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This June Disney hosted a collection of LGBTQIA2S-targeted ‘pride nites’ at Disneyland. This is only the second year in Disneyland’s nearly 70 year history where the company has actually created their own pride experience…so…how was it?
Christopher Beale reports from inside Disneyland After Dark: Pride Nite 2024, and Bethanee Bemis from the Smithsonian gives us the timeline of queer celebrations inside the happiest place on earth.
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Chris and Charles are military veterans living in Central Florida with their non-binary kid Eric. They arrived in Florida just as Governor Ron DeSantis began his outright attacks on the LGBTQ+ community and now they’ve had enough. They are raising money to leave Florida and an uncertain political future.
Mattel is opening a new theme park, an audio animatronic freaks out, and one columnist says that Walt Disney World has become hell on earth…what do you think?
Plus, a popular theme park releases their beautiful area music on the internet.
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Disney is updating their dining reservation systems, will it make dining on property easier? Plus, Cedar Point strands guests, and gets sued…but also announces a newish coaster! Check out Christopher's work at ChristopherJBeale.com
An east coast theme park is hiring, and the boss is universally beloved. Plus, a new HHN house, Fantasmic reopening updates, and alcohol is coming to three restaurants at Disneyland. Check out Christopher's work at ChristopherJBeale.com
The Central Florida theme parks have announced their Halloween offerings, Christopher Beale breaks down the choices. Plus, an update from Carowinds’ broken roller coaster, and a new experience coming to Universal Studios Hollywood on this episode of Theme Park Pulse. Check out Christopher's work at ChristopherJBeale.com
A South Carolina man spotted a crack in a roller-coaster support beam and sprang into action, a popular passholder event is returning, some newly-restored old Disney shorts are headed to streaming, and Christopher has the 4-1-1 on the halloween offerings in the Southern California parks.
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After a lengthy hiatus, Theme Park Pulse is back. This week, Christopher Beale has info on 4th of July at Walt Disney World, "Rogers: The Musical" at Disney California Adventure, and a quick look at the career of retiring Disney Legend Toshio Kagami. - Support our work, and grab our shows early and ad-free on Patreon at patreon.com/nomidnight.
Chris got scammed out of €100 on his way to Disneyland Paris, here is what happened and how to avoid being a victim!
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Adam is back with a new Theme Park Time Machine dedicated to 1929’s “The Skeleton Dance”, and Nikki and Dave discuss the (totally predictable) price hikes coming to the Disney parks.
Theme Park Time Machine was written by Adam Vargyas with edits by Josh Taylor, and sound design by Christopher Beale.
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Dave and Nikki just got back from their first trip to the Disneyland Resort in California and want to tell you all about it before everything on the property gets replaced by the new D23 Parks announcements…yeah, we saw those too.
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Dave and Nikki just got back from their first trip to the Disneyland Resort in California and want to tell you all about it before everything on the property gets replaced by the new D23 Parks announcements…yeah, we saw those too.
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The Universal Studios Hollywood version of Halloween Horror Nights is open for the 2022 season and we were granted media access to check it out, we take you inside this year's hottest haunted houses, plus Cast Compliments on Coffee and Carousels!
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The Universal Studios Hollywood version of Halloween Horror Nights is open for the 2022 season and we were granted media access to check it out, we take you inside this year's hottest haunted houses, plus Cast Compliments on Coffee and Carousels!
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Disney’s latest earnings call was upfront with how they feel about Magic Key annual passholders and the results were not pretty. Plus, lots of unique announcements for the Halloween season, thievery at an Ohio park, and of course, Cast Compliments.
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Your TikTok could get a Cast Member fired! Dave & Nikki discuss their journey towards sailing away on the Disney Wish and celebrate the career of Pat Carroll on Theme Park Pulse!
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Throughout the United States, theme parks are being tied to acts of racism and classism as stock prices drop, but that's nothing new for the world of amusement parks. - No Midnight Media are an independent podcast group, and we rely on your support to create shows like Theme Park Pulse, Coffee and Carousels, Stereotypes and Unpacked. To support our work, and hear EVERYTHING we make (yes theres more) early consider joining us on Patreon.
Marvel Studios revealed the now-named “Multiverse Saga” at San Diego Comic-Con 2022. But with negative stories coming to light about some of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s business practices, Dave Warwick wonders is now the best time to be excited about Marvel movies? Plus, Josh Taylor with the latest on Tiana’s Bayou Adventure and Nikki Drake tells us about the new MagicBand+ on Theme Park Pulse! - No Midnight Media are an independent podcast group, and we rely on your support to create shows like Theme Park Pulse, Coffee and Carousels, Stereotypes and Unpacked. To support our work, and hear EVERYTHING we make (yes theres more) early consider joining us on Patreon.
Marvel Studios revealed the now-named “Multiverse Saga” at San Diego Comic-Con 2022. But with negative stories coming to light about some of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s business practices, Dave Warwick wonders is now the best time to be excited about Marvel movies? Plus, Josh Taylor with the latest on Tiana’s Bayou Adventure and Nikki Drake tells us about the new MagicBand+ on Theme Park Pulse! - No Midnight Media are an independent podcast group, and we rely on your support to create shows like Theme Park Pulse, Coffee and Carousels, Stereotypes and Unpacked. To support our work, and hear EVERYTHING we make (yes theres more) early consider joining us on Patreon.
The gloves have come off in the saga of the two Bobs as former Disney CEO Bob Iger has spoken out about current chief Bob Chapek. Plus, someone thought a game where you shoot into a crowd of people was a good idea.
Did you hear the one about the drink aboard the Disney Wish that costs $5000? Plus, escape rooms at Citywalk, and what is and isn’t coming to a Disney park near you?
Theme Park Pulse celebrates Pride with a Theme Park Time Machine retrospective on Howard Ashman and artist Andreas Deja! Plus, our Mount Rushmore of Ashman/Menken Disney songs, Ms. Marvel and more details on the Disney Wish on Theme Park Pulse!
It’s summer blockbuster season and movie marketing is out in full-force! Join us for a double-feature discussion of Jurassic World: Dominion and Top Gun: Maverick. Plus, a history of those franchises in some of our favorite parks. That’s today on Theme Park Pulse!
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Did Disneyland really kill the Magic Key? We have the latest parks news! Plus, a sea of red shirts took over Walt Disney World last week for the 21st anniversary of Gay Days, our pal Ara Wagoner (Android Police) has an update.
May 25th was the anniversary of the releases of Star Wars (1977) and Return of the Jedi (1983). Obi Wan Kenobi is debuting on Disney+, and this year brings the return of the premier Star Wars fan convention Star Wars Celebration — after 2 years — and we were there! That’s today on Theme Park Pulse! -
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Changes to Walt Disney World's reservation system, a rumored new coaster coming to Universal Hollywood, the first maze for Halloween Horror Nights and more today on Coffee & Carousels!
Imagine a world where Disney characters play “The Circle!?” Plus, “What’s New For 2022!” in regional theme parks? We have answers this week on Theme Park Pulse. Cast: Dave Warwick
Nikki Drake
Josh Taylor
Jack Milliken
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The politics around Disney's company town, Epcot plans, Studio Ghibli + more for the podcast debut of Coffee and Carousels.
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Flower & Garden Festival is back, more COVID restrictions have lifted, and we’re giving our best ideas to improve our favorite parks with some Armchair Imagineering today on Theme Park Pulse!
It’s an outer space-themed episode of Theme Park Pulse! We have the latest on Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind, and Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser. Plus an all-new Theme Park Time Machine on “Lilo & Stitch!”
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New Hidden Magic to keep your eye open for, and tips for how to spend St. Patrick's Day in the parks. Plus, Josh puts Dave and Nikki head to head in the ultimate Magic Kingdom Trivia Showdown on Theme Park Pulse!
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Josh, Dave, and Albie gear up for the start of Marvel's 2022 calendar with a preview of Moon Knight, a show featuring dissociative identities, Egyptian Gods, and Oscar Isaac murdering people in the night.
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From TV shows and films, to new lands and overlays, Marvel IP is moving into every area of the parks. Our panel asks the question, is it all too much?
Josh and Dave take over Theme Park Pulse for part two of a special presentation of Assemble examining the best and worst of what Marvel Studios gave us in 2021. To hear more Assemble, and get other perks, sign up at Patreon.com/NoMidnight today!
This week, we bring our hottest takes! Who has the best, worst, and spiciest opinions about all things parks!? Plus, ideal places to propose to your partner in the theme parks!
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Josh and Dave take over Theme Park Pulse for a special presentation of Assemble to look at the best and worst of what Marvel Studios gave us in 2021. To hear more Assemble, and get other perks, sign up at Patreon.com/NoMidnight
This week we debate whether rides at Walt Disney World or Disneyland are superior. Plus, we’ll give you the scoop on the new Vault Collection: part of the Walt Disney World Resort 50th Anniversary Celebration, and a new Rollercoaster Rapidfire.
An all-new season premieres with the first of 2 new sets of co-hosts! This week, Nikki and Dave detail the new 50th Anniversary VIP Tour to help you decide if it’s worth the cost. Plus more info on the Epcot Festival of the Arts and the upcoming maiden voyage of the Disney Cruise Line’s "Wish!"
This week, our friend Jeff DePaoli chats with Muppeteer Bill Barretta about Muppet's Haunted Mansion.
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From a revamped Toontown, to larger-than-life characters, light sabers and anniversary celebrations we have all of the big announcements from Destination D23.
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Does the Disney Company need to distance itself from its founder?
Josh Taylor and Adam Vargyas explore Walt Disney's complex legacy, and relevancy this week on Theme Park Pulse.
Disney Paper Artist Keith Lapinig plays Pop Culture Trivia Tuesday live on Twitch!
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We are back from Jack’s 21st birthday in Orlando and the travel back was…not good. Nikki has her story, Stranded by Southwest, plus Love Letters, the Parks Planning Forecast and more on Theme Park Pulse!
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The true story of how "The Sword In The Stone" saved Walt Disney Animation, plus Halloween Horror Nights Icons vs. IPs, the Parks Planning Forecast and more on this episode of Theme Park Pulse!
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Former Walt Disney World executives share what was going on behind the scenes the morning of September 11, 2001.
Contains excerpts from 9/11 at Walt Disney World.
Did you know that a pandemic nearly cost the world Disney? Adam has that story in Theme Park Time Machine. Plus, it's Halloween time in the domestic parks and our team has updates today on Theme Park Pulse, on the beat of themed entertainment.
This week on Theme Park Pulse our trivia master Josh Taylor quizzes our panel, and special guest Ryan from "For The Love Of Theme Parks" with some really difficult Disney Trivia.
Who will win, and how many questions can you get correct?
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We search for the perfect place to have brunch at Disney Springs, update you on the Walt Disney World 50th Anniversary Celebration, check the Parks Planning Forecast, roast another parks guest behaving badly and more — this week on Theme Park Pulse!
Universal Orlando rolling out the red carpet for APs, a new restaurant opening at EPCOT, remembering Mr. Disneyland Ron Dominguez, plus Love Letters and the Parks Planning Forecast this week on Theme Park Pulse.
In less than 30 minutes: Our guest Jeff DePaoli from Dizney Coast to Coast on Bob Chapek and the state of Disney, updates on Magic Key and the 50th Anniversary of Walt Disney World, and WTF is S.E.A.!? - Check out our other podcasts, merchandise, Patreon and more at ThemeParkPulse.com.
Disney has updated their COVID-19 guidelines, Dinosaur’s merch is missing, Scarlet Johansson is suing Disney, and Adam takes us back to Disneyland day 1 - this week on Theme Park Pulse. Connect with the show on social media, pick up cool merchandise and support the show at ThemeParkPulse.com SOURCES Dinosaur
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Disneyland announced their "Magic Key" annual pass program today. Christopher & Josh were live at Twitch.tv/themeparkpulse with the details the moment they were available.
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California has announced many of their COVID-19 restrictions are ending tomorrow - Tuesday, June 15th 2021. Disneyland has also made an adjustment to their mask policy. Disneyland now says that vaccinated guests will no longer be required to wear masks at the resort including inside restaurants and attractions. Social distancing will no longer be enforced either.
As for verification, Disney says they will not be checking vaccination status, but will instead be taking guests at their word. Children, and those who are not vaccinated will still be asked to wear a mask.
These changes go into effect tomorrow at the Disneyland Resort - and we’ll keep an eye on this story.
Theme Park Pulse reporter Jack Milliken is at Disneyland with exclusive audio that may reveal when Disneyland’s shuttered Annual Passholder program will return - and it’s sooner than you think!
Cortanie from Orlando shares some princess beauty techniques and Josh loses a game he stole from Jack - this week on Theme Park Pulse: The Game.
Elsewhere at the Madcap Motel is a new immersive art and theater experience in Downtown Los Angeles. Josh and Jack were on the scene to see and hear what this space had to offer. If you are looking for a fun-filled few hours of sci-fi storytelling and interactivity, we highly recommend "checking in" at the Madcap Motel.
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Susie from Orlando's Country 103.1 The Wolf plays Happy Haikus, plus Ryan and Stevie from TABLE | Ghost Kitchen share their story on Theme Park Pulse: The Game!
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Our pal Mike Rowe is a Disney Cruise Line Entertainment Host, how does he fair in Foley Schmoley at sea? Plus Preebs joins us to talk about Extra Life!
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This year the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are playing their 55th season down the road from Disneyland. Adam explores the relationship between America’s pastime and America’s favorite theme park.
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Sunday, October 27, 2002. 8 days before my 17th birthday. Edison International Field of Anaheim, one freeway exit south of Disneyland. I was watching this baseball game in Redlands, California, about a 45 minute drive away.
The Anaheim Angels, my favorite baseball team, played the San Francisco Giants in the 7th and final game of the World Series. Taking a 4-1 lead into the 9th inning, closer Troy Percival had runners on 1st and 2nd with two outs. Just one pitch away from turning the Angels into World Champions for the first time in their 41 year history.
Center fielder Kenny Lofton stepped to the plate representing the tying run. Lofton’s favorite pitch was low and inside. If Percival made a mistake low and in...this could suddenly be a tie game.
Luckily for my adolescent psyche...that didn’t happen.
If you’re a professional sports fan, and you were lucky enough to see your team win the championship during your formative years, you know the emotions I was experiencing that night. I honestly couldn’t remember a time in my life when I’d felt happier.
Jump ahead a couple months. A few of my cousins were visiting from Ohio to spend New Year’s with me, my brother, and my parents. Like anyone visiting California, naturally, my cousins wanted to go to Disneyland, and we were happy to oblige.
But before that happened, I needed to make a very important stop.
A week earlier, on Christmas morning, one of my presents was actually a raincheck. A promise from my parents that when we were in Anaheim, we’d pay a visit to the Angels team store and they’d buy me a bright red, Angels World Champion windbreaker, the very same jacket worn by the players and coaches.
That jacket brought back all those same emotions from that night in October. And it bears mentioning, even though it was December, we’re talking about Southern California. It was in the high 60s that day! Definitely not heavy jacket weather. But you better believe that jacket never left my torso that day.
I still have that jacket. It doesn’t get a whole lot of use these days. It still fits, but it’s a bit more snug around the midsection than when I was in high school.
A year ago, on this channel, we released an episode called “The Heart and Soul of Brooklyn”. In that episode, I told a story about a group of young boys living in Brooklyn in the summer of 1955, visiting first Coney Island and then Ebbets Field.
In the process of creating and hosting that story, I realized that the world of baseball and the world of theme parks often run side-by-side and have a lot of similar elements. They’re both fun, they’re both great family outings, and maybe I’m getting overly sentimental here, but they both have an element of adventure and...magic.
It’s now been almost two decades since the Fall of 2002, and the Angels are beginning their 60th season.They haven’t returned to the World Series...they really haven’t even gotten close. Don’t get me started on that topic.
It’s baseball season, and with Disneyland set to open in a few weeks, it’s also theme park season. Unlike last season, Disneyland and Angel Stadium will actually have visitors this year.
Beyond geographic location, the two organizations, Disney and the Angels, share a lot of common ground.
It’s April 1961. John F Kennedy, the first US President born in the 20th century, has been in the White House for about 100 days. Yuri Gagaran wins major bragging rights for the Soviet Union by becoming the first man in space. Fugitive Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichman is brought to trial in Jerusalem. And in Los Angeles, a new baseball team takes the field for their first ever home game.
1961 was a transformative year for the American pastime. Baseball is notoriously slow to change, and true to form, the same sixteen teams had existed for six decades. Some of them had relocated, most notably the Dodgers moving from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, and the Giants moving from New York City to San Francisco. But they were still the same ball clubs.
Frustrated by the static nature of professional baseball, which if you’re unfamiliar is composed of the National and American Leagues, plans were drawn up for third league, the Continental League. They had their sights set on professional ball teams in Minneapolis, Toronto, Houston, Dallas, and Atlanta, a few of the many regions that baseball-loving Americans were moving to.
Before the Continental League could take shape, Major League Baseball struck a deal. They would do something just short of sacrilegious. They would expand. The next two years would see the creation of the New York Mets, Houston Astros, Washington Senators...and the Los Angeles Angels. The Angels would play their first season just south of Downtown LA, at Wrigley Field.
If you’re a baseball fan like me, the name of that park probably rings a bell. It shares a name with the Cubs longtime home park, on the north side of Chicago. And no, that’s not a coincidence. William Wrigley, the millionaire owner of the chewing gum company and the Chicago Cubs, built the park in the 1920s for two minor league teams. But in 1961, big league baseball moved in.
The previous winter, several baseball executives descended on the baseball owners meetings in St Louis with the hope of putting in a successful bid for the new Los Angeles Angels. Gene Autry, better known as the Singing Cowboy, an established country crooner, radio personality, and movie star would purchase and own the Angels for the next 36 years.
The Angels home opener that year was a disappointment, drawing just 12,000 fans, about 50% of the park’s capacity. That year, they averaged just 7,000 fans per game, one-third the total of the Dodgers, playing down the road at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Despite not drawing many fans, the Angels won 70 games that season. Not too shabby for a hodgepodge mix of out-of-shape veterans and career minor leaguers.
But, for their whole tenure in Los Angeles, the Angels struggled to attract as much attention as their National League counterpart, they also struggled to fill the stands. This was especially disappointing from 1962 to 1965 when the Angels and Dodgers shared Dodger Stadium.
It was time for the Angels to move out of Los Angeles and find their own identity. That’s where Anaheim came into the picture.
In just seven short years, Anaheim went from a dusty citrus-growing town to the home of the most popular theme park on earth; Disneyland. In 1965, Anaheim got another major tourist attraction: The only American League baseball team in the state of California. While announcing the construction of the new Anaheim Stadium just four miles south of Disneyland, the team also announced a new name: The California Angels.
