Welcome to For Your Amusement, a theme park podcast that aims to exhaustively evaluate the world's most popular theme park attractions to determine if they are world class.

I'm Ryan Bergara.

I'm Barry Marin.

And for this episode's featured attraction, we explore a rumbly in Byron's tumbling as we bounce through the 100-acre wood to discuss the many adventures of Winnie the Pooh in Disneyland, California, the Magic Kingdom in Orlando, Florida, as well as Hong Kong and Shanghai Disneyland. And joining us face down in the Honeypot is a cast member from Disneyland who is currently working the attraction. And that is Craig Rockanova. Thank you for joining us over in the Teaky Room. One thing that we are going to talk about later that Craig you had mentioned is that you do have some ghost stories from Winnie the Pooh. Which if you know me, you probably know I'm involved in the ghost world. So if you want to hear some of those, stick around for some fun facts later. And as always, go ahead and like and subscribe. if you're watching over on YouTube.com slash watcher podcast or if you're listening rate the podcast five stars please or don't rate it at all

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not a financially viable podcast no i don't believe help help help help help help keep this show alive, thank you for joining us. Craig, really appreciate it. Hey, thanks so much for having me, you guys. This is a trip, so. Yeah, and so I actually met Craig at the parks just by happenstance. He was gracious enough to find Byron and I in the haunted mansion queue because you used to work haunted mansion before I went down. Before it went down, yeah. For the long sleep. I'll be back at the haunted mansion. I'm very excited to go back. Not that I have anything against Winnie the Pooh at all, but it's definitely not the haunted mansion. No, it is definitely not. I'm fighting the urge to ask you for, for like, when is the mansion coming coming back but I'm not going to ask you

yeah well we don't know anyways I learned most of the things that I know from like

what's going on around the park from fresh big Disney yeah because it's been down

for what about a couple months now it's been down for just over a month I think

we closed on the 21st of January so it's only been like a month in a week or so. So that meant how long have you been working poo? I've been working Winnie the Pooh since the 22nd of January. And is this your first stint at Winnie the Pooh? No, I've known the ride for almost nine years. Oh, great. So yeah, it was my first attraction when I rehired in 2015. Oh, neat. Is that when you were toggling with Splash Mountain?

I had to wait six months before I could learn a second attraction.

Because right as I got hired into Disney, the Rivers of America shut down and they started

building Star Wars Galaxy's Edge.

Let's just list off your like baseball card statistics.

What rides have you worked in your time over at Disneyland?

So when I, so I'm a two-time rehire.

So I started in 2005 in Foods and I was here for like six months just because I was

trying to do high school and work at Disneyland at the same time, which doesn't work very well.

They do not like working around school schedules. At least they didn't back then. Yeah, that makes sense. And school schedules do not move. No, they do not, especially high school. No, especially when you're 17 years old and you're, you know, trying to do high school. And what called you to do to work at Disney? Like, what was the inspiration there? I was an annual pass holder for years uh i actually wasn't an

annual pass holder up until like right around freshman year high school my parents were like wait

we can get a pass for two hundred dollars and drop our kids off and not worry about them ever like

so my parents are like that's a good point yeah let's just drop our kids off disney will babysit our kids for us and yeah they didn't have to worry about me so i just feel like i i i just

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