So, today on the podcast, we have four stories, many of them focused on the California resort.

First, Rapunzel's Tower comes to California and also how Rapunzel is edging into some of the character space traditionally occupied by Snow White.

Second, a surprise appearance by great moments with Mr. Lincoln at the Opera House,

and how the staging for this attraction has changed since its closure.

Third, how the lessons of Galaxy's Edge appear to have reshaped expansion plans for Avengers Campus.

And lastly, Disney announces the next wave of animatronics, figures arranged through machine

learning and powered by generative AI, and why there might be a hidden downside to this plan. But before I get to any of that,

I need to thank another round of Bandcamp subscribers. We're an ad-free listener-supported podcast,

so these here are the people who keep this whole enterprise going.

I'm grateful for all of our subscribers over on Bandcamp,

but a special note of thanks today is going out to new subscribers,

Christian J.

Aaron T.K.

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and Sue's WDW.

Thanks to each of you

and to all of our subscribers

for supporting what we do here,

but now let's move on to the show.

Music let's move on to the show.

We'll start off again with some walk-around news that is related to the parks,

and this time we'll begin out in California with the Disneyland resort. Over in Fantasyland, Storybookland has

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