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Manufacturing the Magic: Disneyland’s sister parks – Part One

The Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Tv & Film, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In the 21st installment of this educational series, Shelly and Noe Valladolid talk about what happened when C.V. Wood (the original president of Disneyland) went off in 1956 and set up his own theme park design company. This episode takes a close look at Freedomland & Magic Mountain Over the course of this episode, listeners will learn about: How many theme park designers did C.V. Wood take with him when he exited Disneyland What was the first theme park that Wood worked on after he stopped working for Walt How was Freedomland’s opening day much like the one that Disneyland experienced back in 1955 What similarities did Magic Mountain have with Walt’s original family fun park Who were some of the stars that performed at Freedomland Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome aboard Pink Monorail. I'm your pilot, Michelle Viadolid, and next to me is my co-pilot, Noah Viadolid.

0:13.6

Hey, everybody. Last time, we talked about getting funding for Disneyland. Now we're going to talk about Disneyland opening.

0:24.0

Disneyland for Disneyland. Now we're going to talk about Disneyland's opening. Disneyland was literally the TV show Come to Life. In the last TV special before opening day,

0:30.4

Walt hands the hosting over to Winston Hibler in the pre-opening report. Hibbler produced many

0:35.9

of Disney's True Life Adventures, The Living Desert, the Vanishing Prairie, the African Lionopening report. Hibbler produced many of Disney's true-life adventures,

0:38.0

the living desert, the vanishing prairie, the African lion, and more. On this day, he showed

0:43.3

the construction progress of Disneyland, including humorous reworking of songs like

0:48.9

Hi-Ho and Whistle While You Work, as well as the M mice's work song from Cinderella. At the end,

0:55.1

a salesman promised a Davy Crockett photo and comic book to any kid who brought a parent to the car

1:01.2

dealership, as well as trips for three people to Disneyland and new cars. You can watch this special

1:07.5

on Disney Plus. Just search for Disneyland and it will pop up.

1:11.3

Now, the host that you're talking about, Shelley, the guy that did the true life narrations,

1:16.4

he's the one that would always do the shows that like normally in nature, a grizzly bear and a bobcat,

1:22.5

don't get along. But for the sake of this documentary, we watch what would happen if we stuck them in a burlap sack.

1:29.4

My brothers and I love those shows because we'd be like, that's never going to happen.

1:34.2

And the guy would say, well, normally in nature.

1:36.8

Nah, you're fibbing.

1:38.3

All right, so what happened, Shelley?

1:40.2

Disneyland was laid out by like a movie.

1:43.5

Right, but it was not just two-dimensional movie sets.

1:47.5

No.

1:47.8

So it was much more than that.

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