Pre-Cruise Disney World News and Moana Spotlight

In this episode of the Main Street Talk podcast, we discuss our upcoming cruise amidst the brewing Tropical Storm Melissa and cover the latest Disney World news as of October 22nd. We delve into ticket sell-outs for New Year's Eve and Very Merry Christmas Party events, updates at Epcot, Hollywood Studios, and Animal Kingdom, and exciting new changes like a Monsters Inc. restaurant permit filed. We also discuss drone testing at Disney Ranch and the development of the Disney Lakeshore Lodge with its lazy river. Additionally, we cover the Jungle Cruise attraction at Magic Kingdom, including its history, features, and tips for enjoying the ride. The episode wraps up with a spotlight on the movie Moana, discussing its plot, characters, and accolades, and a tip on the practicality of using packing cubes for travel.

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Welcome to Main Street Talk Podcast

Nick 0:31

Hello everybody. Welcome to this week's episode of the Main Street Talk podcast, your go-to podcast for all things Walt Disney World related, all the news, and the tips and the tricks. I am your host Nick, and as always with me is Joni. Hi.

Joni 0:46

Hi.

Nick 0:47

So Joni and I are getting ready to go on a cruise. This show's gonna be a little bit different. We are recording on Wednesday the 22nd. We're recording early. We usually wait till the weekends to record so we can get all the latest news Friday,

Joni 1:01

the, at the earliest we usually do. So we're a couple days. Yeah.

Nick 1:04

So all the news is gonna be current until, um, October 22nd. So we may miss some news by the time this airs, but, we'll try to catch up when we get back, but we're excited to go on our cruise. We got some last minute stuff to do, but,

Joni 1:18

oh, I don't.

Nick 1:19

well, I,

Joni 1:19

I, we've

Nick 1:21

picked a very interesting time to go on a cruise as people probably follow the, tropical storm Melissa has formed in the Caribbean, and it's supposed to be a hurricane. By Thursday or Friday, but it looks the way the last I looked, it looks like we're gonna be on the boat to and from and back to Florida by the time it may get out of the Caribbean. So I think we're gonna be okay.

Joni 1:45

last. Expectation or, or possibility was that we would miss our castaway

Nick 1:51

I was thinking, and that still may be a possibility. I don't think we're gonna know until the days of,'cause that's okay. Because, you know, and you know this,

Joni 1:58

you're lucky. I'm even still going,

Nick 2:00

you know, this, that I'm like fascinated with hurricanes and I always watch the hurricanes come

Joni 2:03

Yeah. But I don't wanna be in

Nick 2:04

one. Well, the, what I'm gonna say is I've been following this one and, um, even the meteorologists, a lot of them are saying they've never seen anything like

Joni 2:13

this. Oh, perfect.

Nick 2:14

No, to the extent of they can't track it.

Joni 2:16

it. Well that's great.

Nick 2:17

it's just sitting around and spinning. Oh, it's, it's basically stopped at this point. It's moving two miles an hour, so the models can't get it. Right. And two of them that I've watched older have said they've never, they've never seen this. Wow. As far as

Joni 2:31

great.

Nick 2:31

But, I think they have a, a decent idea where it's going, but enough of that. Yeah.

Joni 2:35

Yeah. And I have no idea With this being my only, only my second cruise, I don't know if I'm going to have any type of sickness or not. In our first cruise that we went on, I was able to pick our deck, pick our room, but this one we got, we got into the, um,

Nick 2:52

guaranteed state

Joni 2:53

guaranteed state. The guaranteed state with the balcony brand. Yeah. And so they placed us on the ninth floor.

Nick 3:01

Yep. Deck nine.

Joni 3:02

I am terrified, to be quite honest. We do have our motion sickness medication. I don't know if I'm gonna need it, but we do have it. I don't have any experience on taking it. I don't know if I'm even going to agree with that. Like if it's gonna be easy on me or hard on me. I don't know. I'm a little nervous about this trip, guys,

Nick 3:23

I think, I think we're gonna be fine. I think we're gonna be fly to Florida, go on our cruise and be out of Florida by the time it's, outta the Caribbean. That's just my thinking'cause it's moving

Joni 3:31

well, hopefully it just turns and goes back out into the water and, no,

Nick 3:33

yeah, that's what I'm hoping because yeah, there's some islands that could get, uh, I mean feet of rain. That could be very, very bad.

