WWR Tencennial - S10:E1 - Disney's Journey Into YOUR Imagination

WEDway Radio - Walt Disney World and Disneyland Examined with some Disney History

Nate and Matt Parrish

History, Florida, Society & Culture, California, Disney, Arts, Imagineering, Disneyland, Radio, Park, Theme, Wdw, Places & Travel

5 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Thank you for downloading WEDway Radio; this is the Disney history show! On this episode, we celebrate our TENCENNIAL anniversary with an exploration of a defunct attraction from Walt Disney World during a time of transition for Epcot.

We hope you find time to join us on our Facebook page AFTER you listen to the show to share your thoughts and opinions on Journey Into YOUR Imagination and the current Journey Into Imagination with Figment.

Thank you, again, for TEN great years!

Enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0	From the Brava Centauri Studios, this is Wedway Radio. I'm gonna' . The
0:40.3	The I'm . ... Oh, hello there. So glad you could come along. I am the dream finder.
1:28.6	Ha, ha, ha. Musical notes. What delightful melodies those will make. I love these flights of fancy,
1:36.3	searching the universe for sounds, colors, ideas, anything that sparks the imagination.
1:52.6	Welcome to Wedway Radio.
1:54.7	This is the Disney History Show.
1:56.3	I'm your host, Matt Parrish,
1:57.8	and throughout the future of Wedway Radio,
1:59.9	I'll be joined by a number of different guests,
2:06.1	including my brother Nate, to talk Disney history and the cultural impact of the Disney Company. For those of you who have listened for many years, I hope you'll continue with me on this journey
2:09.6	through the history of the Walt Disney Company, as this will not be the final season of the show.
2:14.7	I've decided to put my best foot forward in keeping this show going for our faithful listeners, so thank you so much for downloading. This is a great of the show. I've decided to put my best foot forward in keeping this show going for
2:18.4	our faithful listeners. So thank you so much for downloading. This is a special month for
2:22.5	Wedway Radio as it marks the 10th anniversary of the show on iTunes. It's actually the 11th year
2:28.8	if you go back to the very beginning of Wedway Radio when Nate and I were recording and doing a very terrible
2:36.9	job at that. So I figured if we were going to transition the show forward, it would be appropriate
2:41.7	to look at a transitional time for the theme parks and the Walt Disney Company. I call this show
2:48.4	the problem with Epcot era because I feel like Disney management was trying to refurbish a bunch of unique concepts while also trying to stay true to original themes.
2:58.6	And I think that was extremely difficult for modern Imagineers.
3:02.7	They were sort of retrofitting a 70s and 80s future world into the 90s and some of it transitioned okay, some of it came out not so good.
3:12.3	So one of the huge pavilions in Future World that saw a lot of changes in the 90s was the imagination pavilion.
3:19.4	Captain E.O is replaced with Honey I Shrunk the audience and Journey Into Imagination, a fan favorite,
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