Disney Hills We Would Metaphorically Die On | Tap House Talks
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Dreams unlimited travel.com I am here at Baseline Tap House located at Disney’s Hollywood Studios and today as always I have a very special guest but an extra EXT ra special guest today because it’s my friend Chloe hi Chloe Hi how are you I’m good how are you R I’m very good I’m
Glad to have you here I’m so happy to be here can I give you a cheers yes okay here we go we’ll do it right over the top of the camera so if we spill it it goes all over the equipment yeah what are you drinking so they’ve been rotating out
The beers inside of here lately which I enjoyed like around um like Halloween Thanksgiving they had an October Fest and then in December they had um the SI Nevada like celebration IPA and now they have a SI Nevada Imperial IPA which is a 9 1 12% beer and normally Imperial ipas
I feel like are super bitter but this one’s pretty I feel like it’s got a nice juice quality to it it’s good I like it it’s less bitter than the stone delicious um IPI I think so and what are you drinking today I have my tried and
True Baseline hazy little thing I do love the hazy little thing that is usually my go-to anyways too I like to try the new ones but and we of course treated oursel to a big pretzel oh of course because it’s big pretzel Sherie you kind of get one of the two when
You’re here that beer cheese it’s so good I really should have just gotten two I made the mistake of the mustard and the cheese and like I like the mustard too but it’s like the cheese is always the empty one at the end the Mustard’s always like way too full right
Yeah right right right so Chloe today I thought you and I could have a fun conversation because um you are one of my friends that uh we met uh it was a while ago now I mean was it like 2019 here 201 19 I think it was I think it was
Like January yeah it was like the beginning right yeah and cuz we we got invited to um Disney had like a Star Wars themed day right yeah and it was like no longer available right now no no well no cuz remember yeah which it kind of should be because I feel like it
Would work even better now the Galax edges open but it was back then when they used to show you like okay you can do Star Tours you can go into Docking Bay meet characters you can uh you used to get cuz remember they had the Star Wars fireworks and then they had the
Desert party inun and then outside Chinese Theater and they had the Star Wars fireworks best fireworks in this park that dessert party was so good too oh it was so good and um the the best part of the day though for me was going inside Star Tours before the park open
Oh yes look at the simulator with the lights on like that was that was cool total nerd total nerd time that’s when I met you and that’s when I met my friend Courtney and her and yeah our friends look at bringing us together I was just thinking today too um in preparation for
Our chat today just thinking about how we’re both I feel like we’re both casual enough Star Wars fans yeah like I don’t I’m not a DieHard Star Wars fan I love it enough I have so many Star Wars memories with you specifically it’s so it’s so strange like celebration
And now we’re doing M on February 3rd get your ticket should we just go to Celebration in Tokyo too like should we just do it 2025 let’s go I feel like I’m on for too um and yeah mosh Eisley this will be my first mosh Eisley that we’re
Going to here in Orlando so yeah very excited about that so we do have a lot of Star Wars stuff we we did the Star Wars after hours party at Disneyland too cuz we have our Ewok picture on my that you gave me for my birthday last year
Photo I had to I had to I’m sorry um no that and uh we’re also picking out some cheapy lightsabers to bring to MH Eisley today we’re going to unlock another Star Wars memory not we’re not we’re not here to talk about Star Wars as I mean we
Could end up talking about it it’s fine but um I I feel like um the thing that immediately any would strike anybody about who meets you I think right away first of all you’ve got a wonderful sense of style and fashion and it’s it’s today but it’s um no but I my least
Favorite part you love uh no Nostalgia you love like um collection yes yes I mean you’re wearing it yeah like uh and what’s what’s great is like you have have a passion for these um you know these these things uh sometimes have a Time Gone by sometimes they’re still
With us like you love The Muppets you know you’re a Die Hard Muppet person but um you know I’ll never forget the first time I met you too you had that Star Tours button that was like it was like from like way back when or whatever um
But I thought it would be fun because there’s been some changes at Walt Disney World at Disney parks in general across the board that uh we could have a fun conversation you agree with some you don’t agree with some I thought we could do aers ation the Disney Hills that we
Would die on because I know recently there was something that happened and you basically anybody that got within your vicinity you would talk about this to and you wrote like a whole article about it and everything and so I was like you know what we got to have this
Conversation in person yeah so um do you want to do you want to bring us through what what it was sure I just want to I want to insert a little disclosure to any of my friends that might be watching this I’m sorry you have to hear this
