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Episodes

June 27, 2022

The Disney Dish Episode 380: How the Disney Institute transformed into Saratoga Springs

News, survey, and a walk and talk around Saratoga Springs
June 19, 2022

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill - Episode 379: Aulani delivers the Disney Resort experience you used to get stateside

Chrissy, Len, and Jim talk about the past and the future of Aulani and the House of the Future
June 13, 2022

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill Episode 378: Looking back on Fort Wilderness’ abandoned expansion plans from the mid-1970s

jim talks about how Pioneer Hall was supposed to have been the very first part of Florida’s Frontier Town project
June 6, 2022

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill Episode 377: How Walt Disney made his Imagineers walk in the Guests shoes

Jim tells us about the last time the WDW Railroad went through an extensive refurbishment, and why.
May 30, 2022

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill - Episode 376: How Walter Cronkite wound up narrating “Spaceship Earth”

Jim gives us the history of the Walter Cronkite narration of Spaceship Earth, which had its debut back in May of 1986.
May 30, 2022

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill - Episode 376: How Walter Cronkite wound up narrating “Spaceship Earth”

Jim gives us the history of the Walter Cronkite narration of Spaceship Earth, which had its debut back in May of 1986.
May 22, 2022

Disney Dish Episode 375: Survey sez: Disney World knows that Genie+ is a failure

Jim wraps up the history of how “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” influenced Disney theme parks.
May 16, 2022

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill Episode 374: Is Universal looking to add even more magic to its “Wizarding World” ?:

Jim continues with the movie “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” and its influence on Disney theme parks.
May 9, 2022

Disney Dish Episode 373: How “Cosmic Rewind” compares to other WDW attractions

Jim starts a new series about Disney’s science-based gimmick comedies of the 1960s & 1970s
April 24, 2022

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill Episode 371:: Get ready for Victoria & Albert’s return

The formation of the Reedy Creek Improvement District, Part III
April 11, 2022

Disney Dish Episode 369: The Origin of the Reedy Creek Improvement District

Jim Hill gives us the history of the Reedy Creek Improvement District, Disney’s own government entity in Central Florida.
April 4, 2022

Disney Dish Episode 368: Love Bug Days at Disneyland

Jim Hill talks about “Love Bug Day” at Disneyland to celebrate the movie Herbie the Love Bug.
March 28, 2022

Disney Dish Episode 367: Which modern Disney attractions should be considered classics

In our main segment, Jim Hill and Len Testa propose which attractions are the “modern classics” in Disney theme parks.
March 21, 2022

Disney Dish Episode 366: What’s good to eat at this year’s Flower & Garden Festival

What not to miss at this year’s International Flower & Garden Festival
March 14, 2022

Disney Dish Episode 365: Which attraction inspired the AquaMouse on the Disney Wish

Jim Hill gives us the background on Crush ‘n’ Gusher, the water-powered roller coaster over at Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon
March 4, 2022

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill Episode 364: What the first public cruise aboard the Halcyon was like

Christina and Len talk about their stay on the Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser!
Feb. 28, 2022

The Disney Dish with Jim Hill Episode 363: Looking back on “One More Disney Day”

Jim gives us the history of One More Disney Day - the 24-hour live event that happened on February 29, 2012.
Feb. 21, 2022

Disney Dish Episode 362: Will Storyliving by Disney work without a theme park nearby

Jim finishes up the history of EPCOT’s Communicore attractions.
Feb. 14, 2022

Disney Dish Episode 361: How WDW Entertainment wants to fix “HarmonioUS”

Jim and Len continue their look at what CommuniCore was like when EPCOT Center first opened back in October of 1982
Feb. 7, 2022

Disney Dish Episode 360: The Very Best Eats at EPCOT’s Festival of the Arts

How Imagineer George Rester designed EPCOT’s CommuniCore section
Jan. 31, 2022

Disney Dish Dish Episode 359: Why WDI struggled when it came to Communicore

Jim looks back at the history of EPCOT’s Communicore attractions, which was last visited by guests on this date in 1994.
Jan. 24, 2022

Disney Dish Episode 358: Disney World fumbles for a 50th anniversary fix

Len Testa & Jim Hill look at the development of “The Iron Man Experience” at Hong Kong Disneyland