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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.

On this week's show, our Disney Conversation Starters panel returns for a little post-Thanksgiving dinner table conversation. It was right about a year ago that I invited Becky, Mike, Adria, Carey, Bill, and Janette on the show for an impromptu and unscripted discussion using Disney Conversation Starter topics created by Becky Ginther on the Disney in Your Day blog. This week, we celebrate one year of our conversation starter discussions with another impromptu discussion about anything and everything Disney.

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!

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!

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!

On this week's show, we'll review all of the news items that occurred throughout the Disney company, theme parks, and more during the month of August. We'll look at the announcements about the new Annual Passes for Disneyland and Walt Disney World and break down the details from that announcement, the details and itinerary released about the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser hotel coming to Walt Disney World, details about the new daytime show, Disney Kite Tails, coming to Disney's Animal Kingdom, and much more!

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!

On this week's show, I welcome another great group of guests to join me in a roundtable discussion as we go over the details about Disney's recent announcement about Disney Genie, the new virtual planning offerings that will be available via app on your smartphone to help you navigate the parks and make the most of your vacations. We'll also talk about the new Genie+ and Lightning Lane offerings that are essentially replacing Fastpass for an additional fee in Walt Disney World and Disneyland.

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!

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!

On this week's show, we'll go over all of the news items that occurred throughout the month of May 2021. We saw a ton of news stories coming out the theme parks in May as things were opening back up and restrictions were being eased including the end of mandatory mask mandates outdoors at the Walt Disney World resort in Florida, shows and restaurants opening back up, and more. We'll also look at other news items like details around the Galactic Starcruiser hotel experience coming to WDW, a look at Disney's "Cruella" that was released in theaters and Disney+, and much more!

On this week's show, I'm going to go over 50 fascinating details that often go unnoticed in the Walt Disney World theme parks and resorts. The Imagineers are widely known for going out of their way to pay tremendous attention to detail when designing the theme parks, attractions, and resorts. Many of these details go unnoticed by the majority of guests visiting the parks, but they continue to maintain this level of attention to detail. This week, I'll talk about 50 of these types of details, which are just a few of a seemingly endless supply that you'll find in WDW.

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!

On this week's show, we're covering all of the news items that occurred throughout the Disney company during the month of April. With the west coast Disney parks now operating again and that announcement made in April, we're starting to hear of a lot more happenings throughout the company including new details on the Jungle Cruise make over coming to the parks, an announcement about the new Disney Wish's planned maiden voyage for the Disney Cruise Line, The PeopleMover opening back up at Magic Kingdom, and much more!

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.

On this week's show, we go back in time to experience Pleasure Island's famed Adventurer's Club! This combination night club and improv comedy show experience was one of the most unique experiences and, some might even argue, one of Walt Disney World's best kept secrets until the club's doors closed in 2008 with the rest of Pleasure Island. This week we'll take a look at the back story as well as the characters, rooms, and atmosphere that made this club so unique and feature audio from many of the experiences and shows found within the club. 

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!

On this week's show, we're going over all of the new items that occurred throughout the month of February from all over the Disney company including theme parks, movies and entertainment, Cruise Line, and more! Some of the highlights we'll talk about are more dining locations re-opening in Walt Disney World, Epcot gets a new humongous structure added to World Showcase lagoon for the upcoming Harmonious nighttime show, highlights from Disney's most recent quarterly earnings call, the winners from last week's Golden Globe Awards, and much more!

"The Dubs" #285 - RetroDisney: The "New" Walt Disney World Spring 1998. In this episode, the Dubs Crew discusses an article from the Spring 1998 Disney Magazine called "The New Walt Disney World". Are these "New" things from 1998 still around today? We discuss this and more in Show #285 of The Dub Dee Dub Revue.

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On this week’s show, I am joined again by a panel of All About the Mouse listeners for another Disney Conversation Starters discussion. Disney Conversation Starters are the perfect way to strike up a conversation about Disney with people at a party, dinner table, or even with a small group of people you just met. Becky Ginther from the Disney in Your Day blog joins me, along with a panel of fellow Disney fans, as we use some of her Disney Conversation Starters to strike up a conversation and see where the discussion goes from there.