The WDW News Today Podcast - Standard Episodes

Join me, Tom Corless, and a cast including Anthony Yacullo, Justin Heyman, and Scott Smith for a variety show that celebrates the Walt Disney World Resort and its many fans. So what are you waiting for? Let’s celebrate another week of information and fun on the WDW News Today Podcast!!! To kick off this week's show, we have the return of "The Golden Age". In this controversial discussion featuring The Land pavilion at Epcot, we will continue our quest land by land, area by area, and space by space throughout the Vacation Kingdom to find what is truly the Golden Age of the entire Walt Disney World Resort. Finally, to conclude this week's program, we have yet another edition of Town Square Talk with Mayor Justin Heyman, filling you in on everything going on around the WDWNT Network. In this week's trip down Main Street WDWNT, we'll have all the details on our next special edition of WDWNT Live!, a change in the event dates for WDWNT: The Weekend, and more about a huge new project about to debut from the WDWNT Network. If you would like to contact us with any questions, suggestions, comments, or concerns you can email us at wdwnewstoday@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail message at (206)-666-2982. Be sure to discuss this show, see our show notes, and vote for the segments you want to hear every week by going over to the WDWNT Network Community Forums at www.wdwnewstoday.com/forums. Please visit the official “WDWNT: The Weekend” website and sign up for the WDWNT: The Weekend event newsletter at WDWNTtheWeekend.com. Be sure to visit often as event details are updated quite regularly.

Join me, Tom Corless, and a cast including Anthony Yacullo, Justin Heyman, Chris Lastrapes, Brandon Struve, Steve Swanson, and Scott Smith for a variety show that celebrates the Walt Disney World Resort and its many fans. So what are you waiting for? Let’s celebrate another spooky week of information and fun on the WDW News Today Podcast!!! To kick off this week's show, we have a not-so-scary edition of the Walt Disney World Resort News and Rumor Report. In this week's report, we'll be discussing some fresh paint being applied throughout the Magic Kingdom, some major character meet and greet changes at Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park, and the addition of the first new monorail color to the Walt Disney World fleet in over 38 years. Following the report, WDWNT Reporter Brandon Struve takes on another audio adventure, this time to the debut of Tiana's Showboat Jubilee at the Magic Kingdom. To conclude this week's show, we have another installment of our Walt Disney World history segment, Back to the Future. In this week's trip through time, we'll be looking at the history of one of the scariest and most amazing thrill rides in Disney history, the original Twilight Zone Tower of Terror at Disney's Hollywood Studios. It's a fun discussion as we delve into the fascinating story of the Hollywood Tower Hotel and the Disney magic behind this groundbreaking E-ticket attraction. If you would like to contact us with any questions, suggestions, comments, or concerns you can email us at wdwnewstoday@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail message at (206)-666-2982. Be sure to discuss this show, see our show notes, and vote for the segments you want to hear every week by going over to the WDWNT Network Community Forums at www.wdwnewstoday.com/forums. Please visit the official “WDWNT: The Weekend” website and sign up for the WDWNT: The Weekend event newsletter at WDWNTtheWeekend.com. Be sure to visit often as event details are updated quite regularly.

Join me, Tom Corless, and a cast including Anthony Yacullo, Justin Heyman, Scott Smith, and General Voiceover (Brian Sommer) for a variety show that celebrates the Walt Disney World Resort and its many fans. So what are you waiting for? Let’s celebrate another week of information and fun on the WDW News Today Podcast!!! We're celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Wonders of Life pavilion at Epcot on this week's show. To kick off the celebration, we'll go back in time with some of the sounds of the pavilion, including audio from Body Wars, Cranium Command, and Goofy About Health. Following that, we have a very special edition of our newest segment, "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", where we will be dissecting the pavilion's many "wonders" from top to bottom. This pavilion may be gone, but we hope you enjoy our celebration of the "life" of The Wonders of Life this week on the WDW News Today Podcast. If you would like to contact us with any questions, suggestions, comments, or concerns you can email us at wdwnewstoday@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail message at (206)-666-2982. Be sure to discuss this show, see our show notes, and vote for the segments you want to hear every week by going over to the WDWNT Network Community Forums at www.wdwnewstoday.com/forums. Please visit the official “WDWNT: The Weekend” website and sign up for the WDWNT: The Weekend event newsletter at WDWNTtheWeekend.com. Be sure to visit often as event details are updated quite regularly.

