Cold Open And New Intro

Intro 0:03

Please stand clear of the doors. Por favor mategnese puertas. Please stand clear of the doors.

Alicea 0:23

Hello everyone. I'm Alicea.

Nathan 0:25

And I'm Nathan.

Alicea 0:27

Uh-huh. Welcome to this week's episode of Adventures and Mouse Capades. That was an intro.

Nathan 0:34

I just wanted to change it up.

Alicea 0:36

Okay.

Nathan 0:38

And I'm Nathan. There. Is that for those of you who missed the way I usually say it.

Alicea 0:43

Okay, you're just saying it twice now. I'm Alicea.

Nathan 0:48

What we have to be balanced? Is that what this is?

Alicea 0:51

That's usually how it is, yeah.

Nathan 0:53

Okay. Fair enough. Fair enough. What are we doing today? What are we talking about? What's going on?

Alicea 0:57

We're doing kind of a review and what's come coming up. So what is that? Just like an overall quarterly review?

Nathan 1:07

Quarterly Disney review?

Alicea 1:09

Yeah.

Nathan 1:10

Actually, what we're doing today, the day that this drops, is we're going to Napa Rose for dinner. That is what we're doing today.

Alicea 1:19

Fancy.

Nathan 1:20

Yes.

Alicea 1:21

I will enjoy my dinner.

Nathan 1:23

Me too. Stay tuned. A review of the brand new remodeled, re-menued Napa Rose is coming to this year podcast feed very, very soon.

Alicea 1:37

Me with my extremely, extremely detailed reviews of this tastes really good. Yeah.

Nathan 1:44

What did you like about it? It was great. It was great. Good. It tasted amazing.

Naparose Dinner And Review Tease

Alicea 1:49

Something I just do not excel at. My mouth was happy. We're good.

Pixar Highs And Film Pipeline

Nathan 1:55

There we go. There we go. Okay. Let's talk about what is going on this quarter, last quarter, next quarter. We're just covering some news here.

Alicea 2:06

Yes, we are covering news.

Nathan 2:08

Yes.

Alicea 2:08

We're going to start with films because the pipeline is pipelining.

Nathan 2:12

It it is. That's how pipelines work.

Alicea 2:14

Disney is very committed to the strategy of please never leave the theater.

Nathan 2:19

Pretty much.

Alicea 2:19

I mean the most recent film that came out from Disney is Hoppers from Pixar. It's excellent, yes. Hoppers.

Nathan 2:28

Hoppers.

Alicea 2:29

Pixar.

Nathan 2:30

From Pixar. Yeah. Sorry. I talked over you. I apologize.

Alicea 2:33

From Pixar. And Pixar does what it does best, and it continues its emotional sabotage campaign. Expect feelings and expect us to cry about something inanimate. Or not human, maybe, I guess.

Nathan 2:46

Well, I cried about the human too.

Alicea 2:48

Yeah. Not quite as emotional as some of the other Pixar ones, but still emotional.

Nathan 2:53

No, there was definitely a moment at the beginning where you and I turned to each other, looked across Sterling who was just paying attention to the movie, and we were like, oh crap.

Alicea 3:03

Yeah. It's good.

Nathan 3:05

That's what happened too. We knew it was just gut punch. Yeah. Anyway.

Alicea 3:11

I enjoyed this one.

Nathan 3:12

It's fantastic. It's really, really good. I think this is one of my favorite Pixar movies.

Alicea 3:17

Oh, really?

Nathan 3:18

Yeah. I'm going to say top three alongside Wall-E and Up.

Alicea 3:24

There you go.

Nathan 3:25

I think I would uh flip a coin wouldn't work because there's three. Um any any one of those movies will be my favorite on any given day.

Alicea 3:36

There was a lot of humor in this that I that I very much enjoyed.

Nathan 3:39

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They did really well. They did really well. Let's talk about what's coming up.

Alicea 3:45

Okay. We've got a couple of things.