Joni 3:41

Oh.

Nick 3:42

uh oh, and you know what else? Happy Halloween.

Joni 3:45

Oh

Nick 3:45

This, this will air, this will air on Monday before Halloween, and we won't air until the following

Joni 3:51

That's right. Well, happy Halloween. We should have wore our

Nick 3:53

We should have, yeah.

Joni 3:55

Took pictures of each other'cause everyone wants to see that.

Nick 3:58

And, as far as the show, following this one next week's show, we are not, we're not gonna have internet on the boat.,'Cause I just refuse to pay for a cruise internet. I think it's ridiculous. I'm gonna keep up on the news as best I can, so that show may be a little news light too, but I'm gonna get right to work as soon as we get home. And we

Joni 4:16

I think we should, we should try to pick up. Where we left off and not make too many changes. Yeah, I'll get

Nick 4:22

I know. I'm just,

Joni 4:23

I'll get on him, guys. Yeah.

Nick 4:24

So. Anyway, are you ready to get into the

Joni 4:27

am. Let's go. Okay.

Nick 4:29

Magic Kingdom regular tickets have sold out for New Year's Eve at Magic Kingdom. No tickets available for New Year's Eve. Magic Kingdom, and as well all Park Hopper tickets are now completely unavailable for the date of December 31st also.

Joni 4:45

Hmm.

Nick 4:46

And that's including the Park Opera and Park Hop Plus. So New Year's Eve.

Joni 4:50

Never been there on a New Year's Eve.

Nick 4:51

I No,

Joni 4:52

heard, like are there any special things that go on,

Nick 4:55

I

Joni 4:55

like the Halloween and the Christmas or

Nick 4:57

think they do two fireworks that night. They do a midnight and then they, I think they do like a 10 o'clock for the kids that can't stay till midnight. I think that's what they do.

Joni 5:06

So watch one and use the other one to ride

Nick 5:08

Yeah. Yeah. I, myself would probably never go during that time just because that's the busiest week of the year and that's. I don't know. I don't

Joni 5:17

I mean, I love people, but not like in my personal bubble.

Epcot and Hollywood Studios News

Nick 5:21

That, that seems a little overwhelming, so yeah. Sold out for New Year's Eve in case you were wanting to go. And four more dates have sold out for the, very merry Christmas party. Okay, so the total is no four dates is November 25th, December 2nd, December 4th, and December 21st. December 21st is the last, party and also with the Christmas party. You know, mini's wonderful. Christmas time fireworks. They show at the party. It's gonna be presented for all Magic Kingdom guests on certain dates. Here's the schedule. December 20th is gonna be the final showing of Happily Ever after December 21st is the last Christmas party, and it'll be the, the many fireworks. But from December 22nd onward. Mini's fireworks are gonna replace happily ever after for all park guests.

Joni 6:09

how long?

Nick 6:09

They have not, they have not

Joni 6:10

not announced.

Nick 6:11

when that's coming

Joni 6:12

maybe till New Year.

Nick 6:14

Could be. That would make sense. Yeah, they haven't announced. We'll keep you posted on that. And over at Epcot Spaceship Earth reopened a week early after refurbishment. Okay. It reopened on October 18th despite an announcement date of October 25th. And as we mentioned last week, the Figma animatronic, they took down for refurbishment. He's back, they put him back. Figures, he, I dunno, he's got a new paint job or facelift. What he did,

Joni 6:43

He just needed a nap. All that mischievousness that he's up to, he needs a nap. Yeah,

Nick 6:48

And at Hollywood Studios tickets for Saturday November 8th, the very first night of Hollywood Knights. That has sold out. So opening night is sold out. I know we've said it before. If you've never been to it, go to it. Such, such a

Joni 7:02

fun parties.

Nick 7:03

good time.

Joni 7:04

Yeah.

