Dinosaur’s Last Ride, Tron Goes Red, and the Cars That Saved California Adventure (Ep. 548)

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Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Len Testa and Jim Hill return with a Disney Dish full of hard-hitting questions like: is a popcorn bucket a collectible, a food container, or proof of life’s absurdity? Along the way, they tackle Disney’s latest surveys, new overlays, and a franchise that almost stalled out before becoming a billion-dollar juggernaut. Disney sets the closing date for Dinosaur at Animal Kingdom and spruces up Carousel of Progress with a new Walt Disney animatronic Tron Lightcycle Run trades neon blue for Nine Inch Nails red in a Tron: Ares overlay Disneyland Paris ticket pricing hints at when World of Frozen may open in 2026 Universal ponders the true meaning of souvenir popcorn buckets, from Aristotle to social media influencers Jim explains how Pixar’s Cars almost didn’t get made — and how Radiator Springs ended up saving Disney California Adventure From castle cake flashbacks to Schrödinger’s popcorn, this episode mixes history, news, and a little bit of existential dread — all with the usual Testa-Hill banter. SHOW NOTES Support Our Sponsors Unlocked Magic Unlocked Magic, powered by DVC Rental Store and DVC Resale Market, offers exclusive Disney & Universal ticket savings with TRUSTED service and authenticity. With over $10 MILLION in ticket sales, use Unlocked Magic to get the BIGGEST SAVINGS. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Learn More⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Why are businesses like HelloVet choosing Apple products and services?
0:04.8	So we started the business two years ago.
0:07.2	We had a few people who were used to PCs and this was their first foray into Macs.
0:12.5	But it's been super smooth getting everyone onto those devices and everyone seems really, really happy.
0:18.0	Find out how Mac can help you run and grow your business at apple.com forward slash hello vet.
0:26.2	Welcome back to another edition of the Disney Dish podcast with Jim Hill.
0:30.0	It's me, Lentesta, and this is our show for the week of Schmersday, September 8th, 2025.
0:34.6	On the show today, news listener questions. In surveys, Disney asks, what benefits do you
0:40.7	really need if you're staying on site? While Universal asks the existential question, what is a
0:46.3	popcorn bucket anyway? I can smell the Peabody Award from here, Jim, and it's covered in butter.
0:51.9	Then in our main segment, Jim continues the story of how Disney California
0:55.5	Adventure prepared for its Carsland Redue in 2012. Let's get started by bringing in the man
1:00.6	who read that only one in 10 people is good at math and concluded he must be in the other half.
1:05.8	It's Mr. Jim Hill. Jim, how's he going?
1:07.8	Math. Okay. I think I previously mentioned in this podcast that back when I was attending Maynard High School,
1:14.0	I was so terrible at math.
1:16.4	I had to take algebra two twice.
1:18.0	So technically, I have taken algebra four.
1:20.2	I think part of the problem, you know, now that we're of a certain age,
1:23.2	I think part of the problem that you and I both had with math is that it's really difficult to understand Roman numerals when they're in quantities like that.
1:32.8	Like, you know, we went to school before Arabic numerals were invented.
1:37.5	There we go.
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