If the team’s move to Disneyland’s backyard seems too perfect to be a coincidence, well...that hunch is correct. Walt Disney was a member of the Angels board of directors from 1960 until his death in 1966, and he was a central figure in the team’s move to Orange County. As fellow family-friendly Hollywood entertainers, Walt Disney and Gene Autry both saw the benefit of giving Americans another option for a family friendly outing. You could visit Anaheim and see Mickey Mantle and Mickey Mouse on the same weekend!
1966,the team’s first year in Anaheim, saw 1.4 million fans visit the ballpark, the highest attendance in the American League. In 67, to promote the opening of Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Carribean, Autry teamed up with the Disney company to offer Angels-Disneyland doubleheader. For $5, fans could buy a reserved seat at a game against the Cleveland Indians, and a special nighttime ticket to Disneyland, giving them access to the park from 8 at night to 1 in the morning.
Just as Disney began to experience some of their worst years, the Angels entered some of their best. They acquired Nolan Ryan, one of the best pitchers in the history of the game, and would go on to win their division in 1979, 1982, and 1986.
Disneyland and the Angels remained friendly neighbors, but for the most part, separate and unrelated entities throughout the 70s and 80s. But that began to change in the early 1990s.
In the middle of the 1994 season, just as the Disney Decade was gaining steam, the studio released Angels in the Outfield, starring a very young Joseph Gordon-Levitt, as well as Christopher Lloyd, Best known previously as Doc Brown from the Back to the Future franchise. Lloyd plays Al, who leads a team of Angels on a mission of divine intervention to help the team win the pennant.
It’s cheesy. It’s sappy. It’s all the things Disney gets accused of on a daily basis, but it still gives me the warm fuzzies.
Disney’s new CEO Michael Eisner had an interest in sports that went beyond the silver screen. After purchasing and debuting the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim the previous year, Eisner now had his sights set on the Angels. By this point, Gene Autry was in his 80s and in failing health, having handed over day-to-day operations to his wife Jackie. She agreed to sell 25% of the team to Disney in 1994. After Gene Autry passed away four years later, Disney bought the team outright for just over $100 million.
During the years of Disney ownership, the team changed their name for the second time, from the California Angels to the Anaheim Angels. With some financial assistance from the city of Anaheim, the team also gave the stadium a much-overdue makeover.
Early in their ownership, Disney made a big blunder. The company re-designed the team’s uniforms. Beginning in the 1997 season, the Angels played in blue and white pinstripes, with a logo that looked like it was straight out of Toontown. Many fans compared it to something an adult softball team would wear.
In 2002, the team did away with their five-year mistake and took the field in classic red and white uniforms. The uniforms didn’t help pre-season predictions for the team, as most oddsmakers expected them to place third in their four team division. When the Angels finished the first 20 games of the season with a 6 and 14 record, even those projections seemed optimistic.
But they turned it around. Not unlike the original 1961 Angels, the 02 (oh two) team was scrappy. A collection of veterans and newcomers, without a lot of household names. They’d go on to surprise nearly everyone by ending the season with 99 wins. In early November, they celebrated their world championship with...what else? A parade down Main Street USA.
Though Disney sold the team in 2003, the relationship between the two hasn’t ended. Most notably, when Angel Stadium hosted the MLB All-Star Game in 2010, Disney created 36 baseball-themed Mickey Mouse statues and placed them throughout the Disneyland Resort.
I’ve always loved the fact that my favorite baseball team plays down the road from my favorite theme park. When two things you love, and that you’re passionate about, intersect like that, it gives you all the warm fuzzies. I love food, too, and I get that same overwhelmingly happy feeling when I sit down and have a really good meal at Carthay Circle at Disney California Adventure, or Blue Bayou at Disneyland
Wherever you’re surrounded by people who love all the same things you do, those are the really good moments in life. Maybe we used to take those places and experiences for granted a little bit. But I have a feeling, after 2020, we’re never going to do that again.
Whether it’s a baseball game, a football game, a trip to a theme park, a family BBQ...whatever part of your life that features your favorite things and your favorite people, I hope you get to a whole lot more of it this year.
To the Angels, happy 60th season. Play Ball!
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Sean: I feel like now I have to go with the most Southern sounding ridiculous accent I can possibly
Kory: do as the personality and to finger point of an experience Disney cast member, but Disney frankly can not afford to pay for her Disney habit in Morgantown, West Virginia. It's Nicki Drake.
Hey Nikki. Hi. Welcome back everybody. And last, but certainly not least he lives in Denver, Colorado for now. That's a tease. And so is he it's Josh Taylor. Hey, Josh.
Josh: I'm so much closer to being on the West coast. You don't know.
Kory: Oh, but is the West coast ready for Josh? I hope so
Josh: because I'm coming in strong
Kory: Christie, you worked for Walt Disney world for the better part of 13 years.
What roles did you play while you worked for the County?
Christy: I started with merchandising and then I spent the last 13 years with the Disney's very, to weddings team. What's
Kory: a typical day, like in weddings. It is
Christy: stressful and crazy, and it was so much fun.
Kory: You still live there in the Orlando area with your family.
Give your family a shout out. Of course.
Christy: Hi, Phillip Gus, Lila, and Jacoby.
Kory: How did you meet your husband? I was a
Christy: wedding intern back in 2007. They were doing a bridal shoot for the new David Tutera collection. I think I just fit the dress. So they asked if I would put on the dress and step into the role of a bride.
I met Phillip. He was the groom for the day and I said, hi, I'm your Bradford today in 2011, we got married. At the wedding
Kory: pavilion at the
Christy: wedding pavilion. Oh, that's so cool. I met him in a wedding gown and then
Kory: theoretically married him in wa yeah. Since you left the Disney company, you've leaned a lot into writing something I'm getting into at this stage in my life.
What are you working on right now?
Christy: I've got a book being published. It's being released July 1st. It's called a ring bear. And it's a book for anyone who's been asked to be a ring bearer in a wedding.
Kory: Oh, so it's a ring bear. B E R. Yeah. Yes. The little boy
Christy: thinks he has to be a ring bear. That's
Kory: so cute. And where can people pre-order that book?
They can go to
Christy: black Rose writing.com and look for a ring bearer.
Kory: Can't wait to read it. All right, Christie, we're going to play the parks, pop culture, pop quiz. I'm going to ask you three questions about some recent parks news. And if you get two out of three, correct, we'll send you a glow in the dark theme park pulse wristband.
Okay. Okay, here we go. Question one. Walt Disney world recently gave us a first look at artist renderings for new rooms at Disney's Polynesian resort. Featuring a Pacific ocean inspired color palette inspired by witch film franchise. That's right. I actually love this remodel and this film so much that I do not have a bad joke for this.
You're welcome.
All right. Question two Orlando theme park fans got some exciting news when it was announced that universal is resuming construction on their new theme park called what? Oh, Epic
Christy: universe,
Kory: right? A universal fans are excitedly chomping at the bit for yet another gate while Disney's fans are busy, constructing gallows at Disney Springs over the cancellation of the magical express.
And Nikki is
Jacky Boy: the
Kory: lead
Sean: construction worker. Alfred swinging a hammer.
Kory: Last question. A touch of Disney is the name of the now completely sold out food festival, taking place where. In
Josh: my tummy,
Kory: is that it? Disneyland? Yeah, Disney, California adventure. The tickets went really fast to the latest of course, is that the California theme parks will be allowed to reopen on April 1st with some restrictions. If it's anything like the bars here in California, you may get to ride pirates. So the Caribbean, but you'll be required to purchase one food item and one beverage in order to clear the state's COVID-19 standards, because reasons Alby, how did Kristi do on the Park's pop culture, pop quiz?
I think
Josh: she needs to do my wedding at Epic universe Malanda style. So she got them all.
Kory: Christie, will you stick around and play some more games later in the show? This is so fun. Up next to media personality, Chris van fleet plays, elevator pitch on theme park, pulse, the game. Welcome back to theme park pulse. The game. Our guest is the host of the podcast insight with Chris van fleet and he has a wildly popular YouTube channel under his name.
Let's welcome to theme park, post the game, my friend and media personality, Chris van fleet. Welcome,
Chris Van Vliet: man. Thank you so much. Good to see you. Good to hear you. All of the
Kory: things it's been forever, where you and I first met in Cleveland, Ohio, many, many moons ago. That is not where you live now. And it's not where you're from.
How many places have you lived at this point are
Chris Van Vliet: too many originally from Toronto, but then it was Toronto, Vancouver, Cleveland, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Cincinnati. And now I live in Los Angeles.
Kory: Well, welcome to California. Yeah. Thank
Chris Van Vliet: you. Thank you. The weather is beautiful here, but I think, I think I'm done moving for a little while.
Kory: Canada. What would you say your awareness was of theme parks like at an early age. And did you go to Canada's Wonderland?
Chris Van Vliet: Everyone went to Canada's Wonderland and then Canada's Wonderland became paramount. Canada's Wonderland when paramount. Yeah, paramount bought it. And then they renamed all the rides after their movies.
So I can't even remember what the original name was, but we would ride top gun and we would ride the Italian job like it. One day we showed up and all that, all the rides had brand new names. Cool.
Kory: Were there any that were just bad?
Chris Van Vliet: Like the names were bad or the rides were bad either. Italian job. That's so great.
Sean: Do you get to drive mini Coopers in a tunnel? Because if you don't then the right is garbage
Chris Van Vliet: and it was very strange. There was the bat and I don't want to get too much off on a tangent here, but the bat was this rollercoaster that went forwards and then backwards. And the one for that was always like two hours long.
That's all I did.
Christy: We're loops and
Chris Van Vliet: stuff too, but it was the entire ride. And then backwards, the
Josh: segment was not sponsored by
Sean: paramount
Kory: plus not at all. Chris, you host a podcast and a YouTube channel. What will we find if we look you up on YouTube and check out
Chris Van Vliet: insight? Like, I'm just fascinated with the idea of like people that are like super successful.
There's a reason they got to be at that level. So my podcast is all about like reverse engineering. Like what are the habits and techniques that they have, so we can all apply them to our own lives. So some recent interviews are. Lots of wrestlers on big wrestling fan. As I know you guys are as well, but Freddie Prinze Jr.
Was on the show. Chris Kirkpatrick from end sync was on the show. I just interviewed Jeff Timmins from 98 degrees. Andrew Yang was on talking wrestling with me, which is so cool. It's been a lot of fun and like I've selfishly do the show so I can learn from these people and go, Oh, you do that thing. Well, I'm going to start doing that thing now.
Kory: Tell me about what you did to get the rock to flick you off on television. And why are you still alive?
Christy: And he's now done it twice. He's probably
Chris Van Vliet: out twice, but the first time he was on the red carpet for the ballers premier in Miami, when I was working in Miami and. The interview was supposed to happen at like seven ish.
And I was live on TV TV at our, now our seven 30 show at seven 38. And I'm like, Oh, perfect. We'll be able to do the interview with him. We'll like take a clip and I'll be able to throw to the clip, like live on TV. We talked to the rocker, right. Here's what he had to say. Well, as you guys know, red carpet stock are never on time.
So the rock starts walking down the red carpet, like super late. And, and I'm like, Oh my gosh, like, he's going to either be here. Like. Right before I'm on TV or right after I'm on TV. And then the rock is walking up and I'm, we're in a commercial break and we're like a minute away from me going live. And we start this interview and I'm like, Oh my God, like, what are we going to do?
We're we're in a commercial break. And my producers yelling in my ear. Whatever you do, keep him there. We need him there. Live on TV, watching this interview out as much as I can, like asking like just silly questions. Finally, we come back live and I'm like, rock. Just want to let you know, we're live right now on deco drive.
He's like, Oh, we're live. I could. Say anything I want and I'm like, ah, please, please do not. So I turned to the camera at the end of the interview. I go, let's have a people's eyebrow off, you know, where the rock raises the eyebrows. So we do that to the camera, as we're doing it to the camera, unbeknownst to me, he gives me the middle finger on live TV behind my head.
I didn't see this happen. So I turn around. Rock. Thank you so much. That's
Christy: so great to talk
Chris Van Vliet: to you. I turned back to the camera. Dairy is one of the biggest stars in the world. Can you believe we got the rock live on TV? And then as soon as the segment ended, my producer calls me and goes, yeah, the rock flipped you off.
I'm like, What they said. Yeah. We're not sure if we're going to get fined by the FCC. Now, why I spent the next couple of days, like wondering if we were going to get an FCC fine, which thankfully we did not make for a great viral moment. Then when I saw the rock at the Moana junket a few months later, I said, you know, the last time I saw you, we got in a lot of trouble.
Cause you. Flip me off on live TV. He goes, ah, you know what that means? And they gave me another one. So the rock just thinks I'm number one, I guess
Kory: I feel like he's such a good guy though, that if you actually did get fined, you could throw a go-fund me on Twitter and he would take care of it.
Chris Van Vliet: I'd hope.
So then that's the same guy who gave me the middle finger on live TV. So I don't know.
Kory: All right, Chris, we've invited you here to play a game that Jackie boy invented where we're going to put your imagination. No. You're Imagineering all to the test. This is elevator pitch, Jack.
Jacky Boy: Chris welcome to elevator pitch is, is a game of speed wits and armchair Imagineering.
Imagine walking into an elevator with our panelists and having to explain an idea before we hit the top floor. Okay, I'm going to give you a topic. It could be a holiday, a character, a movie, or a show, and you're going to imagine you're it into an attraction or refurb. Or an overlay. Now you'll have a moment or three to construct your magnificent proposition and then 45 seconds to pitch us your ideas.
You'll be competing against Nikki today. And the rest of us will get to vote on our favorite and the most haphazard way possible. And we'll get to that in a little bit. Please note also there's a small chance that I will steal your idea and one day make it a reality. When I become an Imagineer, I like this.
Okay. We all know that odd Topia Disneyland needs a good refreshing, as much as I love the little Honda robot, the appeal is lost just about the time you get your license and you actually get to experience LA traffic. So I figured we switched things up a bit. Chris, your friend, Mr. The rock was in a franchise of movies that has to do with fast cars.
That may be a little more interesting when it comes to a driving attraction. Now I know we already have fast and furious supercharged at universal, but just like Apple says. Think different. Okay. This week on elevator pitch, we're going to be reimagining OD Topia with the fast and furious
Kory: Dawn.
Jacky Boy: Chris, you are our guest, so I will actually let you go second. Cause I feel like that's probably where you want to be. Anyway. Mickey, go first. Okay. Cool. All right, Nikki, you've got 45 seconds. You're walking into the elevator. Are you ready for it? As
Nikki: ready as I'll ever be doors are closing.
Jacky Boy: Let's go.
Nikki: Oh, my gosh. I just had an amazing idea because the most boring ride at Disney is and then even in Disney world, they've got that silly, boring ride there to it.
Jacky Boy: Nice. Okay. All right. Yeah. So.
Nikki: I want to take all of the retired superstar, limo people and change them into the fast and the furious cast and throw them into October would be
Christy: amazing.
Nikki: We need that little pep in the step and we can speed up the ride just a little bit, but not too much, but I also need the rock in here somewhere. Not only flipping us off, but taking a giant, like torpedo thingy and turning it around and blasting it backwards. And I ran out of time. I tried to stretch that beginning as long as
Kory: you did
Jacky Boy: it.
Very good job. Nikki, do you have a name for this attraction that you've created?
Kory: Um,
Sean: not so fast and mildly annoyed.
Nikki: I'll take it. Thank
Jacky Boy: you, Sean. All right, Chris, do you get the gist? Are you ready for it? Let's do it. Doors are closing. Here we go.
Chris Van Vliet: I Topia is not only the worst ride there. It also has the worst name.
So first thing we're going to do is change the name of this guide is now going to be called furious and
Christy: fast. And I think
Chris Van Vliet: one of the biggest problems about this ride is it looks awful. Like these cars are so ugly, so we're gonna, we're going to throw some new cars in there. There's also nothing to do when you're in these cars.
It's not like if you turn left actually goes left. He was on this track. So we're going to put some stuff inside the car. Like there's gonna be some buttons in there. One of the buttons. If you push that button, it's going to fire off our
Christy: torpedo and actual torpedo.
Chris Van Vliet: Then the rock is going to jump in just like fast and furious six, I believe.
And the rock is going to shoot away with his bare hands because that's what the rock does.
Jacky Boy: I can't believe it. Now, the way that we're going to figure out a winner for this is my favorite part of this game. So. The rest of us here on the cast are all going to shout the name of the winner on the count of three, the most haphazard way possible. Okay, here we go. Three, two, one. . Oh, I'll be. Who do we got?
What do you think, Chris?
Sean: Yes, you had me at
Chris Van Vliet: and the actual Rockwell be there
Kory: and Disney can afford to get him to not flick the camera's off. So it'll be good, Chris, will you hang out on the panel for a bit and play the eighth dwarf with us at the end of the show? Yeah. Welcome back to theme park pulse.
The game. If you'd like to be a contestant, call (213) 935-0513 and leave a message or email Nikki in ikk@nomidnightmedia.com. Let's welcome back to the show from Orlando, Florida. It's Kristy Brown. Hi Christie. Hi Christie. I hope you're wearing your ears Disney humor because you're here to play a game with Josh Taylor, cold mucked up musicals, Josh.
Josh: Disney songs are iconic. Even those who don't really care for Disney movies probably still know a handful of classic Disney tunes. So instead of asking you to just name a Disney song, cause that'd be too easy, I've taken these songs. I've run them through my machine and I've spit out something different.
No, no. This game I'm going to play three clips. You just have to name the Disney song. Get all three to win the catch here. All of these songs are now being played at an elementary school concert by a student named Jimmy with his musical record.
Christie. I hope you're ready for a concert.
Sean: All right, Jimmy,
Josh: give us your first song.
can you name Jimmy's tune? Do you want to build a
Sean: snowman?
Josh: You're in the ballpark. There it is frozen. It's let it go. Well, Jimmy, you got a better song for us.
Christy: Is it supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,
Sean: he's reading the lyrics and coming up with music instead of you can't fault, like a seven year old kid. I can I will.
Christy: It's this a real child play?
Kory: No, I think it's Josh.
Sean: I
Josh: heard that girls like musician, so I've been my recorder with me everywhere.
Christy: Is
Nikki: that your recorder? Are you happy to see me?
Sean: In
Josh: fact,
Sean: my recorder, maybe we'll give you one more song. Okay.
Christy: The bare necessities.
Kory: Yeah, good job. The good news is that's not the standard by which we judge things. Jack Alvey. How did Christie do on mucked up musical
Josh: Christie? Don't let your kids play that please, but you got them. All right.
Sean: Oh,
Kory: thanks. No, no, she got the first one.
Christy: Yep.
Sean: Like I said, you're a winner
Kory: and that's why LV is the scorekeeper. We'll wrap up the show with part guests behaving badly. The eighth dwarf is next on theme park, pulse, the game.