Nick 7:05

And also in Hollywood Studios, the live action aerial meet and greet is temporarily moving. Disney website said, oh, we met her. It's in, Walt Disney presents in the

Joni 7:13

And we actually ran into her. By mistake. We did. We were just kind of wandering

Nick 7:18

kind of wandering. We were just in the building

Joni 7:19

looking at all the, we didn't know, and

Nick 7:20

we walked into the room and we're like,

Joni 7:22

like, oh, there's a princess in there. And they're like, well, come on in.

Nick 7:27

So the website says, me, Ariel at Walt Disney presents will temporarily be unavailable. Beginning October 28th, Ariel will be greeting guests at Echo Lake near the fifties, primetime cafe.

Joni 7:39

Okay,

Nick 7:39

Okay, so she's moving temporarily.

Joni 7:42

What are they doing to her current area? Yeah, because the,

Nick 7:45

say'cause the,

Joni 7:46

the sea, the, she's got like a seascape where she's standing on the, at the castle balcony mm-hmm. Or whatnot, or courtyard or something. Of Prince Eric's. So,

Nick 7:56

yeah, it

Joni 7:56

I just wondered if they were giving her a new backdrop

Nick 7:58

and a permit has been filed for Mama Mels rose transformation into Monsters Inc. Restaurant.

Joni 8:06

Oh.

Nick 8:07

Yeah, imagineers are starting to work on that.

Joni 8:09

I am excited to see what kind of foods they come up with being a monster restaurant. Imagine

Nick 8:14

cookies

Joni 8:14

Oh yeah, that's gonna be fun. Yeah. Huh. Cool.

Nick 8:17

And this was just announced, tobacca will appear in his traditional Life day costume for a meet and greet during. Hollywood Knights this year. For those of you that don't know, life Day is a Wooki holiday, celebrated on the planet Keshe, and it honors family joy and harmony. The Crimson Red Robe worn by Chewbacca is a ceremonial garment worn by the Wooki for Life Day. So I saw a picture, he's like in a big, like, you know, a red robe? Looks like a Red Jedi.

Joni 8:44

Jedi. Yeah,

Nick 8:45

That's what he looks

Joni 8:45

So what day is that one?

Nick 8:47

in Jolly Knights.

Animal Kingdom and Miscellaneous News

Joni 8:48

Oh, it's on all Jolly Knights. Yeah, he's meeting. Oh well I wanna meet Chewy.

Nick 8:52

Look

Joni 8:52

I haven't met him yet.

Nick 8:54

yeah. We've never met Chewy, have

Joni 8:56

we've seen him at a distance, but you know.

Nick 8:58

That's gonna be a, yeah, we,

Joni 8:59

run in the parks, so

Nick 9:01

we gotta meet Chewy. Last year, remember my big thing was I was gonna buy the, the Chewbacca shirt. Yes. And meet him. Yes. And we never did. I never bought the shirt. We never met

Joni 9:09

Well, that's why you need to buy the shirt.

Nick 9:11

if I, yeah, if I would've had the shirt, I would've made a point of it. All right. Now Animal Kingdom Goofy has a new meet and greet location over there. Okay. Guests can now find goofy in front of the backstage gate in the Africa section. This is right next to Haram Bay's market. So that's where Goofy is. Speaking of, Harambe Market has now closed for the months long update. They're gonna return with burgers and chicken strips and

Joni 9:38

The typical food

Nick 9:40

I like. I love me. So Harambe Market and Chilo Bites and Dina Bite snacks are now permanently closed as well. We talked about that. The former Doug and Russell meet and greet at Animal Kingdom has closed to become Nick and Judy Meet and greet as construction continues on. Zootopia better together. Okay, so Nick and Judy are gonna meet there. That

Joni 10:00

well that makes sense.

Nick 10:01

Doug and Russell are now meeting guests on the Discovery Island trails on the opposite side of the T of life.

Joni 10:08

Well, that makes sense being Discovery Island. Yeah. So, yeah, I think it's okay.

Nick 10:12

perfect sense.

Joni 10:13

Hey, they're adding not taken away, so we're good

Nick 10:15

adding Absolutely. That's a good way to think of it, you know? Yeah.

Joni 10:20

Yeah.

Nick 10:21

Disneyland's never complete.

Joni 10:22

We get two more, uh, we get two more characters involved in this.

Nick 10:26

Yep.

Joni 10:28

Okay.

