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When the Police Played the Magic Kingdom’s Halloween Party (Ep. 607)

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How Aulani’s Price Tag Reshaped Disneyland’s Hotels (Ep. 606)

3

When the Grand Californian’s Soundproofing Worked Too Well (Ep. 605)

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Did Disney Hide Tomorrowland’s Future in a Hotel Tower? (Ep. 604)

5

The Little Disneyland That Never Was: Walt Disney’s Lilliputian Land (Ep. 603)

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The PeopleMover Business Disney Almost Built (Ep. 602)

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How Nickelodeon Helped Inspire Disney’s Family Suites (Ep. 601)

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How Epcot’s Food Booths Became a Permanent Festival Fixture (Ep. 600)

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How Disney’s Family Suites Finally Found Their Home at Art of Animation (Ep. 599)

10

D23 Brings Back Tomorrowland Hope, Dreamfinder, and the Yeti (Ep. 598)

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Anaheim Before Disneyland: From Vineyards to the Packing House (Ep. 597)

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How 9/11 Changed Disney’s Pop Century Plans (Ep. 596)

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Zootopia Gets a Better Beginning, Plus the Many Lives of Turtle Talk (Ep. 595)

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Do You Trust Disney? And How Stitch’s Photophone Paved the Way (Ep. 594)

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Why Turtle Talk Outlived Stitch’s Great Escape (Ep. 593)

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How Finding Nemo Taught Disney Characters to Talk (Ep. 592)

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Luxo Jr. Takes a Rain Check at Pixar Place (Ep. 591)

18

When Gingerbread Houses Move Out and Dinosaurs Move In (Ep. 590)

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Lucky the Dinosaur, Allegedly (Ep. 589)

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The Night Disneyland Locked In 8,500 High School Seniors (Ep. 588)

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You’ve Got a Land in Me: Toy Story’s Theme Park Journey (Ep. 587)

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A Great Big Beautiful Redo: Carousel of Progress Gets a New Future (Ep. 586)

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Todd Martens on Galaxy’s Edge Reimagined - Plus Muppets Take Over Rock ’n’ Roller Coaster (Ep. 585)

24

The Great Disneyland Ticket Caper (Ep. 584)

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The Surprisingly Weird Origins of Disney Automation with Roland Betancourt (Ep. 583)

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Disney’s First Coffee Deal Was a Disaster (Ep. 582)

27

The Gumbo That Imagineering Hid in Plain Sight and the WestCOT Dream That Almost Let You Sleep in the Park (Ep. 581)

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NEW SHOW: Dis & Hers - The Utilidor Isn’t So Magical After All (Ep. 12)

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Hotels on Top of Attractions, Muppets at 60 MPH, and the Return of Deluxe Dining (Ep. 580)

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Muppets Take the Coaster & Disney’s “Live the Dream” Park Plan (Ep. 579)

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Villains Land Hotels & Disneyland’s Golden Bathroom of Tomorrow (Ep. 578)

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Buzz Lightyear Gets a Major Upgrade, Plus How Disney Finally Acquired the Muppets (Ep. 577)

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Piston Peak Clues and the Secret History of Bear in the Big Blue House (Ep. 576)

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What It Really Took to Run The Great Movie Ride (Ep.575)

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The Great Movie Ride, Carthay Circle, and the Cheesecake That Stole the Show (Ep. 574)

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The Chinese Theater That Wasn’t the Icon (Ep. 573)

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Villains Land Reimagined: Bigger, Bolder, and Built to Be Loved (Ep. 572)

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The Knight in the Haunted Mansion to The Great Movie Ride Origins (Ep. 571)

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Disney’s New CEO and the Time Universal Forced Disney to Build Dinosaurs (Ep. 570)

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The Fireworks Villains Win, Plus the Final Mad Dash to Open EPCOT (Ep. 569)

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Ten Thousand Workers, One Deadline: EPCOT’s Craziest Year (Ep. 568)

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When Did Summer Vacation Disappear at Walt Disney World? Plus The Surprising History of the Sword in the Stone Ceremony (Ep. 567)

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A Runaway Boulder and a Crumbling Fairytale (Ep. 566)

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The Patent That May Have Cracked Disney’s Encanto Ride - Plus the Secrets of Castle Care (Ep. 565)

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The $7 Million 3D Gamble That Saved Opening Day at EPCOT (Ep. 564)

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Disney Destiny’s “Meet-and-Play” Feels Very Starcruiser-ish (Ep. 563)

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Why Disney Is Quietly Letting 3D Die in the Parks (Ep. 562)

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From Burbank Backlot to Hollywood Studios - The Roy E. Disney Building’s Second Act (Ep. 561)

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Sneaking Into Sam’s: Jim Finally Cracks the Grog Grotto Code (Ep. 560)

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Inside IAAPA 2025: Big Rides, Bold Tech, and the Industry’s Next Moves (Ep. 559)

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When Luggage Flies & Presidents Fume: Disney’s New Travel Perks and the Nixon Moment at the Contemporary (Ep. 558)

