[00:00:00] Speaker A: Hey, explorers. Welcome to episode 330, 330 of the TDR now podcast. We're the first English speaking podcast focusing on the Asian theme parks like Tokyo Disneyland. And you can find us over on our
[email protected] and under all the various social media under TDR explorer. I'm one of your hosts, Chris, and I'm the one that you see on camera all the time on YouTube, usually stuffing my face. And joining as always, is the wonderful Patricia.
[00:00:29] Speaker B: Hey, guys.
I, I guess I'm the one in search of Valentine's Day chocolate.
I feel like after January, after, like, after, like the winter holidays, it, it shifted. Like even before they were done. Like, even before, like Christmas was done and like New Year's hadn't even started. Like, all the Valentine's Day stuff started going up and like now I'm on the hunt for like this Pierre Herme collaboration that's at, I think the convenience stores. And I haven't found it yet, but it's supposed to have come out today.
[00:01:03] Speaker A: Like, oh, interesting.
[00:01:05] Speaker B: Really good.
[00:01:06] Speaker A: Yeah, I was, I, yeah, I was at the grocery store and yeah, I saw the, like all the Valentine stuff is out.
[00:01:13] Speaker B: Oh my gosh.
[00:01:14] Speaker A: Like, there's a bunch of Pokemon stuff that kind of what, caught.
[00:01:16] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, that's right.
[00:01:19] Speaker A: Yeah, there's a lot, you know, they, well, they made a quick switch. Like as soon as, like the New Year's stuff is over, we're raining to Valentine's.
[00:01:28] Speaker B: Like, I don't, like, we haven't even had sets of yet, you know, and there's like some sets of them. But I guess, like, chocolate is more profitable. I don't know.
[00:01:37] Speaker A: Selling chocolates is more profitable than beans. Beans to throw.
Oh, goodness.
[00:01:46] Speaker B: But you can find me. I take photos. You can find me on. I don't know how long I'm going to be on metaphor, but you can find me for now on Instagram under Dream Sweets Love and on Blue sky under Ink Tastrophe. Yeah. Oh, no, man, the chocolate is good. So I'm gonna just drown myself in chocolate and Negronis.
We have a pretty cheerful fun topic today.
[00:02:18] Speaker A: Yeah, this was, we talked about it before, I think back when they first announced it, but Tokyo Disneyland has this.
It's not really called an event, but I guess it's kind of like a mini event.
And it's called It's a Small World with Groot. And they added Marvel characters to A Small World for a limited time here at Tokyo Disneyland.
[00:02:46] Speaker B: Oh, so wait, so it's More than just Groot, then they have other characters.
[00:02:50] Speaker A: So if you look at the artwork.
[00:02:53] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:02:56] Speaker A: Like the attraction poster.
Yeah. There's a whole bunch of Marvel characters.
[00:03:05] Speaker B: Oh, cool.
[00:03:06] Speaker A: Yeah. I'll add the image into the notes here so you can see it.
[00:03:10] Speaker B: Thank you.
[00:03:12] Speaker A: It should be there now. Yeah, they. Yeah, I see them. I thought they were just gonna do Groot. Like, I just kind of thought, oh, it's just Groot. Like, they're adding Groot to the attraction. But no, they. All those Avengers.
[00:03:26] Speaker B: It has a whole people.
[00:03:28] Speaker A: Yeah, they. They're all there.
[00:03:30] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. This is so fun. I love it.
They have the cat.
[00:03:37] Speaker A: What's the cat's name again?
[00:03:39] Speaker B: I don't know what his name is, but I love him.
That's really great.
[00:03:45] Speaker A: It's a. It's an odd name. Marvel Orange Cat.
What is this? Oh, Goose.
[00:03:55] Speaker B: Goose. Yeah.
[00:03:57] Speaker A: See, I knew. I knew it was a string. It was a funny name.
[00:04:01] Speaker B: This is so fun.
[00:04:03] Speaker A: Yeah. Like, as I said, I was quite skeptical about this because this is just so out there in terms of just an event, you know, the.
[00:04:13] Speaker B: The ride is already filled with IP anyway, so I feel like adding more.
It's not a big shine, you know?
[00:04:22] Speaker A: Yeah. Because it was 2018, and when they redid it and they added the Disney characters, which is similar to. I think Hong Kong is like, it now, but I definitely know Disneyland in California is.
[00:04:36] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:04:37] Speaker A: For sure.
So. Yeah, I just. Yeah.
I thought, how are they gonna do this? And this is the first time we actually have, like, Marvel stuff in the.
[00:04:50] Speaker B: Park parks at all. Right.
[00:04:52] Speaker A: Yeah. Because Marvel doesn't really. They just don't do anything Marvel.
[00:04:56] Speaker B: Yeah. Which is, like, such a shame because it's. It's there and it's. It's super fun. And there is. I know it's not, like, a big. A massive fan base here, but there is, like, a niche, like, fan base that's really, like, super into it, you know?
[00:05:12] Speaker A: Yeah. No, I agree. I think it's probably, like, this, the first of the Marvel stuff we're seeing. And I bet you anything we're going to see more in the future. This is probably their way of, like, conditioning people to get used to the idea of Marvel. And we do know that a lot of the demographic that goes to these parks are young females.
And how do you appeal to them with cute stuff?
I mean, it works on me, too.
[00:05:44] Speaker B: No, and there's a lot of women that are into Marvel here. Yeah, a lot of women do, like, cosplay and stuff, you know, so yeah. And I think it's. I think it's kind of fun. I think they approached it in a really cute direction.
I kind of. I kind of love it.
[00:06:02] Speaker A: So.
So what they're doing with this is there's the ride, of course. It's Small World. And they. They only have two food items, and they're both cheapo tortas. Okay. There's a chocolate orange one and a sweet potato.
I tried the chocolate orange.
I didn't bother with the sweet potato. I'm not a big fan of tipo tortoise, so I didn't really care for it. It was.
I don't know what a table torta is supposed to be like, what a real tipple torta is supposed to taste like. If there is such a thing. If they just made this up, I really don't know.
[00:06:36] Speaker B: I'm not sure either.
[00:06:38] Speaker A: Yeah, it's. It's like. It's a flaky. It's a warm, flaky pastry stick. Like, the. The outside is nice and flaky, and then the inside's, like the filling, which was almost like a. Like a warm. Like a jelly almost.
Um, it's not my favorite.
It wasn't my favorite thing.
[00:06:57] Speaker B: Same. It's. It's fine. I mean, it's not bad. It's not bad, but it's not like something I would go out of my way for.
[00:07:06] Speaker A: Yeah, same. Same with me. But I. I wanted to give it a try. Um. Oh, I forgot to mention, this is this event or this, like, this overlay thing is only going until June 30, so it started on January 15, and it's going till June 30 of this year. So it's a limited time. Time thing.
The merchandise. They have a little bit of merchandise, and I think it's really cute with it.
