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We Asked ChatGPT To Build A Disney Park with a Command Center Cocktail
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What if Disney World added a park built on discovery instead of nostalgia? We clink Space 220-inspired cocktails and blueprint a fifth gate where a kinetic Atlas Spire orients you to realms of myth, exploration, and city-of-the-future wonder. We compare our AI prompts and pull the best ideas into a cohesive vision: a Mystic Manor–anchored spirit land with living art and folklore; an oceanic realm shaped by Sinbad and 20,000 Leagues energy with a Leviathan coaster that fakes “underwater” with lighting and no-visible-track sections; and a Cities of Tomorrow district that swaps retro chrome for global futurism, blending Big Hero 6 kinetics, real plants, and WALL-E’s hope.
We go big with Society of Explorers and Adventurers—Journey to the Center of the Earth reimagined, steampunk research vehicles, and a live “Grand Symposium” where inventions delightfully misfire. Then we expand Zootopia into a full metropolis: tundra, Sahara, and rainforest neighborhoods tied together by a trackless Hot Pursuit chase that starts with a perfectly timed sloth gag. To balance the IP, we stake out Realms of Legends, an original mythology land led by a soaring theater experience, a character-rich Path of Heroes walkthrough, and a Legends Carousel that turns classic ride charm into worldbuilding.
Food and atmosphere seal the deal. Picture a Gathering Table that feels communal and candlelit, a stargazing lounge over the park, a caravanserai alive with Silk Road flavors and roaming storytellers, and kiosks serving hand pies, flatbreads, tea flights, and seafood. We even place the park with Skyliner access and a Meridian Grand Lodge offering a dedicated entrance and rooftop observatory. The result is a full-day experience where rides, shows, and dining are stitched together by a single promise: exploration that rewards curiosity.
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Drinks At Space 220 And Catching Up
SPEAKER_00Hello and welcome to Tears to Ears, where today we're discussing a fifth gate at Disney World while sipping on a command center served at the Space 220 Lounge at Disney World. Welcome to Tears to Ears. We're gonna click our drinks. We're gonna toast, we're gonna talk Disney and get our cheers to Disney.
SPEAKER_04Cheers to it.
SPEAKER_00Okay, we're back. Well, hello. Hello. After that exciting theme song. We've taken a few weeks off. We have, so we're getting back into it. Yeah, I enjoyed the holidays. Great holidays. Always great holidays. Family. Got our Disney fun.
SPEAKER_01And to our viewers, if you can see up. I don't know.
SPEAKER_00I didn't check if we could see it before I pushed through. So if they're there.
SPEAKER_01I'll lift them up real quick. We got tiki mugs.
SPEAKER_00If you remember our exciting trip to Halloween at Disney World in what year 24?
SPEAKER_01We Disney bound Mike and Sully. 24. I was Mike, you were Sully. So I got from Leah a Sully tiki mug. And you saw that and you bought the Mike Wazowski. Yeah, no one bought one for me. Yeah. Well, you got other really cool stuff. So, you know, it all evens out. But yeah, we had to have our own tiki mugs here. So hopefully we'll have a nice fruity drink coming up here soon and we can uh try those out.
SPEAKER_00Well, this is pretty fruity. The command center served at Space 220 at Epcot. Yes. It has corruption, not corruption. Conniption? Conniption. It could lead to corruption. It could. Saint Germain Elderflower Liqueur, lemon juice, and freeze-dried raspberries, Aaron. And it's$17 there at the Space 220.
SPEAKER_03Yes.
SPEAKER_00What do we do here at Cheers to Ears Studios?
SPEAKER_01We had it. So it has two ounces of Bombay Gin, one ounce of Elderflower Liqueur. We didn't use the Saint Germain. We used a knockoff version. And I can't remember which one we used, if it was Mr. Stacks or something.
SPEAKER_00I forgot which we have.
SPEAKER_01And then three quarters. Pretty good, though. It was one ounce, three-quarters ounce of lemon juice, and a half ounce of simple syrup. And then we have some freeze-dried raspberries there to garnish. Garnish.
SPEAKER_00You can see it on the Facebook pages, probably, but here it is. It's a good looking drink. It's a solid-looking beverage.
SPEAKER_01If you like gin forward drinks, gin drinks, this is a good one. The elderflower liqueur mixes well with gin. It does. I think Christy would really like this.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And a little bit of tartness from the lemon, but it's evened out from the simple syrup.
SPEAKER_00I'm not getting tart at all. I'm just getting a smooth. I'm tasting more gin than lemon. It's not part of nothing. No. Nothing stands out as I first drank it.
