Epcot Imagineer Challenge

In this episode, Kim and I become Epcot imagineers and we dream up new rides, new eats and new countries to enter the world showcase. Here we go!

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

All right, everybody, put on your thinking caps and grab a park map. Because today we're going to Epcot and we become Imagineers. Here we go. Come on, everybody. Here we go. All right, welcome to Here We Go, the podcast where we talk all things Disney World. And today we're dreaming up new ideas for one of my favorite parks, Ebcot. So we'll have some ideas today for some new rides, new experiences, and maybe some new eats along the way. I've got my lovely co-host with me today. Say hello, honey.

SPEAKER_01 0:42

Hi, everyone. It's me, Kim.

SPEAKER_00 0:44

Oh, it's Kim, Kim in the house. All right. So today on the podcast, we are going to say, what if we had keys to Ebcot? We have keys to the kingdom to become Imagineers at Ebcot. I know what everybody's thinking. If you've been to Ebcot, the World Showcase, what kind of world pavilion would you add on?

SPEAKER_01 1:05

I know. I've definitely thought about that a time or two. Because some of the pavilions are they're okay, but I feel like they could really put some cool ones in there.

SPEAKER_00 1:13

Yeah, no, I think they're great. Like I think they're they're hitting a lot of marks, but like Morocco, all right, we could probably do better, right? There's there's some additions there, and I think it's already a huge park. Um, we could even lose some spots, add some spots, and they have been adding on rides at this park, you know. You gotta think. Uh Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind, not that old. Frozen uh every after, that's not that old. Uh Remis, you know, they've got three big powerhouse rides that they've added on, you know, two to the world showcase and you know, one over there uh next to Test Track, and they've updated Test Track. I I think there is a lot of rides, but you just don't think of this as a as a ride park.

SPEAKER_01 1:54

Yeah, I guess you're right. It's definitely like it has like the culture, the food. It definitely could use some more shows.

SPEAKER_00 2:00

Yeah, there's not a ton of shows at this park. That's what I think. It's really missing. And and I think we could add a couple more pavilions on, you know, world pavilions. Yeah. So um, what we're gonna do today is we kind of talked about this a little bit beforehand, but uh, we haven't given anything away to one another. I'm gonna task Kim with coming up with two new world pavilions and letting us know what kind of food would be in there, uh, uh rides, shows, attractions would be in those world pavilions. Uh, I'm gonna add one myself, but then I just want to kind of add some rides or attractions throughout the park that I think that you could add with things that are already there. You know, let's think about this. Who is the mascot of this park? I feel like Disney is pushing it to be Figment so bad, and they've got that Figment popcorn bucket that they came out with. That thing sells on eBay for like a thousand dollars, and everybody went after it. But Journey to the Imagination with Figment is not a very good ride. Did you like that ride? Yeah, it's like it wasn't it was like okay, go on it to fill some time, and there wasn't a long wait, but I feel like I could give you like Figment in a lineup and you might not be able to know who he is, you know. Like he's like he's he's kind of like forgettable at this point. And that ride is just it needs a a drastic update. You know, you've got Eric Idle in there saying what little spock. You know, um, it's you know, some parts are cool. I like that you have like when you we first go through that dark ride, you have um they say Dr. Zelinski, and they have uh references to the movie Flubber with Robin Williams at the beginning of it. You know, it's kind of cool, but again, I think that needs a drastic update. I think that they're doing a lot of things like journey, um, the journey of water with Moana, like they're doing a lot of that, you know.

SPEAKER_01 3:46

Yeah, because they have to like the kids need to know like who these like the characters are that they're you know creating rides and shows about.

SPEAKER_00 3:54

So and I think that they need it's a good mix, right? You can go through there's nothing in Japan right now, but you can see a lot of like what Japan would look like. Japan's one of the coolest pavilions, you know. Yeah, uh, but hey, maybe we'll get into it and I'll add a ride. All right, all right. So uh today, like I said, I'm gonna be adding some rides, and I'll add my own one world pavilion because I have an idea for it. Uh, but the rest of it, I'm gonna have Kim add two world pavilions on, and uh we'll start with you. Go ahead. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 4:23

Well, first, do you think we should go through quick and just list off the ones that are already there? Yeah, just go through who doesn't know.