They. They use a lot of the. The poster artwork. Like, that's. That's in a lot of the merchandise. Like, there's a postcard that I bought. There's a clear file that I bought, and then there's like, you know, the. The typical hand towels, the little drawstring bags, the buttons.
They even have stickers, like a sticker set. And the stickers are made to look like. Like, travel stickers. You know, the kind you put on, like, a.
Your suitcase.
[00:08:09] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:08:10] Speaker A: Which is really cute. So it's like. It's like all these different, like, logos and stuff from different Marvel worlds.
[00:08:18] Speaker B: I like that.
[00:08:19] Speaker A: So, like, the theme is Groot is traveling the world, which make. Which makes sense because it's A Small World Goes around the World. So it makes sense that Groot does the same thing.
And they like. Tokyo Disney's really leaned into this in the last few years.
The whole blind box thing.
[00:08:40] Speaker B: Oh, they love it. Yeah. I mean like the fandom. Fandom based merch. Right?
[00:08:45] Speaker A: Yeah. So which is very like that's been around for ages. Like you know, anime fans and all that know this stuff like that. Yeah, it's been around for a while. Right. It's nothing new.
They have like these little blind boxes that are really cute and it's all like little Groots and he's.
[00:09:04] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:05] Speaker A: And it's all the different versions of him in the ride.
I think there's like.
I don't know, I saw someone said there's 21. I don't know if that's accurate or not. But there, there's a lot of different Groots inside the ride.
One of them is like he's wearing clogs. Like he's from the Netherlands. Yeah, Netherlands. Like you know the, like the, the hat with the, with the dress and the clogs. He's wearing that. And one of them is really cute. Another one, he's in a little gondolier outfit.
[00:09:39] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:40] Speaker A: And like there's. And there's ones where he's like he's holding a churro and a popcorn box and other ones he's holding.
Yeah, he's holding dango and dango mochi and ice cream I think. And he has little sakura petals on him.
[00:09:57] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:57] Speaker A: Really cute.
[00:09:59] Speaker B: That's adorable.
[00:10:01] Speaker A: And then they have like a Groot plush and they did this, they did this thing where they have so you can buy the group plush. And then there's little blind boxes of little accessories that you can put them put on them.
So you can get like little Mickey ears or sunglasses or dango mochi or a churro to like accessorize him with, which I think is really fun.
[00:10:26] Speaker B: Sure.
[00:10:27] Speaker A: I ended up doing that too, but I kind of had to.
[00:10:31] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:33] Speaker A: Yeah. Then there's like there's a little Tomika bus of the cruiser.
There's a T shirt that says I am Groot on it with little Groot. And it's all done like the artwork is all done like his It's a Small World kind of artwork.
[00:10:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:49] Speaker A: There's a pin, there's a tote bag. And there's also a headband because you know, headbands are the thing to do.
And it's like Groot looks like he's like resting on Your head, which is really adorable. I think so. Yeah. Like, there's not a lot of merchandise, but what. What is there is really cute. And I think it's incredibly niche. Like, I think, like, once this stuff is gone, we're never gonna see this again.
[00:11:14] Speaker B: Like, unless it do the event again.
[00:11:18] Speaker A: Like, I wouldn't be mad.
I wouldn't be mad at that. Because they, like, they stopped doing the Christmas one. Right.
[00:11:27] Speaker B: I want Christmas Small World back.
[00:11:30] Speaker A: The Christmas one was cute.
[00:11:31] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:11:32] Speaker A: When did they stop that? Was it 2019 was the last time.
[00:11:35] Speaker B: I don't even know anymore.
[00:11:36] Speaker A: I think it was 2019. And then, of course, 2020, and, you know, everything changed after that.
[00:11:41] Speaker B: I like the stickers a lot.
[00:11:43] Speaker A: The stickers are cute.
[00:11:44] Speaker B: I like the sticker box. It looks like.
[00:11:47] Speaker A: I know. It's a little suitcase. It's just so cute. I love that. Yeah. I just. I love the. Love the design of it all. It's really well done.
[00:11:56] Speaker B: Yeah, I think so, too. It's really colorful, like pastel.
[00:12:00] Speaker A: Yeah. As for the ride itself, so if you, like. If you don't pay attention, you'll easily miss it on the outside of the attraction. So you know how there's music playing, right? Like, there's a loop. Music loop. Well, they added in some Marvel music, but it's redone to make it sound like it's part of It's a Small World. Like, it's. That it has the tune of It's a Small World. Like, it just. It sounds like it fits. Right.
[00:12:30] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:12:32] Speaker A: Which I thought was incredibly well done and.
[00:12:35] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:12:35] Speaker A: Subtle. Like, if you're not paying attention, you're gonna miss it. Right.
[00:12:39] Speaker B: Because it's just.
[00:12:39] Speaker A: Because you know how sometimes you just kind of tune out background noise.
[00:12:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:12:45] Speaker A: I think I forgot to look this up ahead of time. There might be two or three tracks. I think there's definitely, like. There's definitely two. One of them is the Avengers theme, and it's done with, like, you know, all the, like, all the different instruments and stuff that you hear outside of It's a Small World.
[00:13:04] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:13:05] Speaker A: Which I thought was so adorable.
So good.
And then, of course, they changed the sign on there. It says It's a Small World, and they added on the side with Groot, and there's, like, a little, you know, Groots on there and stuff. Yeah. The queue itself wasn't changed. There's nothing added in the queue. I. I took a look and there was. Yeah, they didn't add anything to the queue, which is fine. I was kind of hoping they would have, but.
Okay, fine, sure.
Everything is on the attraction. So as soon as you get on the attraction, because, you know, for. For ours, you. You get on it, and it turns left.
Then there's, like, all the cardboard cutouts on the sides.
That's where they added in some Groot stuff, which is really cute, right? Like, all these different signs and whatnot. And then once you go in, then this is where it kind of turns into, like, a Where's Waldo situation.
It's like, where's. Where's Groot going to show up? So he shows up in a variety of the.
The scenes. The first one you see is in the uk, where he's dressed up as one of the guards, you know, with the big hats.
[00:14:19] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh.
[00:14:20] Speaker A: His hat isn't like. His hat isn't the. Like the. The traditional one. Yeah, it is like a big shrub on top of his head that moves up and down, and it's, like, the cutest thing.
It's so. It's so cute.
[00:14:33] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:34] Speaker A: And then you just keep going around and, like, you see Groot in, like, the Netherlands or Dutch area.
And then you. You see him in Italy in one of the gondolas, and he's. That's where he's wearing, like, the gondolier outfit. And this is where you see Rocket.
[00:14:57] Speaker B: Rocket's there.
[00:14:58] Speaker A: And Rocket attached a rocket to the. Gone to the gondola.
[00:15:02] Speaker B: Oh, no.
[00:15:04] Speaker A: Which I think is just so funny.
And then. And then as. As you continue through, you start seeing more of the Marvel characters. Like, the Hulk shows up, and he's gigantic. I wasn't expecting him to be that big. Like, he was.
I don't even know how many feet tall. Like, probably a good seven feet tall. Maybe six. Seven feet.