Nick 10:28

That's it for Park News. We have some miscellaneous news,

Joni 10:30

right.

Nick 10:31

for America's 250th anniversary. Next year, Disney will host a special fireworks broadcast on major networks and streaming platforms. So they're gonna televise, the fireworks one night

Joni 10:43

and

Nick 10:43

and while did

Joni 10:44

say 250? 250. Wow.

Nick 10:47

Yeah. Seems like yesterday it was just a baby.

Joni 10:50

Oh my word.

Nick 10:52

And Walt Disney World and Disney Lamb Resorts will both have three nights of July 4th fireworks in 2026, which is an expansion for the celebration. And in celebration of America's birthday, their debuting Soren across America in the summer of 2026 at Disney World and Disney California Adventure. That would be cool. In the latest aerial photos of the Disney Lake Shore Lodge, which is the newest, DVC resort that's under construction. Have confirmed it will have a lazy river. I saw this photo and it's, it just looks like, a horseshoe. You can definitely tell it's a lazy river. So, so

Joni 11:29

so it's not a, a full circle?

Nick 11:33

Not what I saw. It was horseshoe shaped. Maybe they're gonna put pools at the end of'em, I don't know. Could be.

Joni 11:38

Okay. Okay.

Nick 11:39

this is exciting. I was excited when I heard this mul. So this was put on by, I think an Instagram user, somewhere, multiple sightings of drones testing at Disney Ranch in California.

Joni 11:51

Mm-hmm.

Nick 11:51

So they're just testing drones in the sky there. Some of the examples that was shown included, the Mickey Soer hat, the Manta ray in the style of Moana and Captain Hook's pirate ship. Oh, nice. So they're testing drones. Yeah. For what? I have no idea.

Joni 12:08

Well, like the Disney Spring show.

Nick 12:10

Yeah. So they're gonna do something with drones. I just don't think they're and doubt they're just waste of money to test drones. Yeah. Because

Joni 12:17

that Disney Spring show is pretty awesome.

Nick 12:19

That was pretty cool. Yeah.

Joni 12:20

But the only thing I didn't like about that was that you have to get there early to get a good spot. Yeah. And yeah, in order to get the people in, the cast members ask you to remain standing, you're literally standing in the same spot. People were. Trying to sit on the ground just to get, but I understand you can't get as many people and it gets more congested. It was

Nick 12:43

a lot of standing

Joni 12:44

have to stand in one spot for two, two and a half hours is like, that's so torturous on the lower limbs in the back. And yeah,

Nick 12:56

it was a good show, but yeah, I agree. It was,

Joni 12:57

I've almost, um, I don't know if it's allowed or not, but I wanted to purchase one of those pop-up. Little,

Nick 13:04

bend or, uh, seats?

Joni 13:05

little seats.

Nick 13:05

Papa squat. Yep.

Joni 13:07

Yep. I'm not even kidding because if you guys remember from a previous episode, it was that trip that we had to go to, Walmart and get me stuff for my knee

Nick 13:19

to take a medical trip.

Joni 13:21

oh my goodness. I had to get a knee brace and I got the tape and I got the roll on.

Spotlight on Jungle Cruise

Nick 13:26

let's just get you a scooter.

Joni 13:28

no, I'm not, I, I'm not to the point to where I need that. I'm gonna let somebody else that needs it

Nick 13:32

just go in pain and get a knee brace when you could run a scooter.

Joni 13:36

you just get to rub my leg afterwards.

Nick 13:38

So

Joni 13:39

Sos a win-win.

Nick 13:41

That is all I have for Park

Joni 13:43

Oh yeah.

Nick 13:44

week. Yeah. I'm pretty excited about the drone. Hopefully they bring back a drone show.

Joni 13:47

Yeah.

Nick 13:48

Yeah, that was, that was a lot of fun.

Joni 13:50

Yep. Okay. Okay,

Nick 13:52

so let's move on to, I'm excited about this spotlight on attraction this week. What you got

Joni 13:58

got? We're over at Adventure Land. I've got Jungle Cruise

Nick 14:00

Jungle Crews. The, yeah, the jokesters. Yeah.