SPEAKER_00 4:28

Let's go through the park really quick. So uh we'll start the way um that I like to go. So you'll start in Mexico. That's the correct way to go.

SPEAKER_01 4:38

Yeah, that's my favorite.

SPEAKER_00 4:39

Yeah, so uh you'll start in Mexico after Mexico. Do you know what comes after Mexico? It's Norway, it's Norway, it's Norway. All right, so Mexico, then Norway. Uh, then we'll go into China. You have the outpost in that corner there where they have kind of like it's almost like a little bit of like African Caribbean vibe going on over there. That's where they put like some of those snacks. Then we have Germany, Italy, they have the American Adventure, Japan, Morocco, France, the United Kingdom, Canada, and then we come back to Showcase Plaza, which is like in the in the middle there. Um, if you look over in actual EBCO proper, you know, if you were to go in the main entrance. Uh, the other thing to note about uh the world showcase is there is an international gateway. So you can go right there. They have um kind of a uh a walkway. You could go to uh the Skyliner there and get to Disney's Hollywood Studios, a couple other different uh resorts are there too, like it's right there on the boardwalk. Up in the main hub, you've got Future World West, um, where you have the land. That's where Imagination Figment to the uh Figment is over there in Imagination up there in Future World West. Uh on the other side of Future World East is where you'll have Guardians of the Galaxy, Mission Space, which is one of the worst rides. You've never been on this because I hate it.

SPEAKER_01 6:01

Um, let's not waste our time. It is a V. Let's get rid of it, put something better in.

SPEAKER_00 6:06

Yeah, please, because it's a Vomitron. This thing is a claustrophobic. They try to make it feel like you're in an astronaut's like shuttle, but your face is three inches away from the dashboard and they spin you around until you want to.

SPEAKER_01 6:18

Sounds like my worst nightmare.

SPEAKER_00 6:19

It's terrible. I wouldn't, I would never take you in. Let's start with the world showcase because this is definitely the most interesting part of this park.

SPEAKER_01 6:26

Yeah, I'm excited for this one. And I had two all set to go, but then I went in a different direction. And I'm gonna say that we should add Jamaica.

SPEAKER_00 6:38

Oh, Jamaica, okay, or like the Caribbean or something like that.

SPEAKER_01 6:41

Yeah, even like you said the outpost is kind of like a little bit Caribbean stuff, but like let's make it like into a bigger like a Caribbean, like that that area of the world.

SPEAKER_00 6:48

Yeah, that's a great idea.

SPEAKER_01 6:50

And I mean, you're gonna have like great food, like they have so many like good things to eat. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love it, and also for a ride, I think would be very cool. A cool runnings ride, babe, yes. I mean, as soon as you said Jamaica, that's a long bobsled like ride, like roller coaster type thing would be a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_00 7:09

That'd be awesome. They I'm sure at like any second now we're gonna sneeze and they're gonna uh revamp, you know.

SPEAKER_01 7:15

Disney, are you listening?

SPEAKER_00 7:17

Hopefully. Um, but any second now they're going to, you know, uh do a remake of Cool Runnings, you know, that'll be on Disney Plus. They shouldn't have done it this year with the Winter Olympics. Yeah, it's such a classic movie. You know, John Candy is in that movie, it's like one of those last movies. It's so good.

SPEAKER_01 7:30

Yeah, so that would definitely be like a fun little area.

SPEAKER_00 7:33

I love it. You could have like um a whole like uh Jamaican jerk chicken and like that type of rice and beans and all that, and and then like you have to think, like the Bahamas is kind of over in that area, too.

