Welcome back to another edition of the Disney dish podcast with Jim Hill

It's me, Lentesta, and this is our show for the week of Shmer's Day, October 16th

2023 on the show today two brand new surveys that hint about the future of hotel stays at Disney and Universal

Plus news then in our main segment Jim tells us about the history of phantasmic

Which made its Walt Disney World debut this week back in 1998

Let's get started by bringing in the man whose career as a substitute teacher at Hogwarts began by saying

Welcome to invisibility class students and it's disappointing to see so many of you today

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

I have a great affection effect Len you're this weekend. You're getting of the IP of the tour of Universal

Which means you're gonna get to see the various Harry Potter things over there, right?

Now you've done those before or I've actually done only one VIP tour of Universal and that was many years ago

So I'm assuming now that they're gonna show us like the dungeon at Hogwarts and stuff like that, right?

Transformers break room

There we go. Yeah, they're setting that drinking all their energy drinks

Like yeah, I have to admit when it comes to the the Harry Potter stuff

I mean

Somebody was just talking in the past couple days on social media about

To the effect of if you look at what happened with Avatar and

With Harry Potter, you know the notion of these lands that only celebrate one IP

So it's just sort of the 30,000 foot view. What's this a good thing for the theme park industry or bad thing?

Yeah, when it's basically rolling big rolling the dice big on one particular franchise for 20 years

Yeah, it's a lot and in the case of like you know Hogwarts

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