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Mousetalgia! - Your Disneyland Podcast

No. 51: Eddie Collins, VIP Tour Guide stories

Mousetalgia! - Your Disneyland Podcast

Jeff Baham

Leisure, Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.4776 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Mousetalgia Best Ear Ever No. 51: Eddy Collins, VIP stories from October 3, 2016

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This week, Mousetalgia welcomes special guest Eddy Collins, who has spent decades with the Disney Company. Collins started doing custodial work at Disneyland and eventually became Global Sales Manager and a spokesperson for the resort. Eddy talks about his first job at the park as a sweeper, and how he quickly became a prestigious VIP tour guide, then moved to guest communications and management, and on to special events for the opening of Disney's California Adventure (after a run-in with the Disneyland Ambassador program and roles in TV/radio broadcasting). Eddy talks about managing Disneyland's international publicity, becoming the resort's Global Sales Manager, and the importance of a little pixie dust. Eddy also dusts off the plaid vest and takes us back in time to his days as a VIP tour guide, with stories about Ted Dansen and his family, Disney Legend Robin Williams, Ed McMahon, and of course, tales of touring with Michael Jackson (in and out of disguise). Plus, we discuss ways you can bring spooky Disney settings into your Halloween decorating - and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Remain listening, please.

0:04.6

Permaneseer Escuchando, for favor.

0:07.4

You're listening to Mousetalgia's best year ever.

0:10.3

An encore presentation of the top 52 episodes of the Mousalgia podcast curated by Team Mousalja.

0:16.2

Please note that all sweepstakes are wide and time-sensitive news may be outdated.

0:18.9

Now sit back, hold on, and enjoy Mousalja's Best Ear Ever.

0:22.6

We'll do it again.

0:26.6

Hello friends and welcome to another episode of Mouselage's Best Ear Ever.

0:33.6

We're down to the final two.

0:35.6

Then, who knows? Well, I'll give you a spoiler alert

0:40.3

for who knows. Well, you're going to know that Mousalgia will be continuing. I'll tell you

0:45.5

that Mousalgia story, maybe over the next few months. Who knows, you know, the part of it that

0:50.7

could be interesting or not. The interesting thing about Moustalgia is how

0:54.3

little drama there really is behind the scenes. There isn't any. Dave, Becky, Kristen, and I

0:58.6

have been great friends for years. We were great friends before we started Mousalgia. We remain

1:03.8

great friends now. So there's no like any of that kind of drama in there. But we are trying to figure,

1:08.1

we did try to figure out over the end of the last year,

1:10.9

you know, what's the future of Mousalgia and, you know, the involvement everyone wanted to take?

1:14.6

Because after, you know, more than a decade, people, of course, have the right to reassess

1:21.5

their lives, right? And so I do still plan to carry Mousalgia, so you can have that to look forward to.

1:29.6

Like there will be a continuing Moustalgia podcast presence.

1:33.1

And I think that's all I'm going to say about that right now for this week.

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