Before we wrap up the show this week, we're going to play another round of the eighth dwarf. And now you can grab your stylish eighth dwarf t-shirt at theme park, pulse.com. John, take it away.
Sean: All right. So we all know that the seven dwarves were designed to represent specific behaviors, personality traits.
And at some point during any Disney trip, we're all likely to see or be sleepy, dopey, happy, or if you're meet with my students this past week, pretty grumpy, but every now and then we will witness people in the parks that we just can't categorize. And one of the seven different names, their behavior is so outrageous.
They fit into their own category that we like to call the eighth dwarf. Now the eighth door stories are all based in real life, but I usually embellish a little bit for traumatic effect. However, today's examples are going to be an exception with the behavior, actually running the gamut from dumb to disgusting.
I'm just going to go ahead and present them as they are and let them speak for themselves. Surprising no one there. Both pandemic related, suffice it to say it's been a long and exhausting year dealing with COVID-19. And unfortunately that's pretty much exactly how pandemics work. The virus doesn't actually care if you're tired of the imposition on normal life or that you might be too stupid to understand how modern medicine works, the latter of which.
Definitely seems to include Kelly, a resident of Louisiana, according to the police report, who recently decided that getting his temperature checked in order to access private property was some kind of violation of his rights. Not content to duck pass the temperature checks. Kelly apparently proceeded directly to the boathouse where he was found berating, a security manager, Kelly, who is a shining example of why variations in your genetic line are desirable, managed to get himself arrested and charged with a misdemeanor of trespass on property.
All of this occurred on February 13th. So in honor of that, I wrote a Valentine's adjacent poem just for Kelly. Roses are red. Welcome to jail. That trip was expensive because you had to post bail. Yeah. Very good shot. Corey, what do we call Kelly? If he was the eighth
Kory: auntie Maskey
Sean: legacy.
Josh: Passholder.
Sean: Probably probably a good one. Probably. Yeah. Jack,
Jacky Boy: I'm going with Trumpy on this one.
You're not wrong,
Nikki: right? Because it has to do with his temperature fiery.
Sean: Oh, yeah.
Josh: I mean, this is clearly Texas governor Greg Abbott.
Sean: Hey guys. Again, Josh has gone from throwing other podcasts under the bus to politicians. Oh yeah. I'll keep going up this
Kory: ladder. That's fine.
Chris Van Vliet: We support you. How about, because Kelly went directly to jail, it will take something out of like the monopoly playbook this'll be, do not pass, go
Sean: and Christie that guy.
I don't want to be that former employee of Disney, you know, plenty of that guy. Sadly. I think we're going to go with, do not pass. Go eat. So I don't actually know this person's name, but the police report said it was a middle aged man wearing a fedora. Usually I would just refer to that dude as a tool, but let's go with that.
Seriously. It's totally acceptable to wear a fedora. If you're in your sixties or a former member of the rat pack, like most of us, Chad is apparently really tired of wearing a mask or he's parked camel. One of those things is understandable. The other would explain a lot, like for instance, his pension for spitting on people, according to the Orlando Sentinel, a security guard at Disney's contemporary resort reminded Chad to put on his mask before entering the resort in response, Chad, spat on the guard and ran into the elevator screaming.
I'm a guest. Which honestly sounds exactly like something I'd expect from a tool in a fedora walking, although I'm not sure about him being middle-aged because speaking as a middle-aged man, there's no way in hell I'm running to an elevator or anything else, except maybe a chiro cart. I'm thinking this guy has to maybe be in his late twenties or that I'm in denial about being older than middle-aged.
Because I like the last one so much. I decided to go ahead and write a poem for Chad as well. Roses are red. No one likes the foot. Dora. I wouldn't cry. If you were eaten by a banshee from Pandora, Corey, what is Chad's eighth dwarf
Kory: name? Lougie
Sean: lb
Josh: Cecil hotel guest E Oh,
Sean: probably. Oh, Jack drew Carey.
Christy: Why because he's wearing
Jacky Boy: Dora and superstar limo. I feel like maybe too much explanation on that one probably should have gone with something else. You think also
Kory: why, why is Josh offended?
Sean: Uh, barely drew carries the line for Josh. I'm trying to go up the
Josh: ladder. Like I don't need to fall back down the level.
Kory: Oh
Sean: wow. Oh, Nikki
Nikki: IDG, a F
Christy: E.
Sean: All right, Josh. Who's on the bus this time.
Josh: Vanity.
Christy: Oh, I was like, who's that?
Josh: the bus
Christy: every day.
Kory: I really thought you were
Nikki: going to say Ted Cruz
Sean: in Mexico couldn't have been him, anyone to SeaPak
Chris Van Vliet: literally anyone. I liked it. The fedora was so important to the story that it was written into the police. That is right.
Josh: That's not an embellishment. It was in this story,
Chris Van Vliet: but like, have you ever seen a police report was like, well, the man was wearing like a flannel shirt.
It doesn't matter what he's wearing,
Kory: unless it's a fedora. Is it matters
Chris Van Vliet: since most of us are wrestling fans here, I'm going to harken back. To Randy or in his legend killer days, he would spit in the face of the legends before beating them up. This is legend killer.
Kory: I feel like that would go right to this guy's ego though.
Dora
Sean: the fedora standing there, go home Dubbo. All right, Christie, bring us home.
Christy: Well, if he's wearing a fedora, he's gotta be douche-y.
Sean: Christie. You just cut to the heart like that.
Kory: Christy and Chris, thank you so much for joining us something park, posted the game. Oh, thank you. Thank you so
Jacky Boy: much. The bipolar as the game was created, written and produced by the panelists you heard on the show today,
Sean: Corey Alby, Nikki, Jack, Sean,
Kory: and Chad.
We'd like to thank our special guest Chris van fleet of insight with Chris van fleet. And of course our guest Christie. They're in Orlando and
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Disney has given plenty of work to child actors over the years. Some have gone on to fame and notoriety. Others...have not. Learn about Kurt Russell, Shirley Temple, Britney Spears, and the sad, complicated tale of Peter Pan himself, Bobby Driscoll on Theme Park Time Machine.
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Walt Disney’s last words were “Kurt Russell”, According to Kurt Russell on HuffPost
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Shirley Temple Archival
Adam's Script Oh to be a kid again. No bills, no body aches, no responsibilities. Your whole life ahead of you. Nothing but whimsy and potential. Maybe that is why we are so drawn to the stories of child stars.
For example, Shirley Temple. She made her film debut at the age of three, and before her 10th birthday, was one of the biggest stars in the world. This continued through the 1930s and into her teenage years in the 1940s.
After some TV hosting gigs in the 50s and 60s, Shirley Temple became active in the California Republican Party, and was appointed ambassador to Ghana in the 70s, and ambassador to Czechoslovakia in the 80s, the only woman ever to hold that post.
She served on the board of directors of several organizations, including Bank of America and Disney, and received the Screen Actors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award and Kennedy Center honors before her death in 2014.
Of course - Shirley Temple is a mostly-positive outcome. For every one of those, I can think of many examples of child stars who weren’t so lucky.
I think that one of the most important things about being a kid, is the freedom to screw up. And when you get into some kind of hijinks, assuming no one gets hurt and no one destroys any irreplaceable property, the grownups in your life are likely to chalk up your misbehavior to that old cliche... “Kids will be kids!”
But what happens when kids DON’T get the chance to be kids?
John F Kennedy, Jr was the first child ever born to an American president-elect, and he was a world famous celebrity pretty much from the moment he entered the world in November 1960. The paparazzi followed him and his equally famous mother around the world, and he never really had a private moment to himself.
The pressures of his public life, failing marriage, and unrealistic expectations created the stress that ultimately led to his fatal plane crash at the age of just 38 in the summer of 1999.
Then there’s Dustin Diamond. Starring as Screech on the 90’s smash-hit Saved by The Bell, Diamond was a megastar before he was even a teenager.
Dustin couldn’t find sustained work as an actor post-adolescence, and his later life was riddled with substance abuse, domestic violence accusations, prison stints, and of course the requisite starring role in an amateur...um...adult feature. Dustin Diamond passed away this year after a short battle with cancer.
Similar fates awaited Jodie Swetin, AKA Stephanie Tanner on Full House, Danny Bonaduce, AKA Danny Partridge, pretty much all of the child stars on Different Strokes: Todd Bridges, Gary Coleman, and Dana Plato...I think you get the idea.
Having given work to countless child stars over the years, it’s not surprising that Disney has made its fair share of contributions to the curse of the child star.
Who’s fallen victim to it? Who’s escaped it, and maybe most importantly of all...what can we do about it?
It’s March 17, 2021. Actor Kurt Russell, a former child star himself turns 70 today. Recently, you may have seen Kurt portraying Ego in Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2. Or possibly starring as the one and only Santa Claus in The Christmas Chronicles.
In addition to now being part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Kurt Russell has some deep Disney roots. How deep? Let’s point the time machine to December 1966.
Burbank, California, just north of Los Angeles. It’s almost Christmas...it’s also Southern California, so of course it’s sunny and delightful outside.
But not everyone is feeling the warm LA vibes. At St. Joseph’s Hospital, Walt Disney is near death. On December 15th, just 10 days after his 65th birthday, he’ll succumb to lung cancer, the end result of a lifelong smoking habit.
Jump ahead 4 years, and Disney archivist Dave Smith was tasked with documenting everything in Walt’s office, which had remained virtually untouched since his death. On Walt’s desk was a note he intended for his older brother Roy, quite possibly, though we can’t be certain about this, the last correspondence he ever wrote.
And among other things on the note was a name...Kurt Russell.
What did that note mean? Well, I can’t answer that definitively, because the only person who really knows the answer is the guy who wrote it...and he’s not around anymore.
But here’s what we do know. Walt Disney was a big fan of Kurt Russell. In the winter of ‘66, Kurt was a baby-faced 15 year old. Walt’s studio had just released a movie called “Follow Me, Boys”, about a traveling musician-turned-scoutmaster in Depression-era America, with Kurt in a minor role. Walt always had an eye for young talent, and he knew Kurt was talented. The affection was mutual. Kurt said Walt reminded him of his own grandfather-warm, welcoming, and creative.
Once, Walt gave Kurt career advice; Kurt enjoyed acting, but what he really wanted was to be a professional baseball player. Years later, his dad, actor Bing Russell, even owned the independent minor league Portland Mavericks. Walt said he didn’t think it was a great career path.
Kurt...eventually came to the same conclusion.
Follow Me, Boys was Kurt’s first Disney film, but it wouldn’t be his last. In fact, he signed a ten year contract with the studio, and even though the live-action Disney movies of the late 60s and early 70s...well...aren’t exactly cinema classics, Kurt Russell quickly became a household name and had no trouble finding work.
In fact, when you look through his list of credits, hardly a year went by that he didn’t star in something. From Jack Burton in Big Trouble in Little China, to Lieutenant Gabriel Cash in Tango & Cash, to Wyatt Earp in Tombstone, Kurt was a bankable, bona fide movie star. Disney recognized his influence on entertainment by making him a Disney Legend in 1998. And it all started with a wholesome slate of Disney movies and, more importantly, a child star.
Kids have always featured heavily in Disney’s particular brand of family-friendly entertainment. That tradition goes all the way back to the late 20s. A young Walt Disney produced a series of shorts called The Alice Comedies. These shorts featured the first appearance of Virginia Davis, portraying the real-life Alice. Davis had a 20 year film career before retiring in the late 1940s, raising a family, and becoming a successful realtor in Southern California.
When it comes to child stars....people like Kurt Russell, Shirley Temple and Virginia Davis seem to be the exception, and not the rule.
Enter Britney Spears.
One of the biggest pop stars of the late 20th and early 21st centuries and in fact, the best selling teenage musician of all time. Last year in 2020, Rolling Stone named “Hit Me Baby One More Time” as the greatest debut single ever.
Yep, ever. Like, in the whole history of music.
Like Kurt Russell before her, Britney Spears got her start as a Disney star! In this case, as a Mouseketeer alongside some other folks you’ve probably heard of, Justin Timberlake, Ryan Gosling, Cristina Aguilera, and Keri Russell.
Then, by the mid to late 2000s, everything seemed to shift. If Britney Spears got any press, it was about her behavior off the stage. The media labeled her wild, erratic, and an unfit mother. Her ongoing struggles with mental health and addiction were pursued and publicized relentlessly. The same media that praised her as “The next Madonna or Debbie Gibson” now seemed to relish her falling to pieces.
It was during this time that Britney’s estate entered a conservatorship, supervised by her father, an arrangement that controversially continues to this day. One of the most talented and promising child and teen stars of all time is now an almost-forty year old woman who has very little control over her own life and finances.
And then, in the “definitely a sad story” department of former child stars, there’s Bobby Driscoll.
Bobby was born in Iowa in 1937, but when he was just five years old, his family packed up and moved to Los Angeles. Like Roy Disney a few decades earlier, his father was told the warm climate would ease his respiratory problems, in this case, years of working with asbestos.
Bobby’s breakout role came later that year in the MGM drama Lost Angel. The roles came quickly, and by the time he was seven, he was under contract with Disney. His first starring role came in Walt’s first feature film in years, the now notorious and maligned Song of the South. His portrayal of Johnny was so well received that he was getting Oscar buzz for the category of Best Juvenile performance...which evidently used to be a thing.
Bobby’s Disney star continued to rise in the 50s, when he starred in Walt’s first ever completely live-action film, an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. At the same time, he was giving voice to the absolute embodiment of childhood adventure and whimsy, the one and only Peter Pan.
But youth fades quickly, and so does youth stardom. By the time Peter Pan was released in 1953, Bobby was 16 years old. Kind of an iffy time in the life of a child actor. Too old to play kids, not old enough to play adults. His voice was changing, and his face was breaking out so badly that he needed a couple extra layers of makeup anytime he was on screen.
It all got to be too much for Disney to cope with. They terminated his contract shortly after the release of Peter Pan, and Bobby Driscoll was officially unemployed. For the first time in more than ten years, Bobby was enrolled in a public high school.
He was bullied relentlessly by his peers. Driscoll turned to drugs, first marijuana, and later heroin. He was arrested for drug possession in 1956, and infamous Hollywood gossip columnist Hedda Hopper predicted it would be the downfall of his career.
In an attempt to distance himself from the youthful roles of the past, Bobby began using the screen name “Robert Driscoll”. He found some work in minor TV roles, but nothing like the superstardom he’d known in the early part of the decade.
Hedda Hopper, it turned out, was right. Bobby’s career was over. He continued using drugs, and soon found himself in a combination prison/drug rehab facility. When he was released, he was bitter and resentful for the way he’d been treated his whole life.
Bobby moved to New York City and became part of artist Andy Warhol’s circle. He made his final film appearance in a Warhol-produced film called Dirt in 1965.
Three years later, two kids playing in an abandoned apartment found his body on a cot, surrounded by beer bottles. While the coroner determined he’d died of heart failure with contributing drug abuse, no one knew who he was. His unclaimed body was buried in an unmarked pauper’s grave.
When his mother went searching for him to reunite him with his terminally ill father, the NYPD finally made a match with his fingerprints on file. His death wasn’t reported publicly until the 25th anniversary re-release of Song of the South in 1971, when reporters learned about his fate while researching the movie’s stars.
It’s incredibly sad and ironic that the boy who played Peter Pan...quite literally never got the chance to grow up.
So what’s the lesson here? This sounds really saccharine, but my biggest takeaway is just...be kind. Even if they ARE famous, kids need space to be kids.
And we need to be even more mindful of the social and emotional growth that kids need, in an era where you can be famous just by having a popular YouTube channel or TikTok.
Famous or not, influencer or not, kids need what we all need. Support, and the knowledge that someone’s in our corner who cares about us, will listen to us, and is on our side. You can accomplish that, right now, with a phone call or a text.That’s a solution we can all be a part of.
“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Theme Park Time Machine is a production of No Midnight Media. This show is written and recorded by me, sound design by Jack Milliken, story edits by the executive producer for No Midnight Media - Christopher J. Beale. Additional narration for this episode was provided by Nikki Drake. All of our work and contact info is at NoMidnightMedia.com. Special thanks to No Midnight cast member Josh Taylor, who also covered this topic on his podcast, Network 1901.
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Kory: [00:00:00] welcome to pulse, the game, the game show for theme park fans. I'm your host Kory in San Francisco, California. And I'll introduce you to the rest of the panel in just a second. Theme Park Pulse: The Game is a fan supported podcast. Meaning this ultimately costs us more money than we make. It's truly a labor of love for everyone you hear on the show and we can really use your support on our Patriot for as little as a dollar a month.
You'll get some awesome benefits and you'll help us offset the costs associated with making this show. There's a link down in the show notes. If money is tight and we totally get that, help us out by telling a friend about the show and showing them how to subscribe. Hmm, thanks in advance. In the next half hour, you'll meet a former cast member and part of the Walt Disney world dream squad laid off during the pandemic and our buddy Jay Sherer from the story geek stops by for an unconventional showdown on rollercoaster. Rapid-fire up first. It's the Park's pop culture pop quiz.
if you'd like to play theme park pulse the game. Call (213) 935-0513. That's (213) 935-0513. And leave a message. Let's welcome. Our listener contestant on theme park pulse the game from Orlando, Florida. It's Meg Patton. Hey meg. Great to be here. Thank you for joining us! In just a minute. I'm going to test your Park's knowledge with the Park's pop culture pop quiz.
But first I'd like to introduce you to our legacy panel,
Albie: [00:01:54] Oh, that's not funny.
Kory: [00:01:56] Up first. Check again from the deck of a star ship that is randomly docked in Sacramento, California, for some reason, it's our scorekeeper Albie up high.
Adam: [00:02:05] Yeah.
Albie: [00:02:05] So I needed fuel some like, Hey, this place looks cool and it's not covered in snow.
Let's stop here.
Kory: [00:02:11] And the gas prices are cheaper there than, you know, a lot of nearby cities.
Sean: [00:02:15] Yeah. I
Albie:[00:02:15] don't have to steal it from a. Pirates some space.
Kory: [00:02:19] It's just practical, just a few miles away from Alby there in California's capital city sits the host of Adam's theme park time machine on this channel, and very much in competition for the best beard on this show.
It's Adam Vargas. Well, and see we're
Adam: [00:02:32] on zoom, so I'm not wearing a mask so you can see it. And it's newly trimmed. It's good
Kory: [00:02:37] for this next panelist known for her haikus. A poem roses are red. Violets are blue. Nikki loves kitties and podcasting. Oh,
Nikki: [00:02:48] that
Kory: [00:02:48] was wonderful. Co-host of Jack and Nicky weekday mornings on WVA Q in Morgantown, West Virginia.
