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The Disney Dish with Jim Hill

Disney Dish Episode 159: More Skyliner and Park News, Plus DCA Wrap-Up

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill

Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Leisure, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.8979 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Len talks about new Disney patents for self-driving cars and virtual reality and a new update to the Agent P game in World Showcase. Jim hears more about Disney's concerns for Epcot's Skyliner station capacity, and how they might deal with it in the short- and long-term. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to another edition of the Disney Dish Podcast with Jim Hill. It's me, Len Testa, and this is another show for April of 2018.

0:07.5

Welcome back, everyone. It's been a good month so far for everyone, I hope. In addition to me we have as always one Mr. Jim Hill on the show Jim how's it going?

0:18.0

I am doing fine then thank you for asking and yes it only snowed twice yesterday so again we are really

0:26.4

hopeful that April will be the month that you know winter goes away

0:30.8

yeah twice twice in one day in April.

0:34.0

Yeah, Twitch. Okay.

0:36.0

All right, James, going back to our last show, we had some news about the Disney Skyloner that you had uncovered about

0:46.0

potential capacity concerns related to the Skyloner's use because with the current route that the Skylanners on you're basically adding another

0:55.6

6,700 hotel rooms to the 4,600 hotel rooms that are already going through the international

1:02.0

gateway to exit Epcot at night. that are already going through the International Gateway

1:03.5

to exit Epcot at night.

1:05.0

But you've now learned more about this, right?

1:07.6

Yeah, well, again, I kept hammering on my sources.

1:10.5

And the interesting thing is that initially, one of the things that Disney used to justify this project is well hell we had a skyway.

1:18.0

We had a skyway in Disneyland that operated from 56 through 94 and we had a Skyway that operated at

1:25.0

Walt Disney World from 71 to 99. So yeah we have all sorts of experience with

1:30.1

this and it's like which isn't really true because remember the old skyway

1:35.2

system you either got on it fantasy land and you went across the park and got off

1:40.4

at tomorrow land or vice versa,

1:42.7

tomorrow land the fantasy organization.

1:44.5

Two stops.

1:45.6

And kind of a self-regulating line

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