Again but also I’m not because um these are Hills I absolutely will die on um so uh do the words half boox ghosts mean anything to you do they mean anything to the a GU you know does the Haunted Mansion mean anything to you of course it does everybody loves a haunted
Mansion right yeah where do I begin I’d argue The Haunted Mansion I I mean I mean I’ve said it before that I think is the culmination of like one of the best Disney attractions because it does a lot of like really unique special effects but the storytelling in it is also
Really cool but then it’s like got the omn Mover part of it and like there’s so many elements of it where I was like this is a this is what when I think of a Disney attraction like and its full entirety it’s like that and I say the
Same thing about rise of the resistance in that same way where it’s culminating like it uses screens it uses projections it uses all this type of Technology with it you know and Haunted Mansion I think is the was was the was like a prior generation of that I mean I know
Obviously you’d say well it’s more gener than one generation but in terms of being like you know next generation attractions Next Generation attractions I think that Haunted Mansion is one of those like it’s like just a great exemplification of the it’s one of the classics it’s been around for God 50 I
Don’t can’t even do math right now 54 yeah I was like it’s I it’s not 55 yet is it no cuz it was 69 in uh Disneyland so I’ve I’ve already had too many steps to do this I’m not going to try well this isn’t a math podcast no
It’s not thank goodness um no so it’s it’s an original story too obviously Walt worked on it with his his Close Associates but um and it stuck around you know it’s had updates Through The Years including the HotBox ghost over in Disneyland because he was once a long
Lost ghost and which is a crazy story if you don’t know I mean I only know a little bit about it cuz I didn’t know the whole thing with HX ghost was like it was there for like a day or something right and or day or two it was i’ I’ve
Heard different stories I’ve heard that it was a few days like it was there during cast Mar previews in the in 67 am I even getting the year wrong now don’t don’t question me is that the year that Walt Disney died I don’t know anyway I’m not an expert this is just a
Conversation about people right now so I’m sorry sorry we’re using our phones canot cannot U confirm that but regardless anyways yeah it was it was a few days a few weeks what have you very few people got to see the HotBox ghost there was like one or two photos online
That circulated up until recently um when he finally was installed I think it was during 2015 he was installed I think so cuz I think it was that first year I had been to Disneyland cuz I’m pretty sure I had been on the attraction before
He was in there so it was like some point in that year right they couldn’t get the the illusion down originally so when they finally 2015 with all the modern technologies that we had they could get the you know the Hat actually or had actually disappearing into the Hat Box
Hat box being that it’s in the attic and that’s where you keep hat boxes um if you catch where this is going uh so finally we had the surprise that hatbox was coming to well World well they announced it forever ago yeah d23 2019 no
2020 well 2022 cuz it was the the first one after we came back okay this is cool yeah that’s great go in the Attic great a cool new thing for our Mansion um and then they announced at destination d23 in uh what was that may of this year or
Last year 2023 that he was going to be an unhappy haunt and he was going into the endless h an already established scene that has great visuals that does not need any more distractions but the most important part is that it’s before the Seance which breaks the storyline of the
Mansion and I don’t care about the film I don’t care about the film I so I that’s the part where I’m I’m kind of like I I didn’t actually okay so I the thing I compare it to is is the six sense where I was like I never if you
Don’t if you are somehow able to watch the sense and know nothing about it I’m talking no preview you’ve ever seen then you will watch that movie the way it was intended to where once haly Joel Osman says I see dead people then from that
Point on in the film you see ghosts but you do not see ghosts before he says I see dead people so you don’t know what’s wrong with him and maybe you do know it’s ghost but you don’t see them until after he says it in that movie and it’s
One of those like I didn’t realize that afterwards because when I watched it and I watched it like right when it came out on VHS yeah old and um and he says um you know you know in the preview for it the first thing in the preview is I see
Dead people you know and so like right there that’s a big twist that there’s very there’s twists in this movie obviously not the biggest Twist of the movie but that is supposed to be a Twist that’s given away right there in the main thing which I’m and I feel like I
Didn’t think anything of it necessarily when I watch the movie but now when I watch it I’m like oh yeah that is the big giveaway it’s the same with this I didn’t think anything of it when I saw the half box ghost where he was
But then you said that thing to me about it’s pre you don’t see any you don’t actually physically see any ghost I mean you see the guy like trying to come out of the coffin and the doorways but you don’t see a physical entity until after Madam Le yeah it’s unseen circumstances the