Hey man. Oh,
Nikki: [00:02:56] what's up? Y'all
Kory: [00:02:57] South South West of West Virginia in the suburbs of Greenville. South Carolina is where we find our friend Jack. Calls him Shawny. Shawn, Shawn, Shawn, or daddy. Goth Santa's is used regularly, but his friends just call him Sean.
Sean: [00:03:12] I'm also not wearing a mask, but when I do, you can still see my beard.
They just become one after a while.
Kory: [00:03:20] It's true. And finally, he is the host of modern mouse on YouTube and in your podcast feeds. And he's the trivia. God. He wrote that on Tuesday nights for Disney trivia, Tuesday on the theme park pulse, Twitch and Facebook live. It's Josh Taylor in Denver, Colorado. Hey, John Corey, I wrote you a potent too.
Adam: [00:03:37] Did you? Yeah. Uh, it
Unknown: [00:03:38] goes like this, uh, roses are red. You just introduced me. I'm here for some games and probably some hazing. Yeah. I.
Sean: [00:03:50] And a genius
Kory: [00:03:55] continuing our series. He's on former cast members of the Walt Disney company. Maggie worked on the dream squad, which by the way, sounds super rad. Just get to make people's dreams come true. It's amazing. And you had a bit of a swash buckling interaction. You might say with a guest at up cuts, mouse gear, can you share that story?
Meg: [00:04:15] I would say the, you know, the dreams, God was amazing, you know, given out dreams, nicest Cinderella, castle, suite, and Disney vacation club memberships. But when you were not doing all those high profile things, you were just literally wandering the park and. Looking for ways to amuse yourself and others. So I came out from our office and I look over and there's this older grandfather type gentlemen coming out of mouse gear, wearing a child's pirate hat is kind of standing there, you know, arms crossed.
I was like, Oh, I have to go talk to this guy. So immediately, very chatty we're talking it up, I'm calling them a pirate, R B from Mayday and you know, he's going back and forth. I was like, Oh, this is great. What fun? I was like, wait, I have, I have a pirate button. I can like officially make this guy a pirate.
So I take out the button, I make it this big thing. He's like all excited. And he goes, would you mind pinning it on me? And I was like, Oh, you know, okay. I don't, you know, any, I will never forget this. He like slow motion pulls his arm that had kind of been hidden, which I didn't. Well, he noticed out and on his hand is an honest to goodness, real life hook.
So all of a sudden my brain goes, I just called a man to the hook. It
Unknown: [00:05:31] five times
Meg: [00:05:34] I. If going to get fired. I like look at the fellow dream squad member that is with me who thank goodness is the sweetest person on the planet. So I was like, they will believe Jackie that I will not thank goodness. I have a witness and he like taps the button with his hook.
So that like day, sir, I was like, Oh my God. Oh my God. So I immediately go upstairs, write a whole email to my leader like this. I was really trying to make magic. It really blew up in my face. So fast forward the end of the night, if you've ever been at the parks, sometimes we wave and so dreams called. We would do that.
And I saw this man coming in a sea of like 30,000 people. I see my pirate. I was like, Oh my gosh, this is it. This is where he's going to call me out from everyone. And about these were this big family and they all yell my name.
Everybody literally bought it.
Unknown: [00:06:26] So excited. They're like, he's been
Meg: [00:06:27] jogging about you all night. I'm so glad he got to meet you. He's so proud to be a pirate. So I was like, Oh,
Kory: [00:06:34] ultimately really happy with what you had done.
Adam: [00:06:37] But I was
Meg: [00:06:37] like, this is, I can't believe I called a man with a hook, a pirate.
Kory: [00:06:43] Maggie, you haven't let leaving the Disney company slow you down.
You have a next page with mag where you put together a children's literature with related activities for kids. You've also created this thing that I'm fascinated by story hunts. What is story
Meg: [00:06:55] hunts? So I personally have always been a fan of. Trivia, you know, it's just something I naturally liked and there's this great Facebook group called for each other that allows cast members and folks that want to support the impact of cast members, ways to connect.
And what are people looking for? And someone said, Hey, we're going to the parks. We know not everything's open. We're looking for like a scavenger hunt type of thing. And I was like, shh. I can't do that. You know, no one tells a story like Disney and there are so many details, teeny tiny ones, a big ones, you know, of course you can walk into agency expedition, Everest, and you know, you're in Asia, but do you also ever look at the prayer flags that are hanging and the dinged up pots and pans that are from the village?
So it's, it's that type of stuff that I send people all over the park.
Kory: [00:07:39] I'm looking for. Where can people find your scavenger hunts? Cause that sounds really fun.
Meg: [00:07:42] Yes. People are like, which one's your favorite? I'm like, well, I really try not to make a lame one. I mean, they're all on both Facebook and Instagram as well as Gmail next page with Meg.
All right,
Kory: [00:07:56] man. We're going to play the parks, pop culture, pop quiz. I'm going to ask you three questions about some recent news from Park's pop culture. If you get too correct, we'll send you a glow in the dark theme park pulse wristband. You're ready to play. Oh, yeah, let's do it. Here we go. Question one.
It was once the rainforest cafe. Now it's Disneyland's first store outside the park dedicated to what space centric franchise,
Meg: [00:08:23] a desktop.
Kory: [00:08:27] Oh, you can no longer get a burger under a drippy elephant. You can take home a grow goo of your very own. In my mind, I'm like. Can we do both room for all. How about a drippy Grogan? Can we get that?
Sean: [00:08:43] Eat the crumbs
Unknown: [00:08:44] out of that little baby's mouth.
Kory: [00:08:50] Okay. Mag question two. It was announced recently that Disneyland is considering a dedicated entrance gate for what,
Meg: [00:08:58] uh, annual pass
Unknown: [00:08:59] holders.
Kory: [00:09:01] That's right. An idea. And it's one that has already been implemented widely at Walt Disney world in Florida. But it makes me wonder before you give pass holders, their own entrance.
Wouldn't you want to consider actually like having pass holders?
Unknown: [00:09:17] I don't know for us legacies.
Kory: [00:09:19] You have your own line to go buy a one day one park ticket. All right, Meg, last question. As part of the upcoming 18 month celebration of Walt Disney world's 50th anniversary, which spherical park icon is getting some lighting upgrades.
Unknown: [00:09:34] I believe it is
Meg: [00:09:34] spaceship earth.
Kory: [00:09:37] That's right. It was also announced that those lighting upgrades will be permanent Disney. It's calling the 50th, the world's most magical celebration. It's rumored that Imagineers are already working on plans for the 60th anniversary of the resort, which they plan to call the world's more, most magical or celebration Topia.
Adam: [00:09:56] They really need you on
Kory: [00:09:57] payroll. They do. I'll be headed back, do on the Park's pop culture, pop quiz. As the legendary
Adam: [00:10:02] RuPaul says,
Unknown: [00:10:03] you're a winner, baby.
Kory: [00:10:08] I wondered if lb could make this show a little bit Geyer and he did. Thank you, Alby. Congratulations, Maggie. Will you stick around and play some more games later in the show? Up next. We meet our guest Jay Scherer and put him to the test against a member of our panel and a game of gold blue Meehan and Nick KGN proportions.
See what I mean? Next on theme park pulse, the game.
Welcome back to theme park, post the game. Our guests this week is a long time friend of the no midnight media family of podcasts. He's an author and is a part of the story geeks podcast and YouTube channel in Southern California. It's our pal, Jay Shearer. Welcome Jay. Hey,
Jay Sherer: [00:10:55] it is a pleasure to be here.
It's like in pandemic days. I'm just
Kory: [00:10:58] glad I get to hang out with you guys. It does feel like hangs, not quite the same as the hangs we're used to, but almost how are you and your wife passing the time they're in. So Cal without Disneyland to run off.
Jay Sherer: [00:11:10] Oh, it is such a bummer. I will tell you, we do get down to downtown Disney when it, when it's open and we'll have, you know, a meal and try to get some ice cream and salt and straw, which is amazing.
But yeah, a lot of times, I mean, we're just like watching TV, doing podcasts, working remotely, staying at home.
Kory: [00:11:27] You do what you can, in addition to being a super talented podcaster, definitely checkout story geeks. You're also an author and that you co-wrote an audio book called death of a bounty Hunter.
That's getting a lot of attention. Tell us about that. What's death.
Jay Sherer: [00:11:42] Death of a bunny owner is my favorite thing that I have actually ever written. And one of the things that made it, my favorite thing is it exists as a novel. But we wrote it to be a full cast audio book. So we know we didn't have the budget to film a movie.
And so what we did was we said, look, we can actually write this as a full cast audio book use all of our friends who are in the acting community and do this. And so we have three different narrators who were recording from the first person, but we have a total of 11 voice actors voicing 14 different characters.
It's like a supernatural steam punk Western. So if you're into that kind of thing, it's a genre mashup, and it's a story about a Korean bounty Hunter who kind of, has to come face to face with the widow. Of a guy that he killed. And so it's a very intense, but very fun story. And you guys can check it out death of
Adam: [00:12:33] a bunny, hunter.com.
Can I just say quickly as an avid audio book listener, I wish more audio books would do that. I get so sick of hearing the same white dude doing voices. Bravo, man. Good job,
Kory: [00:12:47] Jay. What is the story? Geeks podcast.
Jay Sherer: [00:12:50] We're all about storytelling. And so the art of storytelling is really important to us. So Kayla Monroe, who is a screenwriter, he wrote the Mongolian connection.
And I, uh, and sometimes occasional guests will talk about the philosophy of storytelling and what goes on, um, when you're writing our story or telling a story. And then we also have a whole team of people who just like to geek out about geek stories, science fiction, fantasy comic book stories. And so that's kind of a big mashup of all the things that we do together.
And I think almost everybody here has been on that
Adam: [00:13:22] show. Right?
Jay Sherer: [00:13:23] Almost everybody here has been on that show at one point in time or
Kory: [00:13:25] another analyst, Josh Taylor have hosted a podcast dedicated to the personalities and work of two great American actors. You've got one. You've already done one that's coming up.
The first one was on Jeff Goldbloom. And the upcoming one is about Nick cage. Why those two actors and later why work with Josh Taylor? I'm just kidding.
Adam: [00:13:49] It's fair. Actually. I want to do
Jay Sherer: [00:13:51] those podcasts because I get to work with Josh Taylor, who I think is super fun to work with. He's the best. Basically Josh came to me and it was like, I love Jeff Goldbloom and I think you're going to fall in love with Jeff Goldblum.
I was like, all right, let's see. And then of course you do because he's Jeff Goldbloom. We had a blast on that podcast. That was a fun one. That was good. I think we just said to ourselves, like we chose one huge nineties celebrity. Who else was big in the nineties. Oh, Hey, that guy, Nick cage big. Let's go after
Kory: [00:14:17] him.
Scope living still out there somewhere. Josh
Sean: [00:14:20] Taylor. Yeah. You can still listen to global blooming currently
Unknown: [00:14:24] at the. Network 1901 or modern mouse website.
Kory: [00:14:27] After all that work, you should be an expert on both of those men by now, but so HSA Josh Taylor. So this time on theme park, post the game, we are pitting you against each other.
It's rollercoaster. Rapid-fire the Goldbloom cage Taylor Scherer showdown, Adam.
Adam: [00:14:46] All right. I'll admit, I don't think Nicholas cage and Jeff Goldbloom have that much to do with theme parks, but you know what? You guys love those guys. And we like to have fun. It's
Kory: [00:14:55] technicality. They like parks and they like these guys.
Adam: [00:14:58] It's two degrees of separation. I guys, we played rollercoaster. Rapid-fire, uh, quite a few times here on theme park, host the game, but just a quick refresher on how this works. I am going to ask you five questions with a number. That is incorrect. All you have to do is tell me, is the correct number higher or lower for no other reason than the fact that Josh is before Jay on my screen, Josh is going to go first.
And Jeff Goldbloom is going to be the first set of questions. No roller coaster rep fire, the marvelous Jeff Goldblum. Here we get the number of Portlandia episodes that Jeff Goldbloom stars in six.
Sean: [00:15:41] Oh, uh, uh, lower
Adam: [00:15:48] eight. My favorite roles include the doily salesman and the karaoke coach. Everybody needs to watch Jeff Goldbloom on Portlandia.
Kory: [00:15:55] I think he's great. As the pullout King,
Adam: [00:15:57] he is very good as a pullout thing as well. Appearances in best picture, Oscar nominees, three lower. For Annie hall, the big chill, the right stuff. And the grand Budapest hotel. I don't know anything
Sean: [00:16:16] about
Adam: [00:16:19] the number of times. Ian Malcolm says the word chaos or chaotic in Jurassic park nine. I'm
Sean: [00:16:28] going to go lower,
Adam: [00:16:30] correct. Six times. The word is said seven times in the movie once by Dr. Sattler and the other six by Dr. Malcolm Jeff gold blooms, Instagram followers, 1.5 million. Let me go higher
1 million, which honestly, that, that is criminally underrated. Yeah, man
Sean: [00:16:54] fashion icon that is still too low for our Lord and savior
Adam: [00:16:59] fifth and final question. The year he appeared on Saturday night live as Dr. Kent Waller opposite will Farrell as Harry Carey, 1999. Slower.
- And I only have one question for you. Hey, eat the moon. If it was made of ribs,
Kory: [00:17:22] I'll be, how many did he get?
Unknown: [00:17:24] He got three, right? So I guess he kind of does know
Adam: [00:17:26] Jeff Goldbloom ish. He recovered. Nice. All right. J three is the number to beat. And I'm nervous about this guys. Nicolas cage. Joshua
Jay Sherer: [00:17:35] was the one that did all the history stuff for this.
Kory: [00:17:39] I'm trying
Adam: [00:17:40] to be interesting.
Kory: [00:17:41] Oh, is this big trouble? I guess
Jay Sherer: [00:17:42] let's see what I can do.
Adam: [00:17:45] Number of IMD B after credits 90. Oh,
Unknown: [00:17:50] higher.
Adam: [00:17:53] 102. I don't have a joke for that. That's a lot of movies,
the rotten tomatoes approval rating for the Wicker man, 20% lower 15%. They're probably just all people who really, really liked. B's
Kory: [00:18:14] Josh, how are you feeling right now? I'm
Adam: [00:18:16] just really
Sean: [00:18:17] excited that we're talking
Unknown: [00:18:18] about
Jay Sherer: [00:18:19] Nick cage and
Adam: [00:18:19] Jeff Hogan movies in which he's credited by his birth name, Nicolas Coppola for if
Jay Sherer: [00:18:28] you would've asked me what his birth name was, I would not have known
Kory: [00:18:31] it.
I'm going to say lower.
Adam: [00:18:36] Yeah. Nicolas Coppola is for folks who don't know is the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola. He was credited by his birth name and two movies, a TV movie in the early eighties and fast times at Ridgemont high, where he's the pizza delivery guy amount of time that he was married to Lisa Marie Presley 100 days
Jay Sherer: [00:18:56] a minute, say higher,
Adam: [00:19:01] just barely 107 days, which means of course he has something in common with Michael Jackson. One of the only people weirder than Nicholas cage. Ah, we got to do that. Jackson podcast, Jay Sherry, you're going for the clean sweep on Nicholas cage, the amount of money he spent on a T-Rex skull, $250,000.
Kory: [00:19:25] I don't even care what the answer is.
Oh,
Jay Sherer: [00:19:28] I'm going to say that it's
Adam: [00:19:29] higher than that.
Unknown: [00:19:34] Perfect
Adam: [00:19:35] score in rollercoaster, rapid fire. $270,000. He returned it when he found out it was stolen. Now maybe I'm a cynical guy, but if somebody said you'll want to buy this T-Rex skull, I would just assume that he didn't get it legitimately. What's the legitimate
Sean: [00:19:52] way to
Adam: [00:19:52] get it. See Rex
Sean: [00:19:53] skull, then
Kory: [00:19:55] Jeff Goldbloom would have, uh, found a way one roller coaster, rapid fire this
Adam: [00:20:01] time.
I mean, see, I'm obsessed
Unknown: [00:20:03] with Cardi B and obviously. BJ's obsessed with Nick cage. So Jay won. Congratulations.
Kory: [00:20:09] I don't know what
Jay Sherer: [00:20:09] it says about me,
Kory: [00:20:12] Jay, will you hang out on the panel for a bit and play the eighth to work with us at the end of the show? Sure. Up next on the podcast, you see, Nikki will read haiku's exactly.
Three. If Meg can guests two out of three, she might just be the champion of our next game by Nikki. I know. Oh my God. Thankfully, Nikki is a way more effective poet than I am happy. Hi, cruise is next on theme park pulse.
welcome back to theme park, post the game. If you'd like to be a contestant call (213) 935-0513 and leave a message or you can email Nikki in IKK I at noon, midnight media.com. Let's welcome back to the show from Orlando, Florida. It's Meg Patton. Welcome back. Thank you, Meg, we've invited you back to play a game of silly lines and crispy rhymes.
Yes. I made that up. It's a game Nikki invented. It's called happy haikus. Nikki
Nikki: [00:21:17] Meg, you create scavenger hunts for families at Walt Disney world and the resorts and beyond. So I thought I would create a little puzzle for you to solve, but we're going with Disney land rides.
Kory: [00:21:32] Just out of sheer cruelty.
Really? I'm sorry. Tricky. Tricky.
Unknown: [00:21:38] I
Nikki: [00:21:38] have created three haikus for you. You need to guess two out of three, correct? Two wins. So keep those Disneyland rides in mind. All right. Haikus number one, who even are you eat? Drink grow shrink heads will roll a tumbling down. We go.
Meg: [00:21:58] I feel like that. I forget what it's called.
Alice in Wonderland.
Nikki: [00:22:04] There you go. All right. This one might be a little bit tougher. Hey, number two. What a waste of pies? I hope you have insurance look out for that
Unknown: [00:22:17] train.
Meg: [00:22:20] Mr. Toad's wild ride
Nikki: [00:22:24] pass. He needs one
Meg: [00:22:25] insurance.
Adam: [00:22:27] Didn't that watch out for that train thing. Was that like a, what were you like doing a little Georgia?
The jungle tie-in thing. That's what my mind went
Sean: [00:22:33] to.
Nikki: [00:22:34] Oh yeah. I didn't even think
Kory: [00:22:36] of that. I'm actually just surprised you didn't find a way to Ryman goes to hell in there somewhere because I mean, that's a real, real thing. You've got to give the devil his due. It's an important plot point,
Unknown: [00:22:47] right?
Sean: [00:22:48] Crispy rhymes,
Meg: [00:22:50] haiku, number three,
Nikki: [00:22:52] a code adventure, stop and play some basketball.
Harold waits for
Kory: [00:22:57] you. Oh, this one's tricky. Matter what?
Unknown: [00:23:00] Yeah,
Kory: [00:23:04] that was very insightful. Basketball, I guess she would say I'll be, how did Meg do on happy haikus, our special
Unknown: [00:23:12] guest three questions. You're a winner.
