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Defunctland

Interview w/ Former Club Disney Employee Sean "Captaining a Sinking Steamboat"

Defunctland

Kevin Perjurer

Society & Culture, History, Society & Culture:history

4.8573 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of the Defunctland Podcast, former Club Disney employee Sean joins Kevin to discuss everything about Disney's failed Chuck E. Cheese/Discovery Zone concept, as well as the ESPN Zone and Disney Store.

Transcript

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0:00.0

When you wish upon a song.

0:05.0

Now we want you to share with us our latest and greatest dream.

0:09.0

Disneyland.

0:10.0

Just go to action park with no other park like it.

0:17.0

Six Flags great adventure. It's not a world away.

0:20.0

Paramount's Kings Island. We will officially Six Flags Great Adventure. It's not a world away.

0:26.9

Paramount's Kings Island. We will officially open Universal Studios, Florida.

0:28.8

Hello, I'm Michael Eisner.

0:37.4

Now, here is your host.

0:39.4

Hi, and welcome back to the Defunct Land podcast.

0:40.5

My name is Kevin Perger.

0:45.9

Today, we are doing another post-episode discussion this time on the most recent episode of Defunct Land, which was Club Disney and, you know, partly ESPN Zone.

0:50.2

We talk a lot about Disney regional entertainment, especially their Discovery Zone, Chuck E. Cheese

0:55.4

concept, Club Disney, which opened five locations across the United States.

1:00.4

I recommend watching that episode before, but if you've already seen the episode, this is going to

1:04.3

take a much deeper dive.

1:05.7

And I'm so happy to have here with me, Sean, who worked at Club Disney and ESPN Zone.

1:10.3

So, Sean, thank you for joining

1:11.5

me today. Hey, thanks for having me. So can you just kind of explain to me your role with Disney at this

1:16.6

time and when it started, when it ended just in general terms so we know the timeline and what

1:21.2

locations you worked at? Yeah. So, I mean, I started with Disney at the Disney stores and

1:26.9

the 1,000 Oaks. And we had heard that there was this concept that was opening up that we really know a lot about, but we just heard this concept of Disney was opening interactive kids play site. So myself and a handful of people from Disney store interviewed for you know, for the position while they're still,

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