How to Beat Animal Kingdom Before Breakfast (and What Happened to Reflections?) (Ep. 515)

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill

Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Leisure, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.8 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This week, Len Testa and Jim Hill share how to conquer Animal Kingdom faster than you can finish a Mickey waffle and dig into the curious case of Disney’s Reflections: A Lakeside Lodge. Animal Kingdom Touring Plan: Len’s step-by-step guide to finishing all major rides in under two hours—because who has time to wait in line? Reflections: A Lakeside Lodge: Jim uncovers the rise, fall, and possible resurrection of Disney’s most mysterious resort project. Tiana’s Bayou Adventure vs. Splash Mountain: Fans weigh in—has Tiana’s really taken the crown from Splash? Smuggler’s Run Upgrades: Could Grogu finally make being an engineer on the Millennium Falcon cool? Dinoland’s New Beat: A drumming band made from recycled materials? That’s the kind of green initiative even Mickey can’t resist. Tune in for tips, history, and plenty of questions like, “Is it really a park day if you’re home by 10 a.m.?” SHOW NOTES Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Drawn to Life, the groundbreaking live stage show at Disney Springs in Orlando, Florida,
0:04.9	has been dazzling visitors to the Walt Disney World Resort for more than three years now.
0:09.8	This family-friendly extravaganza, which really has to be seen to be believed,
0:14.0	seamlessly blends pieces of classic Disney animation with mind-blowing live acrobatics.
0:19.2	Drawn to Life is presented Wednesday through Sunday on the west side of Disney Springs.
0:23.3	This shopping, dining, and entertainment complex is open to anyone visiting Central Florida, and parking is free.
0:29.3	Again, that's Drawn to Life, live on stage at Disney Springs in Orlando.
0:34.5	Welcome back to another edition of the Disney Dish podcast with Jim Hill. It's me,
0:38.7	Lentesta, and this is our show for the week of Shmars Day, January 20th, 2025 on the show today.
0:44.4	News, listener questions, and a new touring plan that completes all the Animal Kingdom rides
0:49.4	in under two hours. Then in our main segment, Jim starts on the history and future of Disney's
0:55.5	Reflections, a lakeside lodge. Let's get started by bringing in the man who says needlepoint
1:00.1	tells people you'll stab something a thousand times and display the results in your living room.
1:05.1	It's Mr. Jim Hill. Jim, how's it going? It's going well, Len. And again, the manly art of needlepoint.
1:10.7	And by the way, I say that sincerely because me, personally, I associate Needlepoint with defensive tackle Rosie Greer.
1:18.1	Rosie Greer.
1:19.6	There we go.
1:21.1	By the way, after a storied career with the New York Giants and the L.A. Rams back in the 1960s,
1:27.0	went on to write a book about what he did during his free time off of the football field, which was knitting, crocheting, macramay, and needlepoint.
1:36.3	And that volume, Rosie Greer's Needlepoint for Men, was published by Walker & Company some 52 years ago this month, January, 1972.
1:48.4	That said, Len, 1972, that was also the year that Rosie appeared in the Blacksploitation movie,
1:55.7	The Thing with Two Heads.
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