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Disney Dish Subscriber Exclusive - WDW​’​s expansion plans from 1972

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Len Testa & Jim Hill look back at the plans Walt Disney Productions executives originally had for expanding Florida’s Vacation Kingdom. Plans which then had to adapted (or -- sadly -- abandoned) after the Arab Oil Embargo started back in October of 1973

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

How the Swan Boats at the Magic Kingdom was supposed to have followed the example of Disneyland Park’s “Canal Boats of the World” attraction

What’s genuinely tragic about the tale of the late, great Richard F. Irvine

How far behind schedule did the expansion of Tomorrowland at WDW’s Magic Kingdom fall in the mid-1970s

Why did the operations team at WDW’s Magic Kingdom decide to move the load / unload area for that theme park’s Swan Boats ride

How would the original version of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad have been different from the attraction that’s running at WDW’s Magic Kingdom today

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released July 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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