Episode 713 – WDW BGM Madness Results/2023 Predictions Revisited
On this week’s show, Bryce Yelverton and Sarah Evans join me again to reveal the winner of Walt Disney World Background Music Madness. I know we begin this bracket-style tournament to find out the #1 piece of music audio in all of Walt Disney World way back in March of 2023, and it has taken us a long time to get to this point. We are finally ready to reveal the winner that you, the listeners, voted for!
Then, we’ll revisit our Disney predictions for 2023 to see which ones came true and which ones didn’t.
Episode 712 – Christmas Special 2023
On this week’s show, we continue our tradition at All About the Mouse of celebrating Christmas with Christmas audio from the parks. One of the things I love about Christmas is waking up Christmas morning and opening up presents with the family by the tree with Christmas music playing in the background. I’ve curated this year’s audio of Disney music, all from Magic Kingdom, just for that purpose. You can huddle around the tree with your family and enjoy these various pieces of Christmas audio from Magic Kingdom in the background or you can pop on your headphones, close your eyes, and imagine yourself in the park enjoying these special Christmas presentations from Walt Disney World. Either way, I hope you enjoy this week’s show and have a very merry Christmas!
Episode 711 – Castles
On this week’s show, I have a major announcement to make at the very top. Then, I’ll take you on an in-depth look at the Disney castles from the theme parks around the world. As most of you know, Walt Disney started the legacy of the Disney company’s iconic castle logo way back in 1955 when he opened Disneyland with Sleeping Beauty castle placed directly in the main view of guests as they walked into his park. This week, I’ll take you a little further into that castle with some stories and fun facts and then we’ll visit all of the other castles around the world and talk about their inspirations, the attractions within them, which one is the tallest, and which one almost wasn’t even a castle at all.
Episode 709 – Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas Visual Companion
On this week’s show, I’m very excited to bring back author Dave Bossert to talk about his new upcoming book “Tim Burton’s The Nighmare Before Christmas Visual Companion”. Thirty years ago, Dave had the distinction of earning a credit on this fan-favorite holiday classic as an effects animator. Years later, he decided to interview Tim Burton, Danny Elfman, Henry Selick, and many other talented individuals who all worked together to take “The Nightmare Before Christmas” from the Christmas poem written by Tim Burton to the classic film it is today. After recording hours of interviews, Dave set out to compile their stories into a single book that would come to be described as the definitive telling of the behind the scenes making of “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas”.
Episode 708 – Monsters, Inc.
On this week’s show, we’re taking an in-depth look at the 2001 hit Disney Pixar film “Monsters, Inc.” starring the voice talents of Billy Crystal and John Goodman. This light-hearted comedy about monsters who scare children in order to collect their screams to power their city Monstropolis, started out years earlier as a discussion topic over lunch between several Pixar filmmakers during the making of Toy Story. This blue sky idea went through multiple iterations before finally settling on the film we know today with James P. Sullivan and Mike Wazowski. It went on to spawn a prequel (“Monsters University”), an animated short, a Disney+ television series, several theme park attractions in Disney parks around the world, and more! Bryce Yelverton joins me for a look at Mosters, Inc!
Episode 707 – WDW BGM Madness (Round 5)
On this week’s show, we are finally getting around to revealing the results of Round 4 of WDW Background Music Madness where our final 4 Walt Disney World background music loops competed against each other for the top spot and you, the listeners, voted for your favorite in each match. Bryce Yelverton and Sara Evans join me again as we announce the winners between the Epcot Entrance loop circa 2016 and Tomorrowland and The Jungle Cruise queue audio and Main Street U.S.A. The results from these matches will reveal our final 2 pieces of Walt Disney World audio that will go head to head against each other for the championship! Then, later in the show, we will play the each of the 2 final remaining pieces of background audio in their entirety for you to enjoy before you cast your final vote!
Episode 704 – WDWS BGM Madness – Round 4
On this week’s show, Bryce Yelverton and Sarah Evans are back as we announce the results of Round 3 of our Walt Disney World Background Music Madness bracket tournament. We have 3 matchups with Magic Kingdom loops going up against each other. Which ones will come out on top and go to our Round 4 – Final Four?? We’ll let you know and then let you know how you can vote in the next round of matches!
Episode 703 – What’s News – May 2023
On this week’s show, Paul Barrie from A Window to the Magic joins me again to recap new items that ocurred during the month of May from all around the Disney company. We’ll touch on some changes that were announced for vacation planning in Walt Disney World, the announcement of the closure of the Galactic Starcruiser Star Wars-themed hotel, a new “Elemental” short being added to the beginning of World of Color at Disney California Adventure, more details around the new DVC tower at the Disneyland hotel, and much more!
