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You Don’t Have To Be Famous To Be Effective
Brian's family trip continues as the fam gets set for a trip to Disney's California Adventure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzSdT3GVJCk
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You don't have to be famous to be effective.
Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J Pombo Live.
Today I'm coming to you from Anaheim, California. I'm staying at the Paradise Pier Hotel and I have had a great day. We've had a couple of days, you know, if you've been following we've had a couple of days of chaos and turmoil. Not a bad way.
So one of the fun types of turmoil, okay.
Today we got to start our day in California Adventure Disney California Adventure is the strange wording of it, but just understand it's the second Park in Anaheim, California, straight across the way from Disneyland from the original Disneyland that Walt Disney built.
It's great that they've done a whole lot with it, it was started in a really odd way.
California Adventure on discussing will start in a very odd way. And they've maneuvered around it over the years to create somewhat of a storyline and to start having a newer character and so forth in there.
One of the major changes that they made was that they took a lot of the story of Walt's life and created lands around it in order to make these lands that were originally created when the when California venture first came out and have a make a little more sense of the first place you walked down is a little bit like the main street, USA type deal.
Except they changed it to call it when a Vista Street and Buena Vista Street is the main concept of it is this is LA in you know the 20s, late 20s, early 30s, when Walt Disney first arrived on the scene.
He already had a rough go at it he had he had a situation where he completely lost a whole lot of his staff, he lost the character, he was working with everything else.
He was looking to try something brand new and so is in LA for the first time. And there's all these casts of characters in places and everything that go along with it.
So this is where this, I've got this picture I want to show you. First off give you a little bit of background when we first walked down the street, it's very quaint, it's very cool. We're going during the holiday time, so they're playing Christmas music and Christmas music of that time period or that style at least.
And walking down is really nice.
In the center circle, kind of like a hub. What they have, because of COVID they have the characters that got Mickey Mouse, they had Minnie Mouse, and Goofy dressed in you know, 30 style garb.
But you can't go up and hug them and talk to them and take pictures with them directly. And because of the whole COVID thing, so that got him kind of distant behind a chain-link fence and not chain link fence but a chain behind a chain where kids can't come up and touch you but they're encouraged to come up and take pictures.
So my kids all run up and take pictures with Goofy and they all run up and take pictures with Minnie Mouse. And then along the other side, I noticed two other characters who I the only reason I know who they are is that I'm a nerd about this type of thing.
I understand what the point is behind them but these two characters are standing there and not many people are taking notice of them at the time. I asked my wife I could go over she didn't mind if I go over I don't need to ask my wife's permission but I asked her if she didn't mind if I go over for a second and take a selfie with these ...
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Brian's family trip continues as the fam gets set for a trip to Disney's California Adventure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzSdT3GVJCk
Transcription
You don't have to be famous to be effective.
Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J Pombo Live.
Today I'm coming to you from Anaheim, California. I'm staying at the Paradise Pier Hotel and I have had a great day. We've had a couple of days, you know, if you've been following we've had a couple of days of chaos and turmoil. Not a bad way.
So one of the fun types of turmoil, okay.
Today we got to start our day in California Adventure Disney California Adventure is the strange wording of it, but just understand it's the second Park in Anaheim, California, straight across the way from Disneyland from the original Disneyland that Walt Disney built.
It's great that they've done a whole lot with it, it was started in a really odd way.
California Adventure on discussing will start in a very odd way. And they've maneuvered around it over the years to create somewhat of a storyline and to start having a newer character and so forth in there.
One of the major changes that they made was that they took a lot of the story of Walt's life and created lands around it in order to make these lands that were originally created when the when California venture first came out and have a make a little more sense of the first place you walked down is a little bit like the main street, USA type deal.
Except they changed it to call it when a Vista Street and Buena Vista Street is the main concept of it is this is LA in you know the 20s, late 20s, early 30s, when Walt Disney first arrived on the scene.
He already had a rough go at it he had he had a situation where he completely lost a whole lot of his staff, he lost the character, he was working with everything else.
He was looking to try something brand new and so is in LA for the first time. And there's all these casts of characters in places and everything that go along with it.
So this is where this, I've got this picture I want to show you. First off give you a little bit of background when we first walked down the street, it's very quaint, it's very cool. We're going during the holiday time, so they're playing Christmas music and Christmas music of that time period or that style at least.
And walking down is really nice.
In the center circle, kind of like a hub. What they have, because of COVID they have the characters that got Mickey Mouse, they had Minnie Mouse, and Goofy dressed in you know, 30 style garb.
But you can't go up and hug them and talk to them and take pictures with them directly. And because of the whole COVID thing, so that got him kind of distant behind a chain-link fence and not chain link fence but a chain behind a chain where kids can't come up and touch you but they're encouraged to come up and take pictures.
So my kids all run up and take pictures with Goofy and they all run up and take pictures with Minnie Mouse. And then along the other side, I noticed two other characters who I the only reason I know who they are is that I'm a nerd about this type of thing.
I understand what the point is behind them but these two characters are standing there and not many people are taking notice of them at the time. I asked my wife I could go over she didn't mind if I go over I don't need to ask my wife's permission but I asked her if she didn't mind if I go over for a second and take a selfie with these ...