SPEAKER_01I was getting more, I was getting gin.
SPEAKER_00Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_01Hit in the tongue first, but now it's blended. It's steep those raspberries in there. Yeah, you get a little shake.
SPEAKER_00We'll try it again. Let's do it.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Yeah, I'm still getting the gin. And no, not really a tartness. But you can taste the lemon.
SPEAKER_00Very good drink. It looks the cheapest drink I see on the menu right here. Yeah, seven. Yeah, that's by a dollar. Not bad.
SPEAKER_01And I would say it's better than the sunspot we had.
SPEAKER_00And here is a restaurant I've booked, I made reservations for twice and canceled them because how the day went both times at Epcot. So someday we'll get there. We haven't been here yet.
Breaking Down The Command Center Cocktail
SPEAKER_01Okay, I'm looking at the sunspot, which we've tried before. That looks like a different man, different recipe. That was really tart. Maybe we didn't have the sunspot.
SPEAKER_00I don't think we have because I don't remember a mango. Yeah. I'm looking at it too. I don't remember a mango. Fresh line. Maybe we should try that. I think so. A space 220. Maybe we talk about some of the off-beat restaurants they have that are like themed like this.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. That's a good topic to have.
SPEAKER_00But today we're not talking about any of that. No. Today we're talking about a fifth gate at Disney World. Yes. And we did this and put the least amount of work, effort, and imagination into it as possible for us.
SPEAKER_01Well, we did a Chat GPT once before, plan a trip. And this is plan a bunch of trips. Now we just left it up to planning a fifth gate at Disney World to see what it would come up with.
SPEAKER_00And I'm surprised of what mine. We both put almost the same exact thing in the Chat GPT. We came up with parameters. And what we came up with, what mine came up with, is pretty good. So we're gonna read through them. I don't know if they came up with the exact same, but let's start. You got it up?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, mine first started out, it was replacing a park. And I said, no, no, do a fifth thing. Oh, okay. So you redid it. All right. And so we had different prompts, and it it overdid it on the prompts. All I asked for was an original theme for the park. Right. And what was the let me look at the original question? A new park that contains no similar lands to current Disney World lands, but can tap on existing IP from other parks, preferably outside the US. And yeah, it kind of went crazy.
SPEAKER_00It went crazy. We're just gonna read through this. Might take our whole time. It could. Yeah. So what was yours called? So my park name is Disney World Realms of Discovery. And it's a park celebrating exploration, myth, imagination, and global storytelling, where every land represents a different realm humanity has dreamed of discovering.
SPEAKER_01And yours? Mine's similar, but it's called Disney Atlas. Part the park exists in a space Disney hasn't claimed in the US. Global myth, original storytelling, and cultural imagination.
SPEAKER_00Well, they might be a little the same. We'll see as we go along here. Yeah. So I have an overall theme as my next prompt.
SPEAKER_01It says the strategic role in the resort, but it complements rather than competes with Magic Kingdom and Epcot. Oh. So it's got some Magic Kingdom Epcot vibes.
SPEAKER_00Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_01Which those are good vibes to have.
SPEAKER_00Right. Yeah. The overall theme of this park is of Realms of Discovery, exploration of unknown worlds, both real and imagined. Okay. Inspired by mythology, science fiction, fantasy folklore, and pulp adventure. With a romantic, mysterious, awe-inspiring, slightly more sophisticated tone than other Walt Disney World parks. No castles, no Tomorrowland, no adventureland.
SPEAKER_01Now, did yours include a central icon?
SPEAKER_00It has a let me see. Yep, it has a yep, it does.
Pivot To The Fifth Gate Idea
SPEAKER_01What was yours? Let me tell you what mine was. Okay. And then you can tell us about yours. So the central icon was the Atlas Spire.
SPEAKER_00It's the same exact icon. Is it? Yep. They gave me the Atlas Spire also.
SPEAKER_01Not a castle, not a mountain, not a tree. A towering kinetic structure of rings and light. Slowly rotates and realigns throughout the day. Acts as a visual anchor for multiple lands. Nighttime projections reflect the park's current story cycle.
SPEAKER_00It says almost the exact same thing. Okay. Global crossroads where explorers, inventors, and storytellers converge with an architectural blend of world's fairs, exotic ports, and antiques antique observatories. The live atmosphere has performers of storytellers, cartographers, and musicians from around the realms. Okay. So it's a little different. Yeah. Interesting. Land one. Land one. Mine? Sure. Mystic Gardens is my first land. Okay. Do you have Mystic Gardens?
