Disney's Game Plan for Epic & The Raglan Road Story (Ep. 556)

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill

Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Places & Travel, Leisure, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Jim wraps up the story of Raglan Road and explains how one Irish pub helped inspire the full transformation of Pleasure Island into today’s Disney Springs. Along the way, Len kicks off No Negative November and the crew answers listener trip-planning questions with their best “only happy thoughts” energy. The origins of Raglan Road and how authentic Irish design found a home at Walt Disney World Why its immediate success made Disney rethink the entire Pleasure Island plan How that rethink led from Hyperion Wharf to the Disney Springs we know today EPCOT strategy debate: one-day visit vs. After Hours event Jollywood Nights character advice and what to prioritize Updates on Disney and Universal ticket options and offerings A classic Disney story that starts in a pub and ends with a whole new district. SHOW NOTES Unlocked Magic Unlocked Magic, powered by DVC Rental Store and DVC Resale Market, offers exclusive Disney & Universal ticket savings with TRUSTED service and authenticity. With over $10 MILLION in ticket sales, use Unlocked Magic to get the BIGGEST SAVINGS. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Learn More⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 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,
0:05.2	and this is our show for the week of Schmersday, November 3rd, 2025. On the show today,
0:10.6	in news, we begin no negative November. In listener questions, one day at Upcott, as an off-site
0:16.5	guest, or one night with the After Hours event. Then in our main segment, Jim finishes up the story of Disney Springs Raglan Road. Let's get started by bringing in the man whose legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, like the Great Lake they call Gichigumi. It's Mr. Jim Hill. Jim, how's it going? It's going well, Len. And Gitchie Gumi, for those of you who don't know folks, that that's actually
0:38.2	Lake Superior, which is the largest freshwater lake in the world, if you go by surface area,
0:44.3	whereas if you go with actual volume, it's third.
0:48.3	By the way, Len, interesting thing, it was good.
0:51.1	Where did you go by personality?
0:52.4	Well, actually 25th. You know, we'll just think of what happened to the Edmund Fitzgerald.
0:59.0	It's hard to beat Tiddicoke, right?
1:00.0	There we go. There we go.
1:02.0	But that said, the interesting thing, it was Gitchie Gumi, right up to 1760 or thereabouts.
1:09.0	And then interestingly enough, you know the better business
1:13.6	bureau of what eventually became Michigan you know renamed the lake and sadly they found
1:19.6	out the the first name lake pretty okay just wasn't pulling crowds. Like better than most.
1:27.6	There we go.
1:28.4	All right.
1:29.6	It's superior.
1:30.5	Are you happy now?
1:31.7	Come, be a tourist.
1:33.3	Exactly.
1:34.3	So the line for our younger listeners, the legend lives on from the Chippo
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