He's big. It's in the. It's in the Greece area.
And then Groot is in there. I think they replaced Hercules with Groot. I think that's what happened.
[00:15:34] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:15:36] Speaker A: Which. Yeah, that's fine. It's cute.
And then, like, in the Japan area, that's where he's had, like, he has the dango and, you know, the whole Sakura scene. So I think Mantis and a couple other characters are in there from Guardians of the Galaxy.
And then.
Yeah, you just keep going. You keep seeing more and more Marvel characters beside Groot and whatnot. Like, there's the Black Panther, Captain America.
Dr. Strange shows up, which I think is really fun. One of my favorites, though, was Groot was in. I think it was like, in the. In the Africa section.
[00:16:17] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:16:17] Speaker A: Groot has a gigantic magnifying glass, and behind it is Ant man and the wasp.
[00:16:23] Speaker B: Mm.
[00:16:25] Speaker A: Which I think they were riding an insect or something.
[00:16:28] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh.
[00:16:29] Speaker A: But it was just, like. It was just so cute.
And then another really cool one that I thought was really fun was Thor. So, you know the. The. The whole raining scene.
[00:16:40] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:16:41] Speaker A: So Groot's in there and Thor's there, and they're. And they're underneath. Like. Is it a mushroom or something? They're underneath. I don't remember what it is.
[00:16:50] Speaker B: Oh, no.
[00:16:51] Speaker A: Or a big leaf or something like that. Anyway, then there's, like, a big lightning bolt that comes down where Thor is standing, which I thought was so well done. I wasn't expecting that.
[00:17:02] Speaker B: Oh, cute.
[00:17:04] Speaker A: And then in the penguin scene, Captain. I think it's Captain America and Groot are, like, spinning around with the penguins on the ice on top of the shield. Oh, fun.
They see Groot, like, holding on to the boots of Captain Marvel as she's, like, flying over. I think it was like the. The. The South America section, which I thought was actually pretty fun. That one was like. I almost missed that one.
[00:17:35] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:17:36] Speaker A: Because it was, like. It was, like, kind of far off.
Then in the. In the Australia section, Groot was playing the. The. Not the kazoo, is it? What's the name of that big, long instrument?
[00:17:53] Speaker B: Didgeridoo.
[00:17:53] Speaker A: Didgeridoo. That's what it is. Not the kazoo. That's a little plastic thing. Yeah, he was playing the didgeridoo, which, again, was very cute.
[00:18:02] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:18:06] Speaker A: But Groot and the Marvel characters weren't in the final scene, so where it's all. Everyone's in white and light blue colors.
[00:18:16] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:18:17] Speaker A: None of the Marvel characters were in that. In that section.
[00:18:20] Speaker B: Okay, that's good. That's good.
[00:18:22] Speaker A: Well, like, Groot is the only character that showed up multiple times. Every other character was only once, which I guess makes sense, right?
[00:18:31] Speaker B: It makes sense. Yeah.
[00:18:32] Speaker A: Yeah. Groot. Groot is, like, the one that's kind of going around. Right.
[00:18:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:18:38] Speaker A: Which I think is really, really cute.
[00:18:40] Speaker B: He, like, runs into his friends in different places.
[00:18:43] Speaker A: Like, overall, I was. I was quite skeptical of this. I thought it was. I was like, I don't know how I feel about this. Like, it's a small world. Like, you're kind of mixing two very different worlds.
[00:18:58] Speaker B: So it's like, does it matter?
[00:19:00] Speaker A: Disney characters? I can like Disney characters. I'm like, okay. Like.
[00:19:07] Speaker B: You know, it's selling. It's selling this.
[00:19:10] Speaker A: It's a sales tactic, 100%. But just from a thematic thing. Like, I, I could understand with like, the Disney characters. Like, okay, Peter Pan and Wendy are in the UK section. Okay, that makes sense. Like, the characters made sense. Yeah. So I was like, how are they going to pull it off with Marvel characters? And I think they did a really good job with it. I think they, they pulled it off. And it's one of those things. If you, if you didn't know this was going on and didn't really pay attention, you can miss it.
And I guess that kind of goes to show, like, how well it was integrated into the attraction. Like, it feels like it's something that was always there, even though it's not.
So if you weren't paying attention, you could easily just like, not even really think about it and potentially miss it all.
So I think that just kind of goes to show just how much thought and care was put into doing this. Because it's a Small World, it's a classic attraction, and altering it with just the Marvel characters, like I said before, so out there in terms of a thing to do. But Tokyo Disney does strange things.
So, you know, like how we talked about.
I think it was last week's episode where we talked about how they did the whole Club Mickey thing in the early 2000s. So, you know, I'll take it and I will definitely ride this again. Like, 100%. I will do this.
[00:20:48] Speaker B: I mean, for sure. Yeah.
[00:20:50] Speaker A: And the wait time, like the first day that it opened, it was like a 40 minute wait or something, which is, which is quite high for It's a Small World.
[00:20:58] Speaker B: Yeah, it's a people eater. Like, if it's 40 minutes, it's like, it's like a crowded day, you know? So it's not like it's a hard attraction to get on.
[00:21:07] Speaker A: No, no, no. Like on a busy day, 30 minutes.
If that, if that.
[00:21:14] Speaker B: If.
[00:21:15] Speaker A: Yeah, like 15 minutes is like kind of average. Like 10 to 15 minutes is kind of where it is. But yeah, like you said, it's a people eater. So don't expect to have to wait a very long time to get on this, which is nice. Sometimes it's nice to have attractions that aren't gonna take forever to get on.
[00:21:34] Speaker B: You know, and it kind of like it's a long attraction too, so you can kind of like relax, kick back, you know?
[00:21:42] Speaker A: Oh, 100%.
And if you're like, if you're a Groot fan, you're gonna absolutely love this. Like, I think it's just, it's. It's just so fun.
[00:21:51] Speaker B: Yeah. I think for Marvel fans in general, it's a really great thing. You know, it's really enjoyable.
[00:21:58] Speaker A: And, like, the merchandise is very niche.
So, like, if you're a Marvel fan, like, this is some stuff that you're gonna want to get.
[00:22:06] Speaker B: Yeah. It's not a design. It's like, not a design and color scheme that you often see. So for sure, it's really adorable.
[00:22:14] Speaker A: Yeah. So it's something that you're probably gonna want to get for sure. So that's why I bought. I bought the clear file and the. In the postcard, like, the stuff that has, like, the attraction poster. Yeah, I. I really, really wanted that stuff. Yeah, it's so cute.
I'm just like. I'm just sitting here looking at the poster, and it's just. It just makes. It just makes me so happy.
[00:22:38] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, it's a happy attraction. You know.
[00:22:44] Speaker A: I didn't notice that they drew Goose the cat. Goose. He has little tentacles coming out of his mouth.
[00:22:50] Speaker B: Little tentacles coming out.
[00:22:52] Speaker A: That's cute.
[00:22:53] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:22:54] Speaker A: Yeah.