SPEAKER_03No.
SPEAKER_00Based on Mystic Manor at Hong Kong Disneyland. Oh. So it's based on it. Enchanted artifacts, living art, and supernatural folklore. Mystic Manor is the e-ticket attraction, the music of the unseen. It's a trackless dark ride with an enhanced animatronics and projection mapping.
SPEAKER_01Okay, that's like Mystic Manor, the Wandering Archive is my main headliner attraction. So it is very similar. It just called something different.
SPEAKER_00Okay, cool. Family attractions are Garden of the Living Canvases, Slow Moving Ride Through Enchanted Artwork, and Lord Henry's Curiosity Trail, Interactive Walkthrough with Effects.
SPEAKER_01Did yours give so mine is Land One is Realm of Spirits, East and Southeast Asian Mythology, plus Hong Kong Disney DNA. The anchor IP is Mystic Manor, which is Hong Kong Disneyland, Raya and the Last Dragon, which I finally watched that. I think that was the one Disney movie I'd never seen. That was a good one. That's a good movie. Yeah.
Setting The AI Prompts And Rules
SPEAKER_00I think we both watched it for the first time around the same time.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, because we were working on one of the princess ones. Regional folklore. So Spirits, Ancestors, and Guardians. So the headliner, of course, Mystic Manor, The Wandering Archive, and Why This Land is unique, no equivalent land in U.S. Disney Park, and spiritual, atmospheric, emotional, not adventure. So that's why it's unique. It didn't give, though, the like yours did, it didn't give more than one ride.
SPEAKER_00Mine has an e-ticket ride family attractions, and I have a show with dancers called Spirits of the Manor. What was your land two? Land two is Port of the Sunken Star. Okay. Inspired by Shanghai's Pirates, not Caribbean style. Okay. You know about the Shanghai Pirates ride? It's like Mickey and Minnie's meets pirates of the Caribbean. I've heard that. I went on to Shanghai when it first opened. Very good ride. Very good ride. The theme is a mystical pirate legends and lost ocean civilizations. The Etika ride's Pirates of the Sucking Star, a massive boat ride using Shanghai's advanced ride tech, focuses on mythic treasure, not Caribbean humor.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00The family tracks are seafarer's compass, an interactive boat navigation game, and Tales of the Tides, rotating storytelling ride with a show called Legends Below the Waves.
Park Icons And The Atlas Spire
SPEAKER_01Oh, there's another movie for mine. So I had something similar, an ocean. So Land Three. So I'll just jump ahead to that one. Land three, Myths of the Sea. Oceans is legend, not piracy. So Anchor IP is Sinbad Storybook Voyage, which comes from Tokyo Disney Sea. Luca and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. So I finally watched 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Uh-huh. And actually, Luca. I have yet to watch a Luca. You haven't watched Luca? I have not watched Luca Homework.
SPEAKER_00Watch your homework.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Luca's great. So for a headline, Sinbad and the Star of the Seven Seas, Emotional Music Epic Ride, Large Scale Animatronics, Original Sherman Brothers style score. Oh, that would be good for that. And this gave me a thrill ride, Leviathan Deep Underwater Coaster. What? Underwater in parentheses. So it probably looks like it's underwater. No visible track in dark sections. So this is playing off your 20,000 leagues under the sea.
SPEAKER_00What if it was really underwater? Like the submarine voyage. That would be cool. A coaster.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Can you imagine being in a tube? Ooh, what is it? Coaster tube. What are those hyperloops? We need Elon Musk to design it where it's a hyperloop underwater. There you go. Get on to Disney.
SPEAKER_00I like the underwater roller coaster. I do too. Themed. Themed. Yeah, themed. Because we're there's a theme park in northern Idaho called Silverwood. Have you been there? I have not. I have not either. I've driven by it. My mother-in-law is talking about taking a big family trip there. And while I'll go, I'm not an amusement park fan.
unknownNo.
SPEAKER_00I'm a theme park fan. From going to the six flags and the knots my whole life. Yeah. I'm more of a theme park fan. I like a theme behind my ride.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, not just the ride for the ride's sake. Okay. Little tangent, little side note. Right number.
SPEAKER_00Oh, go ahead.
Land 1: Mystic Manor And Spirits
SPEAKER_01Let me go with land two. Okay. Cities of tomorrow. Global futurism, not tomorrow land. Anchor IP is Big Hero 6. Tokyo Disney C futuristic Aesthetics. And Wally as philosophy, not setting. Headliner, San Francisco, Kinetic City, massive next gen ride system, vertical lifts, and lateral guide, and track lists. Vehicles flow with traffic pattern. Secondary WALL-E seeds of tomorrow. Slow, hopeful, dark ride, real plants, bioluminescence, scent effects. We need Wally in the park. Yeah, that would be a good one.