Nathan 3:47

Yes, a couple, a couple couples. Because there's four that are in this list here that we're going to read. On May 22nd, The Mandalorian and Grogu, a Lucasfilm joint, is coming out. Baby Yoda says box office dominance. Yeah. That's right. His first spoken words are box office dominance. Honestly, we're just here for the Grogu merch inflation. Yeah. Yeah. This looks really good. The preview uh trailer that we've seen in the movie theater just has a ton of it leans into the Star Wars snark and uh humor. Um, I'm yeah, I'm I'm here for it. I'm ready. Let's go.

Alicea 4:30

Might have to go back and watch the next or the prior couple seasons of this just to get back up to date with it.

Nathan 4:37

Yeah. And that soundtrack.

Alicea 4:40

Yep. It's very good. Oh, yeah. And then in June, June 19th, this is another Pixar film and will definitely give us the feels because Toy Story 5 is coming out. Yeah. Apparently the toys never stop having identity crises. Bold question Do the Toys even want the sequel?

Nathan 4:59

I do who I mean, we know Disney's board wants the sequel because they want the revenue.

Alicea 5:05

Yes. Um now this one does look interesting, though.

Nathan 5:09

It does look interesting, but they put the franchise to bed already.

Alicea 5:13

They did. Yes.

Nathan 5:15

And and I now here's another question. Have we had a year with two Pixar films in it?

Alicea 5:25

Probably. I don't know.

Nathan 5:26

Pixar's traditionally been like a one-a-year kind of thing. Like they usually have three in production because it takes them about three years to do a movie.

Alicea 5:34

Yeah. Um, I don't know. I'd have to look it up. I I do appreciate the fact that they are that they released an original film, not just a sequel. Yes. Um like with Hoppers I think. Yes.

Nathan 5:45

Quite a Hopper's original intellectual property. It's an original story. We need more of that. I I don't necessarily know I need Toy Story 5.

Alicea 5:56

No, I mean it'll be it'll be fun to revisit, you know, um Woody's story and Buzz's story. And and a couple of the quips from the the trailer definitely got me laughing. Like Woody having a bald spot was pretty darn funny.

Nathan 6:14

Yeah, Toy Story 5. I'm just I'm thinking of space balls where they're like, it's Rocky 5,000.

Alicea 6:22

Or back to the future where it's Jaws 23 or something like that. Oh my gosh.

Nathan 6:28

All right. Next up, we have Moana.

Alicea 6:32

A gain.

Nathan 6:32

A movie.

Alicea 6:33

Uh-huh.

Nathan 6:34

Again, again.

Alicea 6:35

On July 10th.

Nathan 6:36

On July 10th, the live action version of Moana is coming out. Um it's about 10 years since the original.

Alicea 6:47

Is it really that long?

Nathan 6:48

Yeah.

Alicea 6:49

Okay.

Nathan 6:50

But I don't is it long enough?

Alicea 6:53

I don't believe so.

Nathan 6:54

I don't either. I love what you wrote here. This is live action. Is the ocean still emotionally supportive? TBD. But we're seated.

Alicea 7:03

Yep. I I didn't need this so soon. No. We'll still watch it. I don't know if we'll see it in the theaters or not.

Nathan 7:11

Yeah, I don't know about that. Yeah. I don't need to see that wig on the rock that big.

Alicea 7:20

It's not as curly as I thought it would be.

Nathan 7:22

Yeah, true. Yeah. True.

Alicea 7:24

Okay. And then finally, for this list.

Nathan 7:29

This one I'm here. This one I'm excited for.

Alicea 7:31

Yes. July 31st is Spider-Man brand new day from Marvel. Yes. Who another reboot-ish-ish title that suggests Peter Parker will once again have a rough time.

Nathan 7:48

Nature is healing.

Alicea 7:49

Nature is healing. Yep.

Nathan 7:51

Now, I it's not a full Spider-Man reboot.

Alicea 7:57

No, no, no. It's continuing his story.

Nathan 8:01

But there is kind of a reboot built into it.

Alicea 8:04

Spider-Man himself. Like Spider-Man himself is rebooting. Like within the universe, I guess. Yes.

Nathan 8:11

Ah, I like what you did there. Yeah. Yeah.

Alicea 8:16

This look I am so excited for this film. It looks so good.

Nathan 8:20

I know a certain 21-year-old that is very excited for this film, too. Yes. And that would be our daughter. Yep. And yes, she just turned 21. And happy birthday, Kaitlyn.