Episode 702 – Disney Music Mix
On this week’s show, we have a bit of a mash-up show! We’ll kick things off with another contribution by our good friend, loyal listener, and Disney music enthusiast Sam Polkinghorne. His latest contribution is a mix of traditional classic and modern day classic Disney songs all set to an energetic Eurobeat. Then, we’ll switch gears to a completely different feel with one of my favorite extinct park audio loops from Disney’s Animal Kingdom featuring acoustic Disney songs. Whether you’re looking for some Disney music to work out to or some Disney music to relax to, we got you covered!
Episode 701 – WDW BGM Madness – Round 3
On this week’s show, Bryce Yelverton and Sarah Evans join me again to reveal the results from Round 2 of Walt Disney World Background Music Madness. You all voted for your favorite Walt Disney World background music loops from the parks and resorts in this continuing bracket tournament, and we will reveal the 8 winners out of the 16 contenders that went into Round 2. There were more than a couple of surprises in this round, as things are starting to heat up. Later, we’ll reveal the Round 3 matchups as our Elite Eight pair up to make things even more interesting.
Episode 700 – Genie+/Galactic Starcruiser
On this week’s show, we’re going to be addressing 2 topics in one show. I’m joined by long-time Disney fan husband and wife duo Leo and Wallis. We’ll start by talking about Genie+ and I’ll give my own personal review from my experience with Genie+. Then, we’ll discuss the recent announcement Disney made about the closing of the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser. We’ll touch on what we think may have contributed to the demise, what we think it might become, and much more!
Episode 699 – WDW Trip Reports
On this week’s show, I finally get around to recapping a couple of recent trips my family and I took to Walt Disney World. Both trips contained some brand new experiences for us that I’ve been wanting to talk about and share with you here on the show. Some of the highlights were: staying at a Disney resort that we’d never stayed at before, getting to ride Tron: Light Cycle Run, experiencing an enjoyable new dining experience or two, and much more!
Episode 694 – Walt Disney World Thrill Rides
On this week’s show, I’m showcasing the 19 thrill rides in all of Walt Disney World’s 4 major theme parks. Many people know that Disney has some of the best family attractions found in any theme park around the world, but sometimes I feel like not enough credit is given to Disney’s many thrill rides. In fact, I’ve routinely heard my friends refer to Disney parks as being “for kids” or “where you want to go if you want to ride kiddie rides”. Walt Disney World has some pretty thrilling attractions with some fascinating facts behind the rides and amazing story and details attached to them. Together, we’ll take a look at all 19 of these attractions in Walt Disney World and what makes each of them so unique and special in their own way.
Episode 693 – What’s News (February 2023)
On this week’s show, Paul Barrie from A Window to the Magic joins me again to cover all of the news items that occurred throughout the Disney company during the month of February. We’ll recap some of the highlights from Disney’s latest quarterly earnings call led recently by Bob Iger. We’ll also look at some of the additional details that were released about the new Frozen area coming to Hong Kong Disneyland as well as the new San Fransokyo area coming to Disney California Adventure. We’ll also remember the longest serving Disney Cast Member, Burny Mattinson, who recently passed away.
Episode 692 – How Does Disney Do That?
On this week’s show, I’m joined by special guest author James Warda to discuss some of the answers to a question that I’m sure every one of us has asked multiple times, “How does Disney do that?” We all have a memory of that moment in time that we experienced an attraction or a show in the theme parks and we came away from the experience so completely blown away. Whether it was the impressive technology, the emotional impact, or the way the experience achieved something we thought was completely impossible and against the laws of physics, the question is always the same…..”How does Disney do that?”. James Warda set up a site devoted to Disney fans sharing their experiences and then teamed up with a former Creative Executive at Walt Disney Imagineering to help answer some of these questions in the upcoming book titled, “How Does Disney Do That?”. We’ll talk about these and a whole lot more!
Episode 691 – What’s News (January 2023)
On this week’s show, it’s time for another What’s News segment with our good friend Paul Barrie from A Window to the Magic. Together, we’ll cover the latest Disney news and other happenings from around the company, theme parks, and more that occurred during the month of January. The Walt Disney Company really kicked off 2023 the right way with the grand opening of Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway and a brand new fireworks show at Disneyland and an update to World of Color at Disney California Adventure. We’ll also head over to Walt Disney World where we got new details about the Tron Lightcycle Run coaster set to open up later this Spring, the return of 2 popular meet and greets that have been on hiatus for the last 3 years, a new addition to the Animal Kingdom Lodge Pembe Savanna, and much more!
Episode 690 – 2023 Disney Predictions
On this week’s show, I’m joined again by Bryce Yelverton and Sarah Evans from our Predictions Panel as we look to make our 2023 Disney Predictions. It seems, in many ways, we are on the verge of potentially seeing some rather significant changes and announcements to come over the next year. With the recent return of Bob Iger as CEO, the 100th year anniversary celebration of the Disney company launching, a slew of new entertainment and attractions slated to open up all over the world, and more, we expect to see more major headlines from Disney in 2023. We’ll call out some of our predictions of things we think may come to fruition in the coming year and then revisit those predictions next year to see just how close we came to being right.
