Disney Dish Episode 186: How Disney's decision to delay "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3" has impacted the "Jungle Cruise" movie

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill

Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Leisure, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.8 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Len Testa and Jim Hill kick off this week's show talking about how EPCOT will be expanding its International Festival of the Arts to seven days a week in 2019. They then discuss those "Rehire James Gunn" billboards that have been erected outside of the Disney Parks & Anaheim. They also contrast Disneyland Park's plan to handle the crowds for "Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge" with the way Disney's Hollywood Studios is thinking about having Guests queue up for this 14-acre land. 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.
0:03.2	It's me, Len, Testa, and this is our show for the week of November 5th, 2018.
0:08.2	On this show today, Park News from the Magic Kingdom, Epcot, and Hollywood Studios,
0:12.8	plus Jim has stories about the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy
0:16.3	and Jungle Cruise movies and rides. But first, on this week in Disney history,
0:21.2	the Magic Kingdom Skyway serves its last guest in 1999.
0:25.6	And Big Thunder Mountain has its official opening in the Magic Kingdom in 1980.
0:30.9	If I bring in the star of our show, Mr. Jim Hill, we're on our way to the Jeopardy category, things that scared the hell out of Len's grandmother Doris.
0:38.0	Welcome to the show, Jim. How's it going?
0:39.0	Really? Doris didn't care?
0:41.0	She would have loved you, Jim. She would have loved you. Okay. Well, back in the day, I mean, Big Thunder was that combination of themeing and thrills. It was a groundbreaking, but I don't recall here here because it scared all that many people.
0:54.0	Epcot's Festival in the Arts on the other hand terrifies me but that's another story.
0:59.0	And speaking of that Jim, today Disney announced details of next January's Festival of the Arts
1:05.5	with the schedule released for the entire event. A couple of notable things.
1:09.5	Looks like the Broadway style concerts are expanding to seven days per week.
1:13.4	So I think it was only five days a week now.
1:16.0	But this is Disney talent, Disney recording artists,
1:19.2	singing Disney songs, and of course there's a dining package for for guaranteed seating for these things as well. I didn't realize that this part of the event would be that popular Jim what's going on there?
1:30.5	It's classic Disney synergy you You bring performers in who've either
1:35.1	appeared in Disney shows. In fact, the gentleman who starred is Tarzan in the
1:41.0	Broadway version of this thing, it seems to come back every year but at the same time you can get all these folks
1:48.3	They're up on stage that they're talking about their wonderful experiences in Disney shows and well by the way there's there's frozen in New York and there's you know
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