww.

Speaker 1 10:46

I only have so much room up here for stuff.

Speaker 2 10:49

I know, but that's cool though.

Speaker 1 10:51

And did you know, in Soarin' the design for the attraction an Imagineer did using an erector, set over a weekend.

Speaker 2 11:01

You have mentioned that to me. Yes, so that's a little engineering bit there, just came up with the idea, with that Figured it out and also the what is his name that does the spiel.

Speaker 1 11:14

Before you go on Patrick Warburton, putty, david Putty from Seinfeld. Patrick Warburton was not supposed to be the person that did the safety spiel. It was supposed to be John Travolta. John Travolta had scheduling conflicts, could not do it. Patrick Warburton had just finished what film when they asked him to do the safety spiel.

Speaker 2 11:41

He's been in a couple. I can't think I don't know.

Speaker 1 11:45

An Emperor's New Groove.

Speaker 2 11:47

He was cronk oh, that's right, I forget about that one.

Speaker 1 11:50

And now, I couldn't imagine him not doing like the spiel, the safety spiel, yeah we're soaring.

Speaker 2 11:56

No, I mean, when you first said John Travolta, I was like, well, yeah, I guess he could have done it, but just the I don't know the voice. I think it's a good fit the way it is now.

Epcot Fun Facts and Insights

Speaker 1 12:05

It's perfect the way it is. Yes, yeah, and every time I see them it's like classic putty, right, yeah. If you're a Seinfeld fan, you know exactly what I'm talking about you do. In Journey into the Imagination with Figment. When you first get on and you pass the TV screens where the I forgot his name is pulling out his hair, there's a series of office doors on the right-hand side. The first one has the name Dean Finder on it. This is a nod to the original Figment attraction with the Dream Finder.

Speaker 1 12:37

Ah, ah-ha, just a little play on words, almost A little play on word and I've been seeing a lot of criticism about Figment the past few months and I want people, when they see that, to understand they're not criticizing figment, the character, they're criticizing the attraction because it needs some loving yeah it does, you can't tell me a figment of the imagination. They cannot have a better attraction with more imagination. Come on.

Speaker 2 13:06

Right Is the actor you're talking about Nigel Channing.

Speaker 1 13:09

Nigel Channing yes, thank you so much.

Speaker 2 13:11

Yes, you're welcome, like when he's the shadows and stuff and pictures.

Speaker 1 13:15

So inside the queue of Mission Space, you can find the old Horizons logo. This is where the old attraction for Horizons was. So Mission Space is a simulator that takes you up into space. If you haven't ridden it. There's two sides, a green and an orange.

Speaker 2 13:33

Very different.

Speaker 1 13:34

The green side. So they're both centrifuges. But the green side does not spin Right, it just tilts you up and down.

Speaker 2 13:42

Yes, you're very close.

Speaker 1 13:44

It is very claustrophobic. So if you're claustrophobic you will not like this ride. The green side takes you on a mission around Earth. The orange side, which is a centrifuge and does spin and tilt you back and forward, takes you to Mars. They have had actual astronauts ride this attraction and say this is the most realistic simulator you can get to becoming an astronaut.

Speaker 2 14:08

The orange side. The orange side.

Speaker 1 14:09

So you've heard it here. If you can do the orange side on mission space, then you can become an astronaut.

Speaker 2 14:13

Well, there's more training than that, but astronauts I've said it similar.

Speaker 1 14:17

You experience about four to five Gs on the orange side.

Speaker 2 14:22

Yeah, I could not do it.

Speaker 1 14:23

You feel it. Ryan wants to do it next time and I'm like whew.

Speaker 2 14:27

Yeah, because you struggled a little bit the last time I've struggled. I have not done the orange side in Will Knight the green. I did once but I was like, yeah, it is definitely something that, if you're claustrophobic, I thought I'd be okay. I couldn't wait to get out of there.

Speaker 1 14:45

So Horizons, where Mission Space is now, was a pavilion where it kind of took you through like a House of the Future and stuff like that right.

Speaker 2 14:52

Okay, yeah.