Alicea 8:31

We're old.

Nathan 8:32

Yeah. Good grief. How did that happen? Well, I know how that happened. Anyhow, moving on.

Alicea 8:39

Time, time keeps on slipping into the future.

Park Closures Openings And Castle Repaint

Nathan 8:43

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I see what you did there. Hey, let's talk about parks. Things close, things open, and you know, Olaf.

Alicea 8:51

Suffers.

Nathan 8:55

Yes. So as we're recording this uh just a few days ago on social media, you may have seen um the new Olaf animatronic that opened in uh in Paris there with the new frozen land.

Alicea 9:08

And um getting ahead of ourselves here.

Nathan 9:11

Oh. Uh I should read the notes.

Alicea 9:13

Did you not read the notes?

Nathan 9:16

Uh no. I have been a little busy all day at work.

Alicea 9:18

Could have done it right beforehand.

Nathan 9:21

I could have. Or I could have done all the other stuff I had to get done. Anyway, um okay, what am I supposed to talk about now?

Alicea 9:30

We'll just go down the list here. Big headlines and changes.

Nathan 9:34

Indeed.

Alicea 9:35

Cinderella Castle over at Walt Disney World is almost done with the repaint.

Nathan 9:41

Yes.

Alicea 9:42

Going from the the pink glowy castle to kind of the I don't know if it's the OG, but the kind of gray-whitish paint. And I am classic. I am excited to see this.

Nathan 9:55

So excited. This is the castle I remember.

Alicea 9:58

Yeah. I mean, I the the pink was nice. It was kind of very fairy tale.

Nathan 10:03

Yeah.

Alicea 10:04

Um great for the projections, I think. It helped. I mean, I think they developed that paint and that coloring just to help with the projections. Um but I am happy to see this regular paint job back.

Nathan 10:18

We uh follow uh uh the Mammoth Club online and um Molly posted something uh couple days ago. Uh they just got back from a whirlwind trip through Asia, uh going to all sorts of parks and they were on the Disney adventure and stuff, and she finally got to go back to Magic Kingdom the other day and saw the castle had been repainted, you know, predominantly uh in the the three plus or three-ish weeks that they were gone or two, whatever it was. And she's like, oh my gosh, it looks amazing. Yeah, I'm excited to see that in June when we're out there.

Alicea 10:56

The castle skincare routine is working.

Nathan 11:00

All right. On February 2nd, Dino Land, USA officially closed in Animal Kingdom.

Alicea 11:07

Yep.

Nathan 11:08

Pour one out for your Dino homies. R.I.P. roadside dinosaurs gone, but never forgotten, at least not by Instagram.

Alicea 11:18

Yeah. We'll see. Uh remember when posts, I'm sure before too long.

Nathan 11:25

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I I am excited for what's to come. Yeah. In tropical Americas, and we have uh Encanto and uh the dinosaur ride is is going to become an Indiana Jones ride. Like I think there's some cool stuff that I'm excited to see, but I also kind of miss dinos.

Alicea 11:45

Yeah. And there's yet one more thing from the original Animal Kingdom marquee that just isn't there.

Nathan 11:52

Yeah. Well, at least it existed at one point.

Alicea 11:55

T his is true.

Nathan 11:56

Unlike the dragons.

Alicea 11:57

No dragons, no dinosaurs.

Nathan 12:00

Maybe they have a thing against lizards. Maybe. Inquiring minds will have to investigate. Indeed. That's not us. Anyhow, moving on on February 8th, Disney's California Adventure turned 25 years old, which feels fake because wasn't it like the new park like yesterday? Yep. I mean, it has gone through so many personality changes. It has.

Alicea 12:25

And it's going through more right now.

Nathan 12:27

Many more. Many more, indeed. Indeed.

Alicea 12:30

On February 23rd, over in Animal Kingdom, Rafiki's Planet Watch and Affection section closed. Pour one out for petting the goats. Now it is going to reopen.

Nathan 12:44

Are the goats coming back?

Alicea 12:45

The nope, they they have been rehomed.

Nathan 12:50

I like the goats. I know. Well, what's coming back?

