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We dive into the vibrant Lunar New Year celebration at DCA, featuring Meilin and Ming Lee from "Turning Red" and a tribute to Asian traditions. We chat Disneyland's announcement of their $1.9 billion proce tag on the expansion and the fresh news for offerings at Downtown Disney, including the Parkside Market. We chat about the first looks in the reimagined Pixar Place Hotel and revisit Doctor Strange for mystic arts at Avengers Campus. Plus, Disney's global projects and an upcoming Disneyland local Tiki Takeover is coming, a special note on Girl Scout Cookies and art for Valentine's Day. 

Tiki Takover event Feb 10th, 2024 at Noble Ale Works in Anaheim

Register & get tickets here!

Girl Scout cookie online ordering link

Buy art for Valentine's Day

This week's show is, sadly, the final show of All About the Mouse. We have a nice long show in store for you, though! Paul Barrie from Window to the Magic is joining us again to recap the news items that occurred throughout the Disney company during November and December 2023. Together, we'll recap sad events like the passing of Dick Nunis and exciting news announcements, like the return of Fantasmic! at Disneyland. We'll also talk about World Celebration opening at Epcot, the materialization of the Hat Box Ghost at the Haunted Mansion in Walt Disney World, and a whole lot more! To cap off our final show, Paul will read some messages emailed in by you, the listeners, remembering all of the fun and excitement we've had here at All About the Mouse over the last 16 years!

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.

Paul Barrie has a special announcement regarding the final episode of All About the Mouse!

On this week's show, we're back from a little bit of an unexpected break. Paul Barrie from A Window to the Magic joins me again to recap the news items from around the Disney company that occurred throughout the months of September and October. We'll touch on all of the highlights that were announced at Destination D! We'll also look at some of the highlights from the 100th anniversary celebration of the Walt Disney Company as well as talk about the new limited-time nighttime entertainment offering at Disneyland with a distinct New Orleans flare, the easing of park hopping restrictions in Walt Disney World, the opening of Journey of Water in Epcot, an incident that occurred involving wildlife roaming around Magic Kingdom park, and much more!

On this week's show, we're back with an all new What's News show covering all of the latest happenings from around the Disney company. Paul Barrie from A Window to the Magic joins me to look at the news items that occurred throughout the months of June and July from the theme parks, movies, and more. We'll touch on some of the announcements around Halloween and Christmas events coming to the parks on both coasts, an unfortunate passing of 2 Disney fan favorites, the latest updates from the Tiana's Bayou Adventure re-theming of Splash Mountain and the San Fransokyo addition to Disney California Adventure, a new development with Disney CEO Bob Iger, and even a spoiler-free review of Disney's Haunted Mansion motion picture remake.

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!

On this week's show, Paul Barrie from A Window to the Magic joins me again to recap new items that occurred 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!

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!

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 month of April in then Disney company. We have a lot to talk about in relation to the theme parks this month. We'll recap the latest mishap with the Maleficent dragon at Disneyland, the opening of Tron in Walt Disney World, the latest details around Tiana's Bayou Adventure, a particular spooky teaser that Disney released celebrating halfway to Halloween, and much more!

On this week's show, it's time again to look back at the previous month and the news items that occurred throughout the Disney company, theme parks, and more with our good from Paul Barrie from A Window to the Magic. Together, we'll recap the March 2023 news which included some fun and exciting information about the Epcot transformation, Annual Passholder previews and the soft opening of Tron: Light Cycle Run at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom park, the grand re-opening of Toon Town at Disneyland, a lucky fan traveled around the world hitting up all 12 Disney parks and experiencing every open attraction in just 12 days, and a whole lot more.

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. 

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!

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.

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!

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!

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 79- December 9th, 2022

Major ride shut downs coming for January, park reservation mishap and experience, Candlelight Processional guests, Downtown Disney Seasonings Greetings, places to meet Santa outside the parks, Downtown Disney eats and treats, no Lightning Lane for the free Magic Key Tote, some exciting trailers dropped for the next Indiana Jones and Guardians of the Galaxy films. 

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.

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.