Floating Candlestick right down the hallway right and it’s a 50 plus year old attraction story why Break It We Know some reasons why they didn’t want to close down the Mansion for an ex time they spend money on it somebody told me that they were it was intended
To be in a different place I did a lot of research okay and that that when they went to put it into the like if it was I don’t know if it was the actual attic or if it was different place but they went to put it in and they couldn’t like the
Setup for it couldn’t and that’s also why he was delayed as long asure it’s a structure because for some reason this HotBox ghost animatronic requires just as large as a boom as the yeti does in the Everest oh take you know what that is so in instead of closing down the Mansion
For an extended period of time to put him somewhere where it makes sense they put him in the endless hallway because honestly like even the cemetery would have made sense putting him in if they redid the the finale scene the photo pass scene that is already feels kind of
Disjointed from the rest of the attraction like the ghosts are a little too new looking and it doesn’t really I don’t feel like it’s that effective I don’t know what your thought thoughts are on that one but wait wait what what did you what was the last thing you said
The last scene where they take photos of you with the ghost in the Doom bike well they they only do that at in Walt Disney World too they don’t do it at Disneyland so I always yeah well Disneyland it’s still like the isn’t it still just the
The the pepper ghost effect where he’s like yeah I think you’re right yeah cuz well I’m thinking of um yeah and I guess you’re right because even in the Haunted Mansion holiday it’s still like yeah the kids you know the lock shock and barrel and it’s just the the pepper they like
Pop up but yeah you’re right you’re right it’s Pepper’s ghost and which matches the charm of the rest of the attraction you know like I don’t need these obvious I didn’t like the thing where they pop in and they do the cuz it never works you know they could have put
Hatbox somehow like I don’t know he’s he’s there at the hallway and like here’s my thing with him is that he feels like to me I thought at one point when I uh so I have seen the new movie have you seen the new movie okay um and
I understand the hatbox ghes is like a main character in the new movie I don’t like the new movie that much I I it’s fine it’s okay it to me it’s muet h Mansion Crimson Peak Eddie Murphy Haunted Mansion and uh this latest Haunted Mansion so I’ve actually never
Seen the Eddie Murphy one I’ve only seen like scenes of it so I have to like do a haunted mansion like watch through or something it’s not it’s not I know well and that’s the thing and this one is like there’s a lot of weird like
Elements where I was like that’s a whole another conversation but the the thing with it is they frame the hatbox ghost as being like the main antagonist of that movie and the thing in the ride is is I was like I started to think where I was like is the hatbox ghost the
Narrator of the ride no right he’s not the ghost host right that’s a separate person cuz freeze well I don’t know come on I don’t know these things no um I do you remember the Halloween party when I questioned madam what was her name outside the Mansion oh um uh corada cor
I want to say Lou who’s Madam La I have no idea it was her name was definitely corla corla and I said I said I said something like you said something about the to you I was a little too I was a little too Tipsy um again and um she was
Like oh we don’t talk about him and I was like don’t tell me they already got to you too and she’s like you’re going to get me in trouble CH you’re my best friend but you’re going to get me in trouble it was so good so good but I
Couldn’t believe that it had already hit Disney entertainment cuz I think it was like two weeks prior the movie came out no yeah the movie came out in July the movie came out in July it wasn’t like on streaming or released yeah I was like already you already have this cannon
That the hbx ghost is well the the other part the part of that is like even in Disneyland where he is installed I don’t feel like he’s consequential to the attraction story whatsoever because he’s like not mentioned there’s no implication about him being special in
Any he’s just a spectre in the attic and that’s how it’s always been intended and I know I I I’m going to be honest I think the bride’s more important I’m touching my mic I’m sorry I’m going to be honest I first I have not gone on the Haunted Mansion since they’ve installed
Hot Box I will this week but I’ve seen photos and I’ve seen videos there’s photos where like it shows I did it day one I had I did a like Park open yeah I did it like six times in a row the lighting where he is because they
Installed the purple you better he looks better here than he does at Disneyland I think like much clearer and you can see him from a distance so you have more time to like gather what you’re looking at yeah so I I do think in terms of showas no although I know people were
Upset cuz I even asked the I asked the the our media repres you know I was like they’re like we’re always worried about anytime we touch anything that’s a legacy attraction like this big thing like this and they were like um cuz I said oh well is the Donald Duck chair