Episode 689 – 2022 Disney Predictions Revisited
On this weeks show, our Predictions Panel returns to revisit our 2022 Disney predictions. Bryce Yelverton and Sarah Evans join me as we look back at the things we all predicted would happen throughout the Disney company including theme parks, movies, Broadway, and more. We’ll see who was right on the money and who was way, way off!
Episode 688 – Park Audio
On this week’s show, our good friend and long-time loyal listener from New Zealand, Sam Polkinghorn, is guest hosting the show to introduce some of his favorite Disney park audio. This special New Year edition park audio is sure to kick start your 2023 the right way whether you’re longing for the nostalgia of Tomorrowland, the need a pick-me-up from the Muppet Courtyard, or just wanting to Paint the Night in your mind with a little help from the Disneyland Resort. All of this and more is ahead for you right here on the All About the Mouse Disney podcast!
Episode 687 – What’s News (December 2022)
On this week’s show, it is once again time to recap the news items that occurred throughout the Disney company in our recurring monthly segment we like to call “What’s News”. Paul Barrie from A Window to the Magic joins me again to recap the news from the month of December in Disney parks, resorts, entertainment, and business including: character experiences at Cinderella’s Royal Table returning, more entertainment being added to Epcot in World Showcase and Future World, announcements about new nighttime experiences coming to Disneyland, the release of Avatar: The way of water, and much more!
Episode 686 – Audio from Disney’s Animal Kingdom and Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge
On this week’s show, I’m bringing you Disney audio from Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park and Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge Resort hotel. Consider this my gift to you!
Our good friend and loyal listener, Sam Polkinghorne, who follows the show from all the way over in New Zealand, has contributed much of the audio that’s been shared on the show in recent years. He’s an avid appreciator of Disney music, and he knows how much we love it as well. He asked me recently what my favorite audio from Walt Disney World was, and I told him the music from Animal Kingdom and Animal Kingdom Lodge. So, he sent me over some unique music that sets the scene in those WDW locations perfectly. On this week’s show, and on Christmas Day, I thought it would be nice to share this with you as well.
So, kick back and enjoy this extra long episode of great music from Walt Disney World!
Episode 685 – What’s News (November 2022)
On this week’s show, Paul Barrie from A Window to the Magic is back for another What’s News episode where we look back at all of the news items that occurred throughout the Disney company in the month of November. We will, of course, spend some time talking about the shake-up that we saw at the top of the company with Bob Iger returning as CEO and what that might mean for the Walt Disney Company and Disney fans alike. Then we’ll touch on some of the news items we heard about like the Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind Holiday audio overlay, more details on the re-opening of Mickey’s Toontown at Disneyland, “Hey Disney” debuting in the first Walt Disney World resort hotel, and much more!
Episode 684 – Main Street Electrical Parade and Classic Disney audio
On this week’s show, we’re bringing you some special Disney classic and theme park audio care of our loyal listener and audio archivist Sam Polkinghorne. First, we start the show off with a super long mashup of music from a Disney attraction that has been in the news quite a bit over the last several years – The Main Street Electrical Parade. Sam has contributed various renditions of Baroque Hoedown for us to enjoy this week in a mashup to end all mashups. If you’re a fan of the Main Street Electrical Parade and Baroque Hoedown, you won’t want to miss this. After that, Sam hosts another great mashup of classic Disney songs by DJ Tron that will keep you moving through your day in classic Disney style.
Episode 683 – Disney vs Universal
On this week’s show, we’re not just talking about The Mouse on All About the Mouse. We’re also going to talk about another well-known resort with multiple theme parks right down the street from Disney….Universal Studios. As Disney fans, many of us are partial to Disney theme parks and the Disney brand itself, but many of us (myself included) also really enjoy Universal Studios, Islands of Adventure, City Walk, and the Universal property hotels. I’m joined this week by Adria and Carey from our Disney Conversation Starters panel to talk about some of the differences between Disney and Universal, what what makes both of them unique and enjoyable vacation destinations, and what you might want to know before deciding on which one to visit on your next trip to Florida.
Episode 679 – What’s News (September 2022)
On this week’s show, it’s time again to take a look back at the news items that occurred throughout the Disney company in the previous month. Paul Barrie from A Window to the Magic joins me again to look back at the month of September and recap the newsworthy items that occurred throughout the world of Disney movies, theme parks, and more. And, let’s see, there was a little thing called the D23 Expo that took place last month in the city of Anaheim, CA that produced quite a bit of news in many different divisions of the Disney company. So, we’ll be unwrapping those announcements, especially the ones that had the internet ablaze from a Disney Parks perspective. We’ll also talk about some notable news from Disneyland Paris, the effects in Florida from Hurricane Ian, and more!