Well, hopefully you get to do this at some point soon.
[00:22:59] Speaker B: Like, we might. Like, we. I think we go, like, about once a year now. So, like, spring is, like, really nice weather, so maybe we'll go spring ish or something if it's not too crowded.
[00:23:14] Speaker A: Yeah, it's not a bad idea.
I do, like, like I said earlier, I do think this is going to be something. Like, this is definitely conditioning people to having Marvel in our parks here.
So I'm just like. I'm just wondering what they're going to do next for Marvel stuff. I guess, like, really realistically, like, the Tomorrowland area is kind of where Marvel stuff could kind of go, I guess, like, Baymax. Is Baymax technically Marvel now or is.
[00:23:51] Speaker B: I mean, kind.
[00:23:52] Speaker A: Yeah, I think he kind of is. So, I mean, like, Tomorrowland's kind of become like, the de facto area for Marvel and Star wars, right?
So I can see them, I guess, like, because we don't fully know what else they're doing with Tomorrowland. Right. Other than they're expanding it and we're getting, you know, obviously Space Mountain, and we're getting the Wreck It Ralph.
My guess. My guess is the stitch encounter is probably on the chopping block.
[00:24:21] Speaker B: It's a tiny space, though.
[00:24:24] Speaker A: Like, could they do, like, I don't know, like a.
Like a turtle talk type of thing with a Groot? With Groot, he just goes, groot. I am Groot.
[00:24:36] Speaker B: Like Rocket.
Yeah, like, that'd be kind of cool.
[00:24:40] Speaker A: Could we get, like, a Monsters Laugh floor type thing with rocket, you know?
Could that be a thing? I don't know.
[00:24:47] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:24:48] Speaker A: But, yeah, like, I could see that. That building, like, the stitch encounter. It's Stitching counter. No. Is that what it is?
[00:24:55] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:24:56] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, I could see that. That's probably on its last legs, especially with this re. With this revamp. Revamp coming in 2027. So I can see them closing that once the Wreck It Ralph attraction opens.
[00:25:16] Speaker B: I feel like it's such a small space. I wonder if, like, a meet and greet would be popular, like, to put into that area.
[00:25:24] Speaker A: I mean, people love a meet. People love meet and greets.
[00:25:27] Speaker B: They do. Yeah.
[00:25:30] Speaker A: You could add more. Like, I wouldn't be mad. With a Marvel meet and greet. I wouldn't.
[00:25:33] Speaker B: Oh, not at all. That would be awesome. For sure.
[00:25:36] Speaker A: That would be fitting, I think, because, like, we have it. Like, it's in Hong Kong. They have an area in Shanghai. So it's just. It's not out of the question.
[00:25:47] Speaker B: And they could, like, switch out characters. They could add new characters when they want to. Like, it could be really cool.
[00:25:52] Speaker A: Yeah. I could see them doing something like that because. Yeah. Like you said, it's a small space. Right.
I also wonder, though, like, because Star Tours is in Tomorrowland. Pan Galactic Pizza Ports in Tomorrowland. Like, are those in danger?
[00:26:13] Speaker B: I don't know. They always need restaurants, though.
[00:26:16] Speaker A: Yeah. Like, I don't think they would take a restaurant and turn to an attraction. They probably turn to a different restaurant.
I hope they never touch Pan Galactic because that just feels so classic Tomorrowland to me. Like, especially with Tony Salaroni.
[00:26:31] Speaker B: That's really cute.
[00:26:32] Speaker A: It would be sad to lose. It would be sad to lose that.
[00:26:35] Speaker B: I think that's a big space, though. Like, if they did, like, if they did want to make, like, a big attraction, they could take out the restaurant and Stitch and just make. Just take that whole area.
[00:26:47] Speaker A: Or they could potentially.
You know, where the stage, the outdoor stage that was meant to be temporary, I think, when it was built.
[00:26:57] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:26:57] Speaker A: Like that. And taking out Star Tours to make a big attraction. They could do that. Yeah. Because I guess they would have space behind.
[00:27:06] Speaker B: Yeah, that would be a massive area. Right.
[00:27:08] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't see them getting rid of Monsters Inc.
No, I don't see them doing that.
But Star Tours, maybe. I don't know.
[00:27:19] Speaker B: It's hard to say. It's another people eater, so I don't know.
[00:27:22] Speaker A: Maybe it's hard to say.
Yeah.
I wouldn't be mad if they did something with Tomorrowland Terrace. Like, the food there is good, but the restaurant is kind of like.
[00:27:31] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:27:33] Speaker A: Like, I do love that. I do, I do love going there for the views to watch like Electrical Parade and the, and the like Reach for the Stars.
[00:27:41] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:27:42] Speaker A: Show like getting, getting there like an hour, hour and a half before the show starts and like getting one of those tables right up against there, that is like the perfect viewing area.
[00:27:52] Speaker B: I'm surprised they don't charge for that.
[00:27:54] Speaker A: I know, I know. Like, am I, am I, am I laying the cat out of the bag? I think, I think we talked about it before, so you know.
[00:28:01] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:28:01] Speaker A: It's not like there's millions of people listening, so it's fine.
Yeah, I, I love doing that when I'm like, I want a really chill evening. Like, you know what, I'm gonna go get an early dinner. I'm gonna stake a spot for Electrical Parade and it's on one of those tables out on the terrace and you overlook the water and you get to see the castle and there's nobody in front of you whatsoever. And the best part is you didn't have to pay for dpa. I guess like you, you should buy food. You shouldn't just take up a space and.
[00:28:30] Speaker B: No, you have to buy food.
[00:28:32] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, so buy food. But you know, that's like what, a thousand yen? So still.
Yeah, it's, it's, it's nice. And you get to sit like in an actual chair, you know.
So like that's what I like to do for watching shows. I've done that quite a few times. It's, it's, it's nice.
[00:28:50] Speaker B: It's pretty popular. It's kind of like a battle for the table. So.
[00:28:53] Speaker A: Yeah, it is. Like you get, you, you have to get there like if you're there an hour before you're too late, like you need to do it like an hour and a half, two hours beforehand. Like people get those spots.
[00:29:04] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:29:05] Speaker A: It does get a little cold in the winter though, because it's out in the open.
Like there's nothing kind of protecting you from the wind. So it can get quite cold out there.
But like if they were gonna do something like Marvel related or something like, I don't know, change that restaurant to a Marvel restaurant, I kind of don't care, you know?
[00:29:29] Speaker B: Yeah, agreed. That restaurant is not only there was when like the, you know, our child was young and it has like a lot of like kid friendly options.
[00:29:41] Speaker A: You know, their, their chicken nan bond sandwich is actually quite good.
I really like that. Sandwich. It's like one of my.
One of my little guilty pleasures. Like, it's not aesthetically pleasing. It's not cute in any way. It's just good.
[00:29:56] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:29:58] Speaker A: I, like, I wouldn't mind them if they did something like Marvel with that, I think, because, yeah, it's not themed to anything. It's just Tomorrowland aesthetic.