SPEAKER_01 7:45

You could have like rum cakes and yeah, like tropical drinks, oh yeah, cocktails, mocktails, some just like the music playing heel drums and stuff, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:54

I love it. All right, so get rid of like right there, and uh we don't even have to say we're getting rid of anything in the outpost. Bang, put the Caribbean right there, a full world pavilion right there. Yeah, I love it. You you want to hear my the the a one and only one that I have, yeah. All right, the one world uh showcase pavilion that I would put in is Greece. Oh, right? Like I think it totally needs Greece. People would say this, I think it's better than Morocco. You don't, it's not like you have to get rid of Morocco. Sure, the food might be a little bit similar, but you've already got an amazing ride already built in. You have Hercules, okay? You have a whole thing, like why not take us through like uh the Greek gods? You've got Norway and you've got like the Norse themed kind of gods and everything. There used to be the um oh man, what was that ride over there? I can't think of it, it's not the Matterhorn. Um they used to have a ride over there that before it was frozen, it was uh like a Norse god ride. I'll I'll think of it before the end of this podcast and we'll come back to it. But yeah, I mean think about having a Hercules ride, and what would that be like to you? So my thought is to do almost like an extreme drop tower type of ride. Okay, and so you start off in Hades, saving Meg from the river sticks, going up to the uh you know the level where he's like training or whatever, and then you go to the top of Mount Olympus, drop back down, come back up, and there's like little scenes in between. So kind of like a Twilight Zone Tower Terror. I'm I'm trying to put one of these in all all the parks.

SPEAKER_01 9:37

Yes, because that I love it.

SPEAKER_00 9:39

Yeah, all right. So that's that's my ride. But then you gotta think about the food, you know, the Mediterranean diet. It's like fresh fish. You could have um, like, you know, a place where you sit down and have a really you you could do a signature dining restaurant there, like called like Athens or something, you know, and and have it be an amazing signature dining where you sit down and have some fish and some rice or you know, um like pitas. Yeah, but but I think you do a quick service with Euros and stuff like that, right? Or like a street food like a street, yeah, Mediterranean street foods. I've got bobs and pitas and yeah, and then like spanacopada and baklava. There's just so much of that culture that would be amazing to add in. Um, I thought of that ride too. It's uh maelstrom, right? Is that what it is?

SPEAKER_01 10:26

I mean, I haven't been to Epcot since I was 11. Is that what it's called?

SPEAKER_00 10:29

Like, is that it? Look it look it up for me. Is it the maelstrom? Yep, maelstrom. Maelstrom, yes, okay. Uh yeah, that was like the same thing. Was this kind of like a Norse boat ride?

SPEAKER_01 10:40

Yeah, they had that from 1988 until 2014.

SPEAKER_00 10:43

That's crazy, and then it became frozen, yeah, frozen ever after, which we'll wait two hours in line for that thing.

SPEAKER_01 10:49

It's the worst, worst cue of all we'll see if we're gonna go on this trip or not. We'll see how long the line is.

SPEAKER_00 10:54

Yeah, I mean it's something we could try to get like a lightning lane for as well. So Greece, that's what I'm gonna add on. I think I think it would be um, you know, just an amazing little add-on to the world showcase.

SPEAKER_01 11:06

Okay, yeah, that's definitely like a great idea.

SPEAKER_00 11:09

Now, while I'm talking rides, you can I add one more ride before we go back to you? Yeah, okay. I think that you could totally add a Bay Max, so a Big Hero Six type of ride over in the Japan pavilion. And it could be like a training, a hero in training, uh type of simulator, almost like a flight of passage or like a Soren type of thing, like but amped up a little more, and to be a big hero six hero in training with Baymax.

SPEAKER_01 11:44

Okay, yeah, I like that.

SPEAKER_00 11:48

Yeah, I think the kids always love that movie. Um, yeah, I think there's a lot there that you could do.

SPEAKER_01 11:54

Yeah, that's a great idea.

SPEAKER_00 11:55

A Baymax ride.

SPEAKER_01 11:57

Nice. I like it. I don't know. I feel like every pavilion should have a ride.

