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The Disney Dish with Jim Hill

Disney Dish Episode 192: 21st century politics & flume rides don’t mix in Frontierland

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill

Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Leisure, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.8979 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Len Testa & Jim Hill continue their audio tour of the 2018 version of WDW’s Magic Kingdom with a stroll along the Rivers of America. They discuss how a Guest who’d been an annual passholder for 24 years found out the hard way what happens when you test Disney Corporate’s patience one two many times. Len & Jim also talk about how recent changes to the props used to decorate the queue space with “Splash Mountain” illustrate the Company’s continuing efforts to stay PC. 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

0:03.0

Lintassa and today we're walking through Frontierland with Jim Hill. Jim's going to

0:06.8

tell us what's been going on in Frontierland and what's about to happen over the

0:10.4

next couple of years. Jim, why don't you talk to us about what we've seen the background right there,

0:14.0

the Golden Oak Outpost.

0:16.2

It looks like Custer's last stand over here.

0:18.1

Well, it was McDonald's last French fries stand.

0:21.5

Remember, as part of the 10-year billion-dollar co-promotional deal that McDonald's had with the Disney

0:27.9

Company from the mid-90s to the early 2000s, they could serve McDonald's food inside the parks and this is where you could get your French fries

0:36.4

And that was that was controversial at the time right because a lot of us were saying we can get McDonald's food outside of the parks

0:42.1

Why do we need McDonald's food inside the parks?

0:44.0

But like you said, there was a promotional deal to be made, right?

0:46.7

If you talk to parents of young children,

0:49.5

how many times you're just like, all right, what will you eat?

0:52.0

You'll eat chicken nuggets yeah

0:53.2

you'll eat from the beige menu titter tots fries and so that's what ended up

0:58.1

happening on the other hand from that same era of a food out in world. We got the Pecos Bill Talltail in.

1:05.7

Pecos Bill's is fantastic. And they've recently changed the menu, right? They've gone from burgers

1:11.8

to nachos, is a sort of like Tex-Mex right to fajitas nachos I think

1:17.2

they still have a burger available but it's definitely much more southwest

1:20.1

and again text-mex available I really like the new menu.

1:23.2

What about you?

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