Episode 678 – Disney at the Cons (C2E2)
On this week’s show, I’ll be sharing some more audio from the summer convention circuit recorded and contributed to us by our good friend Blake Reilly from The Blake and Sal Show. This time, we have audio from the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo (C2E2). This audio features a panel titled “Creating Star Wars: Playing in a Galaxy Far, Far Away” with Dave Sheidt, Jeffrey Brown, Joe Corroney, Katie Cook, and Ramon Perez. This is a collection of authors and artists who have worked together to bring characters in the Star Wars universe to life in books and graphic novels. They’ll talk about what it’s like to work in the Star Wars universe and create stories without disturbing an already well-established balance in the force.
Episode 677 – Keep, Change, Replace (Africa)
On this week’s show, we take a look at the Africa in Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park and ask ourselves what would we keep, change, or replace about this themed land. Special guests Steven and Paige from the Parks Academy podcast join me along with Sarah Evans to look at one of our favorite themed lands in Walt Disney World. We’ll look at all of the attractions, restaurants, shops, and more and look at whether we would keep these things the way they are, change them in some way to improve them, or replace it with something else entirely.
Episode 675 – Disney at the Cons (Fan Expo Chicago)
DRAFT AUG 31, 2022
On this week’s episode, Blake Reilly from The Blake and Sal Show (with Mark) is here as a special guest to share his adventures from the convention circuit in the summer of 2022. From Fan Expo Chicago (July 8, 2022), there are two panels. The first is Some of MY Favorite People Are Bounty Hunters: A Conversation with Carl Weathers. The second one is called Snips & Skyguy: A Clone Wars Reunion with Ashley Eckstein & Matt Lanter.
Episode 674 – WDW/Universal Trip Report
On this week’s show, I’m giving a trip report from my recent vacation to Walt Disney World and Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure in Orlando! Against all of my better judgement, we decided to take our family to do theme parks in Orlando in the month of August, the hottest time of the year. While there were many moments of hot, sweaty, misery, there were also some fun times we had along the way. We even got them chance to partake in some brand new experiences like Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind and Harmonious at Epcot, breakfast at Topolino’s Terrace at Disney’s Riviera Resort, Volcano Bay waterpark at Universal Orlando, and much more. I can’t wait to share my thoughts and reviews on these items and so much more!
Episode 673 – WDW Themed Land Madness – The Finale!
On this week’s show, we reveal the winner of this year’s March Madness-style Disney bracket tournament – WDW Themed Land Madness. Before we announce the winner, though, we’ll recap the matchups that led to this moment. Bryce Yelverton and Sarah Evans join me to look back at all 32 themed lands from the 4 Walt Disney World theme parks that competed in this year’s tournament.
Episode 671 – Disney Conversation Starters
On this week’s show, I’m joined again by our Disney Conversation Starters panel to talk about all things and anything Disney. These shows are always a lot of fun with this lively group of Disney fans and loyal listeners, because we sit down and start talking about anything Disney and just see where the conversation takes us. We don’t know what we’ll end up talking about or where the conversation will take us, but we do know that, whatever it is, will be full of varying opinions, a lot of laughs, and who knows, maybe even a little bit of controversy.
Episode 670 – WDW Themed Land Madness (Round 5)
On this week’s show, we’re back with Round 5 of Walt Disney World Themed Land Madness! We started this bracket tournament back in March where you all have been voting for your favorite themed lands in Walt Disney World, and we’re down to the final matchup! Before we get to the announcing which 2 themed lands will be in the final showdown, though, we have to announce the winners of our Final Four. Sarah Evans joins me again to look at the 4 lands that were in the Final Four, announce the winners and who will ultimately be the final two themed lands in Round 5 of this bracket tournament. It’s been a lot of fun getting to this point where the excitement is coming to a head with some of the most difficult matches we’ve seen so far.
Episode 669 – What’s News – June 2022
On this week’s show, Paul Barrie joins me again for our monthly look back at the Disney news items that occurred throughout the Disney company, theme parks, movies, and resorts during the month June. There were quite a few announcements about more things returning to the parks, we got more details about the upcoming D23 Expo, we got news about holiday happenings in Walt Disney World and Disneyland, and a whole lot more!
Episode 668 – Cinder-Nanny
On this week’s show, I’m speaking with author Sariah Wilson about her new book “Cinder-Nanny”. Sariah is a Disney fan and author of several best-selling romance novels including “Roommaid”, “The Seat Filler”, and “The Paid Bridesmaid”. Her new novel, “Cinder-Nanny”, is a modern and somewhat different take on the timeless Cinderella classic love story where Diana Parker plays nanny for a family while on vacation in Aspen, Colorado. Despite possessing none of the necessary requirements for the job, she cons her way into the job in order to help pay for her sister’s mounting medical bills. Her job takes her to a lavish charity fundraiser in the Rocky Mountains where she meets her own version of a Prince Charming, and as the two slowly fall for each other, it becomes more and more evident that Diana will have to come clean with the truth about her con.