SPEAKER_00 12:01

Yeah, yeah. I'm gonna try to do it. I got a couple more ideas. I'm gonna try to add some more rides of these pavilions.

SPEAKER_01 12:07

All right. So I'm kind of torn between what should be my if you have two more, go ahead and add them.

SPEAKER_00 12:14

Um if you have a couple, go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 12:16

All right. Well, I was thinking that just like a Spain pavilion would be good. You know, just like Spanish food like paella and patatas bravas and jamon and serrano, and just like yeah, like like uh just a bunch of tapas, like a little tapas booth where you can yeah, like a tapas, like quick service would be awesome.

SPEAKER_00 12:36

They love Jose uh on Jose Andres, right? He's that Spanish American chef that everybody loves. He's got that that that uh viral omelette where he's like the best omelet in the world, and he's got uh it's just basically a spoonful of mayonnaise and the egg whisked up in the microwave for 45 seconds. Yeah, everybody went crazy.

SPEAKER_01 12:55

Hey, they could have like a breakfast off offering, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:57

There you go. His Jose Andres uh omelette, but they already are in such great partnership with him. Let him help them design that the food at this booth, you know, or at this um I feel like they do these foods a lot, like at the festivals.

SPEAKER_01 13:10

Like they had the paella when we went, yeah, they've had Spain, they had churros and flan and the Bosque cheesecake.

SPEAKER_00 13:17

It's food and wine, like the Bosque cheesecake was like one of the best things I think we had there. Yeah. At food and wine. When they have like the like uh cherries, it was amazing. I would eat, I'm gonna eat like eat like a ton of those. And they had paella there, but yeah, I think a full Spanish Spain pavilion at the uh at the World Showcase would be amazing.

SPEAKER_01 13:36

And then I couldn't really think of like a ride that might go with that, but maybe like a show. We could do like a flamenco show, like uh, you know, yeah, I think every two hours or something, have like a yeah, you know.

SPEAKER_00 13:47

I love that. I love that idea. Yeah, one that Disney definitely wouldn't do would be like a running of the bulls simulation. They would never do that.

SPEAKER_01 13:54

I mean, you could maybe make that into like a roller coaster or something.

SPEAKER_00 13:57

You could, but they wouldn't they probably wouldn't go it would be like a weird uh dark ride. There's just bulls running by you on like a 4D type of screen. Uh yeah, I love it. I think Spain would be a good one. I mean, I'd rather have Spain than Morocco. Yeah, they don't if I had Greece and then Spain, you know, I don't know. But uh you gotta represent the Middle East in some capacity, I would say. But yeah, I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_01 14:20

What is your next idea for they have another ride?

SPEAKER_00 14:24

Yeah, I have another ride, so we're back to me. Uh for for another ride. I would like to make a Luca ride in Italy, yeah. And in the movie Luca, you've got uh Luca who's a sea monster who comes to the Italian coast. Uh it's in the Italian Riviera, and he befriends Alberto, and they they want to go and do this famous race with uh Giuliana as the girl, and it's just it's wonderful. I think you could do a you know a Luca themed dark ride that could take you from under the sea to his family to up on to the Riviera coast there and through like an Italian town. Yeah, I think Italy could be one that you could totally make better. I I think people love Via Napoli, which is a great Italian restaurant, but they can do better. They always fail in the food booths at the festivals. People just yeah, they they hate them. I mean, right now at the at the Flower and Garden Fest, they've got that offerings are weird, terrible. That raspberry cheesecake, ricotta cheesecake sounds good, but that spring pasta salad that's cold with grapes and raisins, they mess that up so much. But I think that they should really try to go all in and revamp uh that world showcase pavilion. But Luca, a Luka Dark ride, I think everybody would love uh the a Luka Dark ride. Yeah, I would love it. Sounds great. I've got one more crazy ride for you uh before we move on. You want to hear my ride real quick?

SPEAKER_01 15:56

Yeah, I do.