[00:30:06] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:30:07] Speaker A: Which is dated incredibly.
[00:30:09] Speaker B: It could be really fun if they did decide to, like, go with Marvel.
[00:30:14] Speaker A: Yeah. Or even, like, if they wanted to continue the theme with Baymax. Turn something. Baymax. I guess, because it's literally across the street across the way and they do sell Baymax burgers in there.
[00:30:25] Speaker B: So popular.
[00:30:27] Speaker A: I can see them do something with Baymax as well.
[00:30:30] Speaker B: Mm.
[00:30:31] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. I'm just very curious what their plans are with Marvel. Like, I'm pretty sure they are talking about it, like, about it, because, you know, these projects take years.
[00:30:41] Speaker B: Oh, for sure.
[00:30:42] Speaker A: I'm sure. I'm sure whatever plan they have is probably already in place. They just haven't announced it yet. So.
[00:30:50] Speaker B: Yeah, I wonder.
[00:30:52] Speaker A: I wonder. But yeah, I think it would make sense. They're not going to really say much yet for the stitching counter because I'm pretty sure that's probably going to go away once the Wreck It Ralph opens, because it opens in 2026. So. Yeah, that's next year, obviously. Don't know when in 2026, but it's opening sometime next year. So, like, they wouldn't want to have two Attra. Well, they wouldn't want to have three attractions in Tomorrowland. Not operating like two already is quite.
[00:31:23] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. Yeah, it'll pretty much be closed. Right.
[00:31:26] Speaker A: Because Space Mountain. Space Mountain and Astroblasters were people eaters.
[00:31:32] Speaker B: Those were people eaters and they're like, really popular attractions. Yeah.
[00:31:35] Speaker A: Yeah. So having. Having another one go down. Not that Stitch Encounter is a big people eater.
[00:31:40] Speaker B: Well, it's. It's. The thing is, it's. It's for little kids, you know, so it does serve the audience. And there's not a lot of attractions in To Marlin that do, you know, like, I guess Monsters Inc. But like, that's even for, like, you can even bring smaller kids into that and they'll have a good time, you know?
[00:31:59] Speaker A: Yeah.
Yeah. So I'm just. I'm very interested to see what's going to happen with all of this.
I keep looking at the poster and it's just. It just makes me so happy to look at it. Oh, which is your favorite Marvel movie?
[00:32:16] Speaker B: So hard.
[00:32:19] Speaker A: Or Franchise let's say franchise. Like, franchise, Marvel franchise. Like, I guess, like, with whatever superhero.
[00:32:30] Speaker B: I don't know. I like all of them. Like, oh, well, okay. Not all of them, but, like, I'm just glad that they make Marvel movies, like, at all, you know, because, like, when I was a kid, you too. Like, you're similar. Similar age. Like, it was very. Marvel was, like, the uncool property. Right. And so, like, it just makes me happy that the movies are getting love. So I'm, like, really excited to see what, like, the futures I want to see. Like, I want to see what they do with X Men, you know, because as a kid, I really loved reading the X Men comics, so I'm really excited for that, you know?
But I like the Thor movies, even though I know those aren't the most popular ones. I think they're really funny and fun.
And I liked. It's not like, even a Marvel movie, but I liked she Hulk, you know, I thought it was a lot of fun.
[00:33:28] Speaker A: I thought it was fun. I thought it was fun.
[00:33:29] Speaker B: It was really fun. And I love witchy stuff, so anything with Scarlet Witch, I'm, like, there. I loved her show as well, you know.
Me too. Yeah.
I'm just excited to see, like, I would like them to play around with, like, different genres, you know, like a superhero movie, you know, like, go like, into horror. Go into, like, you know, like, do, like, different. Like, really creative stuff. Would be really cool.
[00:33:59] Speaker A: Yeah.
I think for me, if I. If you made me pick one, I'd probably say Guardians of the Galaxy.
[00:34:06] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. That's really fun. For sure.
[00:34:08] Speaker A: That's a fun one. I really like Guardians of the Galaxy.
It's probably the one I would. I would definitely choose, I think.
[00:34:16] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
100%.
And, like, spider Man's fun, too. Yeah, that's true. There's, like. So it's so hard to choose.
Like, I feel like when I'm in the moment, I'm enjoying it. And that's, like, the only thing, you know, I don't think I have necessarily, like, a favorite, you know?
[00:34:37] Speaker A: Yeah.
Yeah. I'm wondering.
Yeah, I'm just wondering how much Marvel we're ever going to get. Like, because I know, like, Disney California Adventure, like, anytime there's, like, a new Marvel TV show, a character shows up. Right?
Yeah, I don't think we'll get to that level here.
[00:34:58] Speaker B: No, I don't think so at all. You know, because we. We just. Our parks don't do that. That's, like, definitely, like, a California. And, like, I Guess sometimes like a Disney World thing, but like, mostly like California plays around with that, which is really fun, you know?
[00:35:12] Speaker A: Yeah.
Yeah. Hard to say, but I guess we. We shall see what they're going to end up doing.
[00:35:19] Speaker B: Heck, yeah.
[00:35:20] Speaker A: In the meantime, it's always fun. Yeah. I. I wouldn't be mad if they brought It's a Small World of the group back every so often.
[00:35:27] Speaker B: I feel like they will. Right. Because they already spent the money on it. So.
[00:35:31] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't think. Well, if this was 15 years ago, this probably would have been a one and done, but. Oh, yeah, nowadays. Yeah, we see this once, we're probably gonna see it again because. Yeah. Money was spent.
[00:35:44] Speaker B: Yeah. I want to see the Christmas come back for sure.
[00:35:48] Speaker A: Yeah, the Christmas would be fun.
Christmas would be a fun one. I missed that. I don't even remember the last time I did it. I probably did it.
I did the last year they did it, which I'm pretty sure was 2019, something like that.
[00:36:03] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:36:07] Speaker A: I don't think we're gonna see it again, though.
[00:36:10] Speaker B: Oh, no. That would be so sad.
But look, they brought back the country bear.
[00:36:17] Speaker A: Okay, you're right. You're right.
[00:36:19] Speaker B: Right.
So never say never.
[00:36:22] Speaker A: Okay, you're. You're right. You're right on that one.
I just don't think they would do them back to back because, you know, we just like, Christmas just ended. So I don't think they would do Christmas and then switch over to this.
[00:36:37] Speaker B: They need like a. Like a break in between.
[00:36:40] Speaker A: Yeah. It'd be one or the other, I think.
[00:36:43] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:36:44] Speaker A: Or move Groot to a different time because. Yeah. Like, I guess the winter time is usually when they try. They try these interesting events just to get people to go to the parks. Because it's typically a slower time.
[00:36:58] Speaker B: It would be kind of cool if they, like, expand on it. Like they do the attraction again and they do like a greeting or something like that. I guess like a palpalooza or whatever the character thing they do now is.
[00:37:11] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, the palpalooza. Yeah, the palapalooza stuff.
