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And we can talk about your experience in Disneyland, the theme park, which was also part of this trip.

But let's talk about just the floor of the... expo i nearly said convention again because there's lots of things to see and do around this space lots of different exhibitions and promotional material for upcoming movies and stuff as well what's some of the coolest stuff that you ben travis saw on the floor

yeah it is absolutely massive in there so it was in the anaheim convention center right next to disneyland and they fill a huge amount of space as you say with these kind of walkthrough experiences with all of these little areas for, there was like a Pixar area, there's a Disney animation area, there is a Lucasfilm area, all the different branches of Disney come under this one roof.

There are gigantic shops filled with D23 exclusive merch.

Oh yeah, that was much stronger.

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But this is, this is one of the joys of working at Empire is whenever we have to do a big list, which normally happens online these days, uh, the arguments we will have are extreme-... extraordinary, where Ben Travis will take his latest terrible opinion and absolutely-

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... go to the mattresses over some dreadful film like The Rise of Skywalker, and we'll have a, like, a 45-minute digression deciding whether or not it's here or it's there or this wa-

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Um, yeah.

Yeah.

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