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Disney Dish Subscriber Exclusive: Exclusive: How the Landkeeper led to the Dreamfinder

by The Jim Hill Media Podcast Network

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As Len Testa & Jim Hill dig deeper into the Joseph Mankiewicz Epcot archive, they talk about how executives at Kraft Foods forced a rethink of the preliminary design for Epcot’s Land pavilion. Which was to have featured a host character who would have been very familiar to fans of children’s television from the 1960s

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

How the Carousel of Progress influenced the initial design of the introductory portion of Epcot’s agricultural pavilion

Why was Marc Davis’ not a fan of the Benjamin-Franklin-walking-upstairs animatronic found in the “American Adventure” pavilion

What aspect of Disney’s film library did the Imagineers want to fold into Act One of the “It’s Your Land” show at EPCOT Center

How did Tony Baxter want to reuse/repurpose the crystalline structure which the Imagineers had originally designed to house the biomes at Epcot’s “The Land” pavilion

What -- to executives at Kraft Foods’ way of thinking -- should be the centerpiece of this Future World pavilion

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released January 8, 2021
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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