I. I haven't been able to do the vanellope stuff yet.
[00:37:20] Speaker B: It looks so cute. Yeah. I don't know. I'm thinking about it. I'm like. I'm heavily considering it.
[00:37:26] Speaker A: You should go and do it.
[00:37:28] Speaker B: Really adorable.
[00:37:29] Speaker A: You should go and do it. I should just go, Go, go, go, go.
[00:37:33] Speaker B: No, but if I go and going in the spring, I'm not going right now because it's.
[00:37:36] Speaker A: It's chilly, it's cold, it's getting cold in the evenings.
[00:37:41] Speaker B: Yeah, it's getting better. Today was warm.
[00:37:44] Speaker A: Yeah, today was oddly warm. The other day was like, what, minus one in the evening. Like, it was chilly.
[00:37:50] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like, it's very unpredictable right now. But, like, I. I want to aim. I want to aim for spring.
[00:37:56] Speaker A: Yeah, that's fair.
[00:37:57] Speaker B: Yeah. And they'll have, like, cherry blossom merchandise and stuff, which I would also go for.
[00:38:04] Speaker A: Some of that already came out at the Disney Store today, actually.
[00:38:07] Speaker B: Oh, my God. Because they do everything so early.
[00:38:10] Speaker A: I know.
[00:38:11] Speaker B: That's right. It's not even February yet.
[00:38:16] Speaker A: Yeah, I think I. I think it's too early for the Sakura stuff.
[00:38:20] Speaker B: Honestly, I feel like we're all. I, I, we, You know, we say this every year. It's like the holiday creep is, like, for real here. Like, I feel like cherry blossoms. Like Starbucks, too. Like, the cherry blossom drink gets earlier and earlier and earlier, and it, like, it's not even available in the spring anymore. It's, like, late. It's like late winter, you know, which is so odd. It is so odd. Like, I know we're feeling spring, that we want spring. I get that idea. But I feel like they should make, like, a version two, which actually, you know how, like, they have, like, the Valentine's Day drinks and they have, like, the first phase and, like, the second phase. Like, I wish I would do, like, an early. We're thinking of spring phase and then actually have the drink available in the spring. You know what I mean?
[00:39:09] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm just looking at the Sakura stuff that.
[00:39:14] Speaker B: How is it this year? This is super cute.
[00:39:16] Speaker A: It's super cute. Here, I'll send. I'll put the link in the show notes so you can see it.
It's at the top. It. They kind of went for, like, a.
A curly aesthetic with the characters. Like, the character's fur is kind of, like, little longer and curlier, and it's like different shades of pink.
[00:39:40] Speaker B: Yeah. It feels like very Disney store.
[00:39:43] Speaker A: Yeah, it's. It's definitely not Tokyo Disney. So this is definitely like. Yeah, Disney Store stuff because. Yeah, I kind of like all the different hues of pink, which I think is fun.
[00:39:55] Speaker B: Yeah, I do. I think they're. They're. The colors that they chose are really pretty.
[00:39:59] Speaker A: I like that scrump is like a purplish pink.
[00:40:02] Speaker B: Yeah, it's really vintage.
[00:40:04] Speaker A: Stitch is like a purplish pink. Yeah. Marie's like, Obviously Marie's a white cat, but then she has, like, different pink hues in her bow and her Cheeks and stuff. And yeah. Piglets naturally pink, of course.
Oh, it's really cute. And then, yeah, they. Mickey and Minnie and their kimonos. Pink kimonos. Those are fun.
I'm always a sucker when they change.
[00:40:30] Speaker B: Like when they do like wafu poo, like, like the, like seasonal, like cherry blossom, like Japan style. Winnie the Pooh always. For some reason, it goes really well together.
[00:40:42] Speaker A: It just. It looks so cute.
[00:40:44] Speaker B: It does.
[00:40:45] Speaker A: I love stitch holding the little scrump plush. And scrump is like the different color, like, hue stuff.
[00:40:52] Speaker B: Scrump looks really cute. I kind of want the scrump keychain.
[00:40:55] Speaker A: The scrump kitchen's cute.
[00:40:57] Speaker B: It is.
[00:40:58] Speaker A: Oh, and our tsum tsums are still going strong. Are they still got tsum tsums?
[00:41:02] Speaker B: Well, the game is still really popular.
[00:41:05] Speaker A: Yeah.
And oh my goodness, the hakama alien.
Oh my God, he's wearing a little hakama. Hakama is like a type of Japanese clothing. It's not quite a kimono.
It's hakama's for men. Right? Men only.
[00:41:24] Speaker B: No, you women can wear it like, like, like the. What's it called? What is that period called? My brain is mush.
[00:41:33] Speaker A: Edo period.
[00:41:35] Speaker B: Not. Not Edo period. Like later.
What is it? Wait, hold on.
[00:41:42] Speaker A: My brain go Edo and then Showa maybe or something.
And then there's a. There's a kimono green alien, which is really fun. These are like little, like little mascots. Oh, my goodness. There's a green alien wearing a pink taiyaki on his head.
[00:42:02] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh.
Yeah. Like they always have good merch, you know?
[00:42:08] Speaker A: Yeah. A lot of Baymax stuff. I guess Baymax is kind of easy to work into any color palette because you. He's just white with two black dots and a line. You can just add whatever else you need to to him.
[00:42:22] Speaker B: 100%.
[00:42:24] Speaker A: Oh, my goodness. There is a dango mochi keychain in all the dango.
[00:42:29] Speaker B: Taisho. Taisho freaking period.
[00:42:31] Speaker A: Oh, Taisho Taisho.
Now that you say. I'm like, oh, yeah, it went Edo then Taisho, didn't it? Or something.
[00:42:40] Speaker B: What?
[00:42:41] Speaker A: The order of the eras.
[00:42:44] Speaker B: Edo era, Japan era, Meiji. Taisho. Ish.
[00:42:52] Speaker A: Oh, God.
Now I'm just pulling it up on Wikipedia. Oh, there's so many.
[00:43:01] Speaker B: Where there are so many.
[00:43:03] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Oh, that's way in the 1200s. Okay.
[00:43:07] Speaker B: Yeah. It's really stylish.
[00:43:09] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, Yeah. I don't know why I said Edo. Edo is like long time ago. I don't know why I Said Edo. Edo's a very long time ago. Yeah.
[00:43:18] Speaker B: The more recent Taisho in general is like a really, like, fashionable, retro, fashionable period.
[00:43:26] Speaker A: Because it was after the. Wait, it was after the. It was during World War I.
[00:43:31] Speaker B: It was.
[00:43:32] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it goes like, the modern Japan is Meiji era, which is 1868.
[00:43:39] Speaker B: Changes were happening.
[00:43:41] Speaker A: Yeah. So that was 1868. Then in 1912, it changed to the Taisho era, which went on for 15. Only 15 years.
[00:43:50] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:43:50] Speaker A: And changed in 1926 to the Showa era, which lasted 64 years. I was born in the Showa era. I had to learn about that because. Well, you know, this. Some document, government documents, we have to fill out. We cannot put the Western.
