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WDW Radio: Your Guide to the Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise and More Disney Magic!

WDW NewsCast - April 11, 2012 - Tutto Gusto, Test Track, Star Wars Weekends, Tom Hanks as Walt Disney and more!

WDW Radio: Your Guide to the Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise and More Disney Magic!

Lou Mongello - Disney Expert

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Leisure

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2012

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

WDW NewsCast - April 11, 2012 - Tutto Gusto, Test Track, Star Wars Weekends, Tom Hanks as Walt Disney and more! Topics this week include: - Tutto Gusto wine bar in Italy in Epcot's World Showcase - The Vision House at Innoventions - Test Track refurb - Star Wars Weekends stars and celebrities - Tom Hanks to play Walt Disney in film about Mary Poppins ---------------------------- Join us every Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. ET at WDWRadioLIVE.com for a LIVE interactive news show covering Walt Disney World. Be a part of the broadcast and discussion and discuss the news real-time in the chat room. Thanks to our sponsor, http://TouringPlans.com/WDWRadio ------------------------------------- THANK YOU for your support by voting WDW Radio Best Travel Podcast for 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011! ------------------------------------- Visit WDWRadio.com and talk about the show by posting in the WDW Radio message forums Walt Disney World Trivia on your iPhone! 770+ questions and more!: http://bit.ly/wdwtip Twitter: http://Twitter.com/LouMongello Facebook: http://Facebook.com/WDWRadio Google+: http://LouMongello.com/gplus Thanks for watching! Be sure to tune in next week! - Lou Mongello

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0:00.0

W-W-W-E-R-E-O

0:03.4

You're in ornamental stage hall.

0:08.3

Hello, everybody, and welcome to the W-W-W newscast for Wednesday, April 11, 2012.

0:14.9

I am Luman Jello from W-W-W radio coming to you live from a future world in Epcot center here in Walt Disney World.

0:22.4

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0:26.6

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0:30.4

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0:56.4

So let's get right into this week's Walt Disney World news, because we're in Epcot, and because I'm starving, because it's 7.30 we're going to start off with food, and right down there, over at the Italy Pavilion, in World Showcase, Tuto Gusto, the new wine seller, this may be part of Tuto Italia, once it reopens, is scheduled to open in early May, and this is something new coming to the World Showcase offerings we've got.

1:24.4

We've got margarita bars, we've got tequila caves, we've got the new, as part of Flower and Garden Festival, the new Haiti mini Pavilion with the coconut rum frozen drink, which is phenomenal, but now we're going to have a wine bar, and I think this is really nice because it's bringing a lot of elements in, isn't Glenn Whalen, by the way, from pretty good movie ride.com, and Google in, without a G, well one G in the front, not a G in the back.

1:50.4

Right, Google in WDW Radio, Google in WDW.com, we'll link to it in the show notes, Scott Otis, again members of the audience.

1:58.4

So the wine seller is nice because there are a lot of people who are beer aficionados, tequila aficionados, a lot of wine drinkers.

2:07.4

This is going to give them a place beyond the confines, although they're wide confines, of food and wine festival, to go and sit down and enjoy a nice sort of adult evening with the wine bar.

2:18.4

I think what they're trying to capitalize on is both France and Italy seem to have a lot of people that will go there just for a little wine tasting.

2:26.4

Those two areas seem to attract that, and it's still a small, unknown group that's trying to do that, so they're trying to make it so that more people can attend and see the way to do it.

2:37.4

And we're seeing, you mentioned France, you know, we're seeing expansion coming to France too, because now the participatory, the, it's really the place to get delicious sweet treats, is expanding probably next year.

2:48.4

It's going to get a second level on it, so they're really expanding the food offerings, the specific food offerings, whether it's desserts, whether it's wines, whatever it might be.

2:56.4

Again, that's supposed to open up in early May sometime.

3:00.4

Right here at interventions, a new attraction is going to open called the Vision House.

3:06.4

That's supposed to open on Earth Day, two Sundays from now, April 22nd, and right down the way, and we're going to go visit it in a little while, test track is going to close for its extensive refurb.

3:18.4

Yeah, test track.

3:19.4

Closing?

3:20.4

Closing. They're reopening world of motion. No, they're not.

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