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How Disney Weenies Got Their Name?



So you might have heard of the Disney Weenie, well we were wondering what the meaning was behind the name and how they came to be, and we are telling you all about how they came to be on today’s show.

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Epcot International Festival of the Arts 2021



The 2021 Epcot International Festival of the Arts dates are January 8th through February 22nd, 2021. This Epcot Festival made its debut in 2017, celebrating three artistic disciplines: Culinary, Visual, and Performing Arts.

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DISNEY NEWS Magic hours going away Permanently



Today we are discussing Disney News for the first week of January 2021 with the announcement that Magic hours are going away permanently and being replaced. The magical express is going away at the end of 2021, Disney moving the office to Floriday, and more.

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What’s New at Disneyland in 2020



It has been months since Disneyland was open to the public, and we are pleased to find out that they have been hard at work while we were away. Disney has used this time to their advantage and made some significant repairs. We discuss that today on the podcast.

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The end of Quibi



Former Studio Chairman of Disney in the late 80s and early 90s, playing a part in the Disney Renaissance. Jeffrey Katzenberg’s newest venture Quibi is shutting down.

The news marks a stunning turnaround for a mobile-oriented company that had raised some $1.5 billion, and far more in Hollywood’s alternative currency of hype. Quibi spent years building buzz but will not survive its seventh month; it was launched boldly at the start of a pandemic that will end up easily outlasting it.

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Disney Layoffs Hitting Live Shows at Walt Disney World and Disneyland



Some Walt Disney World street performers and other park entertainers were among an undisclosed number of Disney employees who found out Tuesday night they were being laid off.

Some of the affected workers took social media to share that their time with the company had come to an end. Among those being let go is part of the acting troupe at Disney’s Hollywood Studios known as the Citizens of Hollywood.

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Disney Legend Joe Rohde



Joseph “Joe” Rohde is a veteran executive at Walt Disney Imagineering, the division of The Walt Disney Company that designs and builds Disney’s theme parks and resort hotels. Rohde’s formal title is Executive Designer and Vice President, Creative.

He was born in Sacramento, California, and raised in Hawaii. He graduated from Chaminade College Preparatory, Canoga Park, Calif., in 1973, where he starred in student dramatic productions and was Class Salutatorian. Rohde received a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Occidental College in Los Angeles.

Rohde’s trademark is a large collection of earrings he wears in his left ear, all of which are souvenirs from decades of travel to remote corners of the world. This tradition began when he stuck his 5-year anniversary pin into his ear.

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Roger Rabbit and the Dip



The Dip, Also Known As “Toon Acid”, is a greenish, ghastly chemical seen in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It’s Judge Doom’s preferred method of Toon execution. According to Lieutenant Santino, it’s a mixture of turpentine, acetone, and benzene, which all of them are paint-thinners. Combined in the real world, they make up the solution hand animators used to use to remove ink from animation cells. This could be considered an inside joke, as your average audience member would not know what these ingredients made up. While relatively harmless to humans, any toon that comes in contact with it will melt instantly and is apparently the only surefire way to kill a toon (although Eddie Valiant gets most of The Toon Patrol members to laugh themselves to death). Ironic enough, Judge Doom ends up being dipped himself near the end of the film, after revealing himself to be actually a toon.

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E.328 Finding Nemo The Musical at Animal Kingdom



Finding Nemo – The Musical is a live puppet musical stage show based on Disney/Pixar’s 2003 film Finding Nemo, located at the Theater in the Wild in DinoLand U.S.A at Disney’s Animal Kingdom. The 40-minute show (which is performed five or six times daily) started holding previews on November 5, 2006, officially opening on January 24, 2007. The music, composed by Robert Lopez and his wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez, the same couple that composed the music of Frozen and Frozen II, uses direct lines from the film, bringing the film characters to life on stage.

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