Joni 14:04

So it's a slow outdoor water ride. Aboard a, you chart a course for high adventure. On a scenic and comedic boat, tour of exotic rivers across Asia, Africa, and South America, guided by a witty and experienced skipper. So there's no height requirement, but children under the edge of seven must be accompanied by someone 14 years or older. They have 15 boats with a maximum of nine in operation at any given time, and each boat holds 30 people.

Nick 14:37

Okay,

Joni 14:37

so.

Nick 14:38

30 people. Really? It doesn't seem like that when you're on it. That's 30

Joni 14:42

Yeah. Well, well, you know, give or take

Nick 14:44

Well, yeah, but still, right? Yeah.

Joni 14:46

So, it has bench seating around the perimeter and some seating in the middle. There's no seat belts or restraints, but is equipped with handrails to assist in boarding and disembarking the slow moving boats as there is a small step down. So as far as these boats, I actually have their names. I'm not gonna go with like, there's Amazon Annie and Congo Connie, but some of these names I cannot pronounce. But we've got Annie and Bertha, Connie Gerie, Irma, Millie, Nelly, Ida, Ruby, Sadie, Sal, lolly, Val, Wanda, and Zelda, which. Zelda. Yeah, that's surprising. The grandsons would love that one. So if, now that I know there's a Zelda there, we're gonna try and get Zelda and then we have a retired boat. Congo Kate retired in 2000. Okay.

Nick 15:36

Okay,

Joni 15:36

So this ride is a tier one multipass. You can remain in your wheelchair or your electric scooter if you need to just at the front. Ask the cast member, because there are selected number of boats, not every boat can accommodate, um, wheelchair or scooter. Sign language is available as well as assisted listening and handheld captioning devices. The duration of the ride is about 10 minutes. It's an opening day attraction October 1st, 1971, and a little bit of bonus info. Jungle Cruise is set as a depression era, British outpost on the Amazon River, operated by a fictional company, the Jungle N Vacation Company. Film Adaptations of the Ride was released in the US on July 30th, 2021. Steamer vehicle engineer Harper Goff drew inspiration from a 1955 documentary called The African Lion from the True Life Adventure Series, as well as the 1951 Adventure film, the African Queen. The landscaping engineer, bill Evans had a limited budget to create a jungle atmosphere, so he imported some exotic plants but didn't have enough to fill the entire land with that. So he uprooted local orange trees and replanted them upside down growing vines on their exposed roots. The approximately five feet deep waterway is color controlled to conceal the boat's guidance system and mechanized platforms of some of the audio animatronics, like when the hippos and whatnot are taking baths. Yeah. So, they have to raise it enough to where they're not exposed. Okay. They started out, from what I read, I didn't put this in the notes, but they started out with a brown color and then it went to like a blue color and now it's the color that it is. So they kind of. Messed around with their coloring a little bit, but it did start out as brown and that just sounds kind of gross. So animator Mark Davis added the Indian elephant bathing pool and the rhinoceros chasing the explorers up the pole and near the hippo pole. The back half piece of the downed airplane of the Lockheed Model 12 Electra Junior previously found at the great movie Ride. From Hollywood Studios in the Casablanca scene. So that is actually okay. Placed in this ride now. So now you will have to keep an eye out for that.

Nick 18:02

That's one of my favorite movies. Yeah.

Joni 18:04

for sure. And um, there's also a jungle themed restaurant called Skipper Canteen that opened in December, 2015. Yeah. So we have actually not eaten there. We did have

Nick 18:15

We had a Yeah. All

Joni 18:16

and canceled to let somebody else have it'cause we weren't gonna make it. But,. Hear. It's not hard to get in there though.

Nick 18:21

No, I think we booked it with pretty short, uh, I mean, it definitely wasn't at 60 days for sure. I think we decided late.

Joni 18:28

Yeah, but I think I, I think I remembered somebody, a vlogger or somebody saying that, you know, there's still possibilities that if you just go up, they can get you

Nick 18:37

Yeah, right. Yeah.

Joni 18:38

Yeah. So you don't need an RSVP at all, but I mean, I would definitely make one. Yeah. Because you're kind of

Nick 18:45

but yeah, if you're like deciding last minute, hey, let's try it. You go up to the window, see if there's a spot. Yeah.