Kory: [00:23:20] close enough. We'll wrap up the show with park guests behaving badly. The eighth dwarf is next on the game. Hey, it's Corey real quick while I have you at the park post, the game is a completely fan supported podcast. And well, last year we almost broke even, but because of the pandemic and the economic downturn, we've seen a lot of our financial support dry up.
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before we wrap up the show this week, we're going to play another round of the eighth dwarf play along at home or on social media using the hashtag eighth dwarf, Sean, take it away.
Sean: [00:24:35] All right. So we all know the seven doors they're designed to represent specific behaviors, personality traits. And at some point during any Disney trip, we're likely to see or be sleepy, dopey, happy, or.
While 2020 keeps casting its shadow over 2021 grumpy, but every now and then we witnessed people in the parks. So we just can't categorize as one of the seven dwarfs. Their behavior is so outrageous that we fit these people into their own category that we call. The eighth dwarf. All right. We're all avid Disney fans park goers.
Or we were back in the house the on days of 2019, you know, back in the before times. And we're all guilty, a little bit. Some of us made more than others of being that friend. You know, the one that, the note, all that is more than happy to offer tons of unsolicited advice. The minute you hear someone say the word Disney, most of us.
Meanwhile, but then there are folks like Alex, no matter what Alex, who is single with no kids mind, you knows what's best for you on your trip with your family. It doesn't matter that your family five who is bringing along grandma and grandpa, which was not an uncommon occurrence before 2020, Alex has yet.
Do it counter a trip that he can't micromanage all the help. He will gladly make all of your decisions for you. Context, be damned. He has a foolproof, one size fits all plan that you need to know. And clearly, if you don't listen to Alex, you are the stubborn one. Corey, what do we call Alex?
Kory: [00:26:08] Daddy
Sean: [00:26:11] buffoon.
He,
Nikki: [00:26:14] you said he's single, right? Yeah,
Unknown: [00:26:21] this is Len Testa from touringplans.com ah,
Adam: [00:26:28] E type a,
Kory: [00:26:33] I
Jay Sherer: [00:26:33] literally do not have a better answer than
Kory: [00:26:37] shots. Also. We have two Lin testers. That's the first
Sean: [00:26:44] and Meg.
Kory: [00:26:47] I see,
Sean: [00:26:49] I think Papa's he takes it. That's got a good flow. Good. All right. Next up, we have Danny with an eye. Let me start this whole thing by saying I'm old ish and I'm aware of this, but I don't reflectively hate all young people.
For example, I think I do a wonderful job of tolerating, Jackie, Jack, Jack, and all of his shenanigans jokes aside. I do try to do my best to remember that I was in my twenties once and well, it's kind of a Rite of passage. You dumb manned or short-sighted things in your twenties. Oh, but Danny, she goes just a little bit too far, or at least Danny goes too far when she's on trips, surrounded by five of her friends, flash photography on pirates, reciting the script in the haunted mansion, singing loudly and poorly on carousel of progress, saving quote unquote spots in line for all of their new friends in the space, mountain queue, perhaps the most egregious.
Practically stampeding over a young girl, dressed like bell so they can record themselves with guest on for their followers. Quote, unquote, I'll admit to being too old to get tick tock, but I sort of feel like it's not old fashioned to suggest that people not run over children. Unless, of course you are guest on, and then it's pretty much on brand.
But come on, Danny. Corey, what is Danny's eighth dwarf name? This
Kory: [00:28:15] is why we can't have nice things. He
Sean: [00:28:19] Al be exasperated.
Unknown: [00:28:23] Look at me.
Sean: [00:28:29] I feel like that he would just go on.
Unknown: [00:28:32] Josh, this would be entitled influencers, David Dilbert in his blog squad,
Sean: [00:28:41] Adam
Adam: [00:28:42] hashtag the worst.
Jay Sherer: [00:28:46] Mine's kind of similar to Nikki's, but it's selfie E
Sean: [00:28:53] and Meg
Meg: [00:28:54] non influencing
Kory: [00:28:58] non-influenza
Meg: [00:29:00] fluid.
Sean: [00:29:02] I think we're going to go with selfie, Jay. Well done. The extended E's really sell that one. I
Kory: [00:29:07] think Jay and Meg, thank you so much for joining us this week on theme park,
Jay Sherer: [00:29:11] post the game. It was great to be here and I'm a little bit ashamed of how well I did it in the cage
Adam: [00:29:19] theme park pulse, the game was created, written and produced by the panelists you heard on the show today, Corey, Allie, Nicki,
Kory: [00:29:25] Adam, Sean. And, uh, we'd like to thank our special guests, Jay shear of the story geeks and our contestant former cast member, Meg Patton in
Nikki: [00:29:33] Orlando. An all new episode of the doom.
Scroll drops tomorrow on our Patrion. That show is weekly and at all tiers plus
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We'd also love to see you for a trivia Tuesdays
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Parker, from Adventures With Parker finds out if he is 'the map,' and former Walt Disney World cast member Jen Diaz tells us why she thinks Jungle Cruise is racist!
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Kory: [00:00:00] Four years ago on February 25th, 2017, my friends and I launched the no midnight podcast that would become no midnight media, a production company, producing theme park pulse, the game Adam's theme park time, machine unpacked, assemble the doom scroll and more over the last four years we've grown and you've grown with us.
We owe our growth to you. Thank you very much for telling your friends how much you love the show and for your iTunes reviews and your emails and your tweets. Most importantly, just thanks for listening. I'm Christopher Biel. You might know me as Corey, the host and producer of theme park, post the game.
And I just want to say thank you.
Kory: [00:00:52] We're presenting this week's Theme Park Pulse: The Game. Ad-free
welcome to theme park pulse, the game, the game show for theme park fans. I'm your host Corey in San Francisco, and I'll introduce you to the rest of the panel and just a second. Theme park, post the game as a completely fan supported podcast. And if you would consider supporting our work for as little as a dollar a month, you'll get cool series like the doom scroll every Thursday morning.
It's a Patrion exclusive more info at the link in the show notes. Thanks in advance this week. Parker from adventures by Parker on YouTube finds out if he is in fact, the map and former Walt Disney world cast member gin Diaz. Tells us why she thinks the jungle cruise is racist. That's all in the next half hour on theme park pulse, the game up first, it's the Park's pop culture pop quiz.
If you'd like to play theme park, post the game, call (213) 935-0513 and leave a message. Let's welcome. Our first contestant on theme park, post the game this week from Orlando, Florida. It's Jen Diaz. Hey Corey. I'm so excited to be here. Thanks for joining us this week 10 in just a minute, I'm going to test your parks knowledge with the Park's pop culture pop quiz.
But first I want to introduce you to are mentally and physically scattered. Panel. You'll see what I mean in a minute, first in Sacramento, California, he is the co-host of assemble a Marvel podcast on our Patrion. He is a one-time so far Mandalorian cast member, Tik TOK Liberty, and the person on this cast most victimized by Mercury's current road trip through retrograde.
It's our scorekeeper Alby.
Sean: [00:02:48] Oh, I
Josh: [00:02:48] just can't
with her. Can I just pull a Mariah? I don't know
Josh: [00:02:51] her.
Kory: [00:02:51] Sure. Cool. Also in Sacramento, practically, within shouting distance of Alby. Which is in fact why we had to separate them in the first place. It's our pal, Adam.
Adam: [00:03:02] Come over and pick up that thing you left, or
Josh: [00:03:05] you can keep it.
I don't want it. How
Adam: [00:03:08] come Alby gets all these accomplishments and I'm just the guy who lives close to Alby
Josh: [00:03:14] as I'm the
Kory: [00:03:15] famous one. Sorry. There's only room for Al B's eco on this show. Adam, fresh off of his family's fourth mandatory vacation this quarter so far. Somewhere in some place. Maybe it's Jack.
Hey Jack. Hey, mom runs a
tight ship and just be happy. I'm here to mess everything up cause I don't have a segment. So that's what I'm here to do. Hello?
Kory: [00:03:37] How accurate that is on our flight East. Now we'll have an inexplicable three hour layover in Denver where we can visit the host of the modern mouse and assemble podcasts at some local coffee shop, giving the people in line at the Starbucks across the street.
The stinkiest of looks it's Josh Taylor. I only
Josh: [00:03:55] give stanky, looks to hosts there on this podcast that refuse to give up their Starbucks. Even though they have horrible experiences at them on a consistent basis. When I've told them almost weekly, they should go somewhere else.
Adam: [00:04:13] But you're not going to name names or anything.
I mean,
Josh: [00:04:16] No, I would never say Corey's name out
Kory: [00:04:18] loud. He hasn't had a conversation with anyone, but his wife off of zoom. And about two years, one was the pandemic. The rest is just a general dislike of the human race. Of course, via zoom in Greenville, South Carolina. It's Sean. Hey Sean.
Sean: [00:04:32] I feel like I legally have to point out that I am not just mentally scattered, but I'm scattered smothered covered and chunked.
Yes. As is the waffle
Kory: [00:04:40] house way. Hungry now spoken
Adam: [00:04:42] like a true southerner.
Kory: [00:04:43] And finally she co-hosts mornings on WVA Q in Morgantown, West Virginia, which means that if you can't hear her, it's not the microphone. It's not your headphones. It's regional blackouts. It's Nicki Drake. Hi, Nikki. Hi, I'm
Jen: [00:04:57] here today.
I'm glad to be here. Welcome
Kory: [00:04:59] Corey. I hope we get a poem out of you at some point during the show. No pressure. I
can, I can get some
Jen: [00:05:05] haiku's written while
Kory: [00:05:06] we sit here. Jack's family's yacht. It
Nikki: [00:05:10] can be
Jen: [00:05:11] about Jack. It can be about Al B's, ego it's whatever.
Kory: [00:05:15] Just let the muse. Speak, Jen. Thanks again for joining us on theme park, post the game.
You're a former Walt Disney world cast member at what roles do
Jen: [00:05:22] I was attractions in the star Wars launch Bay and a character attendant or a blueberry. And that was at any park on any
Kory: [00:05:30] given day from Walt Disney world in 2020 during the pandemic. It's important to us at the Merkel's the game to talk to the actual cast members.
What have these layoffs and losing your dream job, how has that affected your life in the time center? I
Jen: [00:05:44] think, at least for me, it was something that was on the horizon. It was something that you saw the boat getting bigger and bigger. So I'm glad that Disney kept us on for as long as they could and took care of us for as long as they could.
Before these layoffs inevitably came, I survived most of 2020 with Disney helping me out. I've wanted to work at Disney world since I. Could remember, and I had two really great years with them and the story's not over yet. So I don't know if I could come back in some other role in some other capacity.
It was just bittersweet, but I was glad that, like I had that chapter of my story. Do you
Kory: [00:06:22] have a favorite memory from your time as a cast member, Jesse?
Jen: [00:06:25] People's faces light up, seeing these characters in real life and holding a lightsaber and like using the forest, it was just like, I've seen people cry, any range of emotions.
Like I've experienced them at
Nikki: [00:06:37] Disney world. I'm crying right now.
Kory: [00:06:43] emails with you. You revealed to us a couple of hot takes that I wanted to go through one that the jungle cruise is racist and too. But the trace Caballeros ride is cringy. Yeah. Has that opinion changed now that it also has no animatronics?
Nikki: [00:07:03] It's just
Jen: [00:07:03] outdated. We feel your sister, like, you know, a theme park isn't supposed to be a, a time capsule.
Walt really intended it to keep changing, to keep growing. First couple of times I wrote jungle cruise. I was just like, Oh, that, you know the jokes they're, they're cool. And. And everything and they're cheesy and like, yeah, I get it. But it just felt very like through the lens of like colonization and you know, it just, it just felt weird and icky to me, especially like, I dunno, the shrunken head jokes, the getting back to civilization jokes is like, Oh, well the natives ooga booga it just felt very like, Uh, like this, but I get it.
People love the jingle cruise. So
Kory: [00:07:47] it's what happens when you wrap some tensile around right. Brian, Jen, we're going to play the parks, pop culture, pop quiz. I'm going to ask you three questions about some recent news and parks, pop culture. If you get too correct, you're going to win a glow in the dark theme park pulse wristband.
Are you ready to play? Okay, I'm ready. You sound nervous.
That's her secret? The orange County register reports that a new bill proposed by California state assembly members would speed the reopening of Disneyland and universal studios, Hollywood and override the governor's guidelines that have left the state's theme, parks and amusement parks closed for more than 10 months.
Who is the governor of California?
Nikki: [00:08:29] She lives in Florida. What are you doing to
Jen: [00:08:32] her?
Kory: [00:08:35] Yeah, that's right. Depending on the day of the pandemic, you're in, he's either the next president. Or is going to be immediately recalled an exile to the fair lawns by raft. But these businesses that run the parks and the assembly members that represent them, say it's time for a framework for reopening safely reached for a comment.
A Disney rep says, quote, M I C K E Y, where a freaking mess. He did not in fact say that they should have though. Question to Disney on ice is for many of us, a little glimpse of Disney. When you can't get to the parks, it rolls through town. And once you get over being the only inebriated solo adult in the arena, your blurred vision from the booze or your age makes it almost sort of feel like you're at Disney.
You know, well, Disney on ice was in Kansas city. Recently when the health department shut down their production of dream, big due to repeated violations of what.
Nikki: [00:09:32] Not
Jen: [00:09:32] wearing their masks.
Kory: [00:09:35] We're going to take it. It's more severe though. It's repeated violations of COVID-19 restrictions, including. A COVID-19 outbreak among the staff that Disney on ice is parent company Feld entertainment failed to report.
This is why we can't have semi nice, almost passable, magical wish thing. That's generous as a big, all right. Theme park fans across the internet are expressing disappointment that the new ride dedicated to Mario kart is not what.
Nikki: [00:10:10] Fast,
Kory: [00:10:14] Mario kart. You would think it's a no brainer, but the attraction is actually a slow moving dark ride. Here we go with an AR headset that gives you all of, kind of like the magic, but the reality is Roger rabbit's cartoon. Spin is faster than this X Sox personally. I think it looks cooler without the glasses and banana peels myself.
That's just just 50 CC. I'll be how to Jen do on the Park's top culture pop quiz. It's like she
Josh: [00:10:39] read our minds. She got them. All right.
Kory: [00:10:46] You can catch Jen at Jen performs on Instagram. Wanted to make sure I plugged that. Jen, will you stick around and play some more games later in the show?
Nikki: [00:10:53] I sure will.
Kory: [00:11:06] come back to theme park pulse, the game. Let's welcome. Our next contestant. He is the host of adventures with Parker on YouTube and Ontario, Canada. It's Parker, van Bellingham. Welcome to the show.
Josh: [00:11:16] Hello,
Parker: [00:11:16] or as we say in Canada,
Josh: [00:11:18] sometimes buzzword,
Kory: [00:11:21] well done. We're
Adam: [00:11:22] international
Kory: [00:11:23] now Parker, first question. What happens if we subscribe to adventures by Parker on YouTube?
Well,
Parker: [00:11:29] um, a lot of good things. I do a lot of videos about theme parks, but also the outdoors travel local places around my city and just whatever other Synetic against, I happened to
Kory: [00:11:42] get up to. Well, and speaking of your city, you live in Ontario, Canada. How is the whole pandemic thing going there? Are you guys all still masked up and hiding there?
Look, we are here. Oh yeah. Like
Parker: [00:11:51] I'm still in lockdown right now. I haven't been outside in a long time, but then again, even if it wasn't a pandemic, would I really go
Sean: [00:11:58] outside
Kory: [00:11:58] all that much? Is it cold
Parker: [00:12:01] right now? Yes. Oh my goodness. It is negative 13 today with Fahrenheit. I believe translates to around 10 it's in the five to 10 range.
That
Kory: [00:12:12] is completely
Sean: [00:12:12] unpleasant. It just sounds like you could walk around with a test tube of the Pfizer vaccine. It'd be perfectly fine because it's just so far.
Kory: [00:12:20] Yeah. They probably don't have the problem of expiring vaccines in that climate. It just seems to leave them in the street. I'm on the doorstep.
Find
Jen: [00:12:26] the same Bernard, throw them in a barrel around the neck and go door to door with the vaccine.
Kory: [00:12:31] You grew up going to a park called Canada's Wonderland. Can you describe that for the non Canadians and our audience? Because I am visualizing snow and mooses,
Parker: [00:12:41] I mean, it's not too far off. So the park, instead of a castle in its center has a giant mountain called wonder mountain.
And it has a few different themed lands. One of which is of course, frontier Canada, which is all about like lumberjacks and Yukon and all that great Canadian stuff. But there's also a little area called medieval fair. There's an area called action zone. It's owned by the same company that owns Cedar point.
So it's a, it's a pretty big park actually.
Sean: [00:13:11] I feel like my beard would make me a deity there
Josh: [00:13:17] kinda does that.
Parker: [00:13:18] Definitely the lumberjack
Sean: [00:13:19] aesthetic
Kory: [00:13:21] get a flannel shirt. In addition to your YouTube channel, you're a college student at Western university. What are you studying? I
Parker: [00:13:28] am studying integrated science with environmental
Kory: [00:13:31] science.
And what drew
Parker: [00:13:32] you to that? I don't know. I mean, originally my plan was to go through, to be a doctor, but then about halfway through my degree, I decided I really liked the, um, environmental stuff and I liked. You know that whole end of biology, as well as the social sciences and my program kind of offers a bit of everything.
So yeah, I decided to jump ships and I'm on a completely different career trajectory, but I'm loving it.
Kory: [00:13:56] Well, good luck with your studies and your YouTube channel. And thank you for joining us this week. We've invited you here to play a game that Adam invented a game in which you must tell truth from fiction.
It's called. Show me the lot, Adam,
Adam: [00:14:10] the game where the cast always tells me what a good liar I am. And I don't know how to that's true. When a company is as successful as Disney, it's bound to have its fair share of imitators and knockoffs. Everything from Marty moose at Wally world and national Lampoon's vacation to Sherry bobbins on the Simpsons.
Everyone wants to get a slice of Walt's product while staying just. It's different enough to ensure that uncle Bob doesn't take you to court. Sometimes though, these Disney knockoffs are just plain bad, so bad. In fact, they've spawned a whole new genre of movie, the mock Buster. I never even knew that term existed until this week.
And I plan it to work it into regular conversation from here on, out for this game, I'm going to read off plot summaries for three movies. Two of them are real mock busters. One of them I completely made up. Listen to these three Synopsys. And tell me if you can show me the light you're ready.
Josh: [00:15:11] I guess I'm going to have to be,
Adam: [00:15:13] that's usually the reaction I get for this game
Kory: [00:15:15] that you are not running.
