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Disney Dish Episode 225: Does WDI need to streamline its design process?

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🗓️ 8 July 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Len Testa & Jim Hill start off this week’s episode by discussing which aspects of Future World’s old Communicore / Innoventions area are due to shuttered soon as Epcot gets a facelift out ahead of WDW’s 50th-anniversary celebration. Jim then talks about Chairman of Disney Parks, Experiences & Products Bob Chapek’s reported frustration with the cost & speed with which WDI develops immersive lands for the Company’s theme parks 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, Len Testa,

0:05.1

and this is our show for the week of July 8th, 2019 on the show today. I hear an interesting tidbit about Disney ticket prices. Jim talks about how Galaxy's Edge may affect the future of immersive lands in Disney's theme parks.

0:20.0

Plus we do the news and at the end of the show band camp subscribers hear the story of my

0:24.8

condemned apartment. But first let's bring in the man who observes that the Roman

0:29.6

numeral for five is half of the Roman numeral for ten. One Mr. Jim Hill. Jim has it going.

0:35.4

Little down fact, Len, when Walt Disney Productions was exploring the idea of doing a sequel

0:40.1

to 1946's Song of the South, The studio is going to steer clear of the

0:44.5

original post-civil war setting and instead the much maker was going to

0:48.4

explore Uncle Remus's relationship with his brother Romulus. Oh yes, children of the wolf.

0:54.4

There we go, yes.

0:56.4

With a helpful kindly bear wolf that they were going to found the city of Rome.

1:00.8

Kind of going for a different tone, I believe from reading the script there was a scene where Uncle

1:06.0

Romulus stood in the center of the Coliseum waving a sword about going are you not

1:10.4

entertained! He'd do it with a southern accent.

1:14.0

It'd be, y'all entertained.

1:16.0

My mistake.

1:18.0

Okay.

1:19.0

I think a take on this would be, a southern take on this would be super super entertaining.

1:22.8

There you go.

1:23.4

All right Jim let's do a quick shout out to subscribers over at Disney dish

1:26.7

that bandcamp.com thanks to new subscribers Megan O and S and Adrian A and the longtime subscribers Paul V

1:35.9

Bayona and Matt M not household names but they do the fish choreography at the

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