Disney Dish Episode 199: Why the original version of Disney California Adventure Park missed the mark

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill

Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Leisure, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.8 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Len Testa & Jim Hill discuss what new shows & attractions the Imagineers hope to have up & running at Disney’s Hollywood Studios by May 2019 (just in time for this theme park’s 30th anniversary celebration). They also talk about how the tests that are currently going on in Epcot’s parking lot in regards to Uber & Lyft could impact the layout of parking lots at Disney’s other theme parks. Len & Jim then continued their Chronological Disneyland series with the initial construction of DCA. 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,
0:04.3	Lantesta, and this is our show for the week of January 14th 2019. On today's show
0:09.8	we resume our chronological Disneyland story in 1998 with the initial part of
0:16.4	Disney's California adventure construction. Also we've got some news about some
0:21.1	would say an unprecedented Disney World discount that's just been announced.
0:25.4	But first don't forget to check out our other shows at Disney dish.
0:29.2	Bandcamp.com. Now let's bring in the man who will be speaking at the funerals of both
0:34.0	super Dave Osborne and the captain of Captain and Tenel when Mr Jim Hale.
0:39.1	Jim Love will keep us together.
0:40.3	If you go on YouTube you can actually watch the very first time he did that
0:48.4	character and it was oddly enough Dick Van Dyke had a very, very short-lived variety show. It was called Van Dyken
0:56.1	company, but it was very cutting edge. It was the very first place anywhere in television
1:02.2	where people saw Andy Kaufman.
1:04.1	Really?
1:05.1	Yeah, I mean it's just and the thing is you have Dick Van Dyke on stage like and he's doing
1:08.9	his foreign man character and I think they actually he sings it's a small world so there was a Disney connection there's a Disney connection in there
1:15.7	But you would love the first super Dave Osbourne thing because it's totally it's the introduction of the character
1:21.8	It's the he's totally riffing on the evil
1:25.4	can evil jumping snake river thing and you see super Dave in costume he's walking
1:30.8	up a ramp he's interviewed by his longtime sportscaster companion.
1:35.8	He's mounting his own really, really dangerous attempt and they keep it in very tight close
1:41.2	up right up until the reveal midway through the skid and he's talking about you know he's going
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