All
Adam: [00:15:18] right. Moving number one, prepare to be transported to the dark bleak, depressing wasteland of new iron city. The city was deserted hundreds of years ago when a corporation run by a greedy evil robot led earth to the brink of annihilation. The world is hopeless, but all is not lost. Meet our cute scrappy robot hero tranq who has been working for generations to clean up the city.
It's a boring monotonous life, but the only one he's ever known tranq is about to go on a voyage of discovery. And self-awareness, he is about to learn that he is a very special robot, possibly the only robot in the universe who's got what it takes to save civilization. Don't miss the feel-good smash, hit tiny robots.
Kory: [00:16:09] I would see this.
You've already seen it. It's called. Wall-E
Josh: [00:16:15] talking about.
Adam: [00:16:17] I can neither confirm nor deny a moving number two, welcome come to a world where animals live in harmony and work together for a functioning society. For as long as she can remember. Trudy, the ferret has had only one dream to be a firefighter.
She graduated from fire Academy with top ranks in her class, but because we all know ferrets can't do anything she's assigned to handicap. Fractions to kids who were playing with firecrackers. All that's about to change though, because Trudy has got the assignment of a lifetime with the help of a con artist Wiley coyote, whose name is definitely not wildly coyote because that's another legal, gray area she's out to prove that ferrets can change the world just as well as any bear bull or horse, you could hope to meet fun for the whole family and a great lesson to boot.
Don't miss. Jungle Opolis
Nikki: [00:17:10] Oh my God. I want to be Trudy's best
friend.
Nikki: [00:17:13] She
Josh: [00:17:13] sounds fun.
Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh. Oh. Do some thing, right?
Nikki: [00:17:21] It was horrible.
Kory: [00:17:22] Settle down, Shakira. All right.
Adam: [00:17:24] Third. Final blockbuster. Join Dr. Crumb and Dr. Zoucks and that magical fantastical adventure across many worlds, urban and rural to AME and wild.
The doctors have discovered a magical rock that can hypnotize humans. And installed thousands of balloons that will transport a house across land and seed doctors. Crummins Zoucks soon encounter an Intrepid French Explorer named John Pierre, who claims to have discovered a host of wild and exotic animals in the rainforest.
So they get in the flying house. Set sail for the Amazon. Soon, it becomes clear that John Pierre doesn't have the best of intentions and the dastardly Frenchman lures the doctor into a cave in order to steal their magic rock in the struggle for the magic rock. The trio accidentally opens a portal into which three beasts escape and are transported to Paris.
For some reason, for good measure, there are some kids thrown into the mix. So that the creators of this mock Buster can call it a children's movie with some justification. They don't seem to serve any purpose to the overall narrative, but regardless, anyone who hopes to join the adventures club absolutely must see what's up balloon to the rescue
Kory: [00:18:34] Parker.
Two of those are real movies. One of those is a total fabrication made up by Adam. Can you show me the lie?
Josh: [00:18:43] Well, I mean,
Parker: [00:18:44] they all sound great. I'd love to see any of those movies, but I'm going to have to say that the light is the second one.
Adam: [00:18:57] little too on the notes. I think, I
Josh: [00:19:00] think that was the one.
Parker: [00:19:01] I want it to be real the most. So,
Nikki: [00:19:04] so of course it has to be fake.
Kory: [00:19:05] Yeah. Maybe
Adam: [00:19:06] I'm losing my edge or maybe Parker's just good at spotting liars, quick note, Wally world and Marty news feature in the most recent episode of the part-time machine, which is in your feed right now.
Nice plug Adam. I'm so
Kory: [00:19:19] proud of you. Very nice. Congratulations Parker. Will you hang out and play some more games later in the show? I would love to.
back to theme park, post the game. If you'd like to be a contestant call (213) 935-0513 and leave a message. Let's welcome back to the show. Our contestants, Jen and Parker. Welcome back. Good to still be here. Well, we'll see how you feel at the end of the game, because you're here to play with Josh Taylor, Josh, what is it?
Find out you are the worst, just
Adam: [00:20:00] like that.
Josh: [00:20:01] I am the worst. Uh, this game is called. I am the map. Typically you would walk into anything park, grab a paper map. And it would guide you to attractions, shops, restaurants, character locations, et cetera. However, a select few of us have all been on a trip with a passholder or a cast member of the Lake who refused to let us grab a map because in their mind, They are the map.
So I'm going to give you an increasingly difficult task of deciphering my instructions. And you have to tell me the place in which you should hopefully end up since I have both of you, Jen and Parker, I'm going to give you each three different locations. The person that has the most guest is at the end wins.
Hopefully you're both ready. Yeah, I am. The map will Parker. You are a first.
Nikki: [00:20:58] Oh, okay.
Jeez,
Josh: [00:21:01] I'm just
Kory: [00:21:01] scared. Now,
Josh: [00:21:03] Parker, if you're heading down main street USA, you'd take a right turn under the tomorrow land sign, follow the path all the way straight back. Don't take the walkway up to the people mover, but instead, slightly turned to your right and walk toward what round building.
Carousel
Parker: [00:21:22] of
Josh: [00:21:22] progress. It is correct,
Jen. Yes. John veer to your right. Take the walkway past Canada. Cross the bridge over the waterway and past France. It's actually the next country beyond France. Go in there. You should be able to meet characters from what nineties Disney movie
Nikki: [00:21:47] you said beyond
Josh: [00:21:47] France. Beyond
Kory: [00:21:49] France. Would you like a hint of the government of this country?
No longer runs its pavilion Disney does. Is it Morocco?
Jen: [00:21:57] Uh, Jasmine,
Josh: [00:21:59] you can meet Jasmine or Aladdin or genie in Morocco. That is correct Parker. Once you've gone to discovery Island, you'll make a left turn, take the first left pass that travel that path into the land. You'll see some amazing rock formations turn right and walk to the open air building that looks like an old hangar with that roofing, then grab a seat and enjoy what restaurant Tooley canteen correct
Nikki: [00:22:36] is the map. Wow.
It's the
Parker: [00:22:41] Canadian superpowers,
Josh: [00:22:43] Jen. Once you've gotten to discovery Island veer, right? Take that path to its very end. You'll cross a bridge over the river from there. You'll have to choose to go right or left turn. Right. And then head into the back of the land. That's immediately there on your left. There will be a ride, but don't get on it.
Just keep walking straight back. That's where your journey will begin for. What.
Nikki: [00:23:13] Expedition
Josh: [00:23:13] Everest. You, you would be incorrect.
Nikki: [00:23:16] Yeah, I figured close
Josh: [00:23:18] though. It is the Maharajah jungle Trek Parker headed down Hollywood Boulevard. Do not turn onto sunset. Keep going before you get to the Chinese theater.
It's on your right-hand side, just behind a little guard. It's a nice little pricey restaurant called what?
Nikki: [00:23:37] This is so unfair.
Parker: [00:23:39] Hollywood and vine.
Josh: [00:23:42] It is not. Oh, it is the Brown Derby.
Jen's looking for revenge.
Nikki: [00:23:54] Dare Josh. Give me Adam.
Josh: [00:23:58] Sorry, Jen. I know it's weird, but you cannot actually walk through the castle. But if you veer into Liberty square, there's a little path on your right-hand side. That'll take you back behind the castle when you're on that path. It's the first shop immediately on your right.
What shop is that?
Nikki: [00:24:20] Is it the Phil horror
Josh: [00:24:23] magic shop? It is not
Kory: [00:24:32] who won this version of IMT. Apparently
Josh: [00:24:36] Parker
Sean: [00:24:36] is the map
Josh: [00:24:38] he got to.
Kory: [00:24:41] Thank you. Yeah, it's okay, Jen, you're going to have a chance to get you revenge. We're playing the eighth dwarf next on theme park pulse, the game.
wrap up the show this week, we're going to play another round of the eighth dwarf, which you can play on social media. Using the hashtag eighth dwarf. The whole panel is going to play. Gin is here. Parker is here and Sean who is wearing his, I am the eighth dwarf. T-shirt take it away.
Sean: [00:25:15] All right. Today, I'd like to turn our attention to the online.
Disney
Josh: [00:25:20] fandom. No,
Kory: [00:25:23] same, same.
Sean: [00:25:24] Now, as we all know, the seven dwarfs they're designed to represent specific behaviors or personality traits. And at some point, any of us are likely to read or write tweets that are happy dopey, or maybe even a little grumpy, but every now and then there are those people that we just can't categorize as one of the seven doors in their behavior, or in this case, tweets are so outrageous that we fit them into their own category.
Called the eighth dwarf. Now I want to begin with a disclaimer. Twitter is awful. And if Twitter is hell, then fittingly does Twitter is the eighth layer of hell. Look it up. I'm not wrong. The dwarves, there are just the worst note that I have changed. The Twitter handles to protect all of you from doom scrolling.
These twits. You're welcome. Going in order of amusing to atrocious, let's start with does glow up 2010. This account was so bizarre. I honestly wasn't sure whether they were legit or satire and mixed in with selfies of herself and her girls spelled G U R L Z, because I don't know why. These are kind of cuckoo posts.
For example, I have a cousin who works for the government and they told me that Disneyland is opening on February 30th. Hashtag can't wait. I don't think that they have a calendar and then there's this one. I talked to a cast member who told me that Disney is working on rolling tube tunnels for all future parades to enforce appropriate social distancing, hashtag fat.
Like I said, I honestly can't tell if what I'm reading is serious parody or just a bot run a muck. Corey, what is your name for does glow up
Kory: [00:27:17] 2010
Adam: [00:27:20] Georgia representative Marjorie Taylor green.
Nikki: [00:27:26] perfect. I don't mean
to reduce it. We're using recycled, but I feel like this is definitely Tom coreless his Twitter. I was going to say
Nikki: [00:27:33] thirsty for some
Josh: [00:27:35] attention. Q1 on E. Oh, that's a good one. Horn to Viking. Insurrectionist Jacob chancellor
needs
Nikki: [00:27:51] to
Parker: [00:27:52] check their sources, ear.
Kory: [00:27:57] I
Adam: [00:27:57] E the entire internet. Yeah.
Jen: [00:28:01] Q
Nikki: [00:28:01] conspiracy Z.
Sean: [00:28:05] It's got good ring to it. Yeah, it does. It does. I think for that one, we're going to go with Jed with cute.
Josh: [00:28:12] All
Sean: [00:28:12] right. So if you haven't looked yet, the eighth layer of hell is actually known to be the home of liars flatterers and false prophets. It is fan went 80, seems to have read that description from Dante and just replied with, hold my beer to wit.
In 2019, the country bear Jabber Rebo would be replaced with Bob Hagar's children doing an eight hour remixed version of Oklahoma called OCA hump guns. I'll eat my shoe if I'm wrong
in case you're curious. Cut. Your bears is still there. The show hasn't been changed, although I could probably use a touch up here and there. When asked about this fact, his fan went 80 quickly. Yelled squirrel attempted to distract from their myriad mistakes. See the trick with does Twitter. You're never wrong.
If you only count the hits and ignore all the misses. But as we say down here in the South, even a stop clock is right. Twice a day is fan one 80. How would you like your shoe cooked also? Do you prefer ketchup or mayonnaise? Corey, what do we call it? Does fan
Kory: [00:29:20] one 80. Rongey right.
Adam: [00:29:25] Deflecting.
Josh: [00:29:26] Ooh.
I like the idea of him just being squirrel.
Like he just said his name when he was trying to distract
Josh: [00:29:34] people. So
Nikki: [00:29:35] scrolling,
Jen: [00:29:36] no friends and very bored. He.
Josh: [00:29:39] Oh, must run out of a lot of shoes. He, uh, this is clearly a Texas Senator, Ted Cruz.
Parker: [00:29:50] Gosh. Kids don't do drugs.
Nikki: [00:29:57] Good old boy.
Sean: [00:30:02] Oh, I think we have to stick with the advice. Kids don't do drugs. They can partner. That's our winner. Thank you, bud.
Kory: [00:30:09] Parker. And Jen, thank you so much for joining us something park. Thanks for having us post the game created, written and produced by me and the panelists you heard on the show today. I'm talking about Shawn Reed, Adam bargain, Jack Milliken, Nicki Drake, Alby magical.
And Josh Taylor. I'd like to thank again, our amazing contestants, Jen and Parker. If you'd like to be a guest on the show yourself, call (213) 935-0513 and leave a message or email Nikki. And I K K i@nomidnightmedia.com an all new episode of the doom. Scroll drops tomorrow on our Patrion. That show is weekly and it all tiers check out the link in the description and support our work for as little as a dollar or a month.
And you'll get that in other cool bonuses. There is a link in the show notes. You enjoyed this episode of theme park, post the game, the best way to help us. Share it with a friend. All right. Panel. If you're in a relationship, you might have like a celebrity hall pass. Let's get weird for a second because your Disney feature animation call Pat.
Sean.
Sean: [00:31:12] Wait, does that count Pixar? Because it would definitely be missing credible.
Nikki: [00:31:15] Oh,
Adam: [00:31:17] Sean, 100% stole mine. You bastard
Josh: [00:31:24] Jack.
Well, I think my 12 year old self needs to go with Roxanne from a
Josh: [00:31:29] goofy movie,
Kory: [00:31:30] Nicki
Jen: [00:31:31] personally, I was going to say Aladdin, but then I started thinking about it and Jeannie can turn into whoever you want.
Nikki: [00:31:38] Right.
Kory: [00:31:40] Spicy Alby. Oh Jesus.
Josh: [00:31:44] Um,
Sean: [00:31:45] he wasn't in a Disney movie,
Josh: [00:31:48] the Eldorado buddy, uh, Flynn. Oh, Lynn Reiner.
It's a smolder. Josh Taylor. You could really go with Baymax and he would take care of you after
Kory: [00:32:05] great cuddler.
Josh: [00:32:07] Good hugs. That's gross.
Kory: [00:32:09] No one that knows me is going to be surprised by my answer. I'm going with a Latin, but like vest already half undressed, a Latin from our family to yours. Please be safe.
Wear a mask, get a vaccine if you're eligible and join us next time for another all new theme park.
Josh: [00:32:27] Sure. It was
Nikki: [00:32:32] a good one too.
Kory: [00:32:34] Oh yeah, that would have been great.
Disneyland wouldn’t exist without the creation of the Great American Road Trip. Adam celebrates President Eisenhower and the creation of the modern highway system, which every year transports millions of guests safely and conveniently to the gates of theme parks across the country.
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A former Walt Disney World cast member tells us which role is "worse than custodial" (his words), plus Dizney Coast to Coast's Jeff DePaoli checks in on this episode of Theme Park Pulse: The Game!
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Donald Duck disappeared from his Epcot attraction to be replaced by a bush with a sombrero - technical mishap or "indefinite furlough?"
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Ron “Mr. Disneyland” Dominguez was actually raised on Disneyland property, and through his life's work would become a central figure in the story of the Happiest Place on Earth.
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How did we get from Walt Disney’s pioneering musical adventure, Fantasia to the creation of Disney’s best loved nighttime spectacular, Fantasmic?
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In the time of Coronavirus, when many Disney parks are closed, join Adam in the time machine to learn about a park that never opened. This is the story of a park that was never meant to be: Disney’s America.
SOURCES Michael Eisner on Disney’s America Disney’s America on Josh Taylor’s “The World That Never Was” Defunctland’s History of Disney’s America - Theme Park Time Machine is presented by "Bounty: A Mandalorian Podcast" - weekly at the $5 a month level and above on Patreon. Support our work, hear this podcast days in advance of the public, and pick up cool bonuses by clicking here!
Kevin Quigley (The 3028) plays Mike, Bob or Bob...or Joe - and Tommy from Ohio returns to try a SMASHING new game from Josh Taylor inspired by...Smashmouth.
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LINKS:
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Disney Parks Blog
Inside The Magic
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Is Disney's Pocahontas wildly historically inaccurate? Yes.
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SOURCES
“The Angriest Actor” Los Angeles Times, June 11, 1995
Network 1901’s Youtube Channel
The History of Pocahontas Network 1901
Whose Land Am I On?
Must Read Books by Indigenous Authors
Shannon McCarter on Instagram
Sean, our reigning Rollercoaster Rapid-fire champion, faces off with Matt Parrish (The 3028/WedWay Radio) in a battle of wits over...bad Disney movies? Our first sudden death round on this episode of Theme Park Pulse: The Game!
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Adam explores an odd intersection of presidential politics and theme parks. What does Walt Disney World have to do with the 1973 press conference that gave us one of the best known sound bites in American history?
"I am not a crook!" - Richard Nixon
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SOURCES
Nixon, Watergate, and Walt Disney World?
Richard Nixon’s Disneyland Monorail Dedication Speech
Christine from the TTA Podcast joins us to play Before 74, and our contestant from San Diego introduces us to a thing called a Disney Escape Room...today on Theme Park Pulse: The Game!
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A Disneyland Annual Passholder becomes a polygraph on Show Me The Lie, and our special guest Peter Allwine grew up in the same house with (the voice of) Mickey Mouse...but does he really know his Mickey?
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Luke from New Jersey has a scale replica of a Disneyland attraction in his bedroom, Angel & Ray from California are making Disney inspired masks and Jack's latest drama with a member of the cast on this episode of Theme Park Pulse: The Game!
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Adam explores the history of one of Disney’s best known culinary delights...the churro! We’ve all eaten them and gotten a sugar boost off of them, but how did they come to the parks? Here’s a teaser, it involves nomadic Spanish shepherds, a racetrack concessions cart, and an 80’s teen dance club.
This will serve as the finale of season one of Theme Park Time Machine - season two coming soon!
SOURCES:
Jungle Cruise Boathouse on Spotify
The Hidden History of the Churro on HuffPost
The Grandfather of the Disneyland Churro on Disney Examiner
Clip from Back to the Future
Live Aid Broadcast
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As Black Americans and their allies fight back against systemic racism and police brutality in marches all over the world, we were reminded of a piece we did in 2018 on the Disney film Song of the South.
Many consider the movie racist - even for it's time. We take a look at the controversy with author Aaron Goldberg on this flashback to Things Disney Wishes You Would Forget.
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The Monsanto House of the Future opened in Tomorrowland 63 years ago this month. It was made of PLASTIC! What is plastic, how is it impacting our world (positively and negatively), and what can we do about it?
Hop in the Theme Park Time Machine with Adam to find out!
Source:
Monsanto’s House of the Future on Park Ride History
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Two listener contestants test their knowledge of Parks Pop Culture, and two panelists battle it out for Rollercoaster Rapidfire superiority on this episode of Theme Park Pulse: The Game!
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'Rollercoaster Rapidfire' - Sean v. Jack Pt. 3
'Show Me The Lie' - Taylor from Georgia
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Between sequels, prequels, and remakes, Disney seems to have no problem “going back to the well” these days. That wasn’t always the case.
For 53 years, each Disney story was unique. That began to change in the 90s, first on the big screen, and 26 years ago, in white vinyl VHS cases across the world.
