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The Disney Dish with Jim Hill

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill Episode 432: Remembering Disneyland’s “Flights of Fancy” parade

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill

Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Leisure

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Len Testa & Jim Hill start off this week’s show by talking about the jump in attendance levels that Universal’s two Florida parks have recently experienced. They also look back at the Summer of 1983 and how Walt Disney Productions celebrated its 60th anniversary. 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 dish podcast with Jim Hill. It's me,

0:03.6

Len Testa, and this is our show for the week of Shmurs Day June 19th,

0:07.4

2023. On the show today, news and the listener questions, then in our main segment, we'll all learn why experiments on human beings are so tightly regulated

0:16.7

when Jim tells us about the first time Disney used inflatable costumes for its parade performers.

0:22.1

Let's get started by bringing in the man who says that everyone costumes for its parade performers.

0:22.7

Let's get started by bringing in the man who says that everyone you meet

0:26.0

is fighting a battle you can't see.

0:28.4

So attack while they're distracted.

0:30.2

It's Mr. Jim Hill.

0:31.0

Jim, how's it going?

0:32.4

Lynn, I'm beginning to think you're spending too much time in Manhattan.

0:37.0

That seems like a very New York take on life.

0:43.4

You know, just say, you know, it's a talk-y-talk world out there.

0:48.7

You need every advantage you can get.

0:50.5

There we go.

0:51.3

Wow, okay. All right. Something later for next week. I have that on the menu. All right. Okay, cool, cool.

0:57.0

Jim, let's do a quick shot at to subscribers over at Disneydish.bandcamp.com. Thanks to new subscribers Bobby Mahoney, Maxfield Vincent,

1:05.4

Liz Young, and TII 11. And longtime subscribers Drake Guyan, Mark Hardy,

1:11.5

J Furness, and Darryl Vettur.

1:14.0

Jim, these are the cast members responsible for the chewing gum ban in Disney Parks Worldwide.

1:21.0

It all dates back to a 1979 Epcot Pavilion proposal for the Wrigley Chewingum Company that

1:27.1

involved the A-Blinket animatronic and the pre-release strawberry formula of Hubba. Speaking for the group, Liz said that it was a

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