You know whatever that’s called the Donald J treasure Lounge at least oh is it yeah okay on the on the Disney treasure which talking about yeah the ship opening later of 2024 no it’s fine I forget to do context too but um so uh they were saying like it’s removed from
The it’s gone out of the attraction and I said oh you know people are going to have problems with that but but I but but in terms of like where it is and what he’s doing like honestly I feel like they picked the best possible spot
They could put him in because it’s kind of like that narration right there where it’s like the chills running down your spine and like you see a ghost and you’re like okay like I don’t think the average person is going to pick up on it and I’m not saying that makes it okay
I’m not saying it makes it okay there’s just a very large Honda Mansion fan base that I feel like care about the Integrity of the story of the attraction and that attraction deserves deserves that Integrity you know and well and I’ve been I’ve been yeah well I I I was
Going to I’ve been curious I remember when I moved here in like 2007 and so that would I would argue that’s the first time like adult life I wrode the attraction and like you know coming all the time when I was a kid and then starting to really try to be like what
Is the actual story here and and being like is it just vignettes of a story or is there an actual story or are these like little tiny stories sewn together part story yeah and that’s when I started learning about like the Raven That’s always around you’re like oh this
You know and the crawling out of the attic that’s why you turn around and go back qu cuz when I was a kid I was terrified of that part I always thought it was going to fall out of the thing backwards and so um but like you know
Things like that that I was like I don’t know I’m not saying they’re not there but I don’t know that they’re abrasively clear no it’s not and I don’t know how to argue this point no not everything has to beat you over that storytelling I I would argue that’s
Terrible it doesn’t have to but I I would argue that it really takes away from leota’s character because that scene is okay I can see that it’s such a big wow factor going from the Seance seeing the floating object she’s calling in the spirits wherever they’re at I
Mean her head is in a bowl floating yeah right right and then you have the big wow moment of the banquet scene and that is the most spirits that you see doing different things and they’re fading cuz it they begin to materialize and I I like there
Are things in that where I literally I didn’t know until you told me like I was like oh it was one of those just oh moments you know and I and I love that but it does kind of it does so like like it doesn’t make sense it won’t make
Sense you know yeah you know what else doesn’t make sense what we need a new bride we need a new bride we need a new ride a new ride period bride oh bride I thought you saying Ride I’m like and we’ve had scarier additions in the past
I’m like I feel like we need I’m going touching my mic again I I I think it’s you’re anxious I know I’m s I’m not I’m fine I think um I think that I think our bride is better than the Disneyland bride I think like she’s a little more
Threedimensional one over there looks a little like flat faed but um both both are not anything to write home about we need a scary one have you seen the photos of the skeleton with like the red glowing eyes it’s like she’s literally like a skeleton face like very um was
That is that one of the international Parks like very Mrs baits looking scary good um uh no it was at world and land I want to say a couple years ago I don’t know my history right now it’s was it pre was it her pre pre projection c not
I feel like we deserve a better one now that we have a new H box I also think I honestly I feel like in terms of like pushing into a character I’d rather they have leaned into that bride a little bit more cuz I feel like she’s got a bigger
Story and that’s kind of my problem with the new movie too where I was like your story here yeah and like pops up and I’m like this lady lived in this house and murdered how many people that lived in this house why is she not the main
Character like I don’t get it but well that’s a Disney Hill you die on for sure and I can’t wait to see what the comments are going to say about this one but okay so you you you asked me before we started what was one that I had cuz I
Was like I don’t know um but I I think one that comes up for me and I know this one isn’t as big a deal or isn’t as like minutia as yours or anything like that but for me I think mine is like that dinosaur is a valid attraction that
Deserves the praise and worth that it never gets like cuz my thing is when I was a kid and I came to Walt Disney World and I’d go to Universal Studios as well you know we we’d either do Magic Kingdom and Universal Studios are Magic Kingdom and Epcot like and um I am
Afraid of heights I’m afraid so it means I’m afraid of roller coaster I’m afraid of all these things you know I was a very scared kid you know I’m still a scared adult too so I’m not going to hide behind that too much but um you know uh one of the first attractions
Like I ever did that was like a like a scary roller coaster attraction was the Back to the Future attraction at Universal Orlando and and that was like a motion simulator car that raises you up you’re like an IMAX what you can eat my dinosaur yeah you can and I remember
