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MiceCast
by Your Hosts, Greg and Mike
Candid Disney discussion with an attitude!
Episodes
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A Deeper Devotion at Disneyland
Disneyland guests treat the original attractions like sacred cows. Magic Kingdom guests? Not so much. The hosts dig into why Imagineering and corporate protect the Anaheim originals while Florida gets the rethemes, losses, and “improvements.” 60 Minutes.
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Walt’s Wrecking Ball
Disneyland isn’t a museum. Walt said it would never be complete. So did he actually demolish attractions that were still drawing guests? A 1956 Disneyland Incorporated guidebook is the map. Phantom Boats didn’t work. Tomorrowland’s early exhibits left for the new Tomorrowland, and the buildings...
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Scooter Scourge
A rented scooter is not a FastPass and it is not a DAS pass. Your host's take on the Instagram scooter gangs, the back door, and the Knott’s paper clock Disney should steal. Able-bodied guests are filming themselves circling the park on ECVs. Invisible disabilities are real. So is the “usual...
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The Successful TikTokker and the Old Podcasters
The People Mover track is gone. Walt’s apartment lamp was not a sacred light from 1966. Sometimes Castles’ Ry sits with Greg, Mike, and Shaft to kill folklore, walk the trestle, and comment about Iger. Ry (Sometimes Castles) wrote I Love Disneyland and lives in the TikTok/Instagram news cycle.…
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D'Amaro's Decisions: a Six Month Check Up
Josh D'Amaro is six months into the CEO chair. He cut marketing, he cut creatives, he brought back "ladies and gentlemen," and the stock is sitting flat. Your hosts give the parks guy running the whole company a checkup. They do not pretend film is carrying anything. 38 Minutes.
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MiceCast #319 - Rethemes, Reboots, and Ride Ruin: Has Imagineering Ever Actually Nailed a Theme Swap?
Tiana’s Bayou Adventure is a fail. Wait times and breakdowns already said so. Your hosts keep score on every Disney retheme they actually rode: Pirates, Nemo Subs, Star Tours, Guardians, Autopia, Bug’s Land. And the record is ugly. 57 Minutes.
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The Projection Problem
You can projection-map a garage now. A flat movie on Tiana’s drop is not a flex. Your hosts mark the walls, waterfalls, and graveyards where a projector would plus the ride and the ones that already made it look cheap. That wall behind the pirate ship is just black. Put ships on the horizon. When...
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Resort Hopping Regulations
Disney Springs parking was never a $35 theme-park coupon. People treated it like one anyway. The guys have zero sympathy for the cheat code, call hallway influencers creepy, and still manage to get lost in a Frank Lloyd Wright house before they find the point again. 57 Minutes.
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Custodial Chaos
Instagram is full of overflowing Disneyland trash cans and bathrooms with no toilet paper, no towels, and stains on the floor. That used to be the one thing this park did not do. Your hosts talk about why it’s happening: staffing, scheduling, post-COVID management, and a standard that used to be...
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The D23 Razzle-Dazzle
When it comes to D23, Billy Flynn from the musical "Chicago" put it best: "Give 'em the old razzle dazzle, razzle dazzle 'em. Give 'em an act with lots of flash in it, and the reaction will be passionate...Razzle dazzle them and they'll never catch wise." Your MiceCast hosts latch onto the...
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Loads of Lodging
It seems like Disney builds hotels everywhere. Which begs the question, is the Mouse good neighbor? And while we’re at it, are Disney hotels actually too Disney? Has the magic gotten so over-the-top that it’s starting to feel forced? We dig into the controversy that is Disney’s hotel empire. 65...
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Underwhelmed
In this episode we’re airing out the dirty little secret Disney fans never talk about: which park completely failed to live up to the hype the very first time we experienced it. No nostalgia filters. No “but the magic grows on you.” Just pure, unfiltered disappointment. 61 Minutes.
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Costume Kerfuffle
Disney went full villain mode on the iconic Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party cast member costumes for 2026. Gone are the bright, festive green-and-purple bat prints, yellow-orange plaid layers, and oversized bat headbands that defined the party for decades. Fans are losing their minds and…
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Restaurant Rejuvenation
Based on an emailed show request, your hosts were asked to discuss some ideas for dining upgrades or changes. 51 Minutes.
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Precious Presents or Tasteless Tchotchkes
Parks are drowning in discarded ducks, sticky bracelets, and forgotten treats. What started as sweet surprise gifts has exploded into a full-blown guest epidemic. Handmade items, pins, stickers, and snacks are used in an attempt to create magic between guests. Most are now just creating awkward...
