Walkabout The World - A Disney Podcast - Disney's Hollywood Studios March Walkabout

Episode Date: April 9, 2023

Hello Travelers! Journey with host Jeremy this week for a classic Walkabout stroll through the Hollywood that never was and always will be - Disney's Hollywood Studios. Get a taste of Hollywood Blvd and Sunset Blvd, Echo Lake, and finally Grand Ave. You might even hear some AT-AT blasters and screaming Ewoks. Enjoy!   As always, use good listening devices as we always record in 4 channel surround sound. We hope you enjoy the episode and thanks so much for following along!    Look us up at @WalkaboutWDW on Instagram and drop us a note to say hi! Find our producer Josh also on Instagram at @TheSteele. Say hi to our west coast correspondent Ric at @opticaljedi. Lastly give a shout to our Orlando correspondent Pete at @neverlandlocal.   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. 

Welcome back to Walk About The World and hello travelers from the Hollywood that never was and always shall be, will be one of those. Let's take a walk and get some of the sounds of the studios up in our ear holes. Hopefully that's not weird. But if it is, that's okay. Let's go. I'm going to go ahead and get my coffee. One of my favorite all-time water features in any of the parks is this green stone circular fountain at the confluence of Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards. Sky is blue, the air is a little crisp for Florida, and it is beautiful out. Tailors to the stars across the way, and right beside me the sign that says, Visit Beautiful

Hollywood, home of the silver screen stars, and it has the red trolley car with Hollywood Boulevard on it. Love it. Let's take a stroll down through Sunset Boulevard. I'm so excited! I'm so excited! Second floor of the Sunset Couture building has a window that says, Dog's Best Friend Incorporated Stunt Dogs. Or Director's Best Friend, I'm sorry. Director's Best Friend Stunt Dogs.

I've actually never seen that. Oh yeah, I did I was gonna go Guys, take care of that Now we're going Oh yeah, oh yeah Oh yeah It's a real dream that we had To be alive And to be real again And to be real again And we could ride

To fly away And we could walk To move You and the Beast on your right and Hollywood Tower Hotel directly in front of you with a 105 minute wait. Ouch! Screams of some fellow travelers means they're just having a great time. Hey! You have to stop. You have to stop. Carthay Circle. Passing on your left. Let's take a stroll around Echo Lake. Hey, Mr. and Mrs. Incredible are greeting guests by the lake today.

I didn't know that was a thing. And they've got quite a line. Passing Hollywood and Vine tune in lounge straight ahead man that sounds good about now entrance to Echo Lake Apartments here man I want to live there have you guys seen this detail?

If you're facing the entrance to Tune In Lounge, to your left, an iron gate with Echo Lake Apartments. ss down the hatch directly across echo lake and one of the cool things about this time of year is the echo lake ducks have little ducklings and um i see three out here on the water right now and they are little i'm talking about less than the size of this microphone. Little guys, fuzzy little guys. But they're cute. Do you ever just think I would like the life of an Echo Lake duck? Just me? Cruise around, eat whatever ducks eat, plus french fries?

All right, let's go. Our food is ready. You ready? Yes. Where are you? Come on. Gertie the dinosaur is In front of you and above you She's puffing smoke out of her Nose Woo! Thank you. Another bonus of this time of year in Central Florida

is the star jasmine is blooming, and it smells like honey outside. Ah. All around Echo Lake, well, okay, on the side here where the Hyperion Theater is, a large part of the perimeter of the lake is lined with jasmine, and it is in bloom, and it's wonderful. Speaking of the Hyperion, we have recorded that show for you guys, and it's coming up soon. The Frozen Show.

Mickey Short's Theater on your right and the Oasis Canteen to your left. Backlot straight ahead. Let's wander down towards Baseline. Let's wander down towards baseline. There are very few food items that I crave at the parks, believe it or not. And one of them, and it's not original, is the chicken nuggets and fries at Backlot. Sometimes Heather and I will come here just for that. I can't help it. It's good. Okay, we, here. Oh, okay. That one.

There's another one. There's another one. There's another one. There's another one. There's another one. There's another one. All over you. Oh, Alex.

Alex. Alex. Alex! Alex! I had to pause for a minute by Star Tours. Ten minute wait, but I'm not going to do it. But the AT-AT was firing. You get to hear some of the Star Wars music, which is cool. Do you guys remember, have you been coming here long enough to remember the Jedi Training Academy? Where the younglings would all be given their little Jedi robes and they would go and be trained and they would face Vader? Because that was so great. And I miss it. It was fun to watch.

Okay, here we are. Sci-fi dining ahead, and here's Baseline. Oh, look at this. So that's... I'm going to go to the next one. No, that's okay. I can get like, drugs. No, yeah. Definitely. I don't need either. I love you. I love you enough to keep me safe. I think this world is going to be the same. I don't need this. I don't know.

Baseline will surprise you, so I always check these days to see if there's seats inside, and it seemed really crowded. But when you go inside, there were seats. Be hard pressed to find a better place to have a drink and pass the day away for a little while than Baseline. Grand Avenue now. I'm going to go back to the other side of the crowd because it sounds a lot longer. Yeah. The other side was more open. yeah over there We got a little bit of water Here's the piggy fountain

Which is beautiful but guys they got rid of the wretched refuse. We've pointed that out to you before. The rats in the boat. The boat was named the wretched refuse, and it's gone. I don't understand why things are being taken from the piggy fountain. That said, man, it smells delicious right here. It's not pizza, so it must be Mama Melrose's. The city's top rated pizza ahead. FY, it's a happy room. I don't think we take a stroll around here very much,

and there's unfortunately not a lot back here anymore other than Mama's because the Christmas store is still closed, apparently forever. But let's take a walk. You guys can smell Mama Melrose's kitchen. Oh, dang, you can't. But I do love the Muppets, and I love this area. I love the theming. Engine Company No number one ahead.

Right next to the tomato loading zone. With a crate above that says Heckler brand crushed tomatoes. These must be the good throwing kind. The good throwing tomatoes. Parkside Antiques. It's a wonderful Christmas shop. Sorry we are closed.

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I just love it in there. Fits my Hobbit routine pretty well. This lovely dark eating establishment. I'm not sure if you can see it, but I'm not sure if you can see it. so oh now we're in so Just pausing to soak in some Grand Avenue. ¶¶ Thank you. © BF-WATCH TV 2021 Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Just a short little stroll in the studios today. Really appreciate you hanging out with us as always. You guys make it worth it. From Grand Avenue,

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