Speaker 1 14:53

And they originally had some good sponsors for it, and then, as the years went on, the sponsors dropped off. And then the House of the Future. No one really knew what that looked like, right?

Speaker 2 15:05

So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, unfortunately, a lot of the cool it just ended, yep yeah, all right. So, guardians of the galaxy, buckle up for this one.

Speaker 1 15:15

There's a lot.

Speaker 2 15:16

There's a lot going on here so you are actually going into the wanders of zandar pavilion, the first interplanetary pavilion in Epcot.

Speaker 1 15:29

Once inside the queue in the Galaxarium.

Speaker 2 15:31

When they talk about. I was just staring at it. Here you go ahead, Take over.

Speaker 1 15:37

So when you first walk in the queue, it's called the Galaxarium. Yes, and there's a voice talking.

Speaker 2 15:42

Yes, there is.

Speaker 1 15:43

And it's talking about Terran. Terran is what we live on Earth, but that's what the Xandarians call Earth is Terra.

Speaker 2 15:50

Right, they have different words, they refer to.

Speaker 1 15:54

So in the gallery part of the queue, walt Disney is in there and he's talking about Progress City and the Xandarians talk about how proud they are that they designed their city after Progress City. That's pretty cool. So you'll see a full model of Epcot and Progress City behind Walt. He's talking about it there, and the model of Zandar City that you see in the queue is a nod to Progress City. You can also find some hidden Mickeys in there if you look hard enough.

Speaker 2 16:27

In the model In the model?

Speaker 1 16:28

yes, all right. Moving on in the Good Morning Xandar TV show yes, they have a Good Morning Xandar TV show with the Guardians of the Galaxy. Peter Quill talks about how proud he is that the idea for a Wonders of Xandar Pavilion in Epcot was his idea and how he can't wait to get back to Ride Horizons, see the dinosaurs in the Universe of Energy Pavilion and listen to Veggie Veggie Fruit Fruit. So I have to play Veggie Veggie Fruit Fruit for you to fully understand how awesome this is and how old and how far, how long ago Peter Quill has been gone. All right.

Speaker 2 17:11

Because none of that is around anymore that we just mentioned.

Speaker 1 17:19

And Veggie, veggie, fruit Fruit was a song from an attraction called Kitchen Cabaret, which is where Soren is now.

Speaker 2 17:25

Veggie Fruit Fruit Veggie Veggie Fruit.

Speaker 1 17:27

Fruit, veggie Fruit, fruit, veggie, veggie Fruit. I simply have to tell you that my friends who are singing are DELETABLE. Meals are defined as long as you can dine with fruit and VEGETABLES. They're good for you everyone. They make your meals a lot of fun, like a carnival, it's nice to be with fruit and. Vegetables vegetables. And now, ladies and gentlemen, okay, that's enough of that.

Speaker 2 18:01

Yes, Thank goodness, soarin' is now there.

Speaker 1 18:06

Yeah, so also. What's ironic about this is the Universe of Energy Pavilion is where Peter Quill's attraction is now, so where Guardians of the Galaxy is, yes, used to be the. Universe of Energy Pavilion. So that's what is kind of funny about that, right.

Speaker 2 18:30

Yeah.

Speaker 1 18:31

So Interesting, interesting, huh.

Speaker 2 18:33

Yes, but no. So thankful Soren is there instead of the veggie. Veggie fruit fruit.

Speaker 1 18:39

After your ride on Guardians of the Galaxy is over. So the whole backstory of this is this is a Wonders of Xandar pavilion. So you know how there's pavilions in World Showcase, right, correct? This is what that's supposed to be, and you're supposed to go leave Earth which is what part of the pre-show, and everything is right and go see Zandal, but obviously, of course, things go awry. Right Doesn't work out, right. So now you're saving the universe from the Celestial that says your time is up, right, but in the pre-show, before I move on, when the Celestial says your species has failed, if you look at Rocket in the video with all the guardians, he's nodding his head.

Speaker 2 19:26

Like in agreement, I think that's just kind of funny.

Speaker 1 19:32

I love Rocket in groups.

Speaker 2 19:34

Rocket in groups.