On this episode of Theme Park Time Machine, Adam explores the advent of the Disney sequel, and the direct-to-video feature, starting with Aladdin: The Return of Jafar.
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The First Gong Show
A History of Disney sequels, from Den of Geek
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'The Parks Pop Culture Pop Quiz' - Dan from the UK
'Foley Schmoley' - Callie from California
'Mike, Bob or Bob?' - Andrew from Florida
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Happy Star Wars Week! In this episode, Adam explores perhaps the very first fan-made Star Wars tribute film, Hardware Wars.
Learn the story of how a bunch of San Francisco based musicians literally turned flying toasters, egg beaters, a vacuum cleaner, and a Cookie Monster puppet into a million bucks.
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This is episode one of Theme Park Pulse: The Game, the game show for theme park fans!
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'The Parks Pop Culture Pop Quiz' and Nick tells us what life is like with COVID-19 in his house! Plus, 'Show Me The Lie' and 'Mike, Bob or Bob?'
Special thanks to our contestants this week - Nick and Tommy from Cleveland, OH and Joe from Atlanta, GA!
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As we began planning for our 6th season of Theme Park Pulse, we decided that the best thing we can put out into the universe right now is good energy, fun, and laughter. Oh - and prizes!
This season we’ll alternate Wednesdays with Adam’s Theme Park Time Machine and our new show Theme Park Pulse: The Game!
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Join us Wednesday, April 29, 2020 for the premiere, or click here to hear the episode on our Patreon right now! Every Patron on the books on the premiere date will receive this season's prize in the mail!
This week we're answering YOUR questions on Theme Park Pulse!
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Brooklyn, New York, Summer 1955.
The long, hot days of summer have a magic that can best be appreciated by a child, especially one with access to Coney Island and the hallowed grounds of Ebbets Field. Become that child, and take a journey to a simpler time with Adam on Theme Park Time Machine.
Special thanks to Terrence from the EarzUp! Podcast for his contributions to this episode.
SOURCE:
1955 Brooklyn Dodgers season on Baseball Reference
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Inspired by the Netflix runaway-hit "Tiger King" - Jacky Boy leads a discussion on Disney experiences we would love to see as roadside attractions. The coronavirus quarantine is obviously driving Jack crazy, and we are here for the fever dream.
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With Coronavirus infecting the whole world, and all Disney parks shut down indefinitely, many fans are reflecting on other times that the parks have closed unexpectedly. There have been natural disasters and threats to national security, and even a day of mourning for a slain president.
50 years ago, Disneyland shut down for a very different and very weird reason; because of the threat of counter-culture rabble rousers.
Adam explores the story behind this very odd little chapter of Disneyland history in this edition of Theme Park Time Machine.
SOURCE:
JFK Inaugural Address
Walter Kronkite reads official bulletin of JFK Assasination
Bobby Kennedy announces the death of MLK Jr
Abbie Hoffman at the 1968 Democratic National Convention
CBS News Coverage of the Tet Offensive Jan 1968
Bobby Kennedy Assasinated
Huff Post: Yippies Takeover
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All of the major theme parks in the world are closed, and it’s more important than ever that we all stick together and stay up-to-date...it’s Coronavirus vs. Theme Parks today on Theme Park Pulse.
Make sure you listen to the end for a ridiculous outtake that might make water squirt out of your nose.
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SOURCES:
Variety
LA Times
Hollywood Reporter
Yahoo Entertainment
Blog Mickey
Kenny The Pirate
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For lack of a less terrifying way to say it, thanks to Coronavirus, Virtually every major theme park on earth is closed. Until the end of March...at least. Coronavirus is here, and will likely get worse before it gets better. That’s the bad news.
In slightly more positive, less pandemic-y news… Avengers Campus is coming to Disney California Adventure. Jack and Albie break down what we know today on Theme Park Pulse!
SOURCES:
Good Morning America
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The Disneyland Resort will close March 14 until at least the end of the month. Details are scant at this point but what we do know is that this is a precaution as coronavirus sweeps across California. Many are working from home in the state, and public gatherings have been cancelled.
There is, at the time, no known connection between the coronavirus and Disneyland.
We're watching this breaking story and will have an update tomorrow on Theme Park Pulse!
To us, the idea of humans travelling into space is kind of just...business as usual. If you’re listening to this, chances are pretty good that men and women have been venturing into space your whole life. In the Mid 1950s, though, this was strictly the realm of science fiction.
Uncle Walt used to come into our homes each week and lead families into one of three realms. For this episode of Theme Park Time Machine, the destination is tomorrow, and into the vast reaches of our solar system. What is Disney's real-life connection to outer space?
SOURCES:
Man In Space
Disney Wiki (Rocket to the Moon)
Walt Disney Family Museum (Walt & Space Exploration)
(Image: D23)
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Change is coming to the iconic Spaceship Earth attraction at Epcot, a new parade debuts at Disneyland, and the parks might be busier than usual this weekend - we’ll cover all of that today, on Theme Park Pulse.
On this episode Kory & Sean's discussion on Spaceship Earth at Epcot. Some history, and what we hope to see in the upcoming refurbishment mixed in with some cool archival audio of previous narrators! Who do you think should narrate the attraction next?
Plus the Parks Planning Forecast, and Dante checks-in from the curb at Disneyland with a peek at the all-new Magic Happens parade!
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Unless you’ve been on an lenten internet fast, you saw the explosive news this week that Bob Iger has stepped down as Disney’s CEO effective immediately.
His replacement, though not a surprise, has many Disney fans concerned for the future of this beloved brand. We’ll look through some of the theories on the timing, and the potential implications of this massive shakeup at the mouse, today on Theme Park Pulse.
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One summer day in the late 1990s, a Houston-based sculptor named David Adickes was returning home from a trip to Canada. Along the way, he drove past the Black Hills of South Dakota, and in the distance, got a glimpse of Mount Rushmore. Four massive presidents' faces struck into a granite cliff is enough to catch anyone’s attention, but Adickes had the very same thought that I was just pondering...why play favorites?
For the rest of the drive home, Adickes did some dreaming, envisioning a sprawling park with every president represented. He loved the idea of the larger-than-life presidential busts, but wished that people could get closer to them. Adickes later remarked to the Washington Post “The idea for the big heads just popped into my small head!”
On this week's Theme Park Time Machine: Adam dives into the history of Presidents Park, an inspirational (but ill-fated) Virginia outdoor museum with giant busts of every US President!
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The Fate of Presidents Park from Smithsonian Magazine
The History of Presidents Day from Ancestral Findings
Washington Post article about the park, shortly after opening
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A few weeks ago on Theme Park Pulse we hosted a discussion on Super Nintendo World at Universal Orlando’s new Epic Universe. During that conversation, the rumored land dedicated to Universal’s Classic Monsters came up and as of February 3rd...it is no longer a rumor. Universal's Classic Monsters are coming to Universal's new Epic Universe! Banks Lee from Attractions Magazine, and Alicia Stella from Orlando Park Stop join Sean to exhume the details on Theme Park Pulse!
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Meet the people behind your favorite podcasters, our significant others through 4 short intimate interviews this Valentines Day on Theme Park Pulse! Thanks to Laureen, Jen, Emily and Reagan for sharing themselves with us for this Patreon bonus. If you'd like to support our work, and hear more bonus audio CLICK HERE. Everything else is at NoMidnightMedia.com
I once read a prediction that we would all have smart devices in our pockets someday. Devices that would interact, on our behalf, with the digital world all around us. This prediction was scarily accurate, but failed to take into account the tole our smart devices would take on our day-to-day lives, and the ways in which we interact with the world around us. The people around us. This is, to me, never more glaring than at a theme park in 2020. All of the parks, from Disney and Universal to Knott’s and SeaWorld have some sort of app. A way to unlock more of the magic, if you will, but at what expense? Are cell phones helping, or hurting our theme park experience? Adam, Kory and Sean have that, a live check-in with Jacky Boy at Disneyland, and the Parks Planning Forecast for this weekend, on today's Theme Park Pulse! -
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On this episode of Theme Park Time Machine...Walt Disney's business plan for Disneyland left out a crucial demographic. Their plan to capitalize on the young singles market...Date Nights at Disneyland! SOURCES: HISTORY OF DATE NIGHTS AT DISNEYLAND: D23 WEBSITE DATE NIGHTS AT DISNEYLAND AT DISNEYEXAMINER DATE NITE PROMO: THE ELLIOT BROTHERS BAND This episode was written and narrated by Adam Vargyas, post-production and sound design by Jack Milliken. Executive Producer for No Midnight Media is Christopher "Kory" Beale. Our Patreon community received this episode on February 7, 2020. A full 4 days before the public. If you'd like to support our work, and grab cool benefits like early access to our programs, bonus audio and an exclusive series coming soon...click here. Thanks in advance!
Going to Walt Disney World, or Disneyland with your family can be a lot of fun! But - one Inside The Magic article is calling attention to a whole other type of Disney getaway...one not with the kids, but with the girls!
Amanda Mann is a travel agent who runs Living With The Magic Vacations, and hosts her own annual Girls Getaway Weekend at Walt Disney World, at least she did. Amanda & Kory break down why you should take a girls trip to the parks, and how to do it!
Plus, Dante check’s in from the final weekend of the Lunar New Year Celebration at Disney California Adventure...today on Theme Park Pulse!
This episode was written, edited and sound designed by Kory.
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Super Nintendo World is headed to Florida and California - so we’re going to the experts. Sean talks with Alicia Stella from OrlandoParkStop.com, and Banks Lee from Attractions Magazine this week on Theme Park Pulse!
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Adam looks deeper at the man behind the sculptor Blaine Gibson, and explores the personality of The Man of 42 Faces on this Theme Park Time Machine Bonus!
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Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance is now open, but Albie (our Star Wars nut and one-time Mandalorian cast member) has not yet experienced it! Thankfully, Jack & Dante have! We debrief Rise of the Resistance today on Theme Park Pulse!
This episode contains attraction spoilers ONLY after the 14 minute mark!
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Learn more about the man who brought history to life to celebrate Walt Disney’s love of Americana! Adam introduces you to Disney Legend Blaine Gibson on Theme Park Time Machine from Theme Park Pulse! Want to hear each episode of Theme Park Time Machine early? SOURCES: Richard Nixon’s First Inaugural Address 1-20-1969 Blaine Gibson LA Times obituary Blaine Gibson on D23 official website Theme Park Time Machine is written and researched by Adam, sound design and post production by Jack Milliken. Executive Producer for No Midnight Media is Kory.
Our pal Sean is an app developer! He has some theories about the new up-charge Fastpass+ system rumored for Walt Disney World. What does this have to do with Genie? And, what are the privacy concerns?
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Undercover Tourist
Wired: MagicBand Privacy
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Why was Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker so messy? One word...DRAMA! Albie has the tea.
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On the inaugural episode of Adam’s Theme Park Time Machine...Richard Nixon. A complicated president with some interesting ties to Walt Disney and theme parks, including two unexpected and nerve-wracking trips on the Disneyland monorail.
Want to hear each episode of Theme Park Time Machine early?
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Mental Floss
Walt Disney Family Museum
Excerpt from Richard Nixon’s “I Am Not A Crook” speech
Full monorail dedication
Eisenhower accepts the 1952 Presidential nomination
Theme Park Time Machine is written and researched by Adam, sound design and post production by Jack Milliken. Executive Producer for No Midnight Media is Kory.
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Theme Park Pulse returns on Tuesday, January 7th, 2020 with a special surprise. Happy New Year, and remember...
BE KIND.
Have you ever visited a theme park solo? Sean's guest Dustin, from Steps to the Magic, shares his reasons why you totally should do Disney...solo! Plus, Adam's Theme Park Time Machine remembers Roy Disney, and Dante checks-in from Festival of the Holidays at Disney California Adventure.
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Adam's Theme Park Time Machine @ 1:36
Parks Planning Forecast w/ Kory @ 11:42
Why you should visit WDW Solo w/ Sean & Dustin @ 13:19
Festival of the Holidays w/ Dante @ 36:37
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Walt: A No Midnight Serial (Ep 1)
Tips to Dining Alone at Walt Disney World
Why You Should Plan A Solo Trip To Walt Disney World
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Theme Park Alchemy "Pirates Curse" promo design: Kory
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We thought it would be fun to go through Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion room-by-room and see if we can’t spruce the place up...in our imaginations. A real renovation is coming in January, what would you like to see updated? Call (213) 935-0513 and leave a message!
Find out when Albie will appear on Disney + in "The Mandalorian" on this week's BONUS EPISODE: Upside-Down Mando-Canon
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Theme Park Alchecmy & Flying Nanny Co Promo Design: Kory
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No, but it really is. In fact, we've been preaching this for years!
We'll dig through some reasons Disney is totally for adults*, check the projected crowd levels, hear a report from Rise of the Resistance and another edition of Adam's Theme Park Time Machine on this week's podcast!
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Talk Segment written/directed by: KoryEpisode Producer/Host/Editor: Kory"Adam's Theme Park Time Machine" written by Adam Vargyas, sound design by Jack Milliken.Music & Sound Effects: Licensed through Epidemic Sound, design by Kory.
Theme Park Alchecmy & Flying Nanny Co Promo Design: Kory
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Undercover Tourist
InsideTheMagic
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On this Theme Park Pulse, Sean's ode to the mother of all theme park meats and when you can catch Russi Taylor's final appearance on The Simpsons!
Happy Thanksgiving from Theme Park Pulse!
Episode written & hosted by: Sean Reid in Atlanta, GAEditing, Music & Sound Effects: Licensed through Epidemic Sound, design by Kory.
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Theme Park Pulse listeners James and Andrew sound-off on Friday's topic, Is Disney+ profiting from racism?
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By posting racially insensitive content from it's catalog, is Disney+ profiting from it's racist missteps? Or is this a first amendment issue? The guys have that, plus the Parks Planning Forecast today on Theme Park Pulse!
This week's bonus content:
Like a Virgin...remote for the very first time.
Talk Segment written by: Adam VargyasEpisode Producer/Host/Editor: Kory"Adam's Theme Park Time Machine" written by Adam Vargyas, production by Jack Milliken.Music & Sound Effects: Licensed through Epidemic Sound, design by Kory.
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What would Zootopia at Animal Kingdom actually look like? Sean & Charles have that, and Jack previews this weekend's projected crowd levels and refurbishments on Theme Park Pulse!
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Sean Reacts: Little Mermaid Live
Linda Larkin Panel (hosted by Kory) from MouseCon 2019
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Dante & Sean dissect Disney's disappointing(?) Little Mermaid Live, and our west coast team reports in from MouseCon!
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Linda Larkin Panel (hosted by Kory) from MouseCon 2019
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Things are being stolen, fingers are being pointed and it has us asking...are Disney fans ruining Disney? Plus - Charles visited Walt Disney World's Epcot Experience and shares his takeaways!
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Albie dissects the Rise of Skywalker trailer, Adam covers Dark Harbor at The Queen Mary, and we teach you how to spread measles (spoiler: go to Disneyland) this week on Theme Park Pulse!
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Sean & Charles break down all-things Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Orlando, Kory checks the projected crowd levels, and a spooky short story called "The Ballad of Poor Old George."
PATREON BONUS: Sean's Halloween Horror Nights Adventure
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Indiana Jones Adventure is beginning to show it's age so we asked the question, How would you fix Indy? Plus, Adam has the run-down on Knott's Scary Farm in Buena Park, CA!
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Unpacked: Indiana Jones Adventure
10 ABANDONED Effects on Disneyland's Indiana Jones Adventure
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Epcot Forever opened Monday to mixed reviews. Kory & Sean react. Plus, Sean's tips on how to survive Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party and the Parks Planning Forecast today on Theme Park Pulse!
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Unpacked presents: Bret, Mickey & Walt
Bret Iwan is the 4th voice of Mickey Mouse. Now in his 30s, his life already shares unique parallels with Mickey’s first voice, and creator, Walt Disney. On this special Unpacked biography mini-series, Kory takes us into Bret’s home for an in-depth look at his fascinating life and career, in progress.
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Executive-level shakeups in the parks division have us asking, WTF is going on at Disney Parks!?
Plus, we start our series on spooky Halloween events with Halloweentime at Disneyland!
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Unpacked presents: Bret, Mickey & Walt
Bret Iwan is the 4th voice of Mickey Mouse. Now in his 30s, his life already shares unique parallels with Mickey’s first voice, and creator, Walt Disney. On this special Unpacked biography mini-series, Kory takes us into Bret’s home for an in-depth look at his fascinating life and career, in progress.
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Sean and Joezer reflect on Epcot's past, present and future! Plus, the projected crowd levels and refurbishments on this episode of Theme Park Pulse!
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It's Halloweentime in the domestic theme parks and that's got us feeling a little spooky. Disney Parks ghost stories, and our favorite spooky experiences today on Theme Park Pulse!
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Charles attended a preview of Walt Disney World's Star Wars Galaxy's Edge and Sean takes him on a deep-dive through the east coast Batuu! Plus, we're in the "off-season" at the domestic parks, but how are the crowds?
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How did Kory's first D23 Expo go? We have the positives and negatives, plus our east & west coast teams unpack what we learned last weekend in Anaheim! Read more at Inside The Magic.
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Universal Orlando is opening an all-new theme park called Universal's Epic Universe. A little redundant in the title, but the concept art is packed with delightful hints as to what's to come! Sean, and VR Content Creator Charles Cornett dig in. Plus, how to hang with the Theme Park Pulse crew this weekend at D23 Expo and another sneak peek of our new Unpacked series "Bret, Mickey & Walt."
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Kory prepares for his first D23 Expo next weekend, and we ask the question...Is Disneyland cancelled? (sarcastically, don't @ us) This week from the west coast team on Theme Park Pulse!
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Scott from The Main Street Mouse joins Sean with a report on the Disney Villains After Hours event and look at some announcements from San Diego Comic-Con! All of that, plus the Parks Planning Forecast today on Theme Park Pulse.
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We're joined on a special live season 4 premiere by Bret Iwan, the voice of Mickey Mouse. Listen as Bret share's his memories of Russi Taylor in his first interview since her passing.
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Hey friends! Kory checking in as we are in full prep mode for season 4 of Theme Park Pulse, and we'll be taping the premiere "live-to-tape" on Facebook Live this coming Wednesday night! For info on the taping, click here!
Can't wait to get started with season 4 of Theme Park Pulse! See you Wednesday on FB Live, and Friday...right here!
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Disney speaks out against WDWNT and it's owner Tom Corless fires back! The Simpsons are headed to D23, and people are literally stealing crap from Galaxy's Edge...cmonnnnnn!
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This week, all the things that aren't Galaxy's Edge, like a live report from Hagrid's Motorbike Adventure and the story of a woman who accidentally bought "Cards Against Disney" for her kids!