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Ride Recital
Your hosts make a quick visit to the Disneyland Resort so that they may bring you their first impressions of the new pirate animatronic and Soarin' Across America. Recorded in the park right after their rides, so the review is "fresh". 38 Minutes.
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Scuba Steve and The Mouse That Ate Your Adulthood!
Have you ever wondered why grown-ups drop thousands on mouse ears and park-hopping marathons? Is it all just arrested development, or is Disney's evil genius algorithm brainwashing millennials into eternal infancy? Your hosts and a guest ponder the question if they are Disney Adults and whether…
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Water, Water, Every Where…
...nor any drop to drink. Your hosts discuss all the information you didn't know you needed about the management of the bodies of water at Disneyland. 48 Minutes.
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The Watering Down of Walt's Place
Your hosts gather at Red's Community Garden to ponder the question, Does the addition of a Club 33 in other Disney parks cheapen the original? Is it simply a money grab from Disney? You may be surprised to discover that we actually come to a conclusion. 59 Minutes.
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The Invisible Turnstile
Disneyland quietly rolled out facial recognition at park entrances in December 2025 and fully deployed it across both parks on April 28, 2026. Guests (including children) were scanned for four months before Disney posted signs explaining an opt-out lane even existed. Disney says the data is…
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Carousel of Failure
Greg says: I'd rather see the Carousel of Progress closed and have it live in my memories than see it destroyed by terrible script writers and have them ruin this nearly perfect attraction. Your hosts and a guest discuss the upcoming proposed changes to the Carousel of Progress at Walt Disney...
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Soarin' Civics
Disney’s attempt at a patriotic “Soarin’ Across America” is being ruined by made-up drama. Online crybabies are trying to turn it into a “political controversy” that doesn’t exist. In this episode we expose the manufactured outrage and discuss the ride's shortcomings in a mature and measured...
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Disneyland Handcrafted
Your hosts finally get around to the multiple listener-requested review of the film "Disneyland Handcrafted". Sometimes you have to be careful for what you ask. 45 Minutes.
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Pin Trader Punishment
Are Disneyland Pin Traders getting shut down? Are new rules killing the hobby? You won't believe what's happening to the once-thriving pin trading scene at Disneyland. The new rules are turning friendly pin swaps into a bureaucratic nightmare. One wonders what happened to bring out this change....
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The Sinister Shift: Disney Ditches Kids for Devoted Adults
Disney has officially abandoned kids and families to chase the almighty dollar of Disney Adults. The obsessed, often drunk, and wildly loyal fans who drop thousands on trips with no children in tow. In this episode, we discuss how Disney is quietly redesigning parks, resorts, rides, and even…
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Character Conservation
Is Disney quietly using live-action remakes to cheat the copyright system? What if every single Disney live-action remake isn’t about “reimagining classics", but a calculated, multi-billion-dollar strategy to keep Mickey, Simba, Elsa, and the entire empire under lock and key forever? In this...
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Mail Bag #16
Submissions were requested specifically for this episode, and we read all the emails we had received by the time we cracked open the mics. Thank you to all those that took the time to write in. We really appreciate it. 63 Minutes.
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Past Moments: Redeploy
In the runup to Episode 300, your hosts thought it might be fun to look at some MiceCast past moments. BUT lacked complete motivation (and time) to go through our more recent works. Accordingly, we are just going to repackage and redeploy the last episode we made that had past moments in it.…
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Misery in the Marketing Department
What if the company that sells dreams just fired the entire team responsible for making you believe in them? Hundreds of creatives, strategists, and campaign wizards let go by new CEO Josh Damaro. The same people behind your childhood nostalgia, billion-dollar blockbusters, and “Happiest Place on...
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The Churro Economy
Some social media post somewhere asserted that Churros earn more money for Disney than their streaming service Disney+. Along with special guest, Matt "theEsquire", your hosts take a look at the available information to see if the assertion is true. 61 Minutes.
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Tomorrowland Talk
Tomorrowland is turning into Yesterland in front of our eyes and Disney has no plans to fix it. What if Tomorrowland didn’t just get a refresh, but a full-on glow-up that makes it 10x cooler than it was in 1967? In this wildly creative conversation, we’re spilling the most ambitious, jaw-dropping...
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Discussing Disney's Latest Legends
Your hosts talk about the recently revealed list of Disney Legends for 2026. They run down the list applying different tests to see if they are deserving of the honor. There is also an easter egg of sorts when one host completely loses his cool on the others. See if you can guess which one before...
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Is Disney the Villain in this Story?
Universal had the perfect plan. They would build a behind-the-scenes studio tour in Florida that would blow away tourists. Then Disney showed up and did it faster. Was it pure coincidence? Or did the Mouse straight-up swipe the concept and add it into their own empire? In this episode, we dive…
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Is it Clickbait or Rage Bait?