Episode 667 – Keep, Change, Replace (Asia)
On this week’s show, I’m joined by first time AATM guests for a new recurring segment we’ll be running on the show called “Keep, Change, Replace). Paige and Stephen from the Parks Academy podcast join me, along with our good friend Sarah Evans to look at Disney’s Animal Kingdom’s Asia area of the park. We’ll review all attractions, dining, snacks, shopping, and other details of the park and ask ourselves the question, “If were Imagineers would we keep, change, or replace them?” What would you change? Is there an attraction that is perfect just the way it is? And what detail would you just completely scrap and replace with something brand new?
Episode 666 – WDW Themed Land Madness (Round 4)
On this week’s show, we’re revealing the surprising results from Round 3 of Walt Disney World Themed Land Madness. Sara Evans and Bryce Yelverton join me to reveal the results from our Elite Eight matchups between the remaining WDW themed lands in our March Madness-style bracket tournament where you, the listeners, have been voting for your favorite themed lands in all 4 of the Walt Disney World theme parks. At the end, we’ll announce our Final Four matchups that you’ll be able to vote in from now until 11:59 PM Eastern on July 3rd.
Episode 665 – What’s News? – May 2022
On this week’s show, I’m joined again by Paul Barrie from A Window to the Magic for another look at the news items that occurred throughout the Disney company, theme parks, resorts, movies, and more during the month of May, In this monthly segment that airs on both of our respective podcasts, Paul and I will talk about annual pass changes at Disneyland, announcements from the Star Wars Celebration convention in Anaheim, virtual queuing for the new Guardians of the Galaxy coaster at Epcot and much more!
Episode 664 – Audio From the Elite Eight
On this week’s show, we’re featuring select audio from each of the WDW Themed Land Madness Elite Eight lands. We are just days away from the final votes being cast in our WDW Theme Land Madness Round 3 matchups featuring our Elite Eight lands, so I thought it would be fun to feature attraction, entertainment, and ambient audio from Adventureland, Galaxy’s Edge, Asia, Frontierland, Old Fantasyland, Pandora, Africa, and Liberty Square.
Episode 663 – Roy O. Disney (Disneyland)
On this week’s show, Nate Evans joins me again for our continued look at the Walt Disney Company’s first CEO, Walt’s brother, Roy O. Disney. We continue our look at Roy with our focus this week being on the creation of Disneyland and the contributions that Roy made in order to help Walt’s crazy dream of going from making movies to building a theme park come to fruition.
Episode 662 – WDW Themed Land Madness (Round 3)
On this week’s show, Sarah Evans joins me again to reveal the results of our Round 2 matchups from WDW Themed Land Madness. Together, we’ll look at how each of our matches ended up and then we’ll reveal our Round 3 Elite Eight matchups.
Episode 661 – Disney News 05/09/2022
On this week’s show, Paul Barrie from A Window To The Magic joins me again for our monthly look back at the news from all around the Disney company, theme parks, and resorts including the return of nighttime entertainment to Disneyland, the disappearance of mandatory mask requirements from everywhere on property, changes coming to Kite Tails at Disney’s Animal Kingdom, and a whole lot more!
Episode 659 – “Some Fans Say The ‘Magic’s Gone'”
On this week’s show, I’m doing something a little different. Usually on this show, we talk about the seemingly endless amount of things that we love and enjoy about Disney. Recently, however, I saw an article from the Washington Post shared on social media that really caught my attention entitled “Disney’s $5,000 Star Wars hotel and line-cutting fees: Some fans say the ‘magic’s gone'”.
My guest this week is Van from the Netcot podcast, and he joins me to talk about this article that he shared on Facebook and what our thoughts are, as Disney fans, on the points made in this article.
Episode 657 – Disney News 04/04/2022
On this week’s show, I’m joined again by Paul Barrie from A Window to the Magic to cover all of the news items that happened throughout the Disney company in the month of March. Last month, we saw announcements about the return of many things that have been missing for quite some time from the Walt Disney World resort and the Disneyland resort. We’ll also talk about some of the updates on the Toontown construction at Disneyland, and much more!
Episode 656 – Roy O. Disney (The Beginning)
On this week’s show, we are taking an in-depth look at Disney’s first CEO Roy O. Disney. Walt’s older brother was instrumental in Walt’s success from the very beginning. Nate Evans joins me in part 1 of a multi-part series focused on Roy. We’ll begin by looking at Roy Disney’s early life and upbringing in Missouri, his time in the Navy during WWI, his role behind the scenes as the money man, and much more!