SPEAKER_00 15:57

Okay, one more crazy ride that I have in mind um would be a cocoa ride. Okay, all right, and and what I want this to be is a in the Mexico pavilion, but I cannot I cannot get rid of the three caballeros for that ride. That stays there forever. But just to add on, kind of a larger ride in Mexico, uh, would be a cocoa ride where you're riding around in Cocoa with the music and the flowers. There could be smells just like there is in Flight of Passage and and Sorin. I think it would be a wonderful opportunity. Give Miguel a ride. Coco is one of my favorite Disney movies of all time, and he belongs there in Mexico. Let's give him a ride.

SPEAKER_01 16:35

You know what? Now I kind of want to watch that movie tonight.

SPEAKER_00 16:38

I love it. We should watch Coco. If we can watch Coco tonight, you'll make my day. I will. My mascara will be running by nine o'clock. All right, Hans. Your turn.

SPEAKER_01 16:48

Okay. I also think I know this is now my third pavilion I'm adding. We're just making Epcot really big. Maybe there should just be like a second Epcot. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 16:57

I there's so much land at Disney still undeveloped that they could they could totally add these on the city. I know.

SPEAKER_01 17:02

Just make a whole whole other park because it's just gonna be way too much to do in one day. It's fine. I mean, this is our fictional, this is our dream.

SPEAKER_00 17:09

It's not like they're really hiring us to be imagineers.

SPEAKER_01 17:12

So let's make it the best we can. But if you want to, we are available.

SPEAKER_00 17:16

Disney. But please. It's your second call to Disney in this podcast. We're only six episodes, seven episodes deep. They're never contacting us.

SPEAKER_01 17:26

Give us a chance. Okay. Um, so I think that we should add a like an Africa pavilion. I know there's like Morocco and stuff, but I'm saying more of like a Kenya, like Tanzania type thing, because then we could do what you're gonna say. Well, stop stealing my ideas. So then we could do like a Lion King ride.

SPEAKER_00 17:48

I love that idea.

SPEAKER_01 17:49

How about like uh if you I mean if you want something like a little bit maybe more intense, we could do like a um scars rain. Like you go through kind of you could either do like a trackless like roller coaster type thing. So you're doing like the departure from the pride lands, and then maybe all of a sudden you can like speed up because you have like the tan stampede escape. Oh, yeah, I like that, and then you um then we go through the elephant graveyard, cool, and then everything like it's dark and more ruined, and it's pretty scars rain. I like it, and then we come back to Pride Rock, Simba comes back, like the music, a little hoonamatada. Yeah, I love it, and then yeah, I just think it would be great. And then we can end with the circle of life music, and on the way out, they're gonna have like all this stuff they're trying to sell you. Like, I I would say I would buy a Simba plush if they had it, because I had one when I was a little kid and I loved it so much.

SPEAKER_00 18:46

We can get you a Simba plush again. I'm sure we can find one now at the World of Disney at Disney Springs. Um, they are building that new Lion King themed uh land at uh Disney Adventure World in Disneyland Paris, so that's actually expected to open this year, and they're doing kind of like uh like a Tiana's boat ride. There's three drops, there's a large, I think like 60-foot drop at the end. Yeah, and so you kind of go through like Pride Rock, acting as like the uh the um you know, like the backdrop. So that would be like very easy, Disney. This would be like an easy one if you've already made that ride. It could be that, but let's definitely add on these scary. I like the scary elements that you have from this from Scar and then add it to this kind of like boat ride or or even a coaster. I I think that I think that Epcot could definitely use another roller coaster. Yeah, for sure. I'm just trying to think about like where where you put that coaster.

SPEAKER_01 19:42

I know. Well, like I said, they just need to open a whole new park. A second Epcot.

