Disney Dish Episode 213: The Atlantean Encounter that Disneyland Park almost got

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🗓️ 1 April 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Len Testa & Jim Hill start off this week’s show by discussing how The Walt Disney Company is still struggling with “Song of the South.” Jim then continues his Chronological Disneyland series by revealing why the Rockets Rods went down for rehab in September of 2000 and never re-opened 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.
0:03.5	It's me, Lantesta, and this is our show for the week of April 1st, 2019.
0:09.4	On the show today, a whole bunch of news, and in our second from the last episode of the
0:15.3	chronological Disneyland series Jim talks about DCA as it gets up off the ground. But
0:20.8	first let's bring in the man whose voice can be heard saying I think we just missed my floor in the
0:26.3	Tower of Terror drop shaft soundtrack when Mr Jim Hill Jim has it going it's going
0:30.8	well then it's going well before we step away from Tower of Terror, though, I want to share the one gag that the
0:38.6	Imagineers to this day wish they'd been able to pull off at Tower of Terror.
0:43.2	All right.
0:43.8	You know how you're in the drop shaft and your vehicle then backs
0:50.0	into the unload area?
0:51.9	Right, Rod Serling says like a little tip,
0:54.8	something they want to read in a guidebook.
0:56.2	Yeah.
0:57.2	One of the things they wanted to do
0:58.8	was have a ventriloquist dummy in the storage area.
1:03.0	Oh!
1:04.0	And the idea was that just, you know, on a random, every three drops, as you were getting
1:12.1	off, they would deliberately time it so that as people
1:15.2	were getting off and sort of looking glancing to decide the ventrochus dummy's
1:19.1	head was going to turn.
1:20.3	Not saying anything, just turn. Just turn, all right?
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