The part where the dinosaur like Chomps down on it and Shakes You and I remember when we got out I told my mom I was like Mom this was the coolest thing I’ve ever done and it wasn’t even like a roller coaster it wasn’t whatever and we
Traveled through time and so like when like I came I I didn’t come to I didn’t go to Animal Kingdom until I my grad night in like 2003 and um I I think the first time I ever rode dinosaur was um was when I moved here like 2007 and I
Remember being like that ride is terrifying and but what was cool about it was I was like the way it shook you the way you shake like where it wasn’t there were no Heights involved but there’s still like that part when you drop in the Jeep where they’re like whoa
And the you know pterodactyls are coming in AIO and yeah and the whole thing and like the fact that the the the um the Carnotaurus like runs at the car in that one part but then car stalls and he comes down and you know and that’s the
Photo op and I always remember being like that was my favorite place to bring people for a photo op cuz everybody always got spooked like that one part oh some of the best onr photos are from that and and and that’s the thing where I’m like what’s great about a ride like
That to me and I think a lot of people don’t put themselves in those shoes is that like it’s that kind of in between like if you’re not a roller coaster person if you’re not you know for motion sickness reasons or fear of heights or whatever this ride is such there’s no
Other ride like it where it is a physical environment where you are like it is exciting it is thrilling and it is scary and and that’s why I was like this ride is so cool for that reason roll because it gives me that roller coaster thrill and that adrenaline rush but it
Doesn’t have that thing and I feel like everyone just tosses it away we’re like oh dinosaur oh Indiana Jones and like I’m sorry I didn’t go to Disneyland until 2015 and yes I am obsessed with Disneyland but it is a different experience even if they’re like it’s the same ride track
I don’t even I’ve been trying to put my mind in that being like okay so then we do this here and that here I don’t feel it I don’t feel it right honestly like they could put Indie here at Studios and then um sorry I can put Indie here at Studios
And then have dinosaur keep you know maintain Dino Land and dinosaur at Animal Kingdom that would be better than yeah well so my thing is too was like here’s the thing I I was thinking about this this morning because they’re completely different is my point I am
Not going to die on a hill in sake of Dino Land USA at all I think the rest of Dino Land USA is trash sure not I’m not into it but I was like you could at least rethe it and keep it what it is
Like leave it it’s off to the side it’s its own thing and I get it it’s like the college students who went to the thing and they’re you know doing their thing and and that’s the whole it’s a cute story but it’s a cute Story made up for
A lots of budget cuts that happened back in the day that’s the thing where I’m like with no primeval world have you been in have you been in Chester h very recently there’s no roller coaster and it’s just Fen and I don’t get that you
Know it is it does not feel like listen I I want all those Dino Dino plushes and I’m all about it yeah so I’m like and there are some prize possessions of mine but I’m like I I I think there’s a better use of space but I would argue do
Not get rid of dinosaur just let it be its own little Nook and you can rethe the rest of it that you want there’s plenty of room there without taking this guy out and that’s where I’m like so that’s the hill I’ll die on I will chain
Myself to to the EXO to the Sue fossil which by the way I finally went to the Chicago Field Museum and saw the real Sue way bigger than that she’s like she’s thick she’s a wide she’s big she so that is a mold I they said it was a
Mold of those those things but it is put together way smaller oh yeah if if if Su had an animal kingdom is like this the real one’s like this it was massive it was really cool the honest honestly The Field Museum was amazing too like I want
To go back there because there were so many like dinosaur stuff and I love dinosaurs and it was like we’ll do Chicago Tokyo that makes sense right yeah geographically no well Kims and Milwaukee we can go Chicago Milwaukee and we’ll do a whole thing yeah so all
Right you’ve got uh we’ve got enough time for you to talk about one more Hill that you would die on what do you think I’m going to talk about right now oh I think that the other Hill that you would die on is at Disney’s Hollywood Studios
Or I should argue was at Disney MGM Studios yeah and uh is now where Mickey and min’s run way we away currently occupies this Great Movie Ride Great Movie Ride The Great Movie Ride opening day attraction the entire reason this park exists in the first place I don’t care what growing pains Disney’s
Hollywood Studios Disney’s great movie Adventure Disney’s MGM Studios studios for what I call it now I don’t care what kind of growing pains it goes through the heart of the park was The Great Movie Ride and the hill I’m going to die on is they could have kept it because
We’re all about adding Capac not replacing things right right that’ be nice if they did that once ideally I mean that’s what Magic Kingdom keeps there’s room at Hollywood Studios to put runaway Railway somewhere else and um yeah we didn’t we didn’t need to take away Great Movie Ride okay
