Walkabout The World - A Disney Podcast - DHS Holiday Walkabout with Host Pete

Episode Date: December 12, 2024

Hello travelers! This week join host Pete the Neverland Local as you take in the vintage holiday vibes on a morning stroll through Disney's Hollywood Studios. Enjoy the seasonal sounds around Echo Lake, Grand Avenue, Commissary Lane, and Sunset Boulevard.    If you like what we do, consider joining our crew on Patreon. These wonderful people help us keep the microphones crisp and the servers warm at night. The best zero cost option for supporting us to give us a five star review on apple podcasts or wherever you listen.   Visit us at walkabouttheworld.com - find links to all the things - attraction episodes, Insta accounts of all the hosts, and even how to buy your own Walkabout shirt!   Look us up at @WalkaboutWDW on Instagram and drop us a note to say hi.   You can now also drop us at line at [e-mail]. Say hi, tell us how you found us, and give us some suggestions on things you'd love to hear.   Walkabout The World is a weekly Disney podcast, always recorded on property at Walt Disney World or Disneyland Resort with the simple goal of making you feel like you are in the middle of the magic.

The Oh, yeah. Well, good morning and welcome to another edition of Walk About the World. Today, if you heard on the intro here, I am at Hollywood Studios taking in some holiday sounds and sights for your ears. Over the last five, six, seven years, Hollywood Studios has become more and more popular around the holidays for their kitschy decorations and Christmas songs. And I wanted to bring some of that to you. So let's walk around Hollywood Studios and see what we can hear. Walking in the front gate, walked right down Hollywood Boulevard. I'm going to left

and now I am by the Kitchy Poodles right in front of Echo Lake. Let's take a walk around Echo Lake. I'll make sure to share some photos in the post so that you are able to see what I see

while hearing what I hear. Let's go. walking over here to echo lake christmas tree directly in front of me the ss down the hatch to my right beautiful gertie with her christ Christmas hat and a yellow ornament out of her mouth. Probably one of the most photogenic opportunities in the evening here at Hollywood Studios. It is a beautiful day today nary a cloud in the sky let's continue Thank you. Dinosaur Gertie's Ice Cream of Extinction here to our right.

Indiana Jones off to the attractions. The park just opened not long ago. As we head towards Muppet Courtyard, towards, we're not there yet, but we got vacation fun on our right-hand side. Long live Potato Land. And one of the few things still here from old MGM Studios is the Backlot Express restaurant here to our left. Food's good, atmosphere is better. Yeah. I agree. Yeah.

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I'm going to miss this fountain. We've got Muppet Vision 3D here on our right-hand side. Last call, last call. And Pizza Rizzo here on our left. Thank you. We're going to go over here to the side. We're going to go down. so so the muppet stage one company store hasn't reopened but they are utilizing it for jollywood so you're able to look inside man i missed that store too right here we have mama melrose italian restaurant on the right hand side and straight ahead we have it's a wonderful shop the christmas store again has not reopened but they're using it for joollywood.

It's a Wonderful Shop also has meet and greet with Santa Claus. So you can meet Santa Claus there. It will be interesting to see the turnaround that Pizzarizzo makes into whatever the new restaurant it will become. Curious to see what happens with it. Completing the loop around Muppet Courtyard, we have the Royal Flush on our right-hand side. Gonzo's Royal Flush. We all know what that is, right?

Alright, leaving Grand Avenue, we're going to head down what I like to refer as Commissary Row. We're going to head that way. See what we can hear. That came way before this. As we head here down Commissary Row, we have one of my favorite restaurants on property, the Sci-Fi Dine-In Restaurant.

If you haven't been, gotta go at least once. The experience alone is amazing. We got Mickey and Minnie's Red Carpet Dreams. Meet and greet with Mickey and Minnie on our right. And the best quick service restaurant in Hollywood Studios, the ABC Commissary.

Mostly I say that because they have steak fries. Steak fries rule. You know? Kamsuri Row is just kind of a cut-through from Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway over to Star Tours, Baseline, Muppets, things like that. Kind of a cut across. All righty. Popping out here. Outside of Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway. I can never say that. It's a mouthful. And it looks like Max Powerline is with a band,

and they are performing a wipeout dance out here. Let's go see what we can hear. Alright, here we go. One, two, one. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go.

