The Castle Collective - A podcast for Disney Parks fans

This live episode of the Castle Collective took place at FanX in Salt Lake City Utah, September 2026! This panel was hosted by Skipper Rob and featured panelists Nick and Night, Sea Shelley, King Bee Brian, and Sean Solo!

Tons of trivia and we handed out many prizes from Get Away Today, Heather Wallwork, and there was fun had by all.

Welcome back Castle Collective Fans! In this episode, Michelle gives her review of her new favorite sweet treat at California Adventure, followed by the panelists recommendations about if they are Team Halloween or Team Christmas when it comes to visiting the Disney Parks.

We end the episode with Skipper Rob leading our review of the Soarin' Across America ride at both Epcot and Disney's California Adventure. We return to the predictions we made back in October 2025 in the episode "Our Soarin Across America Locations Predictions" episode.

Don't forget to come check out the Castle Collective Podcast live at Fan X in Salt Lake City September 24-26th. If you need tickets, use the code "mainstreet" for 15% off your tickets! See you there.

This in 2025-2026 Disneyland celebrated its 70th anniversary. A lot of us remember what Disneyland was like for the 50th Anniversary. In this episode we go land by land, area by area, to discuss the changes to the park, it's shops, its shows.

We also have a special announcement about our upcoming live podcast recording at Salt Lake Fan X in September 2026. Stay tuned for the details.

We end with Sea Shelley's sharing the Disney Parks Trivia from her recent cruise on the Disney Wonder to Alaska. So join Nick and Night, Sea Shelley, Sean Solo, and Skipper Rob on the Castle Collective Podcast for fans of the Disney Parks.

Join Shawn Legacy, Sea Shelley, Main Street Michelle, Nick and Night (and a late addition of Skipper Rob) for our special VIP episode. Here are the segments this week.

1) We share our VIP or special park experience that we HAVE done, when we did it, and what was the experience like.

2) Pick the VIP or special park experience you WANT to have but haven’t yet done. It can be a past or present experience, not a fantasy one that doesn’t or has never existed.

3) Where in the park audio clips from Shelley’s recent trip to Disneyland and California Adventure. We listen and guess where we think those clips came from in the park.

Hear reports from the latest trips to the parks by Castle Collective Members, what Disney Father's Day items we received, and Sea Shelley brings in some Winnie the Pooh and Piglet controversy!

We end the episode discussing our favorite places to take a little nap in the parks. The biggest shock of the episode...Joel Skellington ate a churro?! Tune in to see what flavor and how the experience went.

Collective Members included Joel Skellington, Nick and Night, Sea Shelley, and Shawn Legacy.

Join us for some amazing Disney Trivia, questions for the hardcore Disneyland Fan. Our panelists on this episode are Joel Skellington, Main Street Michelle, Sea Shelley, Skipper Rob and hosted by Nick and Night.

This episode also brings back a fan favorite segment, Dear Disney. Let us know how you do on the trivia questions, play along!

On this episode we will go around the panel and ask some of these questions to just have a hang out and talk about fun park things we may not know about each other. Join Nick at Night, Sea Shelley, Skipper Rob, Sean Solo and Main Street Michelle as we discuss the following:
If you could have total control of a ride or attraction for 1 hour, you could get out of the ride vehicle, walk around, ask questions of an imagineer about the workings of a given ride:

• Which ride/attraction would you choose?
• How much would you be willing to pay for that experience? 
• Would that help or hurt your future enjoyment of the ride/attraction?

What have you stolen from the park and when was it? 

Most expensive thing you have purchased in the park (besides the entry)?

What is your favorite smell from the parks? If you smell this, you know you are in Disneyland.
Is there something in the Disneyland that has been in the park over 2 years that you still haven’t done at least once? 

To all who have come to this happy podcast, welcome. On our podcast tonight are Castle Collective Members, Shawn Legacy, Sea Shelley, Main Street Michelle, Joel Skellington, Sea Shelley, Skipper Rob and I am Nick and Night. This episode would be a great way to spend your time in line at the parks with your family and friends. We are going to play Disneyland Resort “would you rather.” 

Warm up choices:
Would you take a lifetime of free park entry if you couldn’t ride your favorite ride forever? (From MiceChat social media)

Would rather have free travel and admission to Disneyland the rest of your life vs. lose your sense of taste

Could only keep one attraction: 

Disneyland:

Autopia vs Mr Toads Wild Ride

Space Mountain vs Big Thunder Mountain
California Adventure:
Goofy’s Sky School or Golden Zephyr
Guardians of the Galaxy: Mission Breakout or Soarin’

Could bring back one attraction: 

PeopleMover or Skyway (or Sky-buckets as we used to call them)

Splash Mountain overlay or Captain EO

California Adventure:
Tower of Terror vs California Screaming

Keep one restaurant:

Cafe Orleans vs Jolly Holiday

Flo’s V8 or Lamplight Lounge

Keep one food item:
Churros vs. Dole Whip

Turkey leg vs. Monte Cristo

Bring back one Parade:
Main Street Electrical Parade vs Paint the Night

Keep one land:
Adventure Land or Fantasy Land
Keep one nighttime spectacular:
Fantasmic or World of Color?

If this one thing/element was gone from Disneyland it would cease to be Disneyland for you (or California Adventure if we have time):

Castle?

Characters?

Music/audio/soundtrack?

Mickey Mouse?

The opening tunnel?

What if Disneyland closed at 6:00 pm, there was no nighttime Disney?

To all who have come to this happy podcast, welcome. On our podcast tonight are Castle Collective Members, Sea Shelley, Main Street Michelle, and I am Nick and Night. On January 22, 2026 a new documentary on the construction of Disneyland was released on Disney+ and curiously on YouTube. It showcases some rare or previously unreleased about the park that is at the heart of this podcast. We felt inspired to watch the show and to share some of our thoughts and reflections on the documentary, but how it releases to our happiest place on Earth. 

Questions we explore in this episode:

What did you learn?

What surprised you?

What new questions about the park do you have after watching?

How will the documentary change your experience of going to Disneyland?

With the new CEO of The Walt Disney Companies starting on March 18th, 2026, we thought it would be our place to offer unsolicited advice to the incoming CEO. 

Segment 1: Make a case for where you would like to see a new Disney Park/Experience
Segment 2: If Disney were to acquire a new IP (similar to the whole Star Wars, Fox, etc.) what would you want it to be and how would you first implement that in A Disney Park (doesn’t matter which park)

Segment 3: Top 3 Park Priorities (ways to update, improve, add more magic to any or all of the Disney parks.)

Join Nick at Night, Sea Shelley, Munchie Michelle (we are trying it out), and Skipper Rob, for this idea filled episode of The Castle Collective Podcast.