Welcome back to another edition of the Disney dish podcast with Jim Hill. It's me,

Len Testa. It's the middle of October. We are halfway through our jaunt into Halloween

and in order to fully celebrate this holiday, which as far as Disney's concerned, began back in August.

We need to bring in one Mr. Jim Hill. Jim has it going.

I'm working on my Christmas decorations with Disney. You gotta take ahead.

I'm waiting for the day where I walk into Target next week

and they've got Valentine's Day stuff out.

I'm looking forward to that.

I think that we're just five minutes away from that,

just the one continuous holiday.

Hello Chris McQuansiga?

There we go.

There we go.

All right, so I actually want to talk about my visit to the early October

Mickey's not so scary Halloween party that I went to but let's do a couple of other news updates first

James it's been more than a decade but sadly Stitch's great escape has now closed at the Magic Kingdom. It's turned from a ride into a meet and

greet. What do you make of this?

It is what it is. It is a band-aid. The public still loves Stitch as a character and the studio knows this in fact that's why behind

this live action dumbo and Aladdin that's being produced right now they've got a

script prepped for a stitch movie where it's a live action little girl playing Lilo and a live action woman playing Donnie and a C.G.

And this character isn't going away while the Stitch's Great Escape attraction

is still tentatively slated for this Ralph Wrex the Internet themed attraction for now as just sort of a placeholder

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