SPEAKER_00We need Up and Wally to be involved. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Up, Wally, Raya.
SPEAKER_00That's a tougher one. Because Wally and Up are huge movies.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, this is true.
SPEAKER_00Ryan the Last Dragon wasn't a huge movie. It wasn't a huge movie. No, I can see where they would admit that.
SPEAKER_01Ignore that.
SPEAKER_00Why don't we have a balloon ride or something? Like a kid's balloon ride for in a little kind of like the inside out ride.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, emotional whirlwind.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, something little where you're in a little house.
SPEAKER_01You know where they should do that? The jellyfish jump. Yeah. They should just do that the house. Up jump. Okay, anyway, getting back on track here. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Your third my third one I really like. And it's kind of a Disney. So mine are all inspired by other parks around the world. Okay. All the lands are inspired by other parks around the world. This is Society of Explorers and Inventors. This is the land. Original land inspired by sea lore from Tokyo and Global Parks. Okay. So it's a combination of all of them. Uh-huh. A steam age futurism, Jules Verne, Bold Scientific Optimism.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah. That's crazy. So they tried to do like steampunk type tomorrow land. And it's just a big hodgepodge of a mess.
SPEAKER_00The e-ticket rides, the updated version of Tokyo Disney Seas Attraction, Journey to the Center of the Earth. Oh, okay. That sounds pretty cool. It does. The family attractions are of volcano research vehicles and the Inventors Flying Lab and a gentle aerial spinner show. Then the main show is the Grand Symposium. Comedic live inner inventors and mechanical contraptions. Like inventions that go wrong on the stage. Kind of funny.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Inventors come through with their white coat and do an invention. Yeah. Do an experiment and it goes wrong. That would be good. That'd be funny.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. I like that. That's my third land. Okay. What's your fourth land?
SPEAKER_01Is it this would be the fourth one?
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_01The living story. Stories that change as families and generations change. This would be in conto. The anchor IP is in Kanto. Okay. Moana with an ancestral focus and my neighbor Tutorial.
SPEAKER_00I don't know that.
Land 2: Sunken Star And Ocean Myths
SPEAKER_01I don't know that either. A job tutorial? I don't understand that one. The headliner is Enkonto, the House That Lives, Walkthrough Plus Ride Hybrid, Rooms Physically Transform, and Different Character Interactions Daily. The Atmosphere Ride, Totoro's Forest Crossing, Pure Mood and Wonder, Weather Scent, Sound Driven. So probably something like uh, and now I'm drawing a blank on it.
SPEAKER_00Is it a Disney movie?
SPEAKER_01It could be. What is the oh Soren? So Totoro's Forest Crossing could be like a Soren type of thing. What do you have for your fourth?
SPEAKER_00Go really quick. My neighbor Totoro is a 1988 Japanese animated fantasy film. Oh, okay. It doesn't say here that it's a Disney movie, but maybe it probably is. Disney could buy it. They probably already own it. Yeah. Maybe I'll watch that. Maybe. Yeah. It's on Disney Plus. I think I'll check it out this week. Okay. I like a good Japanese animated movie that I haven't seen. My number four, I'm really excited about, I gotta tell you, because this is the reason I want to go back to Shanghai. Okay. Zootopia City of Many Worlds. Oh, yeah. Bomb.
SPEAKER_01I would love to have a Zootopia.
SPEAKER_00We need a Zootopia land.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00We don't need a Zootopia ride. We need a land.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_01That's four lands within one land. Right. Because they've got the snow and the desert. Exactly. Almost five because it's a good thing.
SPEAKER_00It's a multi-drist district metropolis. Yeah. Tundra, Sahara, rainforest.
SPEAKER_01They actually introduced more of the different lands in the second one.
SPEAKER_00The e-ticket ride, Zootopia Hot Pursuit, which I love that idea. Yes. A trackless chase ride.
SPEAKER_01With the sloth. He would have to be driving it. This is it's so good. And it would be funny at the start where he turns around real slowly and smiles at you and waves, and then you launch. Right. That would be super.
SPEAKER_00This is my favorite idea for a land so far in the United States.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_00Clawhauser's Dispatch Dash as a family ride. And Little Rodents Big City, a scale dark ride.
SPEAKER_03Nice.
SPEAKER_00And then the show is Zootopia News Network Live. Ooh. Huh? That sounds good.