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Jacky Boy checks in with updates, and some fun stories live from inside Star Wars Galaxy's Edge at Disneyland!
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Star Wars Galaxy's Edge is now open to the public at Disneyland. Kory, Albie and several friends share their experiences on Batuu...from inside the park! Plus the Parks Planning Forecast and Kory's conversation with Jason from EarzUp breaking down everything Star Wars Galaxy's Edge!
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This week, we celebrate the opening of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge at Disneyland as Jack & Albie take a deep dive into everything we now know about Batuu!
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What do you need to know before you venture into a galaxy far, far away at Star Wars Galaxy's Edge? We'll have reporters on the ground at Disneyland next weekend, and we have everything you need to know to plan your trip!
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Disney now owns most of the streaming...things, and we break down that new Disney Flex Passport. Is it worth it?
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People arrested trying to sneak guns into the parks, and the "holy crap is this really still a thing in 2019" arrest of a great-grandmother for possessing CBD oil at Walt Disney World. Lots of arrests lately in the Disney parks...what's going on!?
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We walked out of the theatre, having seen Avengers: Endgame, and hit record. This episode contains our spoiler-laden recap, review, and emotional reaction to the final installment of the Avengers saga!
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Avengers: Endgame dropped last night, and the internet has exploded. Many are staying off of social media to avoid spoilers...we talk end of credits scenes and bathroom breaks on today's SPOILER FREE Theme Park Pulse!
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Could "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" be longer than "Avengers: Endgame"? Which will sell more tickets...or have a larger cultural impact? Josh Taylor from Network 1901 joins us on Theme Park Pulse.
Plus - it's a busy weekend ahead in the domestic parks, Kory has the crowd levels and refurbishments in the domestic parks.
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Disneyland goes all-out for Earth Day, and why we're cautiously optimistic about Richard Branson's Miami-to-Orlando train idea.
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There are times when Disneyland is just too nuts! So we ask...why Buena Park's Knott's Berry Farm when Disneyland is right down the road in Anaheim?
Inspired by this OC Register article.
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Avengers: Endgame is coming, and the 'easter eggs' and 'spoilers' are dropping left and right. Albie helps us make sense of all the hype!
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Disney bans smoking, and large strollers from the domestic parks starting May 1st, we have everything you need to know!
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The parks internet community chipped in hilariously when a woman lost her boyfriend at Epcot, and those commemorative bricks are due to be jack-hammered...but what about the people who paid for them? Is Disney doing enough?
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Was Toy Story 4 necessary? What’s up with Andy’s ever-changing face? We checked out the trailer and have our take. And, are the rumors about layoffs true, in the wake of the Disney/Fox merger? We’ve got that along with the Parks Planning Forecast, and more today on Theme Park Pulse.
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Tons of exciting parks, movie, and streaming news were announced at the Disney shareholders meeting. Jay from The Story Geeks joins Kory to look deeper at those announcements!
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Jack and Albie look in-depth at Captain Marvel, and the film's many easter eggs...what does it all mean!? Plus - Kory looks at this weekend's projected crowd levels and refurbishments in the Parks Planning Forecast today on Theme Park Pulse!
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Disney CEO Bob Iger took a pretty substantial pay cut going into 2019, what does that signal for the future of the Disney company?
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Disney announced the opening dates for Star Wars Galaxy's Edge, and we are previewing all of the out-of-this-world food, merch, attractions and experiences in store!
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We have opening dates for Star Wars Galaxy's Edge!
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Bob Iger is getting a hefty pay-cut ahead of Disney’s merger with Fox, a new attraction has an opening date at Disney California Adventure, and another quaint path in the shadow of a castle gets...widened.
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We'll take a look at the new Star Wars Galaxy's Edge costumes that have the internet divided and discuss some new parks rumors with our guest Sean from Theme Park Alchemy!
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Epcot is getting a new entrance and a new pavilion, alcohol is headed to Disneyland - sort of. Plus new details on Universal Orlando’s new Harry Potter coaster along with this week’s projected crowd levels in the parks planning forecast today, on Theme Park Pulse!
BONUS: Philly - Two Years Later
SOURCE:
Inside The Magic
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A long-awaited refurbishment gets us talking about other improvements we’d like to see at the parks! Plus parks news, and the Parks Planning Forecast!
BONUS: Listener Ray vs. Adam & Albie in Disney trivia!
SOURCES:
Matthew Gottula
Inside The Magic
Theme Park Insider
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A scary ride evacuation leaves guests hanging at a southern California theme park, another Disney legend has passed away, and a fight over a parking spot at Walt Disney World gets ugly when a gun gets involved!
Those stories, plus the Parks Planning Forecast today on Theme Park Pulse.
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ITM
The Walt Disney Company
WDWNT
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From Cyrus coming out on Andi Mack, to pride at Disneyland Paris, Disney is beginning to embrace LGBTQ people like never before...but is Disney late to the party?
Plus parks news, projected crowd levels and refurbishments on Theme Park Pulse Weekend!
BONUS: A Trump banner flies over Disneyland, and that Rian Johnson rumor!
SOURCES:
Attractions Magazine
Theme Park Insider
Disney Parks Blog
YouTube Clips: Ellen Comes Out & Cyrus' Truth
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A popular Disneyland nighttime spectacular gets a return date, a Disney legend passes away, and we know more about the new Harry Potter themed coaster coming to Islands of Adventure.
Plus the Valentine's Day Parks Planning Forecast!
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BONUS: Disney trivia w/ Kory & Jack
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Our guest this week is Matt Parrish, the co-host of the WEDway Radio and Thirty20Eight podcasts. Matt helps us try to decide which domestic Disney park has the best method for skipping the queue. what’s better? MaxPass, or Fastpass Plus?
Disney rolls out some photo magic at Disneyland and The Magic Kingdom, Universal announces a deal that’ll make horror fans very happy, and Disney promises not to take away our blood, gore, and f-bombs...in the proper context.
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If Donald Trump is impeached, should his animatronic be removed from the Hall of Presidents? The fan community speaks out, plus parks news and forecasted crowd levels in the domestic parks on Theme Park Pulse Weekend.
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Testing has begun on Walt Disney World’s new gondola system, while the Magic Kingdom’s most popular parade float returns and more details leak about Universal Orlando’s planned 4th gate!
Plus - crowd levels and refurbishments in the domestic parks in Kory's Parks Planning Forecast.
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Disney has big news regarding the theming and universe of Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge & Shanghai Disney Resort has confirmed a Zootopia themed expansion.
Marvel’s Black Panther broke another cinematic barrier, and Kory takes a look at this weekend’s crowd levels with the Parks Planning Forecast.
BONUS: Random Pre-Show Silliness
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Disney announces that they’re leaning even harder into their 'remake' formula, winter weather impacts operations at the southern california theme parks, and a discussion about the serious maintenance woes at Walt Disney World.
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Bob Iger receives a pay bump, Disney has purchased a big tract of land in Florida, some exciting rumors leaking out of Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge, and Dante checks in from a cool mountain B & B. Plus crowd levels and refurbs in the parks planning forecast today on Theme Park Pulse.
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With Disney’s snub at this year’s Golden Globe Awards, is Disney’s award season dominance dwindling? Plus, we look at new details of the Ant Man and The Wasp: Nano Battle! attraction in Hong Kong, more Florida theme park ticket deals, and John Lasseter’s new animation gig.
BONUS: Cards Against Disney #2
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Sleeping Beauty Castle is now behind construction walls, and it’ll cost you a lot more to see it after this weekend! We have the timeline and more information on Disneyland's price hikes...plus SeaWorld San Diego’s new roller coaster!
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Walt Disney World is offering deep discounts to Florida residents, but there’s a catch. Safety concerns have come to light this week over a relatively new Disney roller coaster, a castle refurbishment is on the way, plus the Parks Planning Forecast and Friday Fan Forum. on Theme Park Pulse.
BONUS: A goofy outtake, and early access!
ALSO ON THIS EPISODE:
Is this Disney's riskiest year ever?
SacAnime
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A man attempted to kidnap a child from the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, theme parks filled to capacity and guests were turned away from last night’s New Years Eve festivities, plus - crowd levels and refurbishments in the domestic parks today on Theme Park Pulse.
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The internet wants RuPaul's Drag Race alum Ginger Minj to play Ursula in Disney's live-action Little Mermaid. But what does Ginger think? Has she been contacted by Disney? We'll find out when Ginger joins us on Friday Fan Forum!
To watch the intro package we used from LOGO, click here. To see the Billboard article that blew all of this up, click here.
BONUS: Live from In-N-Out Burger (no really)
This episode was recorded and produced by Kory on Wednesday, October 17, 2018 exclusively for the No Midnight Podcast Channel. All rights reserved.
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Kory & Adam host this panel at Sac Anime 2018 with names like Mary Gibbs (Boo - Monsters Inc.), Michael Gough (Gopher - Winnie The Pooh), Derek Steven Prince (Vexen - Kingdom Hearts), Andre Stojka (Owl - Winnie The Pooh), and Tony Anselmo (Donald Duck)!
This is part two of that audio, recorded in front of 1,000 fans in the Main Events room at Sac Anime 2018! Next week on Friday Fan Forum, 5 Walt Disney World Attractions Closing Soon!
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Kory & Adam host this panel at Sac Anime 2018 with names like Mary Gibbs (Boo - Monsters Inc.), Michael Gough (Gopher - Winnie The Pooh), Derek Steven Prince (Vexen - Kingdom Hearts), Andre Stojka (Owl - Winnie The Pooh), and Tony Anselmo (Donald Duck)!
This is part one of that audio, recorded in front of 1,000 fans in the Main Events room at Sac Anime 2018! Part two, next week on Friday Fan Forum!
BONUS: Outtakes and Silliness from Friday Fan Forum!
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This week, Kory's StocktonCon 2018 panel with comic artist/writer Howard Chaykin. Plus, details on where you can meet Kory, Adam, Albie, Philly and Dante in the next couple of weeks all over California!
Who is Howard Chaykin? "Howard Chaykin is a longtime veteran of the comic book business, serving as an artist and writer for nearly every publisher of comics in the past four decades…and counting. He took the ’90s off to work on mostly unwatchable television, so he missed the money and dreck that was comics in that execrable decade. He is responsible, some might say culpable, for introducing a number of previously unexplored themes to comic books. If you're not hip to what that's supposed to mean, there's always Wikipedia." - Howard
BONUS: Howard Chaykin Uncensored (the 'unbleeped' version of the panel, in it's entirety!)
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As it says in his bio on Image Comics, "Kyle Starks is the (2x) Eisner nominated creator of Sexcastle (click here for a free preview) which was recently optioned to be made into a major motion picture. Whoa! He's also written a bunch of other great stuff like Rick and Morty and Invader Zim and is generally recognized as a pretty good, laugh making, funny boy."
This week, we present Kory's panel with Kyle Starks from StocktonCon 2018. Recorded Saturday August 18, 2018 in Stockton, CA.
BONUS: Hear the panel without the 'bleeps,' and 'Kory & Jack catch up.'
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When Universal and Warner Bros opened The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in #Orlando, they proved once and for all that Disney doesn't have a monopoly on magic! Plus, Albie finally visits Hogsmeade, we'll hear his first impressions on the finale of The Boy Who Lived!
BONUS CONTENT: Albie reveals which he prefers Star Wars or Harry Potter.
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In 1997, a boy wizard named Harry Potter was unleashed upon the non-magic world...or as he would call it, the Muggle World. It was a slow introduction to start, but when the book crossed the pond and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was released in the United States in the summer of 1998, Pottermania became a magical force to be reckoned with.
On this episode of The Boy Who Lived we follow the boy wizard Harry Potter from page to screen, and Albie's relationship with his father from near-redemption, to...well...you'll have to listen.
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In the 1990s, a skinny, bespectacled 11 year old boy emerged from a lifetime of abuse and neglect to learn that he was the most anticipated wizard in generations. And in the process of creating her Wizarding World, a destitute divorcee and single parent named Joanne Rowling became one of the most powerful, influential, and wealthiest women in the world.
Our cast member Albie would discover that world and he shares his very personal story of survival, and how Harry Potter helped him through some very real challenges in the Muggle world.
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Song of the South is one of the most controversial chapters in Disney's history, and is definitely one Thing Disney Wishes You Would Forget. 'Disney Declassified,' 'The Disney Story,' and 'The Wonders of Walt Disney World' Author Aaron Goldberg joins us!
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On this episode, the story of three very different Epcot's. The Epcot of Walt's imagination (in his own words!), the Epcot Disney built, and the Epcot of the future! Two of these, are things Disney wishes you would forget!
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Walt: A No Midnight Serial
EPCOT Film
Alice Shorts
The Disneyland Dedication
Epcot Monorail Spiel
Mary Poppins Soundtrack
Illuminations: Reflections of Earth
Imagination (Figments Song)
Walt Disney loved the Monorail, so it was only fitting that Imagineers use the technology at Walt Disney World. It has served the property well, but in July of '09...something went terribly wrong with the Highway In The Sky, and a cast member lost his life.
Also, the ugly cake castle, and Stitch's Great Escape are Things Disney Wishes You Would Forget.
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The Magic Kingdom Resort Area at Walt Disney World is chock-full of Things Disney Wishes You Would Forget. This week we give a brief history of the northern part of Walt Disney World property, take trips to River Country and Discovery Island(you can view Shane Perez' photos here), and we look back at Walt's REAL vision for The Florida Project.
TRIGGER WARNING: We cover the death of Lane Graves by an alligator late in this episode. If you feel that may upset you, we invite you to turn the show off at the 20:23 mark. Thank you!
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WARNING: While not profane, this episode contains adult themes...parental discretion advised.
Walt Disney made a film about your period, Mickey sang about Minnie's "Yoo Hoo," there are boobs in The Rescuers, man-stuff on The Little Mermaid poster, a priest with a boner, and an attraction that still attracts flashers, are ALL...Things Disney Wishes You Would Forget! For all of the things (support, merch, contact, bios, etc) head to NoMidnightPodcast.com.
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The Story of Mentruation
Oh, and you should totally google "Flash Mountain." (at your own risk)
Not all of Disney's parks have been big hits right out of the gate. Disney California Adventure got off to a rough start, as did one of it's opening day attractions SuperStar Limo. On the series premiere of Things Disney Wishes You Would Forget, Kory and Adam take a deeper look at these two things that Disney wishes you would forget!
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As the 20th century drew to a close, Disney was reflecting on a roller coaster of a decade. Throughout the 90s, every division had experienced both dizzying highs and discouraging lows. The theme parks started the 90s in a rut when Disneyland Paris flopped, but regained its footing when Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom proved a big hit. On the other hand, the animated feature division struck gold early in the decade when Beauty and the Beast, became the first ever animated feature nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture, but hit a major rough patch in the mid 90s when controversial powerhouse Jeffrey Katzenberg was fired, and his new studio declared war on his former employer.
By the time Tarzan was released in the summer of 1999, Michael Eisner had been the public face of the company for more than ten years. That was true when he worked in partnership with Frank Wells, when he ran the company solo after Wells’ death in 1994, and it would continue to be the case moving into the new millenium, when former ABC President Bob Iger was appointed COO. For better or worse, the buck stopped with Eisner.
Tarzan was a big hit, and the parks division was on a hot streak. As the 21st century dawned, Disney was optimistic that Eisner and Iger could continue creating magic together, riding the success they’d had throughout...the Disney Decade.
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The real, true story of Mulan, Tarzan and Disney Cruise Line on episode 6 (of 7) of our serial the #DisneyDecade!
In 1994, the Walt Disney Company experienced a change that altered the course of family entertainment forever. After years of scheming to climb the company ladder, and butting heads with his fellow executives over his aggressive management style, Jeffrey Katzenberg, who led Walt Disney Feature Animation through monumental success in the early years of the decade, was fired. Disney CEO Michael Eisner and executive board members spent the next several years trying to fill the void that Katzenberg left behind. They expected a learning curve. What they DIDN’T expect was that Katzenberg would take everything he had learned about running an animation studio, and go to war with his former employer.
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By 1997, it was undeniable that, publicly, the Walt Disney company was on their biggest roll since the days of Walt himself. But suddenly, there was a very real danger that the company’s progress might come to a screeching halt.
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By 1995, Michael Eisner had some serious decisions to make. Disney’s animation studio was experiencing unprecedented success, but with Katzenberg gone, and no one ready to step into Frank Wells’ shoes.
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There was one person at the Disney company who, in spite of the madness going on, continued to work diligently behind the scenes to make sure everyone was taken care of. That person was Frank Wells.
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The 1990s were supposed to start with a big bang, but three big hurdles would soon fall into Disney’s path, and would significantly change what was actually built at Walt Disney World. In fact, these hurdles would change the entire landscape of the company at the very beginning of the Disney Decade.
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Episode two of our serial about the "Disney Decade," in partnership with Network 1901.
Episode one of our serial about the "Disney Decade," in partnership with Network 1901.
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Today, November 18, 2017, marks the 89th birthday of the character who put Walt Disney on the map, Mickey Mouse!
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Before the end of 1966, Walt Disney, one of the greatest entertainment pioneers of the 20th century...would be dead.
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Episode 5 of our serial looking at the life and legacy of Walt Disney.
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By the 1950s, Walt finally had the business clout, financial backing, and talented staff to turn his dream into a reality.
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Episode 3 of our serial looking at the life and legacy of Walt Disney.
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Join Kory & Albie from No Midnight Podcast, and Josh & Angie from Network 1901 as they experience Lullaby, deep inside the famed haunted ship!
Join Kory, Albie and Josh Taylor from Network 1901 as they prepare to head to the parks for Gay Day and our Cupcake "Eat Up!"
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Follow Walt from the creation of Mickey Mouse through the beginning of World War II!
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Episode 1 of our serial looking at the life and legacy of Walt Disney.
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Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando Resort, and Sea World have announced multi-day closures this weekend due to Hurricane Irma. Kory is on his way to Central Florida to cover this historic storm's impact.
Our in depth interview with voiceover artist Kat Cressida. You know her as the voice of Constance, The Black Widow Bride from Disney’s Haunted Mansion, as Dee Dee from Dexter’s Laboratory, Phineas & Ferb, Uta from Archer, as well as a laundry list of popular video games.
For more info on Kat Cressida, head to http://KatCressida.com.
You can also follow Kat on:
Twitter - http://twitter.com/katcressida
Instagram - http://instagram.com/katcressida
Facebook - http://facebook.com/kat.cressida
Show Notes/More Info: https://nomidnightblog.com/2017/05/17/podcast-episode-15-in-depth-w-voiceover-artist-kat-cressida/
Note: A small edit was made in the introduction at the guests request. The new show was released 5/18/17 at 7:47am pacific.
Next week we're back on Facebook with a live taping featuring the whole cast, and the latest news/rumors from Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando, and Disneyland!