Disney Dish Episode 269: Insights from Disney’s earnings call

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill

Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Leisure, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.8 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Len Testa & Jim Hill start off this week’s episode by discussing how the phased re-opening of Shanghai Disneyland might impact the Company’s stateside parks. Jim then reveals how Mr. Toad -- a character that Walt didn’t much like -- got his own ride at Disneyland 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.
0:03.7	It's me, Land Testa, and this is our show for the week of Schmer's day, May 11th, 2020.
0:09.5	On the show today, news, and we look at Disney's patents which looked to me like
0:14.4	Teddy Ruxman meets Westworld. In our main segment Jim finishes up the history of the
0:19.6	classic Finiseland attraction Mr. Toad's wild ride.
0:22.6	Let's get started by bringing in the man who points out
0:24.4	that Ursula didn't have to give Ariel human legs,
0:27.3	so maybe she was never evil at all.
0:29.2	It's Mr. Jim, how's it going?
0:31.8	Wow, okay.
0:33.0	Nothing in the contract says human legs, Jim.
0:35.6	That's all I'm saying.
0:36.8	And how long have you been representing the sea witch lend?
0:39.8	I think we've talked about this before but she's the she's the most empowered of the female
0:47.8	characters within the Disney universe I believe.
0:49.6	Yeah and I don't know if you ever got to see the Broadway musical version of it, but that version, they're very clear.
0:56.8	Ursula and Triton, our brother and sister, so it adds a whole nother like, you know, it's on tea Ursula that does this deal with with
1:06.2	aerial so it's like I'm thinking I'm thinking one day years from now when Disney is
1:11.4	desperate for movie ideas they're going to do to
1:15.4	Ursula what they did with Maleficent and and just present her side of the story.
1:20.3	Wow, okay. Tony right now.
1:23.0	You do know that what was we were literally five minutes away from the live-action version of the Little Mermaid with Melissa McCarthy playing Ursula? They were five days out from shooting in London when the
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