In this episode, your favorite hosts completely lose it over the epidemic of trashy online headlines. While somehow managing to use every single clickbait trick in the book to get you to listen. From rage bait articles that ruined their morning scroll, to the one weird trick journalists use to…
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Can't Stop the Signal
As a result of the recent swatting incident at Disneyland, your hosts discuss the idea of live streaming being forbidden inside Disney Parks. 58 Minutes.
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Venting About a Visit
Mike visits Disneyland and DCA on a random Tuesday in March. He was met with reduced capacity attractions, large crowds, and long wait times. This is his rundown on the events of the day. 48 Minutes.
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Merch Over Mickey: The Downtown Disney Downgrade
You used to step into Downtown Disney and feel the magic hit you instantly. Now it's giving major outdoor mall energy with endless shopping, generic vibes, and construction walls everywhere. It seems like Disneyland stripped away the whimsy and is quietly turning its iconic entrance into a...
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Our Second Special In-Studio Guest Returns
Lou from Beyond Main Street came on our show in our early days. He returns to give us an update on what he has been up to and joins in on our special brand of topic discussion. 63 Minutes.
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A CEO Switching the Story
Josh D'Amaro, the man about to become CEO, just said the quiet part out loud about one of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge's two attractions, Millennium Falcon: Smuggler's Run. He straight-up said that "Guests like it, but they don’t love it." Disney is installing a massive overhaul to try to fix it and...
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Weenie Wonders
They are not just pretty facades or rides. They are psychological traps designed by Walt himself that Imagineers still use to manipulate crowds. After this episode, you'll never look at Sleeping Beauty's castle, or Spaceship Earth the same way again. You will also begin to question every...
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D'Amaro's Disney Destiny: Daring Decision or Doomed Disaster?
Dana Walden was the favorite... until she wasn't. Josh D'Amaro, the guy who made Mickey into a cash-grab robot, won the throne in a unanimous board vote. Is he the savior Disney needs? Will ticket prices skyrocket even more? Will the reservation system finally vanish? Or is this the start of the...
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Twenty Years of Talking
Twenty years ago (Feb 9, 2006) the first episode of MiceCast was released. What has followed was an initial five-year run of 200 episodes, then various breaks and other projects. In this episode we talk about the beginnings, then revisit an episode from 2010 where we made some predictions, and...
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Will we ever get to the point?
Tune in and find out. What started out with the idea of comparing attendance at Universal Studios in Florida to Walt Disney World, so many tangents (the cursed MiceCast Unrelated Subject Bug™) came up. The Over/Under on how many times Mike tried to course-correct this episode stands at 4. 53...
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Vader's Vengeful Victory
Kylo who? Disneyland is straight-up rewriting the timeline inside Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge and unleashing Darth Vader on Batuu full-time. Imperial Stormtroopers marching the streets, Luke Skywalker sightings, Han Solo and Chewbacca chilling at the Millennium Falcon, and John Williams' epic scores...
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Facehugger Fairy Tales
She sings. She sparkles. She still has two jaws and an inner mouth that could ruin your day. She’s basically Ursula but with better cheekbones and a crown made of recycled skulls. What if the galaxy’s ultimate killing machine traded acid blood for glitter and a castle penthouse? We unpack the...
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Madness on Monorail Red
What was supposed to be a magical ride above the Happiest Place on Earth suddenly became a heart-pounding ordeal. Power dies. Lights go out. Two trains freeze mid-air with 60 terrified passengers trapped inside. No quick tow. No easy exit. For many hours, families, kids, and strangers waited in...
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Expected Expansion?
Your hosts discuss some assertions made by a Disney content-creator that he based on some allegations written by a make-believe journalist, that there are hidden expansion pads at Disneyland that have been there from the beginning. They would have you believe that these areas are tucked behind…
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Kung Fu Fighting
What happens when entitled line-cutters meet a dad who actually respects "The Disneyland Way"? Chaos. Blood. Stitches. And one of the most one-sided holiday brawls the Happiest Place on Earth has ever seen! One coward in green sweatpants unleashes a vicious blindside beating, leaving the dad...
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Making Magic
When working at Disneyland was seen as one of the most coveted gigs in Southern California. A place where cast members carried real status, could build careers, feel part of something truly magical, and the unbreakable pride of being part of Walt Disney's living legacy before the corporate era…
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Observing Operations
Is Disney deliberately letting operations crumble to squeeze every last dollar? Why do crowds feel worse than ever despite "lower attendance"? A couple of your hosts have had recent trips to Disneyland and are sharing their experiences in this episode. 72 Minutes.
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Candid Disney discussion with an attitude!
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