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Disney Dish Bandcamp Subscriber Exclusive- Does WDI need to streamline its design process? Plus bonus story from Len

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Len Testa & Jim Hill start off this week’s episode by discussing which aspects of Future World’s old Communicore / Innoventions area are due to shuttered soon as Epcot gets a facelift out ahead of WDW’s 50th-anniversary celebration. Jim then talks about Chairman of Disney Parks, Experiences & Products Bob Chapek’s reported frustration with the cost & speed with which WDI develops immersive lands for the Company’s theme parks

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Over the course of this episode, listeners will learn about:

How WDW Entertainment is about to make its third attempt at fixing the “UP! A Great Bird Adventure Show” at Disney’s Animal Kingdom

The tweaks that Disney Parks & Resorts just made to WDW ticket prices in an effort to noodge would-be-vacationers to visit the Company’s Orlando resort during certain months

What Cars Land at Disney California Adventure Park and New Fantasyland at WDW’s Magic Kingdom have in common

Why Tom Staggs’ decision to swap out that Cinderella / Sleeping Beauty meet-n-greet for “Seven Dwarfs Mine Train” forced WDW’s New Fantasyland to open in four phases rather than two

What Disney Company management really envies about “The Wizarding World of Harry Potter” (And no, it’s not all of the money Universal Parks & Resorts makes off of the sale of Butter Beer)

BONUS FOR BANDCAMP SUBSCRIBERS: Len shares the tale of how the apartment building that he & Laurel were living in Celebration got condemned

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released July 8, 2019
Hosts: Len Testa and Jim Hill
Editor: Aaron Z. Adams

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The Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Jim Hill is a writer, blogger, and theme park historian, and he'll be the first to tell you all of the back-room deals and corporate gossip that happens inside the Walt Disney Company.

Len Testa co-authors the Unofficial Guide series of travel books, focusing on theme parks.
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