Speaker 1 19:35

I feel like our kids are like Rocket and Groot Right Somewhat. We got the grumpy teen now, and then we got Rocket, our youngest, who's just his own yeah.

Speaker 2 19:48

Yeah, they're their own.

Speaker 1 19:51

So because the whole thing went awry, right You're not back into the pavilion like you were supposed to be right.

Speaker 2 19:58

Right.

Speaker 1 19:58

When you get off your ride, per the story, you are still backstage from the pavilion and you know how you can tell this.

Speaker 2 20:07

How.

Speaker 1 20:07

When you walk down the stairs, right before you walk out of the attraction, there's a mirror on the right-hand side with Zandarian written on it. Apparently, if you're a cast member this is what I've been told before you go on stage, there's a mirror with rules written on it about your appearance and stuff like that. So that's how you know you're backstage.

Speaker 2 20:31

I don't remember much of that. I wasn't feeling too good.

Speaker 1 20:33

Well it's because you don't close.

Speaker 2 20:35

Yeah, I know it was my fault for closing my eyes and then much of that I wasn't feeling too good.

Speaker 1 20:36

That's because you don't close.

Speaker 2 20:37

So yeah, I know it was my fault for closing my eyes and then looking to the side, at nolan, you're supposed to stay focused this ride.

Speaker 1 20:44

If you do get motion sickness, this ride can mess you up. It the the car, like the roller coaster, is the roller coaster, but your ride vehicle tilts 360 right.

Speaker 2 20:54

I mean you're supposed to stay focused in the direction that the ride vehicle is. Yes, look at what it's supposed to be.

Speaker 1 21:00

Yes, I love Tron, I love Space Mountain, I love Everest. I love all the roller coasters. This is by far the best roller coaster in Walt Disney World.

Speaker 2 21:11

Maybe not your favorite, but up there.

Speaker 1 21:13

No Guardian, I thought. Everest is no this is my favorite. This is my favorite and the best.

Speaker 2 21:19

Well, yeah, it's so good, Definitely do what the vehicle wants you to do and look where it's positioning you to look. I closed my eyes, then looked over at our youngest, and that just messed me up.

Speaker 1 21:28

This is such if you love roller coasters, you're going to. This is unlike anything you've ever done before. So this is unlike anything you've ever done before. So good, last time I rode it with this gentleman who had never done it before and he looked at me and goes have you done this before? I'm like yes, multiple, multiple times. He's like is it good? I'm like this is unlike anything you've ever done before. You're going to love it. And then afterwards, after the attraction was over, he looked at me and was like man, that was awesome it awesome it's so good, okay, and you get a different song.

Speaker 2 21:55

You do yes all right.

Speaker 1 21:56

So moving on, test track, which is under refurbishment, will be open later in the summer 2025. Yes, uh is the fastest attraction on property, hitting a top speed of 64.9 miles per hour. I think everybody knows that. But what people do not know is that it was originally supposed to go much faster. It was designed and tested to go 95 miles per hour. 95?, 95 miles per hour Can you imagine going?

Speaker 2 22:28

95 miles per hour.

Speaker 1 22:30

That would be awesome but due to lawyers getting involved and people just saying may not want it to go that fast, Right. So there you go.

Speaker 2 22:43

You'd have to have the vehicle covered a little more or something probably to go that fast.

Speaker 1 22:48

But here is a little tip, and I hope this is still the same as it was before it went down for refurbishment this is the only single rider line that I will recommend using, because the rest of them do not work well, but this one does, because each ride vehicle, if they keep it the way, which I think they will, will hold six people, right right. Most parties are people of two or four, so the single riders get in on those groups, right, right, to fill up the rest of the people. And I've never waited what we waited five minutes.

Speaker 2 23:22

Yeah.

Speaker 1 23:22

When I was telling you that, you were like no, you're lying, it's don't single rider line's not gonna work that fast. Hour and a half wait.

Speaker 2 23:30

Yeah versus five minutes.

Speaker 1 23:31

We got on in five minutes.

Speaker 2 23:32

Now. I used to refuse to do it, though, when the boys were a lot smaller obviously yes, keep that in mind with your kids. But now that they're a little, older and you just tell them hey, you meet me right here at the end of the ride.

