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It’s an audio theme park party — and you’re invited! Have a vacation question, Epcot comment or Galaxy’s Edge hot take your friends no longer wanna listen to? Call us at 747-CHURROS (747-248-7767) and we might play your call on a future episode!
Hello hello hello! Join Daren Ulmer, Founder and Chief Creative at Mousetrappe, who teaches us how projection mapping works and how your favorite theme park nighttime shows are created and hear from the Los Angeles Times' Todd Martens, who shares his expertise about interactivity at theme parks and how we'll experience attractions, merchandise and apps differently in the future!
RELEVANT LINKS:
Luminarium Shadowbox! Mousetrappe!
The Magic, The Memories and You!
Todd Martens' Website! Todd's Meow Wolf story!
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Very Amusing is your go-to podcast for having fun with travel, whether it's with theme parks, Disney World, Disneyland, Universal, Shrek, roller coasters, amusement parks, rides, attractions or other shenanigans!
Join Scott Trowbridge, Portfolio Creative Executive at Walt Disney Imagineering, as he gives us a crash course on why new Audio-Animatronics are so impressive, how far robotics have come and even spills some secrets about *that incredible moment* on Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance (!!!) Come for new knowledge of Disney's animatronic figures, stay for a dedication to your favorite discontinued snacks and me getting fully owned by Olu Mel!
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Very Amusing is your go-to podcast for having fun with travel, whether it's with theme parks, Disney World, Disneyland, Universal, Shrek, roller coasters, amusement parks, rides, attractions or other shenanigans!
Welcome to our interview-packed exploration into how the best parts of your favorite theme parks are created!
This week's episode explores the three-year process behind Universal Orlando Resort's new boundary-bending stage stunt show, The Bourne Stuntacular and gains insight from the genius creating some of the best costumed characters on the planet! (That's right — we're learning about how some of the best Universal characters costumes are made, including Guy Diamond, the troll that farts glitter!)
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Very Amusing is your go-to podcast for having fun with travel, whether it's with theme parks, Disney World, Disneyland, Universal, Shrek, roller coasters, amusement parks, rides, attractions or other shenanigans!
Everything you’ve ever, ever, EVER wanted to know about what it’s like to write about theme parks, from the people who do it. We're giving you a VIP tour of what press events are really like, how to conduct interviews with Imagineers, the silly secrets of taking hard hat tours of unbuilt Disney and Universal theme park rides before they open to the public and so much more!
Thanks to our special guests….. VALERIE MARINO! DEANNE REVEL! GABRIELLE RUSSON! ARTHUR LEVINE! CRAIG WILLIAMS!
Relevant links...
Gabrielle's Volcano Bay stories!
Sabrina The Teenage Witch goes to Disney World!
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Very Amusing is your go-to podcast for having fun with travel, whether it's with theme parks, Disney World, Disneyland, Universal, Shrek, roller coasters, amusement parks, rides, attractions or other shenanigans!
Welcome to week two of our theme park food bonanza! This week focuses on solving your long-held Disney and Universal food mysteries. Take a look inside Disney's most exclusive (and secretive!) restaurant, chat with food journalists about Dole Whip secrets and grilled cheese surprises, hear about the way Epcot's festivals come together and get the details on the NBA's underground hotel coffee shop run by Jimmy Butler at Disney World's Grand Floridian Resort Hotel!
Thanks to our special guests…..
JASON CONCEPCION! AJ WOLFE! SHAY SPENCE! VALERIE MARINO! TIFFANY MINK!
Relevant Links...
WATCH NBA DESKTOP'S DISNEY EPISODE!
WATCH DISNEY FOOD BLOG ON YOUTUBE!
READ VALERIE'S STORY ON DOLE WHIP!
READ VALERIE'S STORY ON MARKHAM'S!
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Very Amusing is your go-to podcast for having fun with travel, whether it's with theme parks, Disney World, Disneyland, Universal, Shrek, roller coasters, amusement parks, rides, attractions or other shenanigans!
