Dave’s Disney view

Today, I present to you the audio from the current show, minus the speaking part at the end. I explain what’s up with that.

I present to you the music from spectromagic, along with a little bit of the parades history. I also report on a rumor about the carousel of progress.

Abigail Disney (granddaughter of Walt’s brother, Roy) has been in the news recently as a critic of the Disney Company.  I wanted to discuss some of her comments and expand on them a bit with my own thoughts.

This podcast contains clips from "The Business" which is hosted by KCRW.  They have a great show, and I encourage you to check out their work.  Specifically, the two episodes with Abigail Disney are here. 

Part 1: https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/the-business/abigail-disney 

Part2: https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/the-business/disney-future-banter/abigail-disney-part-2

News comes at us quickly these days as disney adapts to a new normal. I talk about a number of things that caught my attention over the last little while

This is a retrospective of the epcot pavilion The Living Seas. It opened a few years after epcot, but it was a marvel of sorts and fit in thematically with the nature of epcot in that part of future world. I talk about the history and how it became what it is today.

I’ve got a few things to talk about; a collection of things that are on my mind right now.

Walt Disney had a plan for urban design - and a central theme was how to get people around his city of tomorrow.  He envisioned monorails for longer trips, and a peoplemover for local circuits.  The WED designers laid out plans for both, and prototyped the people mover in DIsneyLand before it opened in Florida.  It is a clever and innovative means of transportation that never seemed to catch on.  I talk about it, and play the audio tracks that were on the attraction over the years.

Disney lays off 28,000. The pandemic rages on. Changes are coming to movies and movie distribution. It’s the end of the NBA bubble. Nah. There isn’t much to talk about at all.

This is a look back at a fun attraction that existed in the wonders of life. It was film, multi media, and audio animatronics assembled in a theater to tell a story.

This podcast gives a brief history to pressed pennies at Disney parks, and I talk about my iOS app for finding and collecting pressed pennies.