Speaker 1 23:43

Yes, keep that in mind. Your kids' age, you know your kids. There's no age limit on this. If they're fine by himself, then by all means. But you were like it's not that Now I would not recommend Single Rider Line for Rockin' Roller Coaster because it can take just as long, if not longer, than the Standby Line. And I do not recommend it in Exhibition Everest, not because it's going to be faster, but because you miss that amazing queue, amazing queue. And now the Single Rider Line is for Rides of Resistance. I wonder how that works. I bet it goes pretty well, because those are six passenger vehicles as well.

Speaker 2 24:22

Yeah, I don't know, I don't know, I'm not sure.

Speaker 1 24:25

I don't know. Alright, moving on. So the queue for Frozen.

Speaker 2 24:30

You're in Arendelle right, yes, they did such a good job.

Speaker 1 24:33

They did such a great job, right? Yes, but you can see Oaken in his bathhouse and he can. He pokes his nose in and the little fog, the little peephole, and he makes a little, you know, hoo-hoo.

Speaker 2 24:44

Yeah, like he wipes the fog away, yeah.

Speaker 1 24:49

You just see his nose and his face. You don't see anything else. You're right, correct.

Speaker 2 24:51

So yeah, I love that and he says more than the yoo-hoo, but it's fun. But they did a great job with the theming and really making it look like Arendelle once you're inside the building.

Speaker 1 25:03

I could care less about Frozen, the ride I could care less about, but the queue here, let me go through the queue. I'll do the queue for 30 minutes and I'll be like all right, the Norway Pavilion is one of my favorites. I don't know why, but it just is. I love the music, the merchandise. I like the store there. When you get out of Frozen I don't even go, you know, I just go in it. And the Kringle Bakery I think it's got some unique stuff in there.

Speaker 2 25:29

Yeah, and I did enjoy that school bread and stuff last time.

Epcot Nods and Fun Facts

Speaker 1 25:31

I did not enjoy the school bread but everything else was good. Yeah, I just enjoyed it. So the attraction before Frozen was called Maelstrom, and so another nod to Maelstrom. Inside Oaken's Steam Room is a polar bear in the top corner, and this is a nod to the polar bear that used to be in Maelstrom. Aw, so you know the animatronic puffins that are inside the attraction as well as you go down the water drop. Yes, those are left over from Maelstrom. These are the original animatronics.

Speaker 2 26:02

Interesting.

Speaker 1 26:03

Yeah, and did you know that you can find Thor and Loki in Walt Disney World?

Speaker 2 26:10

But not as you're used to seeing them.

Speaker 1 26:12

Not saying that, I'm just saying you can find them. So there's a thing with universal where none of the marvel characters can be shown east of the mississippi river except guardians of the galaxy. That's a deal they worked out a long time ago, right? Yes, but, thor and loki. You can find them in epcot, inside the stave church, at the norway pavilion, which is like that that uh church looking thing before you to the left when you're walking in from Mexico is the story of Odin, thorin, loki and Asgard, because it's Norwegian folklore right.

Speaker 1 26:46

Right so that's where you can find them. I always thought that was really really cool. Yes, and so we're coming up on the last one here, Gosh already.

Speaker 2 26:55

Well, there's so much, there is so much. So much I tried to keep it like, condense it a little bit.

Speaker 1 27:02

Condense it down and keep it good. The last one, and this is one of my favorite ones, and you know, the more I listen to the music from Remy's, the more and more I'm starting to like this attraction.

Speaker 2 27:12

For Ratatouille.

Speaker 1 27:13

For Remy's Ratatouille Adventure. In Remy's Ratatouille Adventure, in that first scene, when you're on the roof looking down into the kitchen, if you look to the right, up to the right, there is a Pizza Planet truck sitting on the ledge it's a little like easter egg for Pixar. I just thought that was kind of kind of cool but that ride it's so fun.

Speaker 2 27:39

It's fun for all ages and I wasn't sure what to expect from it, and the first time that I rode it I loved it. It's become one of the must-dos for me when I'm in Epcot.