Let me ask you this um have you been to the U Mickey Min at Disneyland you went through the queue and everything right yes this is what really nailed the coffin for me was I was accepting of it I I I I met Rhino a while back at the
Star Wars event because we worked media events together um I write about theme parks and cover events as well with them so they’ve been a great buddy um and runaway Railway was my first big media event so I was trying to go into it with
That was mine too I think actually oh no I lied I went to the Star Wars the the opening of Galaxy Ed was a big one I gone and I’m always like a thing but the that was the first like big thing like but runaway was a big one they did that
Big one and literally that was runaway was also 2 weeks before they closed the parks for literally I remember the next day I was getting on the plane to go Milwaukee and then when I came back from Milwaukee that weekend that’s that week when I got back we got a little like the
Event and we’re like oh okay nothing’s ever going to be the same um no but that was a huge event and I I did run away Railway you know with an open mind thinking you know I know we need family attraction here I overheard imagineers saying that they fought for the
Building so to speak that they needed those high high ceiling show buildings for from The Great Movie Ride Kevin rafy said that and um I get the I remember that cuz no you’re fine Great Movie Ride was one of my favorite attractions growing up it’s the reason
Why I love films and dark rides and theme parks so much today it was just such a different immersive experience the cast with the castore interaction was I mean amazing there’s nothing ever like that I mean maybe Jaws or jungle cruise but still not that same capacity
Not on that same level backl could say that was my dream role growing up I memorized the script I have the script printed out to this day like I was obsessed with this attraction probably to an unhealthy level and I understand things change however I could argue that because of Disney’s large Content
Library now even if they named it the great Disney plus ride or something and put everything that they own now they could have they could have tons of content without having to pay licenses for XYZ so my point when Disneyland finally opened theirs and I saw that the
Show buildings the show the scenes looked exactly the same florid to ceiling and they didn’t have to take they took over a gift shop in some backstage space which is very precious in Disneyland I’m surprised they did that insanely precious yeah I was mad I
Was very mad I will never forgive them I will never get over the Great Movie Ride being gone I will never be over it I can talk about this forever please shut me up and no no no no there’s nothing wrong with this I I saw a post on um Disney flu
Blog today where um one of the I can’t remember her name and I feel terrible saying that but she was holding up the phone and said bring Great Movie Ride back and it was in front of this and I was like God Chloe would love this like
Um but I I um so I was just out in Disneyland for the Disneyland half marathon and while I was there I chose to um go with friends um we went into um we rode well you know Denny and her husband and then my friend Nicole and I
We went on um uh Mickey min’s Runway Railway cuz they hadn’t done it yet and I was like oh well the q’s a big deal and the queue there is so good it’s so good because also it is like it and it fits perfectly where it is there that’s
The thing and that to me to me even though we had it here first the fully realized version of what that is is it Disneyland and because it’s in a land where it belongs it’s in a thing where it belong I’m not saying that it’s not and it’s funny that you brought up
The ceilings because my thing whenever I ride it is I always think the ceilings are too high like too big where I was like I feel like I’m in a warehouse and they didn’t cap where it stops and like to the point see the catwalks from The Great Movie Ride everywhere well and
It’s weird cuz you’re like you’re like why is it so tall for no reason and it’s not like my sight goes up it’s just like up to a certain height and that’s that same height at Disneyland so you I don’t know that I’d argue that but um I’m I
Definitely the ride has grown on me I do enjoy the attraction and I am not somebody who would fight for The Great Movie Ride however I would fight for the concept of The Great Movie Ride where you said like I agree with it never once once do once MGM became Hollywood
Studios which was like 2008 I think um once that happens and you’re right Disney never exploits their own movie Library the way they should and I would have I would still love not I would have loved I would still love a dark R attraction where we are going through
The diamas of the different movies that come to life and kind of try and get us you know like we had Indiana Jones was a part of it at in um Great Movie Ride right and you know and like stuff like that like I do think Great Movie Ride
The movies they chose you know beyond like Mary poins and wizard of O and Indiana J were incredibly like misdated I mean but then you think like we got to go through alien yeah I was going to say alien which they now own and that’s the part
Well alien could have easily become Star Wars though and I’d be okay with that I would miss alien I don’t I don’t know that I would want a Star Wars but I would have loved I would love just something that goes through even like Swiss Family Robinson well if you want
To keep it old let’s go through a Disney Library I like s family and I love SP I haven’t watched more relevant than what would that be more relevant then J I mean Tarzan I guess that would that would take over the jungle scene really
Well I’d argue like a lot of if you’re trying to keep it in Disney IP like I’m not saying more relevant than Casablanca which is one of the you know oh what arguably people say is the best movie ever made I don’t love calanca but that’s just my taste and that’s fine you
Know but like there you know like get rid of the gangster scene and turn it into uh The Great Mouse Detective or something I mean I don’t know if you can do it with your animation you’re going to keep it choice I love it yeah my favorite martian you know like sorry I
Feel like you know anymore yeah well I’m trying live action 1996 what was the Dick Van Dyke movie with the monkey and the um the he had a monkey he was on an island it’s like it’s like something Caruso as well cuz he gets stranded in a
Submarine I’ve never seen and it’s like Lieutenant Caruso oh I watched it I love Dick Van Dyk so I watch like everything when I was a kid but it is a Disney movie too we’re discussing this later what’s the the the tennis shoes the tennis shoes the genius War tennis shoes
That’s Kurt Russell’s like first Disney movie yeah okay I’ll go deep for you too I mean I’ve never seen it but I just I can’t remember the name of it it’s what they think about the button that Darn Cat where’s that you know there’s two of those there was a remake with Christina
RI it just deserves to be here what the heck so I’m just saying like I love the concept I don’t know that our version and I’m not saying our version deserve to be torn down and bulldozed I’m just 9 animatronics rhino thing I would have and I’m not saying I didn’t get
Emotional in the end when they showed the you know good morning be night I would have loved something that honored that was ripped out and was redone in a modern fashion with modern uh animatronics and stuff like that and that casm interaction because honestly we don’t really have a lot of that we
Don’t have a lot of that anymore and I would hope in today’s day and age that c MERS would be well compensated for their extra you know going into a more entertainment look Galaxy’s Edge and I don’t think that’s true maybe one day I
Could hope um but uh no I they that was such a different experience I remember going to the last day of The Great Movie Ride and cast managers guests they were all so emotional I feel like there’s not been an attraction like that that had
That big of an impact on people over the years it was almost 30 years old by the time it closed again like I said the reason why this park even exists is because of the great movie R because Michael Eisner said hey let’s move this film when was the first time you came
Here how old were you I zero cuz you grew up in yeah and so I’m I’m just curious about that connect that like con indoctrinated onto the well you know yeah and everything yeah well no I I digress it’s a hill all di no I love to me about it
Well and I would love to hear what anybody who’s listening or watching to this thinks that Hills Disney Hills that they would diee on because I think we should have a follow-up conversation with whatever people say I think that would be fun so leave comments on this
Video if you’re watching on YouTube or if you don’t agree with me that’s okay I want to see your comments yeah leave me a post you can go to disboards.com I created a thread where it was like Rhino’s thread or whatever and or however you can get the information to
Us let’s do it and I’ll have Chloe back and we’ll we’ll do another cuz I’m sure that we’re going to finish this and be like oh we we know another we’re talking a lot we’re talking we’re having a follow-up conversation maybe we can start a patreon video about what we’re
About to talk about we can but um but like our drinks are running low so we at least need to get up and get round two so that is going to do it for this Tap House talks thank you Chloe for joining me thank you this was fun see you were
Worried about the time and we it flew by flew by right oh my God yeah it’s okay we both were banging the table I’m holding the edge of it right now cuz I I feel like we’re like Dwight when he’s giving the speech in the office and like
Slamming the table the paperworkers yeah um our Braes have never been L but no this was fun um like I said um if you are listening to this and you want to rate and review podcast wherever you do that please do that and then if you are watching on YouTube give it a
Thumbs up subscribe to the channel and when you’re planning your next Disney vacation don’t forget about dreams unlimited travel so thank you everybody out there for the continued support thank you to our patreons patreon.com dis unlimited head over there maybe Chloe and I will do a video right now I
Think maybe we should yeah we should so check that out over there and um that’s going to do it for us we’re all see that’s the thing I get real high energy by the end of it and I’m like I don’t know what to do with myself yeah goodbye
Goodbye goodbye that’s it we just say goodbye goodbye everybody Cheers
In this episode of Tap House Talks, Ryno meets his friend Chloe at Baseline Tap House in Disney’s Hollywood Studios to talk about the Disney Hills that we would die on – metaphorically of course.