Alicea 12:53

Well, we have um I have it down a little farther, but I'll go ahead and say this. Okay. This is where one of the Bluey experiences is coming. And affection section is now going to be called Jumping Junction. And it's um going to be uh Australian animals are going to be there.

Nathan 13:14

Can I hug a koala?

Alicea 13:16

Oh my god, you might get chlamydia. I don't know. Maybe cut that. I don't know.

Nathan 13:26

I don't know, but never mind. I could make also um let's move on. On March 2nd, rock and roller coaster in Hollywood Studios closed. It is no longer with the band Aerosmith is out, but Muppets are loading.

Alicea 13:50

No longer starring Aerosmith.

Nathan 13:52

Indeed. Electric mayhem to the rescue. We are already seeing changes, including car repainting. This evolution is happening fast, and this thing is gonna reopen, I think, later this summer.

Alicea 14:06

I believe so. They have not set a specific date other than summer.

Nathan 14:11

Well, that's that's specific-ish. Ish, yes.

Alicea 14:15

On to fancy and international things. Ooh. This isn't international, but it is fancy. On March 19th, the Garden View Lounge Tea Room reopened at the Grand Floridian. This has been closed for over six years.

Nathan 14:31

Pandemic. We're finally getting it back.

Alicea 14:33

Yes.

Nathan 14:34

Um we just need Streetmosphere. Anyhow.

Alicea 14:38

This is a uh like a high tea experience over at the Grand Floridian. It is $79 for adults and $49 for kids. I I don't know that we will ever do this.

Nathan 14:50

No, because I've been to high tea in a much fancier place.

Alicea 14:53

We have been to high tea in Victoria at the Fairmount Empress.

Nathan 14:56

Yes.

Alicea 14:57

And uh yeah, I think we'll go Fairmont Empress for our our teas.

Nathan 15:02

Yeah, especially considering how generous they are with their pores of channels.

Alicea 15:05

Oh my goodness, it's so good. I forgot I wrote this note here and it just made me laugh.

Nathan 15:13

Oh. You want to read it? Yeah, on March 20th, Shanghai Disney at its 10th anniversary.

Alicea 15:19

Right above that.

Nathan 15:21

Right about now?

Alicea 15:22

Right above that.

Nathan 15:24

Okay, I'll read this for you. Because nothing says class like spending $79 to feel judged by porcelain. Wow. Alrighty. Alrighty. Um moving on. On March 20th, Shanghai Disney celebrated its 10th anniversary. Happy birthday.

Alicea 15:49

Happy birthday. And speaking of more anniversaries here, April 25th, just down the road here.

Nathan 15:57

Yeah.

Alicea 15:57

Tokyo Disney Sea celebrates its 25th anniversary. They are having the sparkling Jubilee celebration. It is going to run through March of next year.

Nathan 16:08

What? Only a year? Mm-hmm. That's so unlike Disney Parks.

Alicea 16:15

They'll probably have to help Rapunzel out there too, because some ravens have decided to take her hair.

Nathan 16:22

Yeah, that was a that was an interesting post that we saw on social media the other morning. Um there's a if you haven't seen it, I'll just describe uh imagine a Rapunzel animatronic up in her tower, and and there are two crows, and they both have a beak full of hair. Yep. And um awkward.

Alicea 16:44

Yeah. I actually think they're ravens because they are quite large.

Bluey Frozen Paris And Olaf Trouble

Nathan 16:49

Yes, yes. All right, new stuff returning stuff, and Olaf trauma.

Alicea 16:56

Yes.

Nathan 16:57

On March 22nd, Bluey's best day ever opened in the Fantasyland Theater in Disneyland. This is, at least for now, running through August 9th. Based on what we've seen, I have a hard time believing that that is going to end on August 9th.

Alicea 17:17

Yeah, it's very, very popular. Although it did just open.

Nathan 17:21

The parents are more excited than the kids, let's be honest.

Alicea 17:24

Yeah. You haven't seen Bluey yet, have you?

Nathan 17:29

I have not.

Alicea 17:30

Okay. It is it's pretty darn good.

Nathan 17:33

Maybe I just want to be surprised and meet Bluey in person.

