DHI 290 - The Disney Update - December 2024
Disney History Institute Podcast
Todd James Pierce
4.7 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This week we have a chunky episode with many stories.
In this episode:
- The "Tower" Trend at Disney World
- Updates to Six Attractions at Disney World
- Permits and Closure for Avengers Campus at Disneyland
- Disneyland's 70th Anniversary
- More Controversy around the Walt Disney Animatronic
- The Good and Bad of the Revised Haunted Mansion
- Tiana's at Disneyland Is Better than Tiana's at Disney World
- And More Regulatory Trouble for the Cars Project at Magic Kingdom
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| 0:00.0 | So, we're now in December. Christmas trees are up in all of the American parks. Typically, |
| 0:06.4 | decorations are finished first in California and then a couple of weeks later in Florida. The gingerbread |
| 0:12.3 | houses are now up in many hotels again in Florida and in California. At Epcot, there's a brand-new |
| 0:20.1 | gingerbread version of spaceship earth with lights recently opened in Communicore Hall. |
| 0:25.6 | This version of Spaceship Earth is made from dark gingerbread. |
| 0:29.6 | With lines of lights around the panels, it's another instance of the resort imitating the resort using gingerbread. And just one building over from |
| 0:40.6 | that in Epcot, inside of the land pavilion, lights are up in living with the land. These light |
| 0:48.2 | displays started showing up in 2019 and each year since, the display has expanded. |
| 0:55.5 | Cruise started five years ago with the usual off-the-shelf light strings, but now there's |
| 1:01.1 | some unique small displays and ornaments that have been made by WDI. |
| 1:06.6 | Unlike other areas at the Florida Resort, where a dedicated decorations team puts up lights |
| 1:12.9 | and displays first in one hotel, then another park, then another hotel, the lights here |
| 1:19.1 | on living with the land are mostly put up by people who work there. |
| 1:24.3 | Often the science teams and also by those who work next door at the Seas Pavilion, they come over to help as well. |
| 1:30.3 | Essentially, many on the science team get into the spirit by working on these displays. |
| 1:36.3 | It takes weeks for these lights to be laid out, wrapped around trees, nestled into the sand, and so on. Most visitors to the greenhouses |
| 1:46.2 | in October as they ride through on boats don't realize that the lights are there, as they haven't |
| 1:52.8 | yet been turned on. But then, typically, in mid-November, often a few days before Thanksgiving, |
| 2:00.6 | they come on. It's become one of my favorite |
| 2:04.1 | displays at the resort. And as of this year, I would say, with even more lights there, it's starting |
| 2:11.8 | to look a little like the old Osborne lights that years ago were at the studios. |
| 2:18.6 | It's very much worth checking out, but make sure to go after 6 o'clock when it's dark. |
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