Take a peek inside Disney World's top-secret food laboratory! Find out how Magic Kingdom dreams up their incredible Halloween snacks! Discover how Universal created The Wizarding World of Harry Potter Butterbeer from scratch!
Learn food secrets from both theme parks and the many ways Universal's Halloween Horror Nights houses directly inspire their foods!
Relevant Links...
DAVID'S FOOD & WINE STORY on Disney's Flavor Lab
MY TRAVEL + LEISURE STORY on Disney's Flavor Lab
Thanks to our special guest…..
DAVID LANDSEL! (READ DAVID LANDSEL's stories!)
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Very Amusing is your go-to podcast for having fun with travel, whether it's with theme parks, Disney World, Disneyland, Universal, Shrek, roller coasters, amusement parks, rides, attractions or other shenanigans!
In April 2020, hundreds of Disney Parks exclusive Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge Coca Cola sodas mysteriously appeared at an Alabama supermarket.
How did they make their way from a far-flung Disney theme park planet to a discount grocery store? We're about to find out.
Thanks to our special guests…..
@EscapedStitch, @Schmoofy, Clayton Williams and the one and only ROBIN LOPEZ!
The Monorail Times for suggesting this episode!
EVERYONE who reached out to teach me about food distribution!!!
Cheers to our in-house re-enactment correspondent, actress and writer Alexandra Ford! Cast Alexandra to do wonderful acting for you!
Relevant Links...
ESCAPED STITCH'S TWEET that kicked it all off!
ALL THE SODAS at Tate's Supermarket!
SCHMOOFY'S great disappointment!
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Very Amusing is your go-to podcast for having fun with travel, whether it's with theme parks, Disney World, Disneyland, Universal, Shrek, roller coasters, amusement parks, rides, attractions or other shenanigans!
Welcome to a bonanza of haunts, surprises and (somewhat) solved mysteries: yes, it's our very first Mailbag episode, and these calls are ANYTHING but standard.
Come for the laughs, stay for the final word on why birds aren't just constantly flying into the Monorail openings at Disney's Contemporary Resort!
Thanks to our special guests…..
Defunctland's KEVIN PERJURER!
and EVERYONE WHO CALLED IN and ANSWERED!
Relevant Links...
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Very Amusing is your go-to podcast for having fun with travel, whether it's with theme parks, Disney World, Disneyland, Universal, Shrek, roller coasters, amusement parks, rides, attractions or other shenanigans!
The never-before-heard story of how Stacey J. Aswad, famed host of Walt Disney World Resort TV in-room programming, once hosted a documentary inside a memorabilia-packed home that's...more familiar to fans than they'd expect.
Come for the mind-melding details of that doc; stay for the insights about filming Top 7 Must See's and Must Do Disney, as well as the shocking reveal of one of Stacey's biggest fans (!!!)
Thanks to our special guests…..
RICHARD KRAFT! NICKY KRAFT! STACEY J. ASWAD!
Relevant Links...
CLIPS OF STACEY IN "FINDING KRAFTLAND"
VARIETY'S STORY ON "THAT'S FROM DISNEYLAND"
STACEY'S VO BUZZ WEEKLY SERIES
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Very Amusing is your go-to podcast for having fun with travel, whether it's with theme parks, Disney World, Disneyland, Universal, Shrek, roller coasters, amusement parks, rides, attractions or other shenanigans!
It's the first episode of HIDDEN MICKEYS, our series where we occasionally abandon the entire format of the podcast to speak with a noteworthy celebrity who also happens to be a major theme park fan.
This week we have writer, actor and podcasting king Paul Scheer (Veep, How Did This Get Made, Black Monday) What you may not know, however, is that Paul is a major Disney nut who has secret Star Wars intel, plenty of Pandora — The World of Avatar opinions and a bucketful of DVC points. Stay tuned 'til the end for a Duffy & Friends surprise!
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