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Disney Dish Episode 313: The hidden grotto that Disneyland Paris almost got

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4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Len Testa & Jim Hill start off this week’s episode by discussing the challenges the Disneyland Resort faces as it readies for re-opening. They then talk about why the Imagineers couldn’t decide where to build a Freefall-inspired attraction at Euro Disneyland. This episode's Show Notes are here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to another edition of the Disney Dish Podcast with Jim Hill.

0:04.0

It's me, Len Testa, and this is our show for the week of Schmerz Day, March 15th, 2021.

0:08.9

As a reminder to my friends, Matt Hatchberg, Mike Noel, and Mike Scopa, beware of the odds.

0:14.0

On the show today, news, listener questions, and in our main segment,

0:18.6

Jim continues our new series of The Tower of Terror,

0:21.8

and how it became the first try at a Disney theme park to be a reek program to have new drop sequences.

0:27.0

That first episode was great, and we all learned a lot about the unbuilt version for Disneyland Paris.

0:32.5

Let's get started by bringing in the man who's reading a horror story in Braille,

0:37.0

and thinks something bad is about to happen. You can just feel it.

0:40.6

It's Mr. Jim Hill. Jim, how's it going?

0:42.2

There's a simple solution, Len. Have you ever seen those dish-washing gloves?

0:45.5

It's like, whenever I get the new Stephen King in Braille, this is okay.

0:48.9

You keep that hand available and the plastic one.

0:51.4

No, I can't.

0:52.4

No, I can't.

0:53.2

No, no, no.

0:54.2

Speak with me, just saw today with the latest Stephen King later.

0:57.6

I guess it's going to give you number one on the New York Times bestseller's list.

1:01.3

That's fantastic. Good for him.

1:02.8

Yeah.

1:03.4

You like to keep those...

1:04.6

He's in Maine, right? You like to keep Maine writers employed.

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