SPEAKER_00 19:48

Yeah, second cot, sepcot, two cot. Uh what what I think is missing are some major IP in this park. Star Wars. I like that they have Guardians of the Galaxy, and I think you could add on to the Guardians of the Galaxy kind of realm over there and make almost like a Guardians of the Galaxy land and have you know the the showcase of like the collector or some of that. They have a place called Nowhere that they put in the movies that looks really, really cool. I think they should lean into that a little bit more and maybe over at the land, bring in Star Wars. I think over by like living with the land in some of these areas, you could bring in some Star Wars elements, like maybe it's you get to walk around Dagobah, which is where Yoda was from, you know. Like you got the Dagobah swamp, and you have Yoda leading you around as an animatronic, would be really cool as like a another dark ride over there. Okay, I think they need to like start thinking about that stuff. And right now in Orlando for sure, they haven't used the Marvel IP at all because you've got Marvel World over at Universal, but that's kind of like the Marvel Comics, and then Disney acquires Marvel and is making all these great Marvel movies, but they have it in Disneyland, but they haven't really brought any Marvel stuff over to Disney World. And where does it belong? Probably Hollywood Studios first, maybe. Yeah, but I think you really could incorporate it over in a place where you need superheroes, superheroes protect the world, and Abcott's whole theme is you know, hope, future, yeah, you know, these lands and stuff. I think we could bring over a cool Marvel ride over to this park. I don't know what it is, but I think you could have a cool I vote for a roller coaster, yeah. Yeah, me too.

SPEAKER_01 21:34

Like uh like an outdoor roller coaster.

SPEAKER_00 21:36

That'd be cool. Yeah, an outdoor one that goes like over the top.

SPEAKER_01 21:38

Maybe it goes we should make it go over like the lake in the middle.

SPEAKER_00 21:41

Oh man, that's a great idea.

SPEAKER_01 21:43

That would be cool.

SPEAKER_00 21:44

I mean, there goes, but then there goes the fireworks that they always do. Maybe yeah, I'm sure they can figure out a way to do it. Uh yeah, I think it definitely needs a new roller coaster, and a Avengers themed roller coaster would be really cool over at this park for sure. Yeah, and if it's Star Wars. Over there, over by the land, doing like a Dagobah Yoda type of adventure would be very fun. You know, now that I'm thinking about just rides and everything right now, and who should be the mascot of this park? Wally. Wally should be the mascot of this park. He is everything that is to keep Earth alive and ecological. And Wally doesn't have anything anywhere. I think Wally, um, like making like kind of like an Earth reimagined and an Earth-reclaimed, like trackless dark ride where we travel through environments being rebuilt after the end of Wally. You know, they're rebuilding the forest and coral reefs. You can go, you know, this you know, cities and communities turning green again in a world full of trash. We're like rebuilding the earth.

SPEAKER_01 22:53

Yeah, I like that.

SPEAKER_00 22:54

I think that's who should be the kind of you know the mascot of that park. I think that's a great idea. And let's think about some shows real quick. I've got a couple of ideas for some shows. First, I like how about like a ratatouille cooking show.

SPEAKER_01 23:12

Okay. Like uh maybe it's got animatronics in it, I don't know, but like maybe like kind of taking um from the Monsters Inc. laugh floor, like kind of an interactive like audience thing. Okay. Or like they call out members of the audience, you know, it's funny, it's yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:30

I I absolutely love that. There they can be like cooking and like have it having a rat under the chef's hat, like remies underneath, like talking back and forth, and his fat brothers there hanging out with me. Yeah, um, yeah, I love that idea. I think a interactive Remy Rai or Remy show would be awesome. And then I Encanto is another one that everybody loves. I think that we could do like an Encanto stories of cultures from around the world, like using Bruno and we don't talk about Bruno. Mirabelle, like maybe they're just like going through different cultures of the world and showing you, you know, parts of the world that we don't talk about that much. You know, the Americas are coming to Central America's like coming to uh Animal Kingdom right now, but I think they definitely should bring some of these characters over to Epcot. They yeah, they belong there, you know. All right, I have an idea for a roller coaster that would actually work here. How about an inside out journey through the mind roller coaster? Like an indoor roller coaster. We could get rid of if we're putting Wally as like a dark ride, uh, you know, maybe over there we do an inside out journey through the mind, uh, over at the World Celebration Pavilion. What do you think?

