Disney Dish Episode 232: How Big Thunder got on track

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill

Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Leisure, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.8 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Len Testa & Jim Hill start off this week’s episode by talking about the Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party Pass & Mid-Day Magic ticket that the WDW Resort recently began offering. Jim then shines a spotlight on how – back in the mid-1970s – the Imagineers turned Disneyland’s “Mine Train thru Nature’s Wonderland” attraction into the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. 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.
0:03.6	It's me, Len Testa, and this is our show for the week of August 26th, 2019.
0:09.0	On the show today, News, and Jim helps us celebrate the upcoming birthday of Big Thunder Mountain.
0:15.0	And speaking of Jim, let's bring in the man who is definitely 100 percent,
0:20.0	absolutely not a Disney corporate agent planted in the fan community running a decades long scheme to promote Bob Iger's interests.
0:28.0	I don't know where that idea even came from. It's Mr. Jim Hill. Jim, how's it going?
0:32.0	Oh Lynn, I'm so sorry. came from Mr. Jim Hill. Jim, how's it going?
0:33.0	Oh, Lynn, I'm so sorry.
0:35.0	I, I, I, I,
0:36.0	busy caching the checks from the Walt Disney Company.
0:39.0	You're running a little late today, are you?
0:40.0	I'm so sorry.
0:41.0	My corporate masters have neglected to send me today's script so I have to be honest Lynn.
0:45.8	I have no idea which project I'm supposed to be talking up or whose career I'm supposed to be destroying.
0:51.1	So we're kind of flying blind today, Lynn.
0:55.8	Listeners, if you have no idea what we're going about,
0:58.0	it's a huge inside baseball,
1:00.9	Disney fan community thing.
1:03.0	Email us if you have a question about it.
1:04.6	It's kind of crazy.
1:05.9	Anyway, speaking of crazy, let's do a shout out
1:09.5	to subscribers over at Disney dish dot bandcamp.com. Thanks to new subscribers Krakhan, Dave P and
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