[00:44:07] Speaker B: You have to put the. The. Yeah.
[00:44:10] Speaker A: The era and the year that you were born.
[00:44:13] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:44:13] Speaker A: Which is interesting. So I. I know, I know.
[00:44:16] Speaker B: It's my heart.
[00:44:16] Speaker A: It's like I'm Showa 60. That's the year I was born. So it's like. It's just weird. Like, I have to circle shoah and then write 60, which is like such a weird thing. I. Is it for health insurance? I don't remember. It was like, there's some various.
[00:44:32] Speaker B: Various things required.
[00:44:33] Speaker A: It seems very random. Like, okay, show us 60.
[00:44:37] Speaker B: Oh, I think the doctor's off.
[00:44:39] Speaker A: I think the doctor's office. I had to do that once. I had to fill it in. It's like Showa 60, you know?
Yeah. The Show. Show era went to 1989, and to 89 to 2019 was the Heisei era.
[00:44:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:44:53] Speaker A: And then after that was.
Well, in the current one, we are now in the Reiwa era.
[00:45:00] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:45:01] Speaker A: And for those that don't know, the eras are for the emperor. So when the emperor dies, or in our case in 2019, steps down, then the era changes and starts over at 1. Is it 1 or 0? I think it's 1.
[00:45:19] Speaker B: Oh, no, I think it starts at.
[00:45:22] Speaker A: 1 or something like that. Yeah. It's more just a traditional thing at this point. Like, it's not like. Other than, like, some government forms. Like, for the most part, everything's just like, you know, the. The standard year that most countries use.
[00:45:38] Speaker B: It's like your generation too, you know?
[00:45:40] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. Taisho era. Because that's when the. The anime Demon Slayer takes place.
[00:45:49] Speaker B: You know, it's so funny. Like, the Taisho era, like, that's actually what kind of got me into fountain pens, because I saw on Fashion Snap, they had like, the Taisho kind of like. Like colors from that era, like inks, and I was like, oh, that's really cool. But I don't have a way to use them.
So I started picking up, like, fountain pens and, like, glass pens and stuff around that time.
[00:46:16] Speaker A: That's fun.
[00:46:17] Speaker B: The colors are really pretty.
[00:46:22] Speaker A: We got really derailed here.
Yeah, well, yeah, we were. We were talking about the Sakura stuff. The task.
[00:46:30] Speaker B: They could do, like. They could. Oh, my gosh. They could do, like, Marvel Cherry Blossom season goods. That would be really cool.
[00:46:41] Speaker A: I want to be mad at that. Like, just. Just make it like. You know what? I'm a sucker. Make it cute. I will. I will probably like it like that.
[00:46:49] Speaker B: Make like a Marvel Ohanami party and with, like, food. Like the matching foods and everything. Like picnic food.
[00:46:58] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:46:59] Speaker B: And cocktails and stuff.
And they could do, like, I don't know, some kind of, like, performance or something. I don't know.
[00:47:08] Speaker A: Speaking of, like, new stuff coming out, I guess, I think we've kind of said everything we need to say about Marvel. The it's small world stuff. There's not much else to say about it.
This is kind of sort of changing topics a little bit, but There's.
On the 25th, the card game is coming out here.
[00:47:30] Speaker B: Oh, the Lorcana. Yeah, yeah. It's really popular, right?
[00:47:35] Speaker A: Yeah, it's very popular in the West. I have. I have the English Lorcana cards, actually.
[00:47:41] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:47:42] Speaker A: It comes out on the 25th here. And there's. There's adverts everywhere for it. It's at. The adverts are. They're actually. Well, I don't know. Have you seen them? It's in the. It's in the. The walk of shame in. In Tokyo station to. To the KO line.
[00:47:58] Speaker B: Oh, really?
[00:47:59] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:48:00] Speaker B: I haven't seen it. I was just there. Oh, I might have missed it because.
[00:48:05] Speaker A: So, you know, usually on the wall, like, the moving walkways, the walls, like Twisted Wonderland, which is like some kind of like. Yeah, but I saw pictures and the Lorcana adverts were on the pillars. You know, the pillars with the big posters. Those were all Lorcana.
[00:48:23] Speaker B: Oh, wow.
[00:48:24] Speaker A: I'm just pulling it up here. Yeah.
Junior.
Junior Tokyo. Eki. Tokyo. Ko.
Yeah. Kosen. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:48:40] Speaker B: When does it come out?
[00:48:42] Speaker A: 25Th. Which is what. When is that?
[00:48:44] Speaker B: Like, in a couple of days.
[00:48:46] Speaker A: Saturday. So I kind of want to go buy, like, I have, because I think they're only doing the first chapter, which is the first series set, so I think they're just doing that. And I already have it in English, but I'm like, Do I want to start collecting this in Japanese?
[00:49:04] Speaker B: Like, do you play?
[00:49:05] Speaker A: I do.
[00:49:07] Speaker B: Where do you go to play?
[00:49:10] Speaker A: Play with friends.
[00:49:12] Speaker B: That's cool.
[00:49:13] Speaker A: Yeah, I have, I have like, I bought like, I even bought the special set that came at D23 in Anaheim earlier last year.
[00:49:26] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:49:27] Speaker A: Oh, do I want to, do I want to get into this? I don't know.
[00:49:30] Speaker B: You do want to get into it, Chris. You know you do.
[00:49:35] Speaker A: I just love that it's Japanese.
Oh. And it's so. In the west, it's Ravensburg, the company Ravensburg that does it. In Japan, it's Takara Tomi.
[00:49:48] Speaker B: Oh, interesting.
[00:49:49] Speaker A: That's doing it.
So the packaging is. Looks a little different.
[00:49:55] Speaker B: Okay, shoot.
[00:49:57] Speaker A: I probably will have to go buy it.
[00:49:59] Speaker B: You kind of have to, right? At least try to see what it's like, like the differences and stuff.
[00:50:04] Speaker A: Oh, my God. Oh, my goodness. I could start doing like a. I could do another YouTube channel and be like the person that you can do like the game.
[00:50:13] Speaker B: Like you. There are people, you know how like, people do like the, like the podcasts on like the, like the role playing games. Like, you could do. You could do like, like a, like a stream of like the card game or something. I think that would be really entertaining.
[00:50:28] Speaker A: Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. I just, I. Okay, I, I was going through like, I'm on the Japanese Lorcana website.
[00:50:35] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:50:36] Speaker A: My friend Anyan is on the website. She's gonna be doing like a live event for the Lorcana game.
[00:50:45] Speaker B: Oh, I can see that. Yeah, she does a lot of like, ads and stuff, so. Of course.
[00:50:50] Speaker A: Well, and she has her own fashion line.
[00:50:52] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:50:52] Speaker A: So like, if. Okay, so if anyone's listening and they want to watch like a Japanese YouTuber and maybe, you know, practice listening to Japan, like natural Japanese and stuff. That's not a scripted TV show. And I don't really like Japanese television. It's too over the top for me.