Join me, Tom Corless, and a cast including Brandon Struve, Chris Lastrapes, Anthony Yacullo, Justin Heyman, and Scott Smith for a variety show that celebrates the Walt Disney Company and its many fans. So what are you waiting for? Let’s celebrate another week of Disney information and fun on the WDW News Today Podcast!!! To kick off this week’s show, we have the return of our newest segment, "The Golden Age". In this controversial discussion featuring the wilds of Adventureland at the Magic Kingdom, we will continue our quest land by land, area by area, and space by space, throughout the Vacation Kingdom to find what is truly the Golden Age of the entire Walt Disney World Resort. Following that, we have a very special audio segment from our own Brandon Struve, as he take us inside the brand-new "Sum of All Thrills" Innoventions exhibit presented by Raytheon which opened earlier this week. Brandon will walk us through the entire interactive attraction and you'll even get to hear the entire pre-show for this thrilling new Epcot experience. If you would like to contact us with any questions, suggestions, comments, or concerns you can email us at wdwnewstoday@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail message at (206)-666-2982. Be sure to discuss this show, see our show notes, and vote for the segments you want to hear every week by going over to the WDWNT Network Community Forums at www.wdwnewstoday.com/forums. Please visit the official “WDWNT: The Weekend” website and sign up for the WDWNT: The Weekend event newsletter at WDWNTtheWeekend.com. Be sure to visit often as event details are updated quite regularly.

Join me, Tom Corless, and a cast including Chris Lastrapes, Anthony Yacullo, Justin Heyman, and Scott Smith for a variety show that celebrates the Walt Disney Company and its many fans. So what are you waiting for? Let’s celebrate another week of Disney information and fun on the WDW News Today Podcast!!! To kick off this week’s show, we have your Walt Disney World Resort News and Rumor Report. In this week's report, we'll be discussing some surprising changes to the Tomorrowland Transit Authority (TTA) at the Magic Kingdom, Disney's first official step into the wonderful world of online blogs, and information on how showing kindness in your community can earn you free admission to a Disney theme park in 2010. Following the report, we have a special SURPRISE audio segment we hope you will enjoy!!! To conclude the program, we have another edition of one of our newest segments, "The World's Finest". In our continuing effort to find the best of Walt Disney World in each and every category, we'll be trying to decide what is truly the best roller coaster in all of the Vacation Kingdom. If you would like to contact us with any questions, suggestions, comments, or concerns you can email us at wdwnewstoday@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail message at (206)-666-2982. Be sure to discuss this show, see our show notes, and vote for the segments you want to hear every week by going over to the WDWNT Network Community Forums at www.wdwnewstoday.com/forums. Please visit the official “WDWNT: The Weekend” website and sign up for the WDWNT: The Weekend event newsletter at WDWNTtheWeekend.com. Be sure to visit often as event details are updated quite regularly.

Join me, Tom Corless, and a cast including Chris Lastrapes, Anthony Yacullo, Justin Heyman, and Scott Smith for a variety show that celebrates the Walt Disney Company and its many fans. So what are you waiting for? Let’s celebrate another week of Disney information and fun on the WDW News Today Podcast!!! To kick off this week's show, we have your Walt Disney World Resort News and Rumor Report. This week's report may just be the biggest and most important ever as we discuss the continuing construction going on in Tomorrowland, the huge expansion of Fantasyland coming to the Magic Kingdom, the long awaited sequel/prequel of Star Tours opening in 2011 at Disney's Hollywood Studios, an upcoming refurbishment of Muppetvision 3-D, and many other news topics. Following the report, we have yet another installment of our Walt Disney World history segment, "Back to the Future". In this week's trip through time, we'll be looking at the history of the short-lived Discovery River Boats at Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park. It's a fun discussion as we delve into the fascinating story of the extinct attraction, and we'll even tell you where you can still take a cruise on one of these giant vessels today. If you would like to contact us with any questions, suggestions, comments, or concerns you can email us at wdwnewstoday@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail message at (206)-666-2982. Be sure to discuss this show, see our show notes, and vote for the segments you want to hear every week by going over to the WDWNT Network Community Forums at www.wdwnewstoday.com/forums. Please visit the official “WDWNT: The Weekend” website and sign up for the WDWNT: The Weekend event newsletter at WDWNTtheWeekend.com. Be sure to visit often as event details are updated quite regularly.

