Thursday Thoughts #3 - Christmas Decorations, Original Epcot & More at Walt Disney World

hi this is Josh with resort tv1 and today we're going to bring you the third edition of our Thursday thoughts series we hope you enjoy the video please remember to leave us a like and a comment on the video and subscribe and hit that notification bell if you haven't already done so also be sure to follow us on social media or Resort TV 1 on Facebook Twitter and Instagram so let's get started and you can see by the way before we get started that I have a new poster over here and that is my Epcot original Epcot 1982 poster the 21st century begins October 1st so I'm super excited to have that in here I'm hoping to add one over here on the other side eventually but I really like the addition of the Epcot poster because Epcot's one of my favorite parks and we're going to be discussing that today but before we get into that I want to say the reason we didn't have Thursday thoughts last week was due to Halloween and just timing my schedule has been really really limited lately with things going on at my school it's been a really really awesome time amazing things are happening but a really busy time as well for the next few weeks for me with a lot of different performances so I may not use as many flashy graphics and videos in this one just because for sake of time and just so I can get some rest tonight but I really wanted to get some of my thoughts out cuz I've been adding some things together in my mind and taking notes as I think of different things to discuss so I hope you enjoyed the video and also I wanted to answer last week's question or two weeks ago actually the question the latest non I pee at raction to be added to Walt Disney World so does anybody know the answer to that we actually had several people guest several people guest Expedition Everest that's a great guess but that actually wasn't it a lot of people gues warned over California that actually wasn't it either I believe Expedition Everest was added in 2006 Soarin over California was added in 2005 at least to Walt Disney World and so actually the latest non IP attraction as far as I can tell is soaring around the world and technically I know that still swimming but it is a new attraction the movements are different the video is different so I consider it a different attraction so I think that that would be the latest non IP attraction added to Walt Disney World it opened in June of 2016 so just three years ago three and a half years ago or so so Sorna in the world it's the latest non I attraction in other words intellectual property doesn't involve characters or existing characters in that particular attraction and it's done pretty well so so there you go and we're not going to go into the whole IP discussion on this video that's something we did last time but anyway you can go back and watch Thursday thoughts number two to get some more my thoughts about IP in the park so I again I don't think it's all bad but I just wanted to point out that sorting around the world was the last non IP attraction at Walt Disney World and so the first thing I want to discuss today on Thursday thoughts is Christmas at the parks of course this is a very current topic because the parks are being dressed and decked from head to toe and Christmas decorations and beautiful displays holiday displays and all the resorts and just all around Walt Disney World so it's pretty incredible honestly to see all those things happening throughout the parks however you know there's some things to discuss with that because if you've been around and going to what Disney World for a long time you'll notice that they've changed some of the things that they've done and change is not a bad thing change can be really really a good thing but you know there are some things that I think a lot of us hardcore fans probably miss a little bit so let's talk about some of those first of all has Disney cut back a little bit on holiday decorations I would say mostly yes in some ways no but mostly yes they have cut back on some things and so if you think back to the 90s we had lots of different things in the 90s first of all it is still pretty amazing there aren't very many places in the world to decorate as much as Walt Disney well now I'm a huge fan of Christmas at the world and so this is not a knock on Disney or anything it's just me kind of thinking back maybe being a little bit nostalgic about some of the things that used to be and I trust Disney they do a lot of great things so I'm sure they'll start to bring things back as as time and budget allows but one of the things that I really really miss in the heyday of Christmas and really the heyday of the parks the 90s and the early 2000s were really the heyday of the parks especially Christmas at the parks you know things did start to slip a little bit especially after 2001 you know when people didn't travel as much after 9/11 security fears and all that kind of thing so I know they had to cut back at that point due to the lower crowds but with Christmas the thing that I remember the most first of all was at Epcot the lights of winter that was absolutely breathtaking and if you had ever seen that make sure you leave me a comment and I will try and include an image of that or maybe a short video if I get a chance here up in the corner of the screen so hopefully I get a chance to do that but lights of winter was an absolutely incredible incredible experience at Epcot and I remember going there for the first time I was in high school I think 1995 so there you go you can figure out how old I am but I was you know we went to Epcot you know my whole family was there Jenna was there along you know along with everybody else and I just remember being absolutely in awe of the lights of winter it was breathtaking the music is amazing and actually I do have a copy of that and I believe I posted it on our patreon page and maybe I can post it elsewhere too but it's a beautiful music loop first of all symphonic orchestral Christmas music but what's really cool about it was these lights there were big archways of lights that would dance with the music now of course later on the Osborne lights at Hollywood studios which we'll talk about a little bit later had that same type of a technology but in 1995-96 dancing lights were fairly a new thing so you know to me that was just incredible that these archways lit up and where they had them was between basically where Interventions plaza was and the World Showcase kind of Gateway area there the the entry point to World Showcase the entry Plaza so that little bridge that runs along kind of between Odyssey and the imagination pavilion was where that was and as you walked through there you were greeted with these archways beautiful lights colors and sounds music was piped all the way through that whole area but what was even more incredible was not only was it synched up with the lights it was also synched up with the fountain of Nations and so the fountain of Nations would go you know all kinds of different beautiful dancing Jets of water with the Gateway arches there with the lights of winter so it's just absolutely incredible to see all those things it was like a larger-than-life show and especially in the 90s when that was really you know going strong it was just an incredible piece of technology and showmanship that Disney had that really put them above anywhere else so that was something that I really enjoyed leave me a comment if you remember the lights of winter I heard they had some problems with it and some malfunctions so definitely you know I think they had some issues that they weren't able to rectify and they just decided to go ahead and scrap that but it was pretty amazing okay we had to take just a little bit of a break there to fix an issue with the audio sync I'm hoping I can fix it in the post-production but I got quite a bit of the video finished and I don't want to rehash all those thoughts and miss something so I do apologize if the audio is out of sync but I'm having to use a different app now because I was really struggling with my webcam and my mic to get it all to line up so everything looks like it's lined up now but didn't really notice that earlier so hopefully it stays lined up now anyway I was talking about the lights of winter and I wanted to also mention the fountain of Nations like I said was synced up with the lights of winter but we really really miss the the fountain of nations around Christmastime now here at Epcot because even with the lights of winter gone the fountain of Nations actually still played that or they still played that lights of winter loop around the fountain of Nations Plaza there at Epcot and they still did the dancing fountains even though the archways were gone so we're gonna miss that this year with the fountain of nations completely gone and from the monorail we showed you on an update a couple weeks ago that it is completely torn out so definitely going to miss that I'm very sad that that's not going to be a thing this year to watch the fountain of Nations and that that lights of winter loops so I hope that they can bring it back somewhere maybe they'll play it in the plaza anyway which would still be nice but no fountain this year for sure so hopefully they'll do something else there to add Christmas spirit to the area to the area of Wolcott as we call it and also Osbourne lights that was a big big thing you know back in the in the late 90s and then most of the 2000s until they just recently took it out to get ready of course and make way for Star Wars Galaxies edge and while I love galaxy's edge I really missed New York Street and I really miss you know the Osborne lights that were there and a lot of you may or may not remember this but there was a back lot streets where they had kind of residential streets like the Golden Girls house was there empty nest house was there and things like that there was on the original back lot studio tour and so they actually put the original Osborne my collection on those houses and they just decorated those houses basically from you know from floor to ceiling all the way or floor to roof I should say all the way around that whole residential street and then they opened up and they discontinued the tram service and opened up the road so we could just walk through there and enjoy with Christmas music so that was pretty cool I remember that I believe that was probably a more of in the mid 90s when that was happening and then later on they started adding him to New York Street when they took out the residential street to accommodate the what they call it the lights motors action stunt show so anyway eventually of course the the Osborn lights that most people know and love from the past were on New York Street and the different streets of America whatever you want to call it there in in Hollywood studios and it was incredible all the canopies over the over the street and all the different music that they would use the little radio station that they'd use phineas and ferb would be on there and just different Disney characters and Disney shows and it was a lot of fun they did a great job with it there were so many things you could walk around for hours and see something new every single time you know it was just a really really neat display they have lights and different attributes to different religions you know they had a manger scene there which I thought was really really cool and just you know a lot of really neat things that that you could that you could enjoy and of course that one of the games that you used to be able to play was counting Hidden Mickey so you know that was something it was just a lot of fun it was a great attraction you know some people might say it was a little gaudy it was a little overboard almost like Christmas exploded I think it's what my wife said one time and that is absolutely true you know it was a little bit over the top but it was really fun and we used to do it every Christmas Eve actually we'd open presents some presents on Christmas Eve and then we once we moved down here we would go out there to the Osborne lights and just have a great time and Christmas Eve it was usually not very busy the crowd seemed to come in a lot of times after Christmas at least in years past people would spend Christmas at home and then come to Disney and that week between you know the 26th and all the way down to New Year's was the busiest week so now it's kind of busy the whole time but it used to be you could go New Year's Eve and there sorry Christmas Eve and there weren't hardly any people there so really missed the Ghazwan lights my question is and this is let me see what you guys think about this again leave me a comment this video is interactive by the way we want you guys to leave comments I want to read them respond and I'm trying to respond to more each week I think I got 80 or 90 of them answered last week I'm going to get more this week and so hopefully I can respond to more comments than what we're able to do on the live streams but make sure leave me a comment let me know do you think that they should put the Osborne lights back in somewhere else and if so where where should they put it it's kind of a difficult thing obviously they can't put it you know in galaxies edge it wouldn't fit the theming at all obviously they can't put it you know in they can't put a really in world showcase that would kind of defeat the theming of some of the buildings there I guess maybe they could put it elsewhere in Hollywood studios on the Main Street there Hollywood Boulevard but I don't think they want they don't want to clog up all the traffic there they could put it on Sunset Boulevard maybe you know it really wouldn't fit the theming of animal kingdom's so Magic Kingdom of course is out because there's just not a good area there so let me know what you think or should they build a whole new area just for that that they can maybe put another attraction in somewhere with the you know kind of streets of a certain city and they could during Christmas season they could use that for the Osborn lights so let me know what you think in the comments down below I'd love to know and also at Magic Kingdom another Christmas tradition that was there that I think a lot of people missed and I certainly misses the Main Street Garland's they used to stretch all the way from one side of the other on Main Street USA and this is a really special thing for me because when I was a kid the town we grew up in a knitting in Indiana had Garland's all the way down there Main Street it was a very traditional Main Street for a kind of a small town it was pretty long I think it was probably the the main drag as you would call it with all the businesses and all the stoplights and kind of the busy area I think it was maybe eight blocks long eight to ten blocks long or more it was pretty long for a Main Street on a town that wasn't that big but they had Garland's all the way down with lights and bells and it was just so cool as the kid to drive down there or to ride down with mom and dad and just kind of enjoy that they played Christmas music up and down the streets and so it was really neat to grow up in a town like that and then when I first went to Disney World at Christmas I believe was in like I said 95 97 it was 95 I was just blown away by Magic Kingdom at Christmas first of all they used to put a real Christmas tree evergreen tree there at Main Street USA so they weren't able to put it up right there in Town Square they weren't able to put it up until you know a couple weeks before Christmas because they didn't want it to dry out and be unsafe maybe was beginning December or maybe a couple weeks before anyway so actually I you know I'm okay with the fact that they using an artificial tree but it was kind of cool that they had a big tree there I will say it did bother me a little bit that they'd cut down such a huge tree so I'm okay with that but it is something just so you know the tradition used to be to use a real Christmas tree the good news is with the artificial tree it still looks amazing and they're able to put it up right at the beginning of the season so that that works out really really well but the Garland's I kind of digress here the Garland's over Main Street USA were amazing very similar to what I described in my hometown there were lights all around them I believe there were Mickey wreaths in the middle off to go look up a picture maybe I can put one up here on the stream and or on the video just to show you exactly what they used to look like I think there were Mickey's in the middle have to look it up but anyway the reason they had to remove those was actually because Maleficent in the in the afternoon parade Maleficent actually is too tall especially when she raises her head and then of course there were concerns about the breathing fire and everything else Maleficent was way too tall and so what ended up happening was they went to these wreaths that kind of stick out from you know from either side of Main Street kind of come in from the sides like this but they don't actually go all the way across so you get these nice little wreaths with the little hangers on them and that's great but the problem is you know it doesn't quite have the same effect as the garland all the way across the street the other reason I heard for them being taken out was because it did block the view of the fireworks for some people so you had to kind of be between the Garland's to see the fireworks a little bit and so you know you wouldn't want to stand in a certain area it would really block your view of either you know the Christmas fireworks show which I guess as many's Christmas Spectacular or something at which this year which will be new will show that actually tomorrow so that'll be really really cool so don't miss that on our live stream tomorrow at 6 p.m. or happily-ever-after of course is still the regular show for most of the Christmas season not during the parties so anyway I I know that's why they probably removed the Garland's but I do still miss him it was very very festive to see that I think I've seen pictures Disneyland Paris still use them so that's pretty cool so also decorations in other lands in Magic Kingdom they used to have decorations more in Liberty Square even at the Christmas shop of course is always decorated year round but they used to have decorations all through Liberty Square they had some in Frontierland I remember and they used to have you know just more throughout Fantasyland tomorrow and everything else and they've really scaled that back throughout the last few years so I hope that they will bring some of that back I really think that it's nice for the parks to be as festive as possible in all the different areas now they do a great job in a lot of the resorts a lot of the resorts are really really well decorated of course they've got the gingerbread house and the Polynesian not the ponies and sorry the gingerbread house and the Grand Floridian they've got the island themed they used to do the island themed kind of gingerbread house competition with the cast members there I think they still do a Polynesian but then they also have you know the chocolate carousel at a beach club and all kinds of things that boardwalk has the nice chocolate village or a gingerbread village that they show and and Yacht Club has their really really cool Christmas village with the train set around it so there's a lot of really really neat decorations throughout the different parks but and throughout the resorts I should say but I really think that it really is you know is great if they would actually add more to some of the areas even the value resorts maybe add some flagship types of displays where you say ok you know art of animation now has a flagship display and not just a Christmas tree you know so I know that cost money but I think like we talked about on the last Thursday thoughts that video or sorry those types of touches actually really add to the Disney magic so and I think another thing that's been scaled back a little bit as the landscaping and I'll have to check Magic Kingdom when we go back tomorrow for the party but they used to do these really cool displays of poinsettias everywhere there were these amazing like almost a sea of poinsettias in the different planners and displays right around the hub and that was just incredible to see so often check and see if they put those back in but even in Epcot in different places course the Epcot doesn't have a lot of planters in the front now with the construction going on but they really used to do a lot more with the landscaping they also used to have these really cool poinsettia trees and those have been cut way back too so we'll see if they are able to bring some of that back and you know just really make the holiday special like I was I was saying earlier that the little touches are really what set Disney apart from everywhere else and I think that they really need to keep going that extra mile it's not because they have to it's because you know they're Disney so Disney always does that extra and that's what makes it special so hopefully they continue to remember that and bring a little bit more of the holidays back leave me a comment let me know what you think obviously I still love the holidays at Walt Disney World it's like nowhere else on earth I'm excited to go to Disney Land in a couple weeks to check out their holiday decorations but yeah is something still missed some of the things from the past and you know that's a common thread I think from a lot of us have been going for a while now I'm not super negative about it you know like some people get very upset about it I'm just more a little bit wistful about it I guess and hoping and and really wishing that they would bring some of it back so we'll see what happens but leave me a comment let me know what you think and then the next one is about that we're going to discuss is about original Epcot and the wow factor and one of the things I think that does set Disney apart from other theme parks and other attractions around the world is that wow factor that you come into when you see a Disney attraction for the first time see I told you these videos were gonna be rolling on it I did at the very beginning so I noticed I still have my headphones in because I was checking audio when the audio was messed up in the earlier part of the video so I hope you'll forgive me for all the errors I hope you still enjoy listening but I'm on a little bit of a short-time schedule tonight so I do apologize if the quality takes a little bit of a hit today but anyway let's get back into the discussion of the wow factor one of the things that I love about going to Disney World and has seen an attraction for the first time is when I just get that sense of awe and just knowing how much care love and just attention to detail the Imagineers put into that attraction and it's really inspiring to see when something a ride is basically created or an attractions created that's a true masterpiece and you know some attractions are that way and some are not so I'm excited to see the rise of the resistance here in a few weeks I have a feeling that that is going to be classed as a masterpiece and I'm going to have that all moment and it can never be duplicated you can't ever ride action for the first time ever again so leave me a comment let me know what you think about that about that wow factor that writing it for the first time you can only do it once and it's very special moment I did have that wow factor I will say when I rode fly to passage I think most people did Soren I remember the first time I was warned over California I just sat there with my mouth open and when my mouth wasn't just wide open like in you know it was more of also just a smile like just appreciation for the masterpiece that had been created but going back to original Epcot you know that happened so much more with the original Epcot attractions they were so bold and they were just so fresh and new something that never been done before and you know you get the you would get that wow factor almost every time you rode them and especially the first time I don't remember unfortunately the first time I rode some of those attractions because it was so long ago but I remember being a kid and just riding them at different points in my life and and just being in awe of course we always talk about horizons and really with Epcot itself going back to Epcot for just a second there really still is nothing like Epcot in the world and I think that's really special you know there's not a place where it's kind of a world expo plus kind of the futuristic the technology and all that kind of stuff now obviously some of that is going away a little bit with a lot of the intellectual property that's been added to future world but and I know there's gonna be there gonna be new names for all the areas of future world now but I think still there's nothing like it in the world is still a really special place and it will continue to be a really special place but when you talk about a ride like horizons that was a masterpiece there's no way around it and if you haven't seen it there's a video of it on our channel definitely go check it out it's courtesy of one of our one of our friends Alcee who made the video he didn't have a YouTube channel and allowed me to put it up it's incredible the ride was awe-inspiring and it's not it's not like one of these kind of hit you in the face kind of attractions like a roller coaster or or you know like a thrill ride of any kind or something like that where it's super fast or it gets you really wet or you know makes you really scared or whatever it's not like that it gives you that sense of awe but you have to you know you had to take time to really appreciate and enjoy it and as a kid I guess I did have the patience to do that plus you know that technology was so new when they had the the Omnimax screen in the middle of horizons had that 90-foot theatre screen there it just really left you in awe never seen anything that big before it was a huge seamless projection screen and the the ride vehicles kept moving through that through that area and all of a sudden you know you would see this rocket blasting off it was a spate you know space shuttle blasting off and it was almost you know not of course not quite but it was it felt like it was life-size and the vehicle would shake and I mean as a kid that was just incredibly powerful and then the music the score to that attraction was so epic so you know those are the things that gave you those all moments every time that you wrote it and you thought wow somebody really loved what they were doing so much to just put so much of their heart and soul into something and I'm not saying that's not done today but I think there are less attractions like that today than there used to be and so I'm hoping that they bring some of that back and like I said Rises the resistance has a lot of promise world emotion was another one you could ride that attraction so many times and see something new every single time it was one of our mom's favorite attractions especially the scene if you remember in there and again there's videos of that on our channel as well if you go back through and watch that video there's a scene in the middle of the ride we're like all transportation goes bonkers and like it's like basically in the middle of a downtown area and everything's crashed and there's a complete traffic jam just this horrible event but it's hilarious because everybody's kind of squawking the chickens are squawking everybody's yelling at each other and trying to figure out what to do to get it moving the police officers that are there didn't know what was going on it's just kind of funny to ride through that confusing scene and you can you can ride through there and see something different every time and so of course test track is a great attraction but world emotion just had something special it used a really cool Pepper's Ghost effect which is what they use in Haunted Mansion to show you know the ghosts at the end or in the middle in the ballroom scene but Haunted Mansion Sarris so world emotion actually use that Pepper's Ghost effect on your vehicle to make your vehicle look like this futuristic car basically in that point it was a 2000s car so now here we are in 2019 so you know that the projections for the future weren't entirely accurate but some of the cars now especially the Tesla's look pretty similar to those projections for what those futuristic cars would look so you know Epcot got a lot of things right you know imagination the original journey into imagination was so incredible thing that was amazing in that one and it was just so much fun it was very childlike innocent but also just kind of showed you what imagination could do if it was used to its full of potential and again writing that attraction you just saw the love and care the Imagineers put into it and just really there was no detail left out there was nothing spared in the budget it seemed like everything was just really maximized and incredible and of course when they redid it you know really wasn't as good and and it's it's a little bit better now but that brings me in my next point I really really hope that even though they've got plans for a lot of the other pavilions at Epcot to give them a you know a little bit of TLC or to give them complete overhauls in the next few years I'm glad to see a lot of that however I really hope they give some love to imagination eventually because I really think that there could be some great things done there and I think they could really explore imagination and a lot more productive way as opposed to just kind of going through site tents their site you know sense of smell touch you know whatever else I feel like that's more opposite you know this site and you know sense of smell and everything that's more observation than anything else I don't feel like that is a you know imagination I guess imagination can work through the senses but I feel like there needs to be a little bit better and deeper exploration of that and imagination is what Disney is all about so you really think that should be kind of a flagship pavilion so leave me a comment let me know what are your ideas for the imagination pavilion what would you do if you had to redesign it how would you do it obviously if figment has to be a part of what we want figment in there he's one of the best original theme park characters really in the world and so you know figment has got to stay but you know what would we do and what would you do with that leave a comment let me know and let's talk a little bit more about Epcot one of the other things I mentioned was the festivals and I've caught a great food and wine festivals a lot of fun I know it's necessary to bring in the crowds but what else can we do with that you know what else could be done with the festival I feel like there are some other avenues that could be explored with these different festivals you know festival the holidays is coming up again it's a reason them to leave the booths up and you know keep that moving in the right direction and not have to keep you know putting the boots in and out and deconstructing them reconstructing some of them they're almost permanent now but and I know they make a lot of money off the food and I understand why it's necessary but at the same time you know what else could be done with that to make it more even more international more authentic maybe adding an attraction that goes with that somehow maybe using the the world showplace area around between the United Kingdom and Canada where actually they do special events there you know what else could they do just let me know in the comments with the festivals and are you okay with all the festivals or do you think it's too much you know we've got the you know Festival of the Arts in the spring we've got Food and Wine Festival you know we've got festival the holidays just so many different things and of course Flower and Garden Festival I almost forgot that one so there's basically a festival at Epcot all year is that too much or maybe should they should just do something different with it let me know and also as far as the new attractions go do you think that there should be or there will be educational aspects I guess I feel like there there should be do you think there will be educational aspects to the new attractions that are going in at Epcot you know the the water attraction that's gonna kind of feature Moana do you think there will be educational features to that even if they're using Moana to help educate and get the children you know get kids interested or even adults interested in learning about maybe water conservation or things like that do you think they'll be those aspects or do you think it'll be mostly the entertainment angle you know living at this seas with nemo & friends i still call it the living seas but the seas with nemo & friends does have a lot of educational aspects to it you can go in there and learn about sharks you can learn about conservation at manatees you can learn about all kinds of different conservation 'el and and biological things in there which is great I think it's a really great use of the space and using the characters to educate people I'm all for that I don't have any issue with adding that in to make it more interesting for people as long as it still maintains that educational aspect I think imagination is less educational than it used to be for sure so that we you know that can be there can be more done with that as far as guardians of the galaxy I'm not sure how they could add any kind educational aspect because this is really just kind of it's kind of a fun type of a thing it's kind of a for fun space thing so you've got mission space that does a little bit it's educational as far as how astronauts are trained and how we might you know how how it is to live inside of a you know a capsule that that flies out into space and things like that or a deep space how a deep space flight might be so that that's kind of cool and there is some educational aspect to that test track has some educational aspect to it with the design of a car how aerodynamics and how a different parts of the car playing together to make a really successful award-winning design so that's really cool too but I'm questioning how guardians of the galaxy is going to be educational you know will they use different aspect aspects from the solar system or will it just be hey look here's a really fun ride and it's a roller coaster so I don't know what do you think leave me leave me some comments and Disney if you're watching let's let's find a way to tie that into the educational nature of Epcot I still think it needs to retain that I think that was the the goal from the very beginning that edutainment thing I think that's what sets a Disney and Epcot specifically apart from any other theme park anywhere you know it sets it apart from us Six Flags or even from a universal to some extent you know Universal is great but they don't do a lot of educational type things so let's so you know let's see if we can keep that in there somehow and also you know I talked before about the music but music is a huge part of these attractions especially at Epcot there's been so much great music originally composed for Epcot attractions as so much so that I think a lot of us big theme park fans especially from the 90s we still listen to a lot of that stuff on our iPhones and in our cars and things like that so you know what do you think about the original music for these attractions I mean it's it's got to me it's got to be