Joni 18:50

That's something we still need to do. We have a lot of stuff we still need to do. That's just a lot to get done. Yeah. In these parks.

Nick 18:56

for sure.

Joni 18:57

And then, you know, we always go to our. Our loves and do those

Nick 19:00

multiple,

Joni 19:01

times. Like when we rode Everest, like what, three times in a row?

Nick 19:04

It was a five minute wait. I mean, how could we not?

Joni 19:07

Yeah. Yeah. So that's what I have for the MO or for the, for the ride. Do you have anything to add?

Nick 19:13

The only thing I would add is, this is a extremely popular ride. The wait times are high. So if you're gonna want to do this, either a lightning lane it, or B, this is an adventure lane. So adventure lane is not available for early entry.

Joni 19:28

it's

Nick 19:29

only available for rope drop. And the thing about adventure land is there's two rope drops. There's one at the entrance by the hub. Mm-hmm. And then they have another rope in the back, by fantasy land. So there's two ropes. Yeah. So, um, if you wanna ride this,

Joni 19:43

I

Nick 19:43

I would lightning land or rope drop

Joni 19:45

Mm-hmm. So that's good information to add. I totally forgot about that. Yeah.

Nick 19:50

Yeah. And the only, the only other thing I would add is. If you've not been on this, the skippers are jokesters. They're, they're very pun heavy jokes and they are hilarious. Absolutely. Um, they're dad jokes, but you gotta get into it

Joni 20:04

No, it's fun. I enjoy it a

Nick 20:05

One of the funniest things our skippers said when we were with the the kids was, I remember we were going on, you know, the river and he's told everybody all serious. He said, be quiet for a minute. I gotta hear the radio.'cause we were leaving, you know. The dock, whatever you call it. So everybody got quiet and he said, okay. He goes, ladies and gentlemen, that was 15 seconds of silence, but since it says Disney World, that'll be$28 each. Oh yeah.

Joni 20:29

Oh yeah. Oh yeah. They are. They're very comical. And every time I've been on it, I've never heard the same jokes. No.

Moana Movie Discussion

Nick 20:37

Your skipper makes the ride. Yeah. You know? Absolutely. So, I mean, it's

Joni 20:42

absolutely.

Nick 20:42

Yeah. All right. And

Joni 20:44

the queue is really neat. It's got a lot of, um, it's got a lot of, I mean, I can't even begin to, to talk about the things that they have, but it's got a lot of stuff in there to look at and definitely makes the time go by.

Nick 20:57

Yep. Just, get there early we or lightning lane for sure.

Joni 21:00

Yep. Okay.

Nick 21:01

All right, well thanks Joanie. Now we're on to this week's movie. Who do we got this week? I think I know movie.

Joni 21:10

This week we're gonna talk about Moana. Moana, Moana,

Nick 21:14

our granddaughters, one of her favorites. Her first

Joni 21:16

Love Moana. When we went, we actually got a video. We went in to meet Moana outside, not the one inside the, the hall, but animal Kingdom, the one in Animal Kingdom. And we walked up and, wanted our picture with her. I mean, it was. Kind of, I don't know, maybe I thought, gosh, is she gonna think we're silly? We're a couple of adults coming up, getting our picture. But, we expressed to her that, she was our granddaughter's favorite. And so Moana actually did a video greeting and addressed our granddaughter by name and it was so adorable, and we sent it, to her and she. Was playing it and our granddaughter was saying hello to her and waving to the phone. It was so adorable. She's three years old, so it was the cutest thing ever.

Nick 22:03

But yeah, if, that's actually a great tip.'cause I didn't know you could do that until the cast member told us, if you want to take a a video greeting of one of the characters, ask nicely. Ask politely, and they will most likely do it.

Joni 22:13

So, you know,'cause. Nick and I do quite a few trips without the Grands and um, you know, at first I felt bad about it, but now I don't

Nick 22:22

I know we can just take videos,

Joni 22:25

We, but you know, it is nice to know that you can have, you can have some videos of their, their favorite people call. My name

Nick 22:30

and calling'em by name is pretty, pretty special.

Joni 22:32

Yeah. Which brings me, this is just a side note, but I have to say, when we did have the kids. Stay with us. We were staying at Pop and we had, uh, Mickey Mouse call every morning for our wake

Nick 22:43

call. Yes, we

Joni 22:44

And Nick and I got up before the kids and got ourselves together. And then, um,

Nick 22:49

we'd do the

Joni 22:49

we let the Wi Mickey wake up call, right? And we had one of the kids answer the phone and we're like, oh, you better answer it. I bet it's for you. And so they'd pick it up. And so then we went to, topos for a breakfast on one of our off days, and Mickey Mouse came around to our table and um, our youngest grandson at the time says. Asked him, what did he say to him? Could

Nick 23:12

he? He said to Mickey, he said, when you call in the morning, can you not be so

Joni 23:15

loud? Because Mickey is like, oh boy, we're gonna have a great time today. It

Nick 23:22

wait to see you,

Joni 23:23

oh my goodness. It was so funny.

Nick 23:26

It's

Joni 23:26

adorable. Anyway, so Moana, let's get back to Moana. Moana came out,, November 23rd, 2016. It's a runtime of one hour, 47 minutes. A budget was a 150 million box office, 687.2 million. Again, the creators, Ron Clements and John Musker and Moana is not necessarily based on a single fairytale, but instead a story heavily inspired by Polynesian Myths and Legends. It draws from, oral traditions of various. Cynic Culturals to create its narrative with characters like the Demigod Maui being a figure from a widespread Polynesian mythology. So it's just kind of a all around made up. Her age is 16 in the movie. Her traits are naive, funny, and brave. As I had said, Polynesian mythology, so the nationality region slash region is Polynesian, south Pacific Islands. Her occupation is, she is a Chief des and demi goddess of the Village of Moi,

Nick 24:38

Nui,

Joni 24:39

and she is a Wayfinder.

Nick 24:40

Moana

Joni 24:41

is an animated film that follows a courageous Polynesian girl who sets sail on a daring ocean adventure to save her island. When the crops fail and fish disappear. Moana chosen by the ocean itself sets out to find the demigod Maui to restore the stolen heart of the goddess to piti. The film highlights themes of self-discovery, courage, and cultural identity. It focuses on Moana's growth as a leader, her deep connection to her ancestors and her determination to follow her inner voice despite fear and doubt. Her sidekicks are,

Nick 25:18

Hey, hey,

Joni 25:19

hey, hey. And uh, you know, the little chicken that can't stay on the boat and her little piggy pua. so I love it when Maui says, um, oh, you should have brought the pig. Now we have bacon and eggs. I like it when he says that. Her father is the chief, obviously, and her mom, I don't know if it's Sina or Sina. Then, in Moana two, we're not gonna get into that one because we're focusing on these first ones yet. But she does end up with a little sister in Moana two.

Nick 25:48

I've not seen Moana two, neither have I I knew she had a sister because she's on all the t-shirts at

Joni 25:53

Yeah. Well some people were, some people were speculating. Moana has a daughter. Nope. Guys, that's not her daughter. She has no spouse. She has no children. That is her little sister. Follow up movie. Like I said, Moana two came out in 2024. And we are expecting a live action remake of the 2016 film set to be released July 10th, 2026.

Nick 26:16

Really?

Joni 26:17

Yeah.

Nick 26:17

I did not know that. I

Packing Cubes: A Travel Essential

Joni 26:19

did not know that either until I researched the madness. There's lots and lots of award nominations, a total of 90. With 22 wins, I'm just gonna give several, noted here ones, which were two an these are the wins, two Annies, one Grammy, and it won both the Billboard music and the American Music Awards for their soundtracks. Oh, okay. A soundtrack. And on January 22nd and March 16th. Both of 2017, respectfully, the film reached the 500 million and the 600 million marks. Wow. Becoming the fourth consecutive Walt Disney Animation Studios film to reach both milestones

Nick 27:05

Wow.

Joni 27:05

behind Frozen and then, you know, a couple of others. But yeah. Crazy.

Nick 27:10

Wana was pretty big for them. Juano was very popular.

Joni 27:12

Mm-hmm. That's what I got. Okay.

Nick 27:14

All right. Thank you Joni.

