Hello!

And welcome to Very Amusing,

your one-stop shop for the story, secrets, and shenanigans of a popcorn-fueled theme park journalist.

I'm Carly Waisel, and so much life has happened since we last spoke.

I truly feel like I've lived multiple weeks.

I don't know why.

I mean, maybe it's because I went on an extremely fun cruise, which, again, had some issues we're going to talk about.

We're going to get into it in this episode.

But mainly because one of the most important things in my life happened this week.

And oh my gosh, I'm realizing in real time I am not talking about my daughter turning three.

Also huge. Very big deal. Had a party at Bob Baker, Mary in a theater. One of my favorite places in L.A.

No, no. No, no. I met the Olaf robotic and it changed my life. It broke

my brain. I cannot believe what technology can do. It was bongers. And I know by now you've probably

seen no less than six videos of me yelling about this online, but I just have to yell about it in the

mic because it was crazy. It was crazy. And like crazy in the sense, like, I don't, I probably, I don't, I shouldn't mention this, but I was, like, I was there with a small group of people. They walked us through, like, Walt Disney Imagineering, R&D, like, the, like the cool office. Like, you only get invited there infrequently, and it was very exciting.

And so we trotted back, and we met Olaf.

And I was losing my mind, and I could hear WDI employees, like, laughing with me, because I was, you know, like, a lot of these things are like, we're journalists.

We are reporting,

and I can't contain myself when there's a freaking, oh, when Olaf, when Olaf is, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, trotting towards me right there in the flesh, in the, in the magical snow. It was, I, I, like, I'm speechless about it, which is crazy because my job is to talk about it. But it was so cool.

And I know I like to get really excited about stuff, but I have not, I don't think, ever

been this excited about a character experience.

The Olaf Robotic will be appearing at Disney Adventure World, which is the new version of

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