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Disney Dish Episode 346:How did Disney Genie do during its first week

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🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Len Testa starts off this week’s show by sharing his experience of what it was like to use Disney Genie while visiting the Studios at WDW. Jim Hill then talks about the early Tomorrowland attraction that was the predecessor for Epcot’s “Space 220” restaurant 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 Schmerz Day, November 1st, 2021.

0:08.9

On the show today, news, and I test the new Genie app at Disney's Hollywood Studios.

0:14.4

In our main segment, Jim tells us how Disney's readjusting its spaced-themed attractions and shows,

0:20.5

now that real-life space tourism has started. Let's get started by bringing in the man who says

0:26.0

that if you want your work emails to be taken seriously, start them off with,

0:31.3

to whom it will concern. It's Mr. Jim Hill. Jim has it going,

0:34.8

I actually, Len, I'm rather concerned about my own will. I'm 62, and it's like,

0:39.8

who's going to end up with my MacDonald toy collection? I can't tell.

0:43.8

Do you see that they have announced, as of 2023, MacDonald's will not be doing plastic toys anymore?

0:51.9

Stainless steel. I imagine the injuries in the back seat with that one,

0:55.2

lobbing the steel Mickey Mouse toy, a true brother.

0:58.2

So what are they going to do? Paper. Paper? Oh, that makes sense, okay.

1:02.0

What they showed was this little insert tab A into slot B.

1:07.2

Oh, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it's recyclable, it's lower weight.

1:11.4

Yeah, you can pack it down lower, so it takes less shipping. It totally makes sense.

1:14.8

Yeah, but it's going to be, oh, cool. Look at this toy. Mommy Daddy put this together.

1:22.0

And you know they're going to be small too, right?

1:24.3

The amount of swearing that's going to be going on in MacDonald's around the world

1:28.4

is going to go up exponentially from 2023, as people struggle to put together the little teeny tiny

1:35.6

paper minions. I can't wait to see that. That'll be a lot of fun.

1:39.6

Yeah, it's open. I actually must do a quick shout out to subscribers over at DisneyDish.bandcamp.com.

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