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The Disney Dish with Jim Hill

Disney Dish Episode 359: Why WDI struggled when it came to Communicore

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill

Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Leisure, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.8979 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Len Testa starts things off by sharing a survey that wouldn’t allow WDW visitors to say that they didn’t use all of the benefits of staying onsite at that Resort. Jim Hill then looks back at EPCOT Center in the months just prior to the opening of Disney World’s second theme park Show Notes are here. 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, Len Testa, and this is our show for the week of Shmer's Day, January 31st, 2022.

0:09.8

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

0:14.2

Jim looks back at the history of Epcot's Communicore attractions

0:17.7

which was last visited by guests on this date in 1994.

0:22.3

Let's get started by bringing in the man who says that the scariest U.S. President was probably

0:27.6

Rushmore because he had four heads.

0:30.0

It's Mr. Jim Hill.

0:31.0

Jim how's it going?

0:32.0

It's going great. Now, have you actually ever been to the Mount Rushmore National Memorial or?

0:37.4

Yes, it's smaller than you'd think. But even so.

0:41.3

When my family went in the summer of 1970s, every so often you'd get something

0:46.0

that would sort of remind you of how big it was.

0:49.4

We got there early in the morning, it was kind of shrouded in mist and it was on this thing

0:54.0

yeah yeah looking up at Jefferson it's like wow he's got dandruff it's like no

0:58.0

those are mountain goats but I think the one thing that frustrates a lot of folks is you can only get so close to Rushmore

1:07.0

You're down at the base there whereas if you go a 17 miles to the southwest have you ever gotten to the crazy horse memorial?

1:17.0

Okay so two things the crazy horse memorial in terms of ambition is orders of magnitude more ambitious than Mount Rushmore.

1:27.0

In fact, it actually borders on insanity because it took how many decades to do Mount Rushmore and the crazy worst thing is a

1:37.2

hundred year project and it's like one dude with some dynamite and a pickaxe.

1:41.8

I think Rushmore got announced in 1925, work actually started in 27 and they finished in 41,

1:49.0

whereas Crazy Horse, they started work in 1948, and they finished the face, the nine-story tall face, 50

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