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From Zootopia to the Matterhorn: Disney’s Big Swings and Small Details (Ep. 557)

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Disney's Game Plan for Epic & The Raglan Road Story (Ep. 556)

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Disney’s Numbers Are In: What the 2024 TEA Attendance Report Tells Us (Ep. 555)

55

When Disney Becomes the Classroom: Teaching Magic, Strategy, and Imagination (Ep. 554)

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From Pleasure Island to Pints of Guinness: Disney’s Nightlife Reinvented (Ep. 553)

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Talking Trash: The Strange History of Disney’s Most Beloved Garbage Can (Ep. 552)

58

72 Hours Before a Disney Park Opens (featuring Jim Shull) (Ep. 551)

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How Disney Built Cars Land and What It Means for Piston Peak (Ep. 550)

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Cruise Street? The Alternate Cars Land That Almost Happened (Ep. 549)

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NEW SHOW: The Case For with Chris Cox, Len Testa & Jim Hill

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Dinosaur’s Last Ride, Tron Goes Red, and the Cars That Saved California Adventure (Ep. 548)

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Birds, Booze & The Beak & Barrel: Magic Kingdom’s New Pirate Lounge Sets Sail (Ep. 547)

64

The Vanishing Act: David Copperfield’s Lost Disney-MGM Studios Attraction (with Chris Cox) (Ep. 546)

65

What Disney’s Firework Ratings Reveal About the Future (Ep. 545)

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Disney’s Big Earnings Surprises and the Pirate Makeover of Magic Kingdom (Ep. 544)

67

From Disney Food Blog to Bookstore Shelves: AJ Wolfe’s Disney Adults (Ep. 543)

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Disney Starlight gets off to a strong start at WDW’s Magic Kingdom (Ep. 542)

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Epic Universe wants to know when exactly you plan on visiting (Ep. 541)

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The Jack Sparrow Problem Disney Didn’t See Coming (Ep. 540)

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How Jack Sparrow Made It Into the Ride (and Why the Curse Wasn’t His) (Ep. 539)

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Rebuilding the Future: How Innoventions Replaced CommuniCore (Ep. 538)

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Michael Eisner’s Teen Crisis: The Birth of Videopolis (Ep. 537)

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How Miami Nice, Pizza P-eye, and the Imagination Pavilion All Nearly Happened (Ep. 536)

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Why Disney’s New Lounge Smells Like Crab Cakes (and Kodak Regrets) (Ep. 535)

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Can You Really Conquer Epic Universe Without an Express Pass? (Ep. 534)

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From Pop-Up to Permanent: Disney’s Tent Obsession and the Accidental Origins of Toontown (Ep. 533)

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Mission: Space – Disney’s Most Ambitious Ride That Guests Don’t Want to Ride Twice (Ep. 532)

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The $25 Disaster: Why Disneyland’s Light Magic Parade Failed Spectacularly (Ep. 531)

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How Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland Almost Changed New Fantasyland (Ep. 530)

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Why it took 25 years to change the name of King Stefan's Banquet Hall (Ep. 529)

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Villains, Funhouses, and the Alice Ride That Was Almost Too Dangerous to Build (Ep. 528)

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Tariff concerns and a peek at Epic Universe (Ep 527)

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Fiberglass Heads and Forbidden Mountains (Ep. 526)

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The Red Car That Never Was: Sunset Boulevard’s Lost History and Epic Universe’s Survey (Ep. 525)

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Reflections Complete: The Full Story of Disney’s Lakeshore Lodge and the Evolution of DVC (Ep. 524)

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Disney Concept Art vs. Reality: Why Your Favorite Rides Look So Different (Ep. 523)

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The Indiana Jones Ride at Animal Kingdom: What We Know So Far (Ep. 522)

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The Untold Story of Ron Miller and Disney’s Lost Era (Ep. 521)

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Buffalo Junction: Disney’s Forgotten Frontier Resort (Ep. 520)

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Is D23 the New Magic Kingdom Club… and Is It Worth It? (Ep. 519)

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How Disney Tried (and Failed) to Sell a Ticket Book for Fort Wilderness (Ep. 518)

93

Annual Passes and the Mystery of Disney’s Vanishing Resort (Ep. 517)

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Conquering Epcot’s Festival of the Arts and the Mystery of Disney’s Reflections (Ep. 516)

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How to Beat Animal Kingdom Before Breakfast (and What Happened to Reflections?) (Ep. 515)

96

Taking on Hollywood Studios Without Lightning Lane (and Winning) (Ep. 514)

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How Disney’s George Wilkins Created the Soundtrack to Your EPCOT Dreams (Ep. 513)

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How Expensive Can WDW’s Lightning Lane Premier Pass Get? (Ep. 512)

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Why Disney’s Polynesian Tower Might Be the Best Magic Kingdom Hotel (Ep. 511)

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How Disney Flattened a Chunk of Caribbean Beach to Pave the Way for Their Priciest DVC Resort (Ep. 510)