Alicea 17:36

You're not going to get a frame of reference, though.

Nathan 17:39

I don't need a frame of reference. Bluey will be right there in front of me.

Alicea 17:42

Well, yeah, of course she will, but okay.

Nathan 17:45

I will watch Bluey.

Alicea 17:47

Okay.

Nathan 17:48

As long as you promise it won't make me cry. Uh-oh.

Alicea 17:52

No, I haven't, I haven't had a I'm sure there are emotional episodes. I just haven't seen anything.

Nathan 17:57

I've heard there's emotional episodes. Probably. I think like it was some like the last episode or something like that. That like the adults, everybody was like, oh my God. Yeah. Great. Yes.

Alicea 18:09

Great. On March 29th, over in Paris, the world of Frozen and Adventure Way at Disney's newly minted adventure world opened up. Yeah. And um there was a Olaf animatronic that has been walking around and it's cute as a button.

Nathan 18:29

It looks amazing.

Alicea 18:29

It looks amazing. Um, Olaf had a moment uh recently. Uh he was, you know, just standing there talking and then went into shock, I guess.

Nathan 18:41

I don't know what he saw, but he saw some things.

Alicea 18:45

He saw some things and he fell over and his nose fell off.

Nathan 18:50

It was it was very cute. Yeah. And uh the handlers were like, oh my. Um like two people picked him up and somebody ran over. It's like, and here's your nose back.

Alicea 19:01

Yep. Yeah. And he went off stage for a little bit just to recuperate.

Nathan 19:05

Right.

Alicea 19:05

They gave him some smelling salts or something.

Nathan 19:07

Yeah, the vapors.

Alicea 19:08

Yeah. Doing okay now.

Nathan 19:11

Maybe he locked his knees.

Alicea 19:12

Maybe. Maybe.

Nathan 19:16

On April 8th, Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger spin reopened in Magic Kingdom. That is math. A few days before this episode drops. It's not open yet, but it will be open already. Dude, this is a time warp thing. Just we have there have been some previews. Uh Len Testa was was in there and shared his thoughts about it. It looks absolutely amazing. They have fixed a bunch of things. You can actually pick the blaster up. They're much more bright. You can see what you're doing a lot easier. There's a red and a green uh in the car. So it's not everything's red. Now 50% are red and 50% are green on good luck. But lasers, yeah. Yeah. It it looks very cool.

Alicea 20:04

The the targets are now LED targets, and they're much easier to see. It's much easier to see if you've actually hit them. Um and they will change. They have all sorts of designs going on with them.

Nathan 20:17

Yeah.

Alicea 20:17

Scores can now go over one million. And uh so I think to be a galactic hero, you have to hit over one million.

Nathan 20:27

And there's different point value stuff now. There's like, I forget what it was. It was like basically like the the brighter the border around the target gets, whether it goes from like like like something dark to like white to like rainbow to like an LED design dancing around or something like that. Like the more complicated and bright it gets, like the higher the point value.

Alicea 20:49

Yeah.

Nathan 20:50

I will continue to disappoint myself on that ride, I am sure. I'm not good at that.

Alicea 20:55

Uh the photo pass ride photo for this ride now includes your score and rank.

Nathan 21:02

Ooh.

Alicea 21:02

Yeah. I don't know if I like that.

Nathan 21:06

Intergalactic loser.

Alicea 21:09

Wow.

Nathan 21:10

That's me.

Alicea 21:11

I don't think they have that on there.

Nathan 21:13

Well, I'm sure they'll figure it out for me. Okay. Mine'll just be like, they tried. I heard something about like if if you have a kid who really doesn't get it and can't aim, just tell them to hold the trigger down. Evidently, you don't have to like pull the trigger repeatedly. You can just hold it down and it'll repeat it fire now. Um, but also like it the it takes pity on little kids. And for every seven shots, you get 100 points, no matter if you hit anything or not.

Alicea 21:44

That's awesome. Actually, I think I read the fastest way to pull the trigger on this is just to hold it down. That's cool. That's the fastest that's cool.

Nathan 21:55

Nice. We'll have to we'll have to try that out when we're out there.

Alicea 21:58

Yes.

Nathan 21:59

Yes.