Join me, Tom Corless, and a cast including Kenny Siegel, Shawn Hutchison, Lee Scott, Matt Paul, Scott Smith, and Luke Manning for a variety show that celebrates the Walt Disney Company and its many fans. So what are you waiting for? Let’s celebrate another week of Disney information and fun on the WDW News Today Podcast!!! To begin our look back at the D23 Expo, we have a round-table discussion featuring everyone from the WDWNT Network staff who attended the event and we'll try to pick out the highlights of the amazing four day extravaganza from each and every corner of the Walt Disney Company. Following the discussion, we turn our attention to the Disney Parks and what is on the way to our favorite vacation destinations. The first live audio clips we have to share are interviews I conducted with Disney Imagineers about the biggest displays from the Disney Parks and Resorts pavilion, featuring two of the biggest expansions in the history of the Disney Theme Parks. Following that, we have audio from the press conference following the announcement of the huge Fantasyland Expansion for Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom and the addition of Star Tours II to Disneyland Park and Disney's Hollywood Studios. Hopefully this particular clip will give you some insight into these massive and exciting new projects. To wrap up the show, we turn our focus to the west coast and listen in on a press conference concerning Disney's World of Color show coming to Disney's California Adventure in 2010 (our apologies for the low audio quality of this particular segment). For more coverage of the D23 Expo, go to WDWNTube.com and be sure to check out all the great videos from Matt Paul. It's the next best thing to actually having been there!!! If you would like to contact us with any questions, suggestions, comments, or concerns you can email us at wdwnewstoday@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail message at (206)-666-2982. Be sure to discuss this show, see our show notes, and vote for the segments you want to hear every week by going over to the WDWNT Network Community Forums at www.wdwnewstoday.com/forums. Please visit the official “WDWNT: The Weekend” website and sign up for the WDWNT: The Weekend event newsletter at WDWNTtheWeekend.com. Be sure to visit often as event details are updated quite regularly.

Join me, Tom Corless, and a cast including Justin Heyman, Brandon Struve, Anthony Yacullo, Scott Smith, and Luke Manning for a variety show that celebrates the Walt Disney World Resort and its many fans. So what are you waiting for? Let’s celebrate another week of Walt Disney World information and fun on the WDW News Today Podcast!!! To kick off this week's show, we have the return of one of our newest segments, "The World's Finest". In our continuing effort to find the best of Walt Disney World in each and every category, we'll be trying to decide what is truly the best 3-D film attraction in the parks. Finally, to conclude this week's program, we have yet another edition of Town Square Talk with Mayor Justin Heyman to fill you in on everything going on around the WDWNT Network. In this week's trip down Main Street WDWNT, we'll have all the details on some new music blocks you can catch on WDWNTunes, a plethora of new videos available on the WDWNTube Disney Parks videos site, and we'll try to explain just how our new "Golden Age" segment actually works. If you would like to contact us with any questions, suggestions, comments, or concerns you can email us at wdwnewstoday@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail message at (206)-666-2982. Be sure to discuss this show, see our show notes, and vote for the segments you want to hear every week by going over to the WDWNT Network Community Forums at www.wdwnewstoday.com/forums. Please visit the official “WDWNT: The Weekend” website and sign up for the WDWNT: The Weekend event newsletter at WDWNTtheWeekend.com. Be sure to visit often as event details are updated quite regularly.

Join me, Tom Corless, and a cast including Justin Heyman, Brandon Struve, Anthony Yacullo, and Scott Smith for a variety show that celebrates the Walt Disney World Resort and its many fans. So what are you waiting for? Let’s celebrate another week of Walt Disney World information and fun on the WDW News Today Podcast!!! To kick off this week’s show, we have your Walt Disney World Resort News and Rumor Report. In this week’s report, we'll be discussing the return of Stitch to a stage in Tomorrowland, the progress on the Tomorrowland Transit Authority (TTA) refurbishment, and what just might be next for the Disney Parks around the world. Following the report, we have the debut of our first import from the Disneyland News Today Podcast, "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly". In this segment, we will take the topic that you voted for and dissect it to "rassle up" what's good, what's bad, and what's ugly about Mickey's Philharmagic at the Magic Kingdom. In addition, be sure to stay tuned until the very end of the program where we will have all the details on how you can follow our live coverage of the D23 Expo. If you would like to contact us with any questions, suggestions, comments, or concerns you can email us at wdwnewstoday@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail message at (206)-666-2982. Be sure to discuss this show, see our show notes, and vote for the segments you want to hear every week by going over to the WDWNT Network Community Forums at www.wdwnewstoday.com/forums. Please visit the official “WDWNT: The Weekend” website and sign up for the WDWNT: The Weekend event newsletter at WDWNTtheWeekend.com. Be sure to visit often as event details are updated quite regularly.

Join me, Tom Corless, and a cast including Justin Heyman, Jason Diffendal, and Scott Smith for a variety show that celebrates the Walt Disney World Resort and its many fans. So what are you waiting for? Let’s celebrate another week of Walt Disney World information and fun on the WDW News Today Podcