DHI 294 - The Disney Update- February 2025 - Part One
Disney History Institute Podcast
Todd James Pierce
4.7 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In this update, we cover:
- The wildfires impact on Disney in California
- Construction changes and updates to Disney World
- Quiet new changes at EPCOT and Fort Wilderness
- And more
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| 0:00.0 | So today on the podcast, we begin our news and analysis stories for the month of February 2025. |
| 0:08.0 | We'll look at how the fires in Los Angeles affected Disney as well as Disney's response to that disaster. |
| 0:15.1 | We'll look at multiple big construction projects in Florida, some that are moving along as planned, and others that are not. |
| 0:24.9 | And beyond that, we'll talk about some other areas of interest. |
| 0:29.2 | That is, we have a lot to talk about in the next 40 or so minutes, but before we jump in, |
| 0:35.8 | I have another round of band camp subscribers that I would like to thank. |
| 0:41.7 | We're an ad-free listener-supported podcast, so these are the people who keep this whole |
| 0:48.2 | enterprise going. Gratitude today is going out to Scott, Alex, Anna, Andrew, and the Fluffy Corn. |
| 1:01.6 | Thanks to you and to all of our band camp subscribers for supporting what we do here. |
| 1:08.8 | And now the show. The Biggest story in California in 2025 so far has been the wild fires that have engulfed multiple neighborhoods. These fires were located in |
| 1:30.1 | Los Angeles County, an endless blanket of smoke covered the Disney studio in Burbank. People |
| 1:36.3 | at the studio at times could also see the orange glow in the distance caused by the flames themselves. |
| 1:43.3 | We have listeners who live in Los Angeles and in Orange |
| 1:46.4 | County and who know the layout of this part of California very well. But we also have listeners |
| 1:54.1 | who live overseas. So let me break down the geographic placement of these fires a little bit here. Disneyland is in Orange |
| 2:04.0 | County and from the air, I do realize that Los Angeles and Orange County look like one |
| 2:09.8 | endless expansion of urban development. But Disneyland was between 35 and 50 miles away from the two largest fires in Los Angeles. |
| 2:21.3 | Universal Studios Hollywood was about a dozen miles from the Palisades fire and was affected by it, |
| 2:27.3 | and the Disney Studio was about a dozen miles from the Eaton fire. |
| 2:32.3 | Neither was permanently damaged by the fires themselves, but many people |
| 2:38.1 | who worked for both Disney and Universal, along with the studios in general, lost their homes. Together, |
| 2:46.6 | these two fires destroyed about 15,000 structures, many of which were homes, with another 2,000 |
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