Disney Dish with Jim Hill Ep 489: How does WDW’s new “Country Bear” show stack up

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill

Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Leisure, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.8 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Len Testa starts this week’s show by revealing which attractions will be open at Disney’s Hollywood Studios during Extended Evening Hours at that theme park later this year. And then Jim Hill wraps up his history of Epcot’s “Maelstrom” attraction. In this episode, listeners will learn about: Why was the original version of “Country Bear Jamboree” trimmed down back in October 2012 What land does Hong Kong Disneyland that is traditionally found at other castle parks Why did the Imagineers dial back the North Sea scene in “Maelstrom” just before this World Showcase attraction officially opened in July of 1988 Which animatronic figure from “The Hall of Presidents” can also be found as a eunuch along “Spaceship Earth” ‘s ride track When – according to the U.S. census – did the wide open spaces of the American West officially come to a close 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. It's me, Len Testa, and this is our show for the week of Shmer's Day, July 22nd, 2024. On the show today, News, I see the country bear jambe while wearing one of those under the shirt
0:13.8	cooling fan thingies and will Disney move on from the concept of frontier land
0:18.2	plus listener questions then in our main segment Jim finishes the history of
0:22.1	Epcot's Norway Pavilion.
0:24.4	Let's get started by bringing in the man who points out that pickles and squash are nouns,
0:29.4	verbs, and sports, making them the most versatile of the gourds.
0:33.5	It's Mr. Jim, Jim, how's it going?
0:34.8	It's going well, Linen.
0:36.4	And speaking in pickles in sports, have you heard about this new trend of opening pickle ball courts inside of now abandoned malls.
0:48.0	I want to say this enterprising soul started it in Tempe, Arizona back in September of last year at the Arizona
0:59.3	Mills Mall and it did so well at least initially lend that the guy announced plans to sort of expand it out to 50 malls nationwide.
1:10.0	Just one teeny tiny hiccup, I want to say a day or so ago, the Arizona Millball guys terminated his lease.
1:20.0	So he's scrambling to find another location for Pickleball in Tempe.
1:27.0	But yeah, I mean, this is going like gangbusters.
1:30.0	I want to say we had one of those pickle balls at the mall thing open up in just here in
1:36.2	Concord, Massachusetts a week or so back.
1:38.2	That's fantastic.
1:39.2	I love the idea of somehow doing like a cross-promotional thing.
1:42.4	And Jim, hear me out.leball but done on a Sears
1:45.6	Craftsman riding lawnmower if that is not an espe a show right now
1:51.5	Okay again that check goes to lead testo wow all right you know that I would I
1:57.7	would go straight out of Shark Week I would I would watch that line exactly exactly And we're kind of in that middle area where like, you know, where we're we're basketball season is done.
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