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26 Comments
Rhino looks amazing in that green Pluto shirt. Great episode thank you for sharing.
I get many people loved The Great Movie Ride, but it can't be as well loved and can't have made as many connections with guests as The Haunted Mansion or Pirates or probably even Jungle Cruise, Tower of Terror, Space Mountain or Peter Pan. GRM was clever and yes the cast member roles were cool. But I don't think it was an icon like many other WDW attractions are.
It's tough to lose a favorite but I personally think M&M Runaway Railroad is an improvement and I wouldn't be surprised if the number of guests riding per day, and the average wait time have both gone up since the change indicating higher overall popularity. My personal opinion only. And I get you miss an old favorite, so I won't expect to win you over.
Love the changes to Haunted Mansion and hated the Great Movie Ride
Chloe adds so much personality and content,please have her on all the time.
the great movie ride is what made me a film buff.
I have an issue with roller coasters that I don't have with motion simulators, probably b/c my first time on a roller coaster was traumatic. (Long story. ) I wimped out of Thunder Mountain and , looking at the videos, wish I hadn't; I will probably force myself if I go again.
The Dick Van Dyke movie is LT ROBIN CRUSOE, USMC; the Kurt Russell movie is THE COMPUTER WORE TENNIS SHOES.
Loved this episode! I’ve been following Chloe on IG for a few years so it was super fun to see her in one of your videos! I hope she comes back as a regular guest.
I agree with you Chloe! Disney did a great disservice to MGM/Hollywood Studios. The east coast didn’t have a working lot or animators and when all that was put into place, it gave the east coast a little taste of what the west coast was all about. To get rid of everything they did, breaks my heart. While I understand things do need to change, I feel like the only left of what the original park was meant to be is Indiana Jones. Loved this vlog and completely agree with everything mentioned.
I think Dinosaurland should become World of Discovery and they can add different elements you’d find on the Discovery network (even though that’s owned by Warner Bros). Like a planetarium and a place to dig for rocks and fossils….more hands on immersion instead of carnival style. A touch of Epcot if you will!! The dinosaur ride would still fit. Also, it would help with more ways to wear kids out that you, Hannah, and Craig talked about on today’s Tuesday show🤣🤗
Loved this discussion! Would love for you two to talk more in relation to this topic!
I love the Dinosaur ride so much! Still freaks me out everytime…..🤣
OMG! I have to know where she got that jacket she's wearing. I'm in ❤❤❤ with it. Anyone know anything about it?
Rope dropping is a must if you want to fully enjoy your day.
Chloe is my jam!!!! Love her vibe and opinions! Def dying on the GMR hill as well- should have made new scenes and I LOVED the cast member acting!!!. And HM is also my fav.
Bring back toon town in Hollywood Studios where I feel it would best belong.
I can't agree with "The Great Movie Ride." I'm sorry. It ("Gangs of New York") was one of the most traumatic experiences of my life. I was 10 years old and fully believed it was real.
That being said, I can see how it was the heart, the whole park was about movies, and how needlessly gutting that building hurt.
I think the hill I would die on is "Star Tours." Update it all you want, but never tear it down. Move it to Galaxy's Edge, if you must.
We loved trying the beer cheese oh my goodness why can't we get this in the UK?
Chloe is FANTASTIC. Hire her immediately.
Question for Chloe: where did you get your jacket?😍
My hill: they ruined the auction scene of Pirates of the Caribbean. They degraded that ride with their massive overhaul of the auction scene. It seems rushed and nonsensical. If they are going to change it then it needs to be as good or better…whoever came up with those characters spouting that awful dialogue should be demoted. I would be embarrassed if I suggested making those changes to that iconic ride. I like the original scene but I’m not opposed to all changes when it comes to Disney rides. It just has to be as good or better. This new scene is trash
My other hill: the great movie ride should never have been removed. I totally agree that it was unique and iconic. I love Mickey but I hate this new animation style. This incarnation of Mickey as well as the other characters looks like a poor man’s Ren and Stimpy
I love Ryno’s ideas for the Disney movie ride. I could totally get on board with a ride like that. I love the older and/or obscure movies so that would be a Disney dream come true. Great Movie Ride 2.0!
Definitely need a part two video! These two are so fun to watch
My hill….PAINT THE CASTLE BACK TO CLASSIC! Oh… and revive Illuminations.
It's far past time Disney does something with the Muppet store next to Muppet 3D.
This was an awesome show and there ahould definitely be a monthly chat between you two!!