Joni 27:16

Yeah, you bet. Anytime

Nick 27:18

So this week's tip or trick, I'm gonna, I'm gonna just say it right off the bat. I was not a believer. Joni came to me and said, I'm buying these things. I'm like, in my mind I said, okay, do what you want. I said this to myself. Do what you want, but it's a waste of money. Do what you want. I have been completely flipped. I am a true believer in

Joni 27:38

been transformed.

Nick 27:39

Yes, I have saw the light. What am I talking about?

Joni 27:43

I know what you're talking about. Hacking cube, hacking cubes, packing

Nick 27:47

cubes are simplify

Joni 27:48

your life. Huge.

Nick 27:50

I literally was like, why is she buying these? Because she told me and I looked them up and I'm like, this makes no sense. Yeah, well you can just throw everything in the suitcase.

Joni 27:59

You don't lose your stuff in the suitcase. You're not digging around. You can pull out specific Right. Things that you need.

Nick 28:05

what you need. You can organize in the cubes. And I would recommend this wherever you travel, if you're gonna take a suitcase. Yeah. They make life so much easier.

Joni 28:14

We've got all of our shoes in one cube. Well'cause we're leaving, so our suitcase is actually packed. Nick wanted to take a video of me packing our suitcase just for the show, and I was like, well, we're a little late for that. But our costumes and our pirate gear Yeah. Is all in a cube so we

Nick 28:31

Our swim stuff is in one cube. Our, undergarments are in one cubes. It just, it makes it so much easier if you just pull it out. And all your stuff is there. Yeah. And it does make more room in the suitcase. I know you, I know you don't think that, but it really does

Joni 28:45

Well, and then things don't get shifted around and unfolded and, you know, you end up with shoes on top of your head. And

Nick 28:52

you know what I'm gonna do? I'm going to, I'm gonna post a link to the packing cubes we have Okay. On our, on our show notes. Yeah.

Joni 28:58

And they have a variety of colors. We just ended up with the cream ones just'cause I thought they were kind of universal. I thought about getting me pink and Nick blue.

Nick 29:06

I didn't know that you could have.

Joni 29:07

you can. They do. Well, I didn't know that you would like them so Well. I actually even bought some and gave them away as gifts

Nick 29:12

that's right. You did.

Joni 29:14

I bought

Nick 29:14

um, and I think he made believers out of other people. Yeah.

Joni 29:17

Well, because our kids go out of town quite often and so I got them some.

Nick 29:23

Yeah. Yeah, I highly suggest this just from, it makes less mess. Yeah. And it just, it makes everything organized and it makes everything fit. So yeah. Packing cubes. I will post, the link to the one we have Good. In the show notes. All right. I think that's it. Oh, I did forget to mention, I did change the, uh, Facebook group name. Oh. It is Disney World Tips and Tricks. Just for a searchability. It's easier to find for people that

Joni 29:51

yeah. Shoulda have told me. I've been swiping all those Well,

Nick 29:54

Well, well,

Joni 29:55

I'm like, who's trying to trick or treat

Nick 29:57

Whoever's following it should have got notified, saying, you know, admin has changed the name of this group or whatever.

Joni 30:03

I probably swiped that one too.

Nick 30:06

So, yeah, Disney World Tips and Tricks is the group now. Just makes it, makes it easier for people to find. Do you have anything else to add?

Joni 30:14

cannot think of anything. Happy Halloween. Happy Halloween.

Nick 30:17

Halloween. We are literally

Joni 30:19

we get back from our vacation. Wish us

Nick 30:21

ride out the storm.

Joni 30:23

Wish us luck. Huh?

Nick 30:25

We're gonna be fine. They know what they're doing. They, they, they do this all the time.

Joni 30:29

I know.

Nick 30:30

So, and I think we're even gonna hit both our ports, but we'll see. Our Facebook page is Main Street Talk. Like I said, the Facebook group is Disney World Tips and Tricks. Instagram is Main Street Talk podcast. The website, the home base where everything is, is Main Street Talk pod.com. You can contact me for travel nickGarcia@academytravel.com. My services are free to plan your Disney vacation and we are affiliates of the Magic Candle Company. The link is on the website, use code Main Street talk at checkout for 15% off. Uh, yeah, happy Halloween. Yeah, we will be back next week. So until then, we will talk to you real soon.

Joni 31:05

Bye.