WDW Radio # 525 - Top Ten Things to Happen at Disney in the Past 10 Years
WDW Radio: Your Guide to the Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise and More Disney Magic!
Lou Mongello - Disney Expert
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2018
⏱️ 137 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Henry, what's holding you up? Let's get on with the show. We can't hang around here all day. |
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| 0:30.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, get ready to meet all your favorite Disney stars as the Magic Kingdom proudly presents... |
| 0:48.0 | ...You're in the Port of Asia. |
| 0:55.0 | Hello my friend and welcome to the WW radio show, Your Walt Disney World Information Station. |
| 1:03.0 | I am your host, Lou Montjello and this is show number 525 and I'm here once again not only to help you have the best experience in the Disney Parks, |
| 1:12.0 | but I also want to bring you a little bit of Disney magic where every you are not just with the podcast, but with my videos live broadcasts on Facebook every Wednesday night, my books, audio tours, special events and more. |
| 1:25.0 | You can find everything over at www.radio.com. |
| 1:30.0 | In the mid 1980s, Michael Eisner ushered in the Disney Decade which brought significant growth and change to Walt Disney World as well as all the Parks, Resorts and Companies a whole. |
| 1:42.0 | But more recently, the past decade has also given us remarkable events, announcements, acquisitions, expansion and milestones not just in the Parks and Resorts, but in movies, music and more. |
| 1:55.0 | So this week we're going to look back and share our top 10 favorite things to happen in and act Disney in the past 10 years. |
| 2:05.0 | We're going to take a year by year look from 2008 to 2018 and of course as we take this trip down memory lane together, I'm also going to invite you to share your favorite event, edition announcement or even personal Disney memory from the past decade. |
| 2:22.0 | All that out of the answer to our last Walt Disney World, trivia question of the week and the special Toy Story Land and these Toy Box prize package and I'm going to pose a new challenge for your chance to win a new Disney prize package this week. |
| 2:35.0 | Then stay tuned to the end of the show. I'll have more information about how I can help you turn what you love into what you do, my upcoming momentum conference, upcoming Meet of the Month in Walt Disney World and not one but two on the road meetup. |
| 2:50.0 | Of course I'll have your voice mails so sit back, relax and enjoy this week's episode of the WDW Radio Show. |
| 3:21.0 | Back in the mid 80s Roy Disney brought in Frank Wells and Michael Eisner to help change the direction and maybe even the fortunes of the company and specifically in the 90s Michael Eisner had a lot of plans for the company which they termed the Disney decade and I discussed what was new and what was next and everything that happened during that time back on the world. |
| 3:49.0 | Back on show 426 we talked about Eisner's original plans what was supposed to be what was built what wasn't and why and how it really impacted the company also back on show 309 we sort of took away back machine to 1993 to dive in a little more but thinking back on the Disney decade was thinking back on the recent past. |
| 4:16.0 | You know the last decade in the parks and resorts there was growth and changes and surprises and acquisitions and even a few things that maybe we lost along the way but all in all it's been a great time to be a Disney fan. |
| 4:31.0 | In fact I'll bet we could come up with almost a year by year top 10 list of our favorite things to happen at Walt Disney World and the Disney company over the past 10 years and for me one of my favorite things to happen is getting to know and work with and share experiences with the man that you know as little Timmy Foster the brain child behind celebrations magazine and of course I know him as one of my longtime friends and I know him. |
| 5:01.0 | Top 10 list guy Timmy Foster welcome back my friend. |
| 5:06.0 | Well hey you know what I was I was wondering as trying to remember what my nickname was 10 years ago it wasn't little Timmy Foster you've gone through many. |
| 5:17.0 | Yeah I've gone through many bananas is hanging on bananas is still there I think you will refer to his as Samantha Brown for a while for some of us. |
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