Thirty20Eight #96 - Disney Listory: Wilderness Lodge
The 3028: Theme Park History & Pop Culture Listory
Matt Parrish and Kevin Quigley
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Thank you for downloading the Thirty20Eight, a show about Disney history and Disney listory. This week, Matt and Kevin dive into the splendor and excitement that is the backstory of Disney's Wilderness Lodge. They also give the resort the full listory treatment and count down their favorite features.
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| 0:00.0 | The The The We burn with your golden dreams, |
| 0:46.0 | flying high, flying high. I'm The Welcome to the 3028 a show about Disney history and Disney Listery. I'm Met Parish. |
| 1:22.0 | And I'm Kevin Quigley. |
| 1:23.0 | You know, Kevin, we recently, it seems like recently, |
| 1:25.0 | but it's been a couple of months, |
| 1:27.0 | released a show on the Unbuilt Resorts of the Seven Seas Lagoon. |
| 1:30.0 | And there were plans for an Asian resort we talked about where the |
| 1:33.7 | Grand Floridian is today a Mediterranean resort next to the TTC kind of looked |
| 1:37.8 | like the Venetian Hotel in Vegas and the Italy Pavilion in Epcot and we |
| 1:41.8 | also discussed a luxurious Persian resort that would have sat where |
| 1:46.2 | basically where the Tran cycles are going in today but we didn't get any of those |
| 1:51.6 | resorts we sure didn't get any of those resorts. |
| 1:52.6 | We sure didn't. |
| 1:53.8 | We uh, so the Walt Disney World was sort of like, |
| 1:57.8 | this is, okay, so let's cast our minds back to the 70s and the oil crisis and sadness and then Reagan |
| 2:06.2 | economics look a lot happened to the 70s and 80s but resort shifting happened and |
| 2:10.6 | the end and then Epcot started taking over everything and all those other stuff was happening so Disney was sticking with the Polynesian Fort Wilderness and the contemporary so those were going to be their main resorts. They weren't going to go completely like Michael Eisner goes to France crazy. |
| 2:27.4 | They were gonna, they were just gonna stick with their main three. |
| 2:30.8 | And this was smart too because you had the high-end deluxe that was more of a I don't know kind of a business |
| 2:35.8 | business casual resort with convention center at the contemporary Polynesian is this |
| 2:40.0 | fully immersive themed resort and then Fort Wilderness is kind of the family |
| 2:44.1 | resort back then it had the train and the canoes and the biking and you could |
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