Episode 655 – WDW Themed Land Madness (Prt 2)
On this week’s show, we continue with our Walt Disney World Themed Land Madness bracket tournament to see which themed land is the #1 themed land in all of WDW. Sarah Evans joins me again to introduce the rest of the 16 matchups in round one including Dinoland U.S.A., Tomorrowland, American Adventure, and much more!
Episode 654 – WDW Themed Land Madness (Prt 1)
On this week’s show, we’re bringing back the March Madness bracket competition that we started on the show last year. This time, instead of mathing up Disney soundstracks to square off against each other, we have thrown in 32 themed lands from the 4 Walt Disney World theme parks to see who will ultimately come out as the #1 themed land in all of Walt Disney World!
Episode 653 – Disneyland Update
On this week’s show, I’ve invited Adria Shannon back onto the show to talk about her recent trip to Disneyland. We’ll talk about what the Disneyland Resort in California is like now. She’ll also tell us about her trip, her thoughts on new attractions like Web Slingers and Avengers Campus, and of course we’ll cover the amazing food offerings available currently.
Episode 650 – The Muppets at Disney’s Hollywood Studios
On this week’s show, we have a packed episode of audio featuring The Muppets from Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Due to popular demand, our good friend Sam Polkinghorne has put together another great collection of audio for you to enjoy featuring music, park audio, and even extinct attraction audio all featuring Kermit and the gang from their time at Disney’s MGM and Hollywood Studios.
Episode 649 – 2022 Disney Predictions
On this week’s show, we kick off the new year with our 2022 Disney Predictions. Bryce, Blake, and Sarah join me again to see if we can predict significant news items, additions, announcements, and more that we think might occur within the Disney company, theme parks, movies, etc in 2022.
Episode 645 – Top Tier Disney: Animated FIlms
On this week’s show, I’m joined by my special guest Rick from the United States of Geekdom to go through a list of our picks for the Top Tier of Disney animated films. We’ll list our Top 10 picks for the best Disney animated films from 1937 to today. With 60 animated films to choose from ranging from “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” to “Encanto”, it will be hard to whittle down our Top Tier, but we’ll do our best!
Episode 643 – Disney+ Day
On this week’s show, I’ll cover all of the big announcements about new movies, series, and other content coming to the Disney+ streaming video platform. November 12th was Disney+ Day, a special day that Disney has dubbed for them to make big announcements about upcoming content to their wildly popular streaming video service. Bryce Yelverton joins me as my guest this week to talk about those announcements, which include “Hocus Pocus 2”, a new series based off of the 1988 film “Willow” starring Warwick Davis, a sequel to Disney’s “Enchanted” titled “Disenchanted”, and much, much more!
Episode 641 – Disney Wizard World Panels
On this week’s show, we have audio of interviews and interactions with Disney celebrities that appeared at the 2019 Wizard World convention in Madison and the 2021 Wizard World convention in Chicago, courtesy of our good friend and loyal listener, Blake Reilly from the Blake and Sal Show.
Featured in this audio is Chris Sarandon and Ken Page from A Nightmare Before Christmas and the voice of Belle from Beauty and the Beast, Paige O’hara!
Episode 638 – Listener Interaction 09/27/2021
On this week’s show, I’m sharing some posts from the All About the Mouse Disney podcast Facebook group and some feedback from our listeners on topics like Rise of the Resistance doing away with their virtual queue, the return of one of my favorite pieces of live entertainment in Walt Disney World, one piece of live Disney theme park entertainment that will NOT be returning, an interesting article on why the crowds might be disappearing at Disney and Universal, and much more!
Episode 637 – Top 7 Must Sees at WDW/Must Do Disney with Stacey
On this week’s show, we’re going back in time with audio from the Top 7 Must Sees at Walt Disney World and Must Do Disney, both hosted by Stacey Aswad. Since 2005, Disney fans have enjoyed seeing Stacey and her charismatic performances on the Walt Disney World Resort hotel TV station highlighting some of the top things to do in Walt Disney World. Earlier this year, Stacey announced that she was being replaced with different in-room programming. So, this week, we’re going to go back and listen to some audio of Stacey and the Top 7 Must Sees at Walt Disney World and Must Do Disney!
Episode 635 – Disney News 09/06/2021
On this week’s show, we are going back and covering news items that have happened all throughout the Disney company, theme parks, and more during the months of June and July 2021. We normally do a look back at the new items for the month at the end of the month, but I have neglected to do a news show in a while, so we’ll be going back and looking at new items that occurred like the announcement of Boo Bash in Walt Disney World, more restaurants and hotels opening back up, RunDisney in-person events announced to resume, and much more!