SPEAKER_01Everything about that sounds great. Sounds good. Yep. Okay, I'm all for that one. So they haven't announced, and they're talking about Disney D23 announcing more of what's going to happen with a Disney forward. So the Disneyland parks. Oh, if they could just get a ZQP around in there. That would be great. So my fifth land, the Infinite Archive, Disney Storytelling Itself as Mythology. So Anchor IP is Fantasia, Tokyo Disney Sea Original Attractions, and Disney Animation Legacy. So the headliner Fantasia Symphony of Creation, Ride and Theater Hybrid, Guest Influence, Musical Outcomes. Every ride is slightly different.
SPEAKER_00Oh, nice.
SPEAKER_01And then interactive story forge, guest craft short animated stories. Results appear on walls and projections park wide. Oh, that would be kind of and I've thought this for a while that Disney needs to incorporate more AI into like an AI character meet and greet where they could literally put every character on a screen and do a meet and greet with that character.
SPEAKER_00We've talked about that a lot.
SPEAKER_01And like a kid comes up and who just really loves the dragon from Ryan the Dragon and wants to meet that particular character. Well, you can in that type of situation. But to be able to take it next level and create a whole story with pictures and everything, right? And then have that where you could watch other people's stories, that's a really cool idea. That's a I like that. That's one of the best ideas.
SPEAKER_00You can put that into a bunch of different things. So that's your number five. So my number five, we have quite a few different ones. I like I like this.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
Land 3: Cities Of Tomorrow And WALL-E
SPEAKER_00I thought we were going sideways with our center, with our castle being the same. But Realms of Legends is my number five. Original mythology-based fantasy world. So we're taking all the IP out right now, and this is all original Disney stuff. So it's uh ancient myths from around the world, not princess focused.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00Okay. The e-ticket ride is Flight of the Star Guardians. A next gen flying theater used using articulated ride vehicles. So probably like Guardians of the Galaxy, right? But but a whole new IP, a whole new idea, a whole new story, which I really like. And then the family attractions. Here we go. We got one. Okay. We got a carousel. Okay. Oh, okay. This is the Legends Carousel. I'm you're on it.
SPEAKER_01I'm all for a carousel. I like a good carousel.
SPEAKER_00I know, it got you off your phone.
SPEAKER_01I can't wait. I'm looking forward to the carousel. Add Incanto, the tropical Americas.
SPEAKER_00That makes 14 billion children around the world and Aaron. Aaron is excited for that. Yes. And then the other one is Path of Heroes. It's an interactive quest walkthrough. A couple walkthrough things where you just walk on through the ride. Which was, you know, how to mansion was originally a walkthrough. The idea. The idea was it. So I have a couple little school walled ideas. Well, mine, the Enconto was a walkthrough, yeah. There's some walkthroughs going on. Okay. Family attractions. The show is called Songs of the First Age. An epic live musical with massive animatronic creatures. That sounds fun.
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_00With animatronic creatures around the stage.
SPEAKER_01I think that would be cool.
SPEAKER_00And the entertainers. Okay. So then I have mine extends to shows five shows and theater attractions separate from this.
SPEAKER_01See, mine didn't include any.
SPEAKER_00And then dining, and then the theme lounges.
SPEAKER_01I just did a prompt. That's why I was looking at my phone. I would like three table service restaurants, three lounges, four quick service, and eight to ten kiosks with a couple being beverage-only kiosks.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I have all that on here. Okay. Do you have your location yet? No. Oh, you haven't said that yet?
SPEAKER_01No, because it didn't tell me. Oh. Didn't tell me.
S.E.A. And Journey To The Center Concepts
SPEAKER_00So the location of mine is south of Epcot near the showcase lagoon expansion zone. Connected via the Skyliner. Walking past to a new resort. Allows thematic synergy without overlap. I'm trying to think of where just south of Epcot. But there's no room there. I don't know. Well, let's look on a map. Yeah. I'm going to look at a map right now. And then while you're looking at stuff, I'll talk about my resort, Disney's Meridian Grand Lodge. Okay. It's a the theme is a luxury global explorer headquarters. Rooms are all themed to different realms, a central atrium with rotating artifacts, interactive storytelling scavenger hunts, rooftop stargazing deck. So they have like an observatory. Uh-huh. Dedicated park entrance.
SPEAKER_02Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_00That's crazy. Exclusive nighttime lounge with park views. So you're still looking stuff up?