SPEAKER_01 24:44

Yeah, that would be fun. I feel like I I can see just like bright colors and just like, you know, what we got, sadness and anger and yeah, fear and all those guys.

SPEAKER_00 24:56

I think that'd be good. You've got the Moana water going on there too. I think bringing Moana over there and doing some kind of like something with the water show, you know, bringing Moana and Maui over there. You could do like a show throughout the day where they lead you through that area. Maybe it happens at night or something like that, where they tell stories like wayfinder stories or something like that. That could be kind of cool too. I don't know, like this land, Epcot's so fun because it's like future and there's ecology and conservation, you know, culture and yeah, it's it's the education park, but I think it's like so much more than that. And I love all the festivals and everything that they they always end up doing there. I think another thing that could be kind of fun would be maybe a Northern Lights expansion, you know, like doing Behind Canada or Norway or something like that, where you could do like a light show. Maybe they could use drones to do that and do kind of like a northern lights type of show. Okay, yeah. Just trying to think of like more shows. There's not a ton of shows there.

SPEAKER_01 25:57

Yeah, I mean they'll have like the like concerts there and stuff, but but still there's like so much. There's nothing we need, like kind of like you know, shows that go on throughout the day, like every you know, two hours or especially like ways to beat the heat, indoor, outdoor.

SPEAKER_00 26:12

I I think there's like so many things. This is definitely one that we need to come back with. Maybe talk to this one of June. We'll probably have some ideas for this one as well, for sure. Uh, but yeah, I had a lot of fun today. I I think that we've definitely come up with a mascot for this park. I've had enough of Figments. Yeah, he's cool, but I think Wally is is futuristic. He is uh a character they haven't really used too much, and he would fit great there. And give him his own little dark ride. Putting Greece in is I think is a great idea. Spain, a great idea. Hercules has never had a a ride. Giving him a ride in Greece, a new pavilion, would be amazing.

SPEAKER_01 26:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:50

And in Spain, the food there, they already want to use Jose Andres. Like, use him, use him to build a whole world showcase pavilion.

SPEAKER_01 26:57

Yeah, I think it would be awesome to have like a really good like table service restaurant, and then just like the quick service with the tapas.

SPEAKER_00 27:04

I love it. Some yeah, different wines and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_01 27:07

The Bosque cheesecake and then let's not forget Jamaica.

SPEAKER_00 27:12

Yeah, Jamaica was cool. Jamaica was cool. I really a Jamaican bobsled team ride, like a cool runnings ride. I would go on it. You know, we got to get kids introduced to that. I think Disney's uh afraid these days to use IP that is not as recognizable, and so you know they'd have to revamp it first before you'd probably get that, but they you could, but uh but again, a quick like just making that outpost Jamaica, a great idea, you know. In the in the long run, I had a lot of fun here today. Yeah, I just want to like you know it was exciting to be able to go through this. One of my favorite parks. This is a park on my next trip. I'll definitely go a couple of times. I can't wait. I love all the festivals there. I think me and you have some of the most fun at Epcot.

SPEAKER_01 27:53

It's like for sure, and it's nice when it's just adults too.

SPEAKER_00 27:56

Yes, it is a it is a fun adults uh uh park if you're drinking around the world or if you're just eating and you can stop. It is a park where there's gonna be a lot of walking. So I think like if you've got little kids, it's sometimes it's tough. But for me, it's got Guardians of the Galaxy in it, which is probably my favorite, one of my favorite rides in all of Walt Disney, and all of Orlando, really. So uh yeah, I had a great time here with you today. Thanks for doing this with me.

SPEAKER_01 28:20

Thanks for having me, Ben.

SPEAKER_00 28:21

I liked being an Imagineer. We still have to talk about Hollywood Studios and how we would make that one better. Yeah. We got some ideas. Yeah, well, Monstropolis, I can't wait for it. So there's some fun stuff coming to that park. Hey, everyone, thanks so much for listening. And remember, your next magical vacation to Disney is only a moment away. Here we go.