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Disney Dish Subscriber Exclusive - Bandcamp Exclusive: Creating the “Grand Canyon Dior

by The Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

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Len Testa & Jim Hill tell the story of the “Grand Canyon Diorama” at Disneyland Park. A $367,000 project that Walt largely greenlit because he didn’t want Guests peering down into that backstage space between Tomorrowland & Main Street, U.S.A.

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Over the course of this episode, listeners will learn about:

What’s significant about all those Audio-Animatronic animals which lined the ride track at “Mine Train thru Nature’s Wonderland” (which opened at Disneyland Park in June of 1960)

How work-in-progress footage from a live-action featurette inspired the construction of a new ride-thru attraction at the Happiest Place on Earth

Why Walt selected Claude Coats to ride herd on the development of Disneyland’s “Grand Canyon Diorama”

What changes did Disney Legend Marc Davis propose be made to the “Grand Canyon Diorama” back in the mid-1970s

Why was the “Grand Canyon Diorama” placed in a different spot when the Imagineers were setting up the layout of the Euro Disneyland railroad

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released April 17, 2020
Hosts: Len Testa and Jim Hill
Fabulously edited by Aaron Z. Adams

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The Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

Jim Hill is a writer, blogger, and theme park historian, and he'll be the first to tell you all of the back-room deals and corporate gossip that happens inside the Walt Disney Company.

Len Testa co-authors the Unofficial Guide series of travel books, focusing on theme parks.
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