SPEAKER_01I'm just looking where they could cram this in. And if it's south of Epcot, that ain't happening.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, so for time, I will start talking about my shows and theaters. Okay. So shows and theater attractions, there's five. They're just they said in names. All original productions, all blend live for performers and animatronics. All of them. Okay. Spirits of the Manor, Legends Blow the Waves, The Grams Symposium, Zootopia News Network Live, and Songs of the First Age. My table service. As soon as you're ready, pop in here.
SPEAKER_01I've got my three table service. Okay. Go ahead. Well, the first one, the gathering table, shared meals across cultures. Vibe warm, communal, candlelit without being dark. The cuisine is global comfort food, no single country. So a lot, a big mix. You like that. Braised meats. I'm a more adventurous eater. I like to try, yeah, some different stuff. So braised meats, hearth bread, seasonal vegetables, signature dishes, spiced lamb shoulder with flatbread, amber roasted chicken with herb yogurt, vegetable tegine with preserved lemon. White high capacity, familiar but elevated, appeals to multi-generational groups. I think that just that sounds good. I would want to eat there.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. So your first one? That's my first one. Wow. Mine are very short. Okay. So my first one is called the Explorer's Atlas. Okay. And it's a global fusion cuisine. So I same kind of idea, I guess. And there's a lounge called the Cartographer's Study in the restaurant. They just knew that if I was building a park, my restaurants would have a lounge in them.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_00Oh, I asked for lounges. I think I have separate lounges also. Okay. On the second one.
SPEAKER_01Second one, the astronomer's study. Theme is scholars, star watchers, and midnight thinkers. Quiet, refined, adult forward. Modern global cuisine, precision plating, smaller portions. Signature dishes. Charred octopus with black garlic. Oh saffron risotto with citrus oil. Seared duck breast with spiced cherry glaze. Ceiling slowly transitions from dusk to night sky. That would be cool. Right. That's a good upscale.
SPEAKER_00The verdant table is my third. Am I on the second or third? So I'll just use my second.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_00The verdant table in Mystic Gardens. It's a plant. This isn't my style restaurant.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_00It's a plant forward Asian-inspired dishes.
SPEAKER_02I could skip that.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Yeah. So that's all it says, and that's all we'll take it as. Yeah. It's there. If you want that, you can go there. Yeah. I'll be somewhere else. I'll be in the cartographer's study. Where they're serving meat.
Zootopia Mega-Land Vision
SPEAKER_01And octave. That sounds delicious. So my the next one, this is uh caravan sarai. That's what it's called. Caravan sarai. S-E-R-A-I, but it's all one word. The theme is a grand inn along ancient trade routes. Lively, layered, and aromatic is the vibe. Cuisine, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, Silk Road inspired. I like all that. That sounds good. Signature dishes is a mesé platter, spice kebabs, and slow cooked lamb shank. Entertainment tie-in. Occasional musicians or storytellers roaming the floor. The narrator from Aladdin just walking through and telling these stories. That would be cool. That's fun. That would be a lot of fun.
SPEAKER_00Another different thing.
SPEAKER_01I like those.
SPEAKER_00I like different things. This came up with some good ones. I know it did. Okay. My third is the Tide and Trident, the Port of the Sunken Star. Okay. It's a seafood and nautical fair. I like this. It needs to be. If I'm having a nautical themed park, it needs to have a seafood restaurant. And the lounge is called the Captain's Quarters. I bet the drinks aren't here, but I bet they'd be delicious. Mine actually. And all around$19 to$22.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So my first lounge, the starbound cellar.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_01Location overlooks the world loom. Focus is signature cocktails. Drinks, Astral Gin, and Elderflower cocktails. We happen to be drinking. Whoops.
SPEAKER_00That's your new thing.
SPEAKER_01My cozy is sticking. We need a backup. My coaster. Oh well, it's gone. But anyway, we're drinking what they suggest. Smoked, spiced, old-fashions, and zero-proof botanical elixirs. This would be served there. It says audience adults and nighttime lingers. Well, of course, it'd be adults if it's a lounge. Right. Oh well. You can just leave that there and they'll sleep.
SPEAKER_00Just put it there. Thanks, ChatGPT, for stating the obvious. I have an additional theme lounge. Okay. Just a lounge. It's called the Meridian Observatory. Okay. I like this. Rooftop Lounge overlooking the park with nighttime entertainment. Oh, yeah. Kind of by the observatory I talked about. Oh. Next to it on the same roof. Yeah. That's a great idea. Do you have more restaurants? I have more lounges.
SPEAKER_01Oh, you have lounges. You're done with your lounges.
SPEAKER_00Done with lounges.