Alicea 22:00

May has a couple of things going on.

Nathan 22:02

Mm-hmm. It's unhinged.

Alicea 22:04

In a good way.

Nathan 22:05

In a good way. Yeah. On May 22nd, Smugglers Run debuts the Mando and Grogu overlay. You will absolutely try to crash the Falcon just for the bit. Yep. Now, I mean, pretty much every time I've been in there, the Falcon crashes, whether you're trying or not. So Chewy's never been really happy with uh

Alicea 22:31

the mechanics of one person doing the horizontal and vertical and the other person doing the left to right just does not work out very well.

Nathan 22:38

Aaron Powell And I haven't figured it out. Like if you I almost think like if you just do these these massive movements that it doesn't work as well. I think you have to be more gradual with it. And and that I just want to be chewy and pull the lever to jump into hyperspace, and I'm a happy boy.

Alicea 22:56

There you go. Yep.

Nathan 22:57

That's all I need. I'm not a complicated man.

Alicea 23:00

On May 26th, over at Animal Kingdom, uh Bluey's Wild World will open at Conservation Station. This is where Affection Section is getting renamed Junction. Yeah. Jumping Junction. So that will happen on May 26th.

Nathan 23:14

Um, I don't know how that's gonna work out. That seems like a very logistical, interesting decision based on the the amount of uh demand that there is to go see Bluey over in Disneyland. Like in Disneyland, there was supposed to be this whole interactive like songs and games and stuff like that. Do you want to know how long that lasted?

Alicea 23:39

Not even the full day.

Nathan 23:40

One show. Yeah. It lasted the opening show. And they're like, we we have to get rid of this because we need the capacity to get more people in here. Yep. So putting the Bluey meet and greet on the basically the end of a stick, on the the the far end of a train ride that has limited capacity. Uh this is this maybe don't go see Bluey in Disney World for the first week or two. Yeah. Just see how this turns out.

Alicea 24:08

Give it some time to die down first.

Nathan 24:10

Now, conversely, everybody thought that Galaxy's Edge was going to be like this. And we actually lucked out and happened to be in in uh Disneyland when Galaxy's Edge uh opened up and he didn't need reservations, and like the park was empty. Everybody stayed away.

Alicea 24:28

None of the locals wanted to be there on opening day. Yeah. Now, but this is Disney World, so maybe a little different.

Nathan 24:35

Yeah, we'll see. We will see. Yep. It is something that is going to bring crowds to Animal Kingdom. And if you think about all of the uh things that are going on in Animal Kingdom, it needs a draw. Yes. And quite frankly, I think that may help disperse the Disney Parks crowd in Florida back across four parks instead of three and a half. Yep. So it's good. It's good. It's good.

Alicea 25:02

Yeah. Over at Hollywood Studios, the Walt Disney Studios area is going to open. This is where Animation Courtyard was with Disney Jr. and the Star Wars launch bay. That whole area is opening up. Not everything inside the area is opening up. Uh the Olaf drawing experience, I think, is going to be a little later.

Nathan 25:23

Okay.

Alicea 25:23

Um, as well as the magic of Disney animation. But you'll be able to see like the playground and the meet and greet space off the page. Yeah. Um, and right over there, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Live is also going to start up.

Nathan 25:37

Yeah. And this is all coming this summer.

Alicea 25:39

Yes.

Nathan 25:40

Speaking of this summer, Soarin' over America debuts in Epcot. Uh the DCA version waits right until July. Uh we will enjoy freedom in high definition along with the smells. What does freedom smell like?

Alicea 25:58

Eagles.

Nathan 26:00

Eagles. Oh. So gigantic trash-eating seagulls.

Alicea 26:05

Ka-caw. I don't know. I'm sure we will find out.

Nathan 26:11

All right. For those of you who don't know, bald eagles are effectively the trash seagulls of Alaska. Like the they're just everywhere. Um Alicea's dad lived in Alaska for a long time and literally had his lunch stolen.

Alicea 26:27

Multiple times

Nathan 26:28

by a bald eagle. Yes.

Alicea 26:30

So they are everywhere and they are humongous.

Nathan 26:34

Indeed. Indeed. Not small birds.

