#132 - Early Days of the Polynesian
WEDway Radio - Walt Disney World and Disneyland Examined with some Disney History
Nate and Matt Parrish
4.9 • 706 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2012
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Thanks for downloading WEDWay Radio, a show about experiencing the Disney parks, Disney history and the Walt Disney Company. This is episode #132 - The Early Days of the Disney Polynesian Village Resort
This week we are happy to be joined by Steve "Tikiman" Seifert. We discuss the construction of the Polynesian, early designs, the weird early reservation system and a lot of things that you could find at the Polynesian when it opened.
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| 0:00.0 | From the Brava Centauri Studios, this is Wedway Radio. The attraction you're about to enter, Walt Disney's enchanted Tiki room, introduced an entirely new form of three-dimensional entertainment when it opened in |
| 0:38.7 | 1963. |
| 0:47.4 | This just in, a jungle crew skipper reports spotting the lost safari near the African Belt. |
| 1:23.4 | A group of hunters claims that all of their supplies, equipment and their transport were lost when a group of mad guerrillas invaded their camp. Welcome to Webway Radio episode 132, a show about experiencing the Disney Parks, Disney History, and the Walt Disney Company. |
| 1:28.0 | I'm your host, Nate, and joining me in his Indian War canoe is Matt. |
| 1:28.8 | Yes. |
| 1:31.9 | You know, I've never done the canoes at Disneyland? |
| 1:33.3 | Oh, you know what? |
| 1:35.9 | Next time you're there, you have to do the canoes because they're so much fun. |
| 1:37.2 | What about a one-year-old? |
| 1:38.5 | Can a one-year-old do the canoes? |
| 1:40.1 | Probably not. |
| 1:42.9 | Probably not because you got to wear the life jackets. |
| 1:45.8 | You've got to have a harness and all that stuff. |
| 1:50.1 | Next time, next time, I'm sorry, Davey Crider Explorer canoes, to be politically correct. |
| 1:50.5 | Right? |
| 1:54.4 | We, uh, you got to do it because it is a lot of fun. |
| 1:57.8 | Actually, you get to see the rivers of America in a totally different way. |
| 2:02.3 | And you, you know, you get passed by the, uh, by the Mark Twain and sometimes the Columbia. It's, it's a lot of fun. Because I've only seen it on the, uh, the only, |
| 2:06.4 | you know, the only different way I've seen rivers is on the, uh, think boats, the keel boats. |
| 2:12.2 | Yeah, yeah. Well, these are, uh, this is a very different way of seeing it. It's cool. You kind of go real close to the island through these like rapids and stuff. |
| 2:20.3 | So next time, next time you can, you should. |
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