SPEAKER_01The navigator's log, weathered maps, brass instruments, rum whiskey, fortified wines. Choose your route tasting flight is the signature experience. And then the Wayfinder's rest. Open air, lantern lit courtyard, wine, beer, light bites. Perfect for meeting up pre-fireworks drinks and casual atmosphere.
Original Mythology Land And Carousel Love
SPEAKER_00And then I have four quick service. So for the let's go, let's backtrack a little bit here. Not too long. Not too long. Good. Yeah. The taster flight. Yeah. Would that be like what do you think it would be? It would be like different liquors. You can choose weathered maps, brass instruments. I would think a rum flight. But could it be different liquors? You choose your flight. Could it be like a lick a rum flight or a or a whiskey flight? I think so. Maybe. I don't know. So I think like the idea of choose your path.
SPEAKER_01The rum flight, though, I don't know how popular that would be, but a rum flight when you're thinking of a navigator's log, when you think of ocean going, everything, you just think of rum.
SPEAKER_00So let's say it's a rum flight.
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SPEAKER_00As there's a bum because there's not a lot of rum flights everywhere. It's not a major thing. No, it's they have a rum flight. It's called choose your path, though. I like that. So say they have 20 different rums and you choose five.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Or there's different tiered, like the really high-end rum, the middle rum, and the cheap rum. Lacava de tequilo.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you can do all sorts of stuff.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Something they do.
SPEAKER_00Choose your own path. I like that name. Yeah. Choose your own route. Okay, quick service. Okay. I have five quick service. I have four. You have four. Go ahead. Go ahead. Steam and spice market has skewers and flatbreads. You go.
SPEAKER_01Wayfarers provisions, flatbread skewers, bowls. Zootopia Street Eats is global street food. The hearth and ladle, soups, stews, fresh bread, and seasonal menus, so they rotate quarterly. Nice. I have a deep blue gallery with fish and chowders. Spice route kitchen, rice bowls, noodles, roasted vegetables, sauce forward ordering system.
SPEAKER_00Whoa. Whoa, and fun for the whole family is inventor's fuel stop with sandwiches and soups.
SPEAKER_01The Brass Company Bakery. Breads, pastries, morning to night operation.
SPEAKER_00That's pretty good.
SPEAKER_01That sounds good.
SPEAKER_00The Garden Grays is a quick eatery for bowls, wraps, and salads. Okay. That's it. I have some snack kiosks. I have nine. I have two, four, five, five, and two beverage only.
SPEAKER_01And then so I have five food focused, two hybrid, and two beverage only. So I'll start with the food focused, map makers morsels, savory hand pies. Oh, I have artifact sweets themed pastries. Amber and ash, roasted nuts, spiced popcorn.
SPEAKER_00This is Explorer's Popcorn Company, where we'll add the Ottawa apple, probably.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Silk Road sweets, honey pastries, candied fruit.
SPEAKER_00The much anticipated mythic meats with turkey legs and skewers. No man noodles, small noodle cups.
SPEAKER_01I don't know if who would go here but Zootopia Posticles. Stone bread, stone oven breads, fresh flat breads with dipping sauces. That's fun.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. That's an easy go-to fill yourself up. Well carb loaded.
SPEAKER_01If you've ever tried the bread service at Sanaa, you would be all for that one.
SPEAKER_00But just anything to carb you up a little bit while you're in the park. I like a bread. Yeah. I like a bread. A lot of people on our senior trip with my son's school, they bought a bread.
SPEAKER_01You know what I like about this? Except for the roasted nuts and spiced popcorn, these are all very different types of food.
SPEAKER_00They are. As is Steam Buns of the Manor. Okay. That's the name of the thing.
SPEAKER_01Steam Buns of the Manor. Yep. So my beverage-only kiosk, right? The water bearer, infused waters, and electrolyte drinks.
SPEAKER_00Oh.
SPEAKER_01I have the Merdian coffee bar. Okay. And then I have the Tea Atlas, Hot and Iced Global Teas, Seasonal Tea Flights.
Location, Resort, And Skyliner Links
SPEAKER_00I like that. Yeah. That's fancier than me. Of my sunken star grog stand.
SPEAKER_01And then I have hybrid. So Stargazer Sips, Sparkling Mocktails, Color Changing Drinks, and the Compass Pour. Beer, wine, and premix cocktails.
SPEAKER_00I like the Compass. That's very Pim Pim's Tasting Lab kind of thing. Tasting Lab.
SPEAKER_01These sound like the hybrids sound like more alcohol kiosks. Yeah. Your Starbucks? I did not come up with a Starbucks. Okay.