Alicea 26:38

On May 28th, it's a small world turns 60.

Nathan 26:42

Wow.

Alicea 26:43

This ride has heard everything and judged nothing.

Nathan 26:46

Well, I don't think it's heard everything. It's heard the same thing over and over and over and over.

Alicea 26:53

Heard and seen everything.

Nathan 26:55

Yeah, exactly. We will be in uh Disneyland, like I was saying earlier, when this episode comes out. And um my team was saying, hey, we're gonna schedule a meeting on that Tuesday. Is there any way you can join in? And I threatened, I was like, I will absolutely call into this meeting from It's a Small World, and I will just let you guys hear the whole thing.

Alicea 27:20

That's not very nice.

Nathan 27:21

They said maybe I didn't need to attend. I said, thank you.

Alicea 27:26

Other things that are opening this summer. Big Thunder Mountain in Magic Kingdom will reopen early May. They don't have a date, just early May.

Nathan 27:36

Looking forward to that. I love that ride.

Alicea 27:38

Yeah. And then Rock and Roller Coaster reopens later with the Muppets. Um, do you think Gonzo is going to be wearing a leather jacket?

Nathan 27:46

100%. 100%. But what are the chickens going to wear?

Alicea 27:51

The little um the Vegas Showgirl headpieces.

Nathan 27:54

Yes. Mm-hmm. All right. Well, can't wait for that.

Alicea 28:03

Onto the cruise line because the parks are not enough.

Nathan 28:06

Exactly. Exactly. On March 10th, the Disney Adventure went on her maiden voyage. Another floating palace of character breakfasts and controlled chaos.

Alicea 28:18

How controlled is it though? Not very. Yeah. Disney Adventure.

Nathan 28:24

If you're in Concierge, it's very controlled.

Alicea 28:27

I don't know.

Nathan 28:28

Maybe not on that one. Maybe not on that one. Fair enough.

Alicea 28:31

This is a very large ship. This was a ship that Disney bought for pennies on the dollar and kind of reconstituted it to Disney.

Nathan 28:39

Indeed. If you're interested in more, uh, we had Scott Gustin, the world-renowned Disney journalist on a couple few weeks ago at this point. Uh go back, listen to that. He was on the adventure and shared lots of hot takes. Yes. We have a new Wish class ship that was announced the day that Josh D'amaro took over as CEO. We heard the next ship is going to be called the Disney Believe. Yes. Because Wish clearly needed a manifestation partner.

Alicea 29:16

I believe.

Nathan 29:17

Yeah. You could wish for something. You could believe for something. I think you know, you wish that you just you really believe that your destiny is to find treasure.

Alicea 29:30

If you dream it hard enough.

Nathan 29:31

If that's your fantasy.

Alicea 29:32

I guess. I mean I wonder.

Nathan 29:35

I yeah, I don't know. It'd be like magic or something. But um bump, thanks. That's everything. What an adventure. Ha ha

Alicea 29:44

There's more coming. We gotta put them all into one once that's once that's all in 13 of them together. I know. On March 24th, Oriental Land Cruise Co announced uh

Nathan 29:56

they existed.

Alicea 29:57

A wholly owned subsidiary called Disney Cruise Line Japan.

Nathan 30:02

Yeah. Yeah. Well, actually, Oriental Land Company announced that they have created a subsidiary called Oriental Land Cruise Company. Sure. We're we're anyhow, which we knew was gonna happen. We knew that there is a another wish-class ship that is coming that is going to OLC to be homeported out of Japan. What's new from this announcement is they said ships.

Alicea 30:30

Yeah, they did. There's an S on there.

Nathan 30:33

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Alicea 30:35

Now, the first ship is launching in their fiscal year 2028. Don't know when exactly that's gonna be. I believe their fiscal year starts April 1st.

Disney Leadership Changes And Fan Culture

Nathan 30:45

Something like that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So uh yeah. The Tokyo Disney Sea fans are already emotionally invested, we are sure.

Alicea 30:55

Yes. On to some corporate tea leadership edition.

Nathan 30:59

Oh boy.

Alicea 31:00

A lot has happened. Yes. On uh January 15th, Kathleen Kennedy stepped down as president of Lucasfilm.

Nathan 31:09

Nobody saw this coming. This was a surprise.

Alicea 31:12

Yep. Not a surprise, anyway. I didn't think so. Was Dave Filoni and Lynn wen Brennan are now co-CEOs. Yeah. The Star Wars vibes are officially shifting.

Nathan 31:25

Mm-hmm. Uh Dave Filoni is really going to be kind of heading up the creative side of things, and Lynwen will be running the kind of operations and all the rest of that stuff. But uh really great to see uh uh what uh what that pair will do. Now, I'm gonna go on record. Like I thought Kathleen Kennedy did a lot of great stuff. I thought she has been involved with Star Wars almost since the beginning. Yeah. Like she did a fantastic job. I very much disagree and lament the amount of vitriol she got in the fan community. Yeah, I don't think that was deserved at all.

Alicea 32:07

The Star Wars fan community honestly is pretty toxic.

Nathan 32:12

Yeah. As a fellow Star Wars fan, folks, guys, I refer to Wheaton's Law. Don't be a dick.

Alicea 32:20

Yeah.

Nathan 32:21

Anyhow, moving on.

Alicea 32:22

Moving on.

Nathan 32:23

It's a great, big, beautiful D'amaro.

Alicea 32:27

Indeed, it is. On February 2nd, Josh D'amaro was unanimously elected CEO of the Walt Disney Company, and he assumed role on March 18th.

Nathan 32:39

Yep. The uh the parks people everywhere cheered loudly. Yes. Now, also at the same time, we heard that Dana Weldon was named president and chief creative officer for Disney. Uh, this is you know corporate synergy intensifying. Yes. Uh she was a a very strong, I think, runner-up for the CEO position. Yeah. I think one of the biggest concerns that um some in the fan community had was what happens if Dana leaves because she didn't get the top job. And I am so glad that the board and Josh figured out a way to, well, I don't know how much Josh was involved in it. I'm sure he had to be at a certain degree uh uh level. But um the way that they figured this out, I think it's great. It she is uh a fantastic uh person to help steward creative. Yes. And uh I I think between Josh and and Dana, like Disney is set up for a lot of good stuff, and I'm very excited to see what comes out.

Alicea 33:47

Well, and with everything that is that has already been started and things that are in the works right now, it it it's gonna be a very good decade, I think.

Nathan 33:57

Yeah. Yeah. Josh is definitely swinging for the fences here in his first year.

Alicea 34:01

Yep. Yep, yep. And of course, there's a whole bunch of other shifts and changes that happened because of that. Right. Uh because of these these roles moved into. Yeah.

Wrap Up Disclaimers And How To Reach Us

Nathan 34:10

We're not going to uh lay out the litany of musical chairs around uh Disney Company, but just know that uh your favorite executive of one division or another probably just shuffled into their next role and somebody came out uh behind them. Yep. I'm pretty sure it wound its way all the way down to like a a a part-time uh street sweeper got promoted to full-time. Like it just went through the whole company. There you go. Well, that is our random and chaotic look at uh the news coming out of uh Disney over the last quarter or so and uh a few things that we can look forward to on the film front. Yeah, there's a lot of really good stuff coming out of Disney right now.

Alicea 34:56

Yeah, yeah. I'm very excited for the next five, six years, definitely.

Nathan 35:01

Yep. And I'm uh even more excited for dinner tonight. Napa Rose. Let's go. All right. Well, remember, folks, we are not affiliated with Disney or their subsidiaries. These are personal opinions and suggestions and things we read off the news on the internet. Uh, the opinions and suggestions are based on our own experiences, though. Just remember we're affiliated with fun snacks and questionable decisions. We make questionable decisions all the time.

Alicea 35:29

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Nathan 35:37

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Alicea 35:50

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Nathan 35:51

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Alicea 36:02

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Nathan 36:08

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Alicea 36:42

Fancy that.

Nathan 36:43

I know. It's almost like I I set that up. Yeah, I did that. That was me.

Alicea 36:48

What? Well, thank you for listening. We will be in your ears next week.

Nathan 36:52

Bye-bye.

Intro 36:54

Thank you for flying Star Tours. Bye.