But yeah, Anyan, she's a friend of mine. She does, she's a big youtuber, mostly does Disney stuff. She has her own clothing line, but she does a lot of collaborations with Disney. So she has like a lot of like really cute, like cutesy kind of clothes that she designs.
So I think that's something.
She, she does a lot of pop up shops here. I'll put the link in the, in the show notes for you.
Yeah, she does. Yeah, she does a lot of pop ups. Like she has her own little fashion line stuff. So. Yeah, Anyan is her name.
[00:51:45] Speaker B: Yeah, she's super popular.
[00:51:47] Speaker A: Yeah. Like she has like 500, 000 subscribers or something. She is spelled. Her name is spelled in English as a I N Y, a N, I think Anya. Yeah.
So yeah, if you want to. Want to go listen to something like that again, go, go and check her out. And then there's two other women doing it. I don't know who these women are, though. They look like two big celebrities.
But it's happening in Ikebukuro. Sunshine City makes sense.
[00:52:20] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:52:22] Speaker A: Yep. That's where the female otaku scene thrives.
[00:52:27] Speaker B: I feel like that's where like the otaku scene kind of are like, move to. Because, like, it's not kind of moving.
[00:52:36] Speaker A: Anymore, lack of a better term has been gentrified.
[00:52:39] Speaker B: Yeah, it's too.
[00:52:40] Speaker A: It's too mainstream.
[00:52:42] Speaker B: Yeah, it's very mean.
[00:52:44] Speaker A: It's become very mainstream. Like, once Uni Glow moved in and Muji and all that, it's like, oh, this is like turning into every other neighborhood, which is a little, little sad because I like Aki. Like, I still like Akihabar. I still love going there.
[00:52:58] Speaker B: It's just.
[00:52:58] Speaker A: It's not what it was even 10 years ago.
[00:53:01] Speaker B: The fandom is in Ikebukuro for sure. Like, all the different fandoms and shopping is much, much better there. Like, the things in Akihabara are so marked up because of the tourists.
[00:53:14] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:53:15] Speaker B: It's not for people that live here anymore.
[00:53:17] Speaker A: Especially, like, if you go to the used shops. Like, people they know, tourists don't understand what these things should be priced at. So they're usually priced a little bit higher.
[00:53:28] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:53:28] Speaker A: If you go to someplace like Sunshine City, you can kind of. You can still find something even.
[00:53:34] Speaker B: Sunshine City is like a shopping mall, like, to go to, like.
[00:53:37] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, I meant like. Yes. Yeah, sorry, I. I meant like Ikebukuro, not. Not Sunshine City.
[00:53:44] Speaker B: Yeah, like, you gotta go to the little shops, you know?
[00:53:48] Speaker A: Yeah. It's like the. You kind of do a little bit of digging.
[00:53:51] Speaker B: You do. Yeah.
[00:53:52] Speaker A: To find these places.
Oh, that's exciting. Okay. You know, I'm going to have to go buy Lorcana. I'm going to go buy.
[00:53:58] Speaker B: I. Do it. Do it.
[00:54:00] Speaker A: I don't know where to buy it, though. I'm trying to look. Where can I buy this?
[00:54:04] Speaker B: You said it's at the shopping mall.
[00:54:06] Speaker A: Well, that. That's for the event that they're hosting. Where can I buy this? So they have the booster packs. They have.
They have. Of course they have merchandise.
[00:54:20] Speaker B: It's probably like pre sale things.
[00:54:22] Speaker A: They have shoeheng goods.
Shuhan is like, peripheral or, like, auxiliary stuff.
[00:54:29] Speaker B: 100%.
[00:54:30] Speaker A: What is this? What is this?
Oh, they have, like, cart, like, sleeves. I don't know. I don't know if these sleeves are available outside of Japan or not. Like, one has Mickey on it, and it looks like he's in a gold forest. Another one is Elsa.
Not sure.
[00:54:51] Speaker B: I'm surprised if they don't sell it at Disney Store.
[00:54:56] Speaker A: Yeah. Because they do in the US Right? And they have playing mats. One has Maleficent and one has Steamboat Mickey.
I'm trying.
I'm trying to parse where this.
Where I can find this.
[00:55:11] Speaker B: It's got to be Disney Store. Like Disney Store or Kittyland or a card specialty shop or something.
[00:55:19] Speaker A: It's probably going to be a lot of places. Like, I feel like it's not just going to be.
[00:55:24] Speaker B: And probably, like, different places will have, like, different benefits from buying there.
[00:55:29] Speaker A: Yeah.
Why can't I see, like, usually they'll say, like, available at these stores kind of thing. I don't see it. I'm also on the Japanese website, so I'm like. I'm just, like, kind of scanning it.
Oh, you can get five days free of Disney plus when you buy. When you buy stuff.
[00:55:49] Speaker B: Of course.
[00:55:50] Speaker A: Of course they're doing it. Why aren't they?
That's hilarious. I mean, they're pushing Disney plus pretty hard.
Well, it was so funny because we basically had Disney plus in Japan for the longest time. It was called something else.
[00:56:04] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:56:05] Speaker A: Like, what was it called?
[00:56:08] Speaker B: I don't know. I don't remember. My son used to watch it.
[00:56:12] Speaker A: Yeah. It was basically Disney, Right?
[00:56:14] Speaker B: Was it like DLife or something like that or. No?
[00:56:16] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, we had it for years, and then it just kind of. It changed into Disney, which I guess. I guess that makes sense, right?
[00:56:27] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:56:28] Speaker A: Yeah. All right, well, I'm gonna. I'm gonna figure. I'm gonna figure this out. I have a few.
[00:56:33] Speaker B: It's got to be at the places that sell the. The collectible card games. Like, probably at the same. Same places.
You could probably even find it, like at Big Camera and Yodobashi and stuff. Like in the toy section probably.
[00:56:46] Speaker A: Like, wherever there's cards, they'll have them. So I think that's. Yeah.
Well, that's fun. That is very fun.
[00:56:54] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:56:57] Speaker A: Well, thank you so much for listening, Explorers. Before we go, though, we want to thank some wonderful explorers that are supporting the show over on Patreon. So if you want to support the show. Head ON over to patreon.com TDR now. So a big thank you to Acro Disney Girl, Adam, Amanda C, Amy B. Amy C. Mama Explorer Benjamin, Brent M. Carrie, Chris B, Claire, Claudia, Dave, David, Baker, Kevin, Harry, Marina, Beth, Eli, Robinson.
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[00:57:59] Speaker B: And now I cannot get the idea of, like, Groot with little cherry blossoms growing out of him in, like, merch.
So cute. I want that. Okay, you guys, let us know what your favorite Marvel movie is.
[00:58:16] Speaker A: Yeah, let us know.
[00:58:17] Speaker B: And what you would like to see in the parks. Like, if they did bring Marvel characters and IP here, what kind of attraction or what kind of event would you like to see? And keep exploring. We'll see you next time.
[00:58:31] Speaker A: All right. Explore. See you in the next one. Bye.