SPEAKER_00I'll talk about mine while you do that. Okay. I have a theme Starbucks called the Roaming Mug. It's designed as a traveling explorers cafe with exclusive park merchandise. Okay. What do you got? Boom, boom, boom, and it popped up.
SPEAKER_01The Wayfarers Brew. Starbucks Coffee Experience. Theming concept for centuries travelers travelers crossing this junction needed a place to rest, warm themselves, and share stories. The Wayfarers Brew occupies that what once was a caravanteen coffee house adapted over time as new brewing techniques arrived from around the world. The architecture and interior, low stone interior with wood beams, copper kettles, burlap sacks, grinding wheels. Jeez. Oh, it's huge. But all people are going to do is mobile order. Yeah, brews from across the known world. Single origin coffees inspired by Ethiopia, Latin America, spice cold brews, global tea options, honey forward lattes, exclusive park drinks. The Atlas latte, honey, cinnamon, oat milk, Night Crossing cold brew, cocoa, and orange peel.
SPEAKER_00Okay.
SPEAKER_01For the guy who likes his cold brews. And then the Wayfinder Chai, Spice Forward, Less Sweet. Oh, see, and that's how chai should be. Like a lot of places make spy way too sweet. That sounds good.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, he can go on all day. Well, I know what we know is that a Starbucks at Disney could be themed, but does it have to be?
SPEAKER_01No.
SPEAKER_00Because they just need cash register, an espresso maker, and a line.
SPEAKER_01Did you do or should we just end it here?
SPEAKER_00I have seven shopping locations.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_00I can go really quick.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, teleshopping didn't give me any shopping locations.
Shows, Table Service, And Atmosphere
SPEAKER_00I got the Atlas and Quill with Maps Journal Stationery, the Mystic Curios. They're all the same too. Sunken Star Salvage, Inventor's Emporium, Zootopia Outfitters, just stuff like that. And I talked about location already. I don't like to end really fast, but I think we're about done. Okay. Are you typing in shopping locations? While he's doing that, know that remember to contact us, right? At our email address, which is Aaron Cheers1 at Outlook.com. Find us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube.
SPEAKER_01And in any of your platforms, if you could give us a like, a follow, a heart, a subscribe, whatever you gotta do on those platforms, we would greatly appreciate it. Okay, so I did name five shows in the parks, can be animatronics or live action. Live chat PGPT people. Threads of the World, The Crossroads, Kinetic, Animatronic, and Projection Show, 12 minutes. Travelers think this is a spaceship Earth in a show version. Legends Awaken, Realm of Spirits is where it's located. The first one is in the Central Hub. So this one, this next one, Legends Awakened, Realm of Spirits, Live Performers and Large Puppetry and Projection. Mythic retelling of Guardian Spirits Awakening when humanity forgets old stories. That sounds good. I like the sound of that. Songs of the Seven Seas, which is in Myths of the Seven Myths of the Sea, fully animatronic musical show. Country Bears Jamboree, but it's Sinbad themed. The House Listens, The Living Story and Kanto Area, Hybrid Live Action, Animatronic, and Environmental Effects. The Casita Senses Guests, Emotions, and Response. The Starkeepers, The Infinite Archive, Intimate Live Action Storytelling with Effects. Scholars known as Starkeepers recount how stories are born, forgotten, and reborn, ending with a surprise fantasia style musical crescendo. Yeah. Those are some good ones. Okay. I'm always up for a show. Right. I the only show that I think I've ever seen that I don't really ever want to go see again is the one in the Canada Pavilion. Canada far and wide. Oh, yeah. That's stand there and watch. I don't want to stand and watch a show.
Lounges, Flights, And Night Views
SPEAKER_00I have one more thing. Okay. So this is one of the biggest travel months of the year, and I don't say it a lot on our episodes because I try to keep them kind of separate for some reason, but I am a travel agent that specializes in Disney. Yeah. For best day ever vacation. So this month, January and February. Let's go crazy. Yeah. January or February. If you book with me a three-day package at Disneyland or a four-day park day package at Disney World, I will send you a$50 gift card on your first park day for Disney. If you book with me, you can contact me through any of our websites or through Aaron.bestday EverVacations at gmail.com.
SPEAKER_01And I'm going to book because I want you to give me a$50.
SPEAKER_00I'll give you. Yeah. So, yeah, so do that. I should have said it earlier in the episode. If you're still listening, thank you. Yes. Thanks for sticking with me. Now we'll know who listens all the way through.
SPEAKER_01We got our last bit of drink. We're done. Sorry. Cheers. Cheers.
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