original and that's why I think a lot of us like these original attractions like horizons and things like that I think Disney could come up with something else and I think I hope with spaceship earth that is still a non IP attraction I hope they come up with a fantastic Original Score for it use some amazing new technology and you know I hope that they make it really amazing so so that's about it for the discussion on Epcot and how it used to be and maybe the directions for it leave me some comments let me know what you think about any and all of the things that I talked about you know do you agree disagree you know it's okay to disagree obviously you know we're all gonna have different opinions I think it's great to read different opinions you might post something I didn't think about so I certainly don't have all the answers I'm just one person but we do have one more thing I want to talk about before we wrap up this edition of Thursday thoughts straws and lids I know this is kind of a short thing and it may be a little bit you know maybe not as important as as some of the other things that we've talked about but it is one of the things that I've been thinking about a lot and just with some of the things Disney has been doing some things to save money and I get that I guess I'd rather them save money on straws and lids and do better attractions so you know I I do get that as long as the money does go in or maybe paying cast members better I think everybody's in favor of that because they do cast members worked so hard to create the magic so I think everybody's in agreement about those things my issue is you know as a parent you know taking Liam to the parks you know I really could use a lid we don't usually get him you know soda or anything like that we usually just bring our own beverages for him so we're not as concerned he's got his you know his cups that he drinks out of that don't spill so that's not an issue but the issue is you know if I'm getting a coke and then my hand need my hands-free to help Liam or to push the stroller you know I can't put a coke without a lid in the stroller and then go over bumps it just splashes everywhere even if you drink it down it splashes everywhere it needs that lid on it and I've asked that last couple times in the parks hey can I have a lid at some of the restaurants I'm like oh no we don't have any anymore or it's only for children's drinks so if I got a lid for Liam it would be okay but for me it's not okay even though I really would like to do it so what I found myself having to do unfortunately is it's finished the drink there in the restaurant and not take it with me and not get the refill so I guess maybe they're saving money on that too and again it's a small thing I get it you know it's not a big deal kind of a kind of a first world problem I guess you could say but it's one of those things that to me if they put the lids back I just don't know how much of an environmental impact or a cost-saving impact that's really having especially maybe if they didn't put them out there maybe if you had to request them but they were able to give them to people and maybe I just got the wrong cast a couple times when I asked and maybe other cast members would help but that's just been kind of an inconvenience for me the last couple couple weeks in a couple months that I've been at the parks I also noticed that they used to have straws but no lids they used to have the paper straws a lot of people didn't like him personally I didn't mind him I thought they were better than nothing but now those have kind of gone away in most places I think you can get them in a few places but I just haven't seen him in most of the parks and in most of the major restaurants in the park so what do you think about the straws on the lids going away so I'm not a big deal to you you're like you know whatever let's save the money on the parks let's say are you more of a on the on the thought process of let's save the environment this is a really good thing for the environment or are you more like me where I'm like hey let's bring this back I don't think it's that big of an impact I don't know maybe I'm all wrong on that but I feel like the cups would have a lot bigger impact on the environment than just the straws in the end the lids and of course I know they can't take away the cups but maybe there's some other things that can be done maybe they could go to a plastic cup that can be recycled and they could have a special trash camp for those they already do but they could really encourage people to to put the plastic cups in the trash so they could be recycled maybe that would have lessen of an impact I'm not sure so let me know what you think in the comments you know the other thing I thought about too is you know all these cups and lids and different things are being thrown into plastic trash bags and then they're being you know dumped in wherever Disney does their central trash you know depository so I'm just wondering having the lids in there having the straws in there I just I'm not sure how big of a difference it makes because they're already going into plastic trash bags so they're already not going to decompose quite as easily so I do think there needs to be some things done and some advances made in that area but not sure how much that particular thing helps so let me know what you think I could be all wrong on this one so and I don't want to be anti environmentally friendly we do recycle at home every time I have a place to recycle my cocaine or my water bottle or whatever I definitely you know find that place at Disney I'll walk past a trash can to go to the recycle and that's not to say I'm this wonderful recycling person that's just how I feel I feel like I want to do that it's a small thing I can do to help but straws and lids I'm just not sure how much it helps so and let's talk about what we're going to do next week I've 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