This is Doug Ingersoll from Carmel, Indiana, DSI-I-N-D on the boards and live from the Bob

Varley Studios in Orlando, Florida, you're listening to The Diz Unplugged.

Hello and welcome to The Diz Unplugged Roundtable discussion for the week of September 28, 2011.

From Orlando, Florida, I'm your host Pete Werner joined at the table this week.

I thank my good friends, Kathy Werling, Teresa Eccles, Corey Martin, Kevin Close and John Meijai, Walter Eccles, and Max the intern back in the peanut gallery.

In this week's show, the team will discuss this year's Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Orlando.

Teresa and Kathy talk about facing their fears at Walt Disney World, and a very own Dave Parfit has his most recent interview this week with Vern Yip.

From Home and Garden Television and those of you who ever watched Trading Spaces, Vern was one of the designers, one of my favorite designer, I love Vern Yip.

He's actually one of the judges on Design Star also, the show that just ended.

Okay, and he's that too. All that plus this week's news and roundtable rapid fire on this edition of The Diz Unplugged.

Welcome to the show, everybody.

A couple things in housekeeping. I got a few emails this week about my comments regarding Avatar at Animal Kingdom.

People were, you know, questioning my sanity and saying that this was a master's stroke that Avatar wasn't that good of film,

you know, there have been other more successful films. Okay, really, no, it really is the highest box office film in history.

That's number one, but that has nothing to do with why I think this is a good idea.

The reason I think this is a good idea is because the intellectual property itself, the idea of it, the elements of it are just so rich with creativity that when handed over to Disney Imagineers,

they will create something extraordinary.

The mummy was a great film. It wasn't a blockbuster. It didn't break records, but it has remained one of, if not the most popular attraction at Universal Orlando since it was opened,

because they took an intellectual property that was rich with creative opportunity and created a really cool attraction out of it.

Something like Avatar in the hands of Disney Imagineers is going to be unbelievable. I don't care whether you like the movie or not.

It doesn't matter whether you like the movie or not. Let's see what they create. I am putting my money on Disney Imagineers to really put something unbelievable together with this.

You're talking, as I said last week, John Lasseter and James Cameron, these are two of the greatest creative minds of their generation, are going to be working together with a 500 million dollar budget to put something together.

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