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The Disney Dish with Jim Hill

Disney Dish with Jim Hill Ep 476: Tiana’s Bayou Adventure” gets ready for its grand opening

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill

Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Leisure, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.8979 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Len Testa & Jim Hill start this week’s show by discussing the Stella Nova & Terra Luna Resorts at Universal Orlando. They then look back at Disney’s reaction to Mattel’s 1972 announcement of its Circus World theme park project Throughout this episode, listeners will learn about: How many times will Universal Orlando’s Halloween Horror Nights be presented this year What’s the name of the bay that the “World of Frozen” is built alongside at the theme park formerly known as Walt Disney Studios Park in Paris What price range is Universal reportedly considering when it comes to admission to its new kid-friendly park currently under construction in Bliss, TX Why are the popcorn buckets sold at the Disney Parks in Anaheim & Tokyo so much nicer than the ones that are sold at the WDW Resort How were the elephants dressed at the groundbreaking ceremony for Circus World back in April of 1973 Show Notes 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.

0:03.5

It's me, Len Tasta, and this is our show for the week of Schmer's Day, April 22nd,

0:07.7

2024.

0:08.7

Happy birthday, Disney's Animal Kingdom.

0:10.8

On the show today, news, our first surveys about Universal's upcoming kids park.

0:15.6

Plus, I go horseback riding at Fort Wilderness and live to tell the tale.

0:19.8

Then listen to questions and in our main segment, Jim gives us part three of the story of how Disney worlds tomorrow and came to be.

0:26.4

Let's get started by bringing in the man who has just learned from human resources that when your co-worker says can I ask a dumb question your response should not be more than

0:35.9

anyone I know I swear to God it's Mr Jim Hill Jim how's it going?

0:39.9

It's going well and like those years you spent in American Express, I did my time in a really

0:49.8

for real office environment back in the early 1980s I worked at the Rob report.

0:55.4

Do you know this magazine?

0:56.8

Yes yes yes the fancy shmency Rob report yeah.

0:59.5

There we go for super rich people I mean it for me it was kind of ironic so I drive into work in my hand-me-down Pinto that this

1:08.0

was the one that would explode if you hit it from behind all right and you know, I'd have to go in and proofread articles about, you know, the very best place is to take you out if it needed to be refurbished.

1:19.6

Exactly. You know, a relative comparison of the salinity of different different oceans for your yacht

1:27.2

Yes, but what I remember vividly about this work experience is the break room at the Sam

1:34.8

Phillips building. This was where the Rob report at that time was published in

1:38.2

Act in Massachusetts and all of these high-end companies would send product samples to the Rob report hoping to get included

1:47.1

the next issue.

1:48.1

And so, you know how you go into your break room and, you know, typical break room and you said that

1:52.8

that weird collection of mugs

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