Disney Dish Episode 188: Mapping out WDI’s plans to redo Adventureland at WDW’s Magic Kingdom

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill

Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Leisure, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.8 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2018

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Len Testa & Jim Hill kick off this week's show by talking about Walt Disney Studios’ decision to push back the release of “The Jungle Cruise” movie from October 2019 to July 2020 is new impacting the Imagineers’ long-in-development plans to overhaul Adventureland. They then discuss how the Jungle Skipper Cantina Restaurant has been a real challenge for WDW’s Food & Beverage team. Len & Jim close things out by pointing out how “A Pirate’s Adventure: Treasures of the Seven Seas” is similar to the Magic Kingdom’s “Dumbo the Flying Elephant” spinner ride. 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.
0:02.6	It's Meantesta.
0:03.6	Today Jim and I are going to be walking through Adventureland.
0:05.9	For those of you that are visually inclined,
0:07.8	you can check out the same show on YouTube.
0:11.6	But Jim, take us through Adventureland, what's been going on and what is happening
0:15.8	in the future.
0:16.8	First of all, please notice the paint job on the building right here that you're not really
0:21.2	supposed to notice. That building that has a private club
0:26.7	that recently has joined Disney I have no idea what you're talking about
0:30.8	left no idea.
0:31.8	Adventureland is in kind of a weird transitory space right now because of course
0:36.7	Disney has wrapped production on the Jungle Cruise movie which is supposed to have a
0:41.3	tremendous impact on this side of the park,
0:43.8	but they just pushed the release date of that film back
0:46.8	from October of 2019 to July of 2020.
0:50.1	And was that to fill a hole in the studio schedule?
0:53.7	Yeah, anybody who's been following the whole James Gunn situation and how Disney basically let
0:59.6	him go, which then impacted the fact that Guardians of the Galaxy was going to open as
1:05.6	Disney's big summer film for 2020. So yeah they are moving their chest
1:12.1	pieces around the board but from the
1:14.4	imaginary point of view they were really looking forward to getting the
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