Adam heads back to the WDW teat, because when he's at the home base it's never more than a week between visits. He also needs a view boost, which WDW would normally provide, and it probably will this time too, although the effect may be muted. But using the word "neutered" as the second word in the title probably isn't going to help the cause - what an odd choice.
Yes, it's back to
MGM Hollywood Studios from Adam to once again lament and weep what it has become, his former favorite theme park. Adam explains that he's there to see the Indy Stunt Show this afternoon (yes, it's already the afternoon, but I'm sure he spent the morning working on his health and making or attending medical appointments, right?). He complains about how this show has had a lot of changes made to it, and they aren't good ones.
It's so bad now, he's going to see it TWICE and take you along! What a way to pull in the viewers and get them to stay.
But first Adam has to show that he's wearing his "official" Indiana Jones hat, the one he pulls out once every 2 years (if that). Then it's right into the "routines": he's walking and not taking the tram, but he films the tram (he has to settle for just the tram as there's no monorail here). Adam ranks his theme park stunt shows as #1 Waterworld and #2 Indy. I guess he can't rank the Bourne Stuntacular
.
Also, in case you didn't know, Adam's International Travels aren't just going to include Disney parks,
they will also include Universal Studios international properties as well. He seems to indicate he will be doing Disney
and Universal International parks in 2025. Sounds like an awful lot to take on. And then after that, remember that he will be just flat out traveling internationally with no theme parks involved at all. These are the promises of Adam the Woo, and we know he always keeps his promises.
Adam uses one of his favorite words while walking in to the park - nothing is ever a mound, a hill, an embankment, etc. It is always, and will always be, a berm. He loves, loves, loves the word "berm". Technically a berm borders a river or canal, so throw this on the heap of words Adam frequently uses incorrectly. I wonder what would be bigger, that pile of words used incorrectly or his pile of Disney pins?
He complains about the heat and then looks at merch. While he does so, he lists the changes to the show that he's sooooo upset about:
- audience members not being part of the show anymore
- no Nazi imagery, so he knows who the "evildoers" are
- no swords
- no guns
- no one dies, "they just run off"
Adam seems very, very upset about all these things. Like, almost as if executives from Disney Parks came to the Woomansion, snuck into his garage and pooped on the seat and in the trunk of the clown car. Really works himself up about it. If I was in the store, I'd be freaked out about this guy ranting to himself about Nazis while filming the merch. He asks his camera if he can buy the Indy whip and "wield it in the queue line for the show."
He points out the Indy "role play set" and says "you can either play with that in the park or take it home and have some fun with your significant other if you so choose." Gotta love that preacher's son mentality on this
family friendly channel.
Apparently the "queue line" at Starbucks was too long (probably a whole 15 mins!), and we know Adam doesn't care what coffee he drinks or what it tastes like, as long as it has caffeine and is scalding hot. So he mobile orders coffee from the ABC Commissary and calls it a "hack"
He heads into the show and it seems his only goal is to remind you of everything that he previously mentioned as being wrong with it. He snickers when he mentions the overhead fans are built by the company named "Big Ass Fans". You can tell Adam just got a coffee and is gulping it down, because he begins to just quickly yap non-stop. If I was sitting next to him and I was there on a once in a lifetime vacation, I'd kill myself.
And because he's hopped up on caffeine, he feels the need to narrate the show even though the show needs no narration because the show already has narration. No one needs Adam mumbling into the camera, "here come the stunt actors" as the stunt director is introducing the stunt actors.
Enjoy Adam as he talks over the show and tells you what he still likes and what he doesn't like about the show now, his thoughts about the Indy movies, etc. He just repeats over and over again about the audience not being part of the show anymore. "They used to pick 10-12 people from the audience before, now we all stay in out seats", he drones in his low,
I'm speaking on an airplane-style voice. The audience at this show is 2000 people.
So they used to pick half of one percent of the audience to stand there and do nothing but clap, point and wave their arms around. This is what Adam is upset about? "Now we all stay in our seats?"
What a miserable, sad, bitter old man. His comments throughout are actually
incredibly obnoxious and had to be annoying to the people around him. For example, saying they aren't recording the audiences laughs, it's just a "bit" to distract while they move something out of the way, "spoiler alert, sorry" says Adam. Adam is an expert at "bits" now, you know.
Adam's camerawork is horrific during this show. He's often too zoomed in even though he's in the front row, the zoom+caffeine makes the shots very shaky, and his camera doesn't have very good stabilization because it's so old.
"There are no guns in the show" said Adam as we see this on top of the truck and bullet sounds and effects are everywhere
Also, the very large "bad guy" (
gosh, how can you tell if he's not wearing a full Nazi uniform?) dies by getting obliterated to pieces by the plane engine propeller, so I guess they don't all "run off" when they die, eh?
As the show ends, he then says it is "
so dang good, so dang good", even without guns and Nazi uniforms and swords??? After the show is over, Adam realizes they let you hang out if you want and as they reset the stage, he gets his awful thumbnail when the boulder set piece is very close to the front row
Then,
AFTER WHINING NON-STOP FOR 25 MINUTES THAT THEY CHANGED THE SHOW FROM HIS YOUTH, he says in a voiceover that "they should probably
re-do it, it's been the same jokes and stunts for 3 decades." Dude, make up your damn mind.
Outside, he again mentions he has a video where he "proves" the tank outside the show is "screen-used" from one of the movies, because he did the work and matched it up "with the rivets and everything"
. Then he says that other vehicles outside the show are also "probably" screen-used as well. One can only wonder why he doesn't bother to "do the work" on those as well and figure it out. Perhaps he's too lazy now?
Adam then says "
I'm not downplaying the show at all." Uh,
yes, yes you are.
You just spent the entire show downplaying it, except for the very beginning and the very end. Complained, complained, complained. "It just needs a little tweaking, a couple little
twerks here and there." Freudian slip, anyone?
He needs a refreshing drink between shows and goes for his favorite - Minute Maid Zero Sugar Lemonade
I guess Adam was all out of words during the second show, and the only thing he could come up with was sitting on the opposite side and tilting the camera like this
He films many of the same stunts again. No idea what the point of including the second show in the vlog was. He could've seen the second show if he wanted to
and just not included it. Could have just
mentioned he stuck around for the last show,
but not filmed it. It's the main reason this vlog is
a bloated, uncomfortable 37 minutes.
As he walks out, he muses on watching the Temple of Doom movie that evening (which he did). Adam then estimates he's seen Raiders of the Lost Ark
250 times in his life. Yeah. This vlog recap is mercifully over.