Speaker 1 27:51

I think it's a must-do for us now. But again, there's so much more in the pavilions that we could go into. I just kind of wanted to keep it. You know, last two episodes were two parters. You know, I kind of wanted to keep it a little bit short this time. Maybe do we can revisit this episode a little bit, you know.

Speaker 2 28:07

Like next year sometime, next year sometime, and add more.

Speaker 1 28:11

Yeah, this week's Disney trivia in the gal, in the guardians of the rewind.

Speaker 2 28:17

In the guardians of the galaxy cosmic rewind.

Speaker 1 28:20

When you're rotating backwards before the launch. There's a song there right, and this is that song. Nope, nope Maybe not, maybe not Try it again. So if I, if you watch the video, you didn't really get a good listen of it, but you could hear that guitar riff pretty well, right? What song is that originally or what attraction is that song from? I had no idea all right, we're gonna play this song. Okay, did you hear it now?

Speaker 2 29:18

The guitar. Well, a little bit, you really have to listen. Here we go Through the universe of energy. Here we go, see it glow. It's the universe of energy. Come through time.

Speaker 1 29:53

Okay, so now you've heard that, right? Yeah, so now the guitar riff sounds a lot better. Now, right, are you going to play it again? I'm going to play it again.

Speaker 2 30:01

After you heard that yes, now you pick up on it, but you would have had to have heard that other one before.

Speaker 1 30:09

Yeah, so that was from the theme song from Universe of Energy. Another nod to the Universe of energy at guardians of galaxy, right, I thought that was really cool.

Speaker 2 30:19

Yes, but after listening to it I'm like, ah, no wonder it is not there anymore. Sorry If anyone if anyone is going to harp on me about it, but that just sounded so outdated.

Speaker 1 30:30

Yes, because that was from 1983.

Speaker 2 30:33

Yeah, okay.

Speaker 1 30:33

It's 2020, almost 25 now. All right, I would have loved to have seen epcot in its mid 80s, late 80s prime.

Speaker 2 30:44

I would have loved to have seen it with the horizons and universe of energy and the you know world of motion, and just I would have loved to have seen that I mean, I would have too, but I but now, knowing what things have changed, I know, I know and hey, don't harp on me too much I love like a lot of 80s music and stuff, but that just yeah, like compared to what's there now seemed.

Speaker 1 31:08

Okay, so the podcasters, 20 years from now, are going to look back at Guardians of the Galaxy. Going man, that music was really horrible. How could they stand that back there? Or the non-World Showcase side music God, that was so old I know, I know, anyways, All right. So the winner of this week's Disney trivia womp womp, no winner.

Speaker 2 31:34

No winner. But that was kind of a tricky one. It was it was. It was Because when you first even presented it to me I was like do what now?

Speaker 1 31:41

So I think it was a fun. It's a cool nod, though I really do like it.

Speaker 2 31:45

Yes.

Speaker 1 31:46

And now, when I ride that attraction, knowing that I can't not hear, I can't go in my head do that when I hear that you know. And then we rotate backwards and I'm like getting ready to go. Yeah, so you're welcome again. No winner this week. So thank you everybody for joining us. We are going to take next week off excuse me.

Speaker 2 32:16

Yes, I'm choking on that because it's surprising, right, but it is christmas next week, so we're going to take that time and spend with family and just relax. Yeah, so we in the moment.

Speaker 1 32:26

We hope you have a merry christmas, happy holidays. Whatever it is you celebrate, hope you enjoy it. We're going to take next week off no disney trivia this week as well but we're going to talk to you on new year's day. We'll going to take next week off no disney trivia this week as well, but we're going to talk to you on new year's day. We'll talk to you in 2025 and we're going to do our yearly recap in trips we have planned and booked for the next year. We will, so we're going to talk about that in two weeks. Until then, safe travels, happy holidays, merry christmas yes, and christmas, happy holidays.

Speaker 2 32:56

Talk to you soon. Talk to you soon, safe travels.

Speaker 1 32:57

Happy holidays, merry Christmas, yes, merry Christmas Happy holidays.

Speaker 2 32:57

Talk to you soon. Talk to you soon. Thank you, bye.