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I don't know who thought of it, but great idea. It's great to have a little horn here in the parks. Heading across over to towards the Hollywood Brown Derby. More Christmas decorations. Make sure we snap some of those for you.

It's got such a chill vibe today in the parks. I don't know if it's just because it's early or what, but it just seems like everybody is hanging out. Alright, let's go over here to Sunset Boulevard. All right. Let's go over here to Sunset Boulevard. Oh, bitch. She's so pretty. We got Sunset Boulevard.

All the light posts have garland stars on them, lining both sides, leading to Her Majesty, the Hollywood Tower Hotel. I can't describe it. I can't describe it. I can't describe it. I can't describe it. I can't describe it. I can't describe it. I can't describe it. I can't describe it.

I can't describe it. I can't describe it. I can't describe it. I can't describe it. I can't describe it. I can't describe it. So this area at night is beautiful, right? Everything lit up and tower lit up and projection show, but there's something about walking down sunset during the shirt. All right. The Sunset Boulevard caricatures trolley is to our left.

Theater of the Stars with Beauty and the Beast is to our right. And I'm walking straight down the middle of Sunset Boulevard. Who's up for an ice cream cone here at Hollywood Scoops? I sure am. Anyone care to drop in? Looks like it's about a 35 minute wait. Not terrible right now. Hanging a left here. Gonna go down

to the sunset. Sunset showcase. Walking underneath the rock and roller coaster presented by G-Force Records. Let's see if they have some Christmas rock music playing. I imagine so.

Sure do. Let's take a photo of this big guitar. Pretzel Palooza. What do we think? Pretzels are good. Cheddar pretzel right about now. When we stopped at the end, she came and said, I'm going to eat this.

I'm going to eat this. I'm going to eat this. I'm going to eat this. I'm going to eat this. I'm going to eat this. I'm going to eat this. um Rock your face. Face spinning here to the right. So I want to say that one thing that I really enjoy about the parks, and it's evident today, is that whereas the parks are unbelievably magical in the evening, twinkling lights, you know, whether it's Christmas time, Halloween time,

decorations, all that stuff, but the parks are equally as beautiful during the day as they are at night. And Hollywood Studios is showing out right now. It's just decorated so well, and it just puts you in the mood, puts you in the spirit. It's just beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. You almost don't even realize there's a million people at the park with you right now. No, it's great. It really is great. Cool weather in the air.

Sun shining. Can't really complain about a whole lot right now See, like right here, little inlet right here, we got Donald Duck doing a little meet and greet. Donald Duck's got his little Christmas scarf on. Hailey, this way. I love this. I love the idea of them putting more characters out. Little meet and greets, kind of impromptu, if you will, throughout the park, as opposed to being super designated.

It's awesome. Starbucks on our left-hand side. You know where we're at. We're at the cross of Hollywood Boulevard and Sunset Boulevard. It's next to one of Jeremy's favorite fountains right here, on the right-hand side. I'll snap a quick photo of that for you. But yeah, there's nothing that beats walking right into Hollywood Studios, Hollywood Boulevard. Seeing all the decorations.

Well, guys, I think that about wraps up this episode of Walkabout with your host, Pete, here at Neverland Local. And before I let you go, I'd like to thank a couple people of Walkabout with your host, Pete, here at Neverland Local. And before I let you go, I'd like to thank a couple people for making these episodes possible. First, at our Beautiful Tomorrow level, it's Beck Castle, Bill and Erin Zeese, Byron E. Grant, Derek at Satisfactual Sign Company, John Hamilton, Meredith Izzo,

Hannah Ginn, David Krause, Jessica Davis, Lindsay O'Connell, Courtney Otter, Kara Louisa Moody, Laura B., Randall Lynch, Barbara Torino, Barry Campbell, and Norm Disney. We'd also like to acknowledge people at our Living Laboratory level. Debbie Gambala, Eric Steinhauer, Josh Nakano, James Beacham,, Rhiannon Shigeres with Kingdom Consultants. Thank you all for listening to today's episode of Walk About the World. And we can't wait to share another day of Walk About with you in the future. Take care. Thank you so much for listening and following along with us each week here at Walk About the World for our little in-park family reunion that we do.

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