Episode 631 – Disney Conversation Starters 3
On this week’s show, I’m joined again by our Disney Conversation Starters panel for another riveting discussion about all things and anything Disney. Disney Conversation Starters were introduced several years ago on the Disney In Your Day blog and the author of that blog, Becky Ginther, joins me with 5 other All About the Mouse listeners as we use some of her Conversation Starters to talk about all things and anything Disney!
Episode 630 – The Florida Project
On this week’s show, we continue our celebration of the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida with a look at The Florida Project. With the 50th anniversary of Walt Disney World right around the corner on October 1st, I thought it would be nice to look back at the original idea for Walt’s Florida theme park and his Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow or E.P.C.O.T. We’ll look at Walt’s idea for The Florida Project as it was originally presented to the world in the E.P.C.O.T film featuring Walt Disney himself. So sit back and relax as we go back to 1966 with the man and the mouse that started it all!
Episode 629 – Disney Soundtrack Madness WINNER!
On this week’s show, I’ll reveal the winner of our Disney Soundtrack Madness bracket tournament that we started right here on the show back in March! I’ll be joined by my special guests Bryce Yelverton and Sarah Evans to look again at all 32 soundtracks that competed in this tournament and the matchups that each of these soundtracks competed in along the way. In the end, we’ll reveal the results in our final matchup between Mary Poppins and Aladdin.
Episode 624 – “Cruella” Review and Disney Soundtrack Madness Results
On this week’s show, I’m kicking the show off with a spoiler-free review of the newly release Disney film “Cruella”. The film, released this past Friday in theaters and on Disney+ with Premier Access, is an origin story centered around Cruella de Vil from Disney’s “101 Dalmations”. I’ll share my thoughts on the film without giving any of pertinent details of the plot away, for those of you who haven’t seen it yet. Later, I’ll reveal the results of Round 4 of Disney Soundtrack Madness, announce the final matchup, and feature some behind the scenes audio from each of the soundtracks in the final round.
Episode 622 – Soundtrack Madness Results and More!
On this week’s show, we have a guest panel to reveal the results of Round 3 of our Disney Soundtrack Madness! Blake Reilly, Sarah Evans, and Bryce Yelverton guest host for this segment to reveal the results that you all voted for and to announce the Round 4 matchups, which bring us to our Final Four Disney Soundtracks. But, before that, I’ll go over the highlights from the recent headline-making Disney Quarterly Earnings Call that took place last week and talk a little bit about what it means for Disney fans as well as WDW and Disneyland park-goers!
Episode 618 – Rainy Days and Disney
On this week’s show, we’re going to be addressing an issue that becomes pretty common at the Walt Disney World resort in Florida right around this time of year all the way through until the end of summer – Rain! Whether it’s a long dreary day filled with a constant drizzle or your daily expected 2:00 pm downpour, rain is routinely an obstacle many tourists and Disney fans have to work around during their theme park vacations. Well, there’s good news! You don’t have to let the weather rain on your parade, because there’s always something to do, inside and outside of the parks. My guests this week, Wallis and Leo, are a Disney couple who have plenty of experience in organizing their plans around the weather on their Disney trips, and this week they join me to talk about the top things to do at Disney in the rain.
Episode 613 – “Dinosaurs” with Terri Hardin
On this week’s show, I’m joined by special guest legendary Imagineer Terri Hardin to talk about the Emmy Award-winning ABC TV show from the early ’90’s “Dinosaurs”. Terri worked almost throughout the entirety of the show puppeteering the arms of Baby Sinclair as well as various other characters on the show, and she’ll take us behind the scenes of the show and tell us what it was like to work on set with some of the most talented performers in the business and a whole lot more!
Episode 603 – 2020 Ear in Review
On this week’s show, I’m joined again by Paul Barrie from A Window To The Magic to go over our 2020 Ear in Review. That’s right! Another year has passed and, while it may not seem like there was a lot that happened throughout the Disney company due to the coronavirus pandemic, there certainly was enough for us to recap in another marathon-length show. So sit back and settle in while Paul and I recap all of the notable events and news that occurred throughout this Disney company in 2020.
Episode 602 – 2021 Disney Predictions
On this week’s show, our All About the Mouse Predictions Panel is back! This time, we’re going to be looking back at our 2020 Disney predictions to see just how off we all were. Then, we’ll look ahead to 2021, which is likely to be as uncertain as 2020 was, to make our predictions for things to come from the Disney company throughout the theme parks, movies, entertainment, and more!
Episode 599 – Disney News 12/07/2020
On this week’s show, I’m covering all of the Disney news items that occurred throughout the month of October including some exciting new details about attractions that are coming to Epcot, guests at Magic Kingdom who were treated to an unexpected surprise fireworks display, legendary Disney Imagineer Joe Rohde announces his retirement, California Adventure’s Buena Vista Street re-opens for guests, and much more!
Episode 591 – The Disney Afternoon
On this week’s show, Blake Reilly from The Blake and Sal show returns to talk with me about The Disney Afternoon. This 2-hour block of 30-minute animated TV shows debuted in 1990, and included shows that have become iconic to Disney fans like DuckTales, TaleSpin, Darkwing Duck, Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers, and more! Together, we’ll talk about the history of The Disney Afternoon and wax nostalgic about these shows we grew up on and still enjoy to this day.
Episode 522 – Disney Cruise Line New England
On this week’s feature discussion show, frequent world traveling Disney duo Leo and Wallis DeCandia join me to talk about their recent cruise around the northeast United States and the Canadian Coast. We’ll look at what it was like to sail out of The Big Apple, ports of call from Maine to Canada and back, and the magic of sailing on one of the most entertaining ships in the Atlantic.
Episode 510 – Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge (Part 1)
On this week’s feature discussion show. Disney couple Wallis and Leo join me for a two-part discussion about Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge, the newest themed land at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Now that Galaxy’s Edge is open on both coasts, we’ll look at the Florida version from the new attraction Millennium Falcon: Smuggler’s Run to Oga’s Cantina, Dok Ondar’s Den of Antiquities, blue milk, and more!
Episode 330 – 2018 PNW Mouse Meet Recap
One of the things Disney fans in the Pacific Northwest have looked forward to for the past 10 years is an event where Disney fans, bloggers, podcasters, authors, Imagineers, Disney celebrities, and more coming together for a day of magic and fun with other Disney fans from the area. This year, the Mouse Meet celebrated its 10th anniversary with fans and Disney celebs like Don Hahn, Dave Bossert, Jeff Shaver Moskowitz, and more. All About the Mouse co-host Jonathan Dichter was in attendance, and he joins us this week to talk with us all about the event and things that were featured at the event, including an in-depth look at the creation of Pixar Pier in Disney’s California Adventure theme park.
Episode 329 – Friday with Friends 07/20/2018
On this week’s Friday with Friends episode of the All About the Mouse Disney podcast, we are featuring audio from our most recent Facebook Live broadcast recorded on Tuesday July 10, 2018. We take questions and comments from our listeners and talk about the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the new film “Ant Man and The Wasp”, Toy Story Land, Jonathan and The Kiddo take a quiz on Epcot’s American Adventure, and much more!
Episode 328 – Disney News 07/18/2018
On this week’s news episode of the All About the Mouse Disney podcast, we cover the latest Disney news including TONS of Disney theme park food-related news, Cast Member exclusive canoe races and yoga sessions that took place at Disneyland, 2 potential cast additions to “Frozen 2”, Aulani bookings that are now available for 2019 and 2020, and much more!
Episode 327 – Kiddo’s Favorite Attractions
On this week’s feature discussion episode of the All About the Mouse Disney podcast, Jonathan’s daughter, “The Kiddo”, joins us to talk about her favorite Walt Disney World attractions. If you’re looking for suggestions for must-do attractions for young children under the age of 10, she has some great suggestions for you. We’ll talk about her favorite rides, shows, and attractions in all of the Walt Disney World theme parks: Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Epcot, Disney’s Hollywood Studios, and Magic Kingdom.
Episode 326 – Friday with Friends 07/13/2018
On this week’s Friday with Friends episode of the All About the Mouse Disney podcast, we are featuring audio from our most recent Facebook Live broadcast recorded on Tuesday July 10, 2018. The Kiddo joins the show to tell us her thoughts on “The Incredibles 2” and Wings Over Washington, a Soarin’-type attraction in Seattle, Washington. We also interact with some of our listeners in the chat room and talk about a magical moments in Walt Disney World, Adventures by Disney and more.
Episode 325 – Disney News 07/11/2018
On this week’s news episode of the All About the Mouse Disney podcast, we cover the latest Disney news including Incredibles 2 breaking box office records, the entertainment line-up for Christmas 2018 at Walt Disney World, reports of 2 high-profile stars possibly joining the cast of “Star Wars: Episode IX”, a new location that you can get married at in Walt Disney World, and much more!
Episode 324 – Rumors
The internet can be full of detailed information about the latest breaking Disney news, and we even update you on that news every Wednesday on our Disney News episode. However, this show is dedicated to all of the unconfirmed rumors that are currently going around about changes and additions that might possibly be affecting Disney parks and products. Remember, everything discussed in this episode has yet to be officially confirmed by Disney at the date of its recording, unless otherwise stated.
Episode 323 – Road Trip and Disney 3
Just back from an 11-day, 4,000 mile long-distance road trip and we definitely feel like we’re road tripping pros by now. Amy Ripper joins Bryan to share the details of our road trip with the listeners and share some of the suggestions and city recommendations that our listeners contributed to our trip on Facebook. We’ll also share some tips that can make your next family road trip to Disney an adventure instead of a chore you have to endure before and after your vacation destination.
