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The Disney Dish with Jim Hill

Disney Dish Episode 190: Details on Grand Destino, “Epcot Forever,” & Star Wars Hotel

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill

Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Leisure, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.8979 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Len Testa & Jim Hill start off this week’s episode by reflecting on what millenniums now expect to find in their hotel rooms heavily influenced the design of “Reflections: A Disney Lakeside Lodge,” “The Cove,” and Universal’s Aventura Hotel. They also look ahead to the construction challenges that WDW’s Entertainment team will be facing as they ready World Showcase Lagoon for Epcot’s new nighttime extravaganza (which is slated to open in 2020). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to another edition of the Disney Dish Podcast with Jim Hill. It's me, Lantesta, and this is a show for the week of December 3rd, 2018.

0:08.5

We hope you've been enjoying the episodes Jim and I recorded while we're walking around the parks.

0:13.0

Today we're doing an extra episode to get you cut up on all the park news that's been happening

0:17.0

over the last couple of weeks.

0:19.0

And speaking of walking around the parks, here's the guy who wants to advise me to say I lived in a gidded community when in reality I was in prison.

0:26.0

When Mr. Jim Hill, Jim, how's it going?

0:28.0

It made it that much easier to get baked goods that included tools.

0:31.0

It was an escape attempt it was home improvement, Lynn.

0:35.4

We live in a community. Oh yeah, really where?

0:38.4

Broadway. Yeah.

0:40.3

There we go. All right, Jim, first every show should begin with a round of self-congratulations. Earlier

0:45.8

this year we said that Disney was considering names for its new DVC Resort at Fort

0:50.8

Wilderness and that the lead candidate name was Reflections, a Disney Lakeside Lodge.

0:56.0

Verily I say unto you dear listeners it has come to pass that is the name that Disney picked for its new resort. Jim what do you make of this?

1:04.9

This is Disney Resorts heading in a different direction.

1:09.8

The retirement community direction. Jim I gotta say say, is Cocoon going to be the movie

1:14.4

that they play every night out by the water?

1:17.8

Well then they haven't acquired Universal, not yet,

1:20.6

but it's entirely possible.

1:22.7

I don't know honestly what to tell you here.

1:24.7

I mean, from a design point of view, and trust me,

1:27.4

when you look at the final, the interiors in the rooms

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