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The Disney Dish with Jim Hill Episode 377: How Walt Disney made his Imagineers walk in the Guests shoes

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4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

en Testa & Jim Hill welcome Arthur Levine from About Theme Parks, who then talks about his new Substack project. These three then talk about an intriguing bit of construction that’s now underway at WDW’s Blizzard Beach water park Show Notes Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to another edition of The Disney Dished Podcast with Jim Hill.

0:03.5

It's me, Lentesta, and this is our show for the week of Shmer's Day, June 6th, 2022.

0:08.7

On the show today, news, listener questions, then in our main segment,

0:13.0

Jim tells us about the last time the Walt Disney World Railroad went through an extensive

0:17.6

refurbishment and why.

0:19.9

Let's get started by bringing in the man whose grandfather died doing what he loved,

0:24.1

saying,

0:24.9

of course, have to stop for pedestrians, you know, before stepping into the crosswalk.

0:29.2

It's Mr. Jim Hill. Jim has it going.

0:31.9

This brings back memories of March of 2004, Lent.

0:35.2

I was in Philadelphia for Disney's annual meeting.

0:38.1

This was the year that Roy, Disney, and Stanley Gold were trying to oustize

0:42.2

her with their saved Disney thing.

0:43.6

And the annual meetings being held in the Pennsylvania Convention Center,

0:46.9

an arts street, and where his Roy and Stanley, they're doing a save Disney

0:51.3

rally across the street at the Lowe's Hotel.

0:53.1

So yep, I'm supposed to be doing the sit down with Roy and Stanley.

0:56.5

And I'm running a late not looking what I'm doing.

0:58.5

So I step out onto art street and feel a city bus whiz by a quarter of an inch

1:06.9

away from my cheek.

1:07.8

I mean, I literally, I just turned my eye and I could feel my eyelashes being

1:12.2

brushed by the raised chrome on the bus.

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