Disney Dish with Jim Hill Ep 467: When will WDW’s version of “Tiana’s Bayou Adventure” open

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill

Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Leisure, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.8 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Len Testa & Jim Hill are joined by veteran Imagineer Jim Shull. Who then explains how Hong Kong Disneyland’s version of Sleeping Beauty Castle was transformed into the Castle of Magical Dreams Over the course of this episode, listeners will learn about: How many ECVs can the new bus that’s joining the WDW transportation fleet carry at one time Why – when you’re given the opportunity by the Disney Cruise Line – you should always take the GYT How close does the Ultidor system at the Magic Kingdom get to that theme park’s Tomorrowland Speedway What was the difference between the construction materials that were used to build Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland Park in Anaheim back in 1955 versus the materials that were used to build a second version of this iconic structure at Hong Kong Disneyland Why did LegCo turn down the opportunity to have a “Star Tours” attraction added to Hong Kong Disneyland in the 2010s Show Notes 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.
0:04.0	It's me, Len Testa, and this is our show for the week of Schmer's Day,
0:07.0	February 19, 2024, on the show today, news, including our best guess as to when Tiana's bio adventure will open, plus surveys
0:16.7	and to listener questions. Then in our main segment, Disney Imaginer Jim Schull joins us to explain
0:22.0	how to refurbish an attraction that's in the middle of an operating theme park.
0:25.6	Let's get started by bringing in the man who's got 99 problems and all of them are loof balloons.
0:30.7	It's Mr. Jim,. Jim has it going.
0:33.0	Len is of course referring to that hit song from Nina, the West German band from 83, 99
0:41.1	Luft balloons. Though, to be fair, folks in the United States
0:45.1	and the UK probably know the English version better 99
0:48.4	red balloons, which Nina re-recorded in 84, which became a hit all over again but did you know Len this
0:56.1	song is based on something that actually happened in the United States in 1973?
1:02.1	There have been numerous nuclear war scares on both
1:05.2	sides of this which one was this I have trouble remembering all of them. All right this is
1:11.0	the more innocent version this is five high school students decided to prank the city of Las Vegas.
1:17.5	So they bought a hundred Mylar balloons and tied them together and then dangled a lit road flare off of this thing.
1:27.3	And the thing is that as they were sending it aloft, one balloon got away.
1:31.3	So that's the 99 balloons. And the interesting thing is that this totally
1:37.2	freaked out the folks over at Red Rock. You know, they looked up and legitimately saw the flare reflected in the Mylar balloons and thought
1:44.7	UFO.
1:45.7	So, you know, I don't know how we then got to nuclear, you know, nuclear war, but again, based on on something real that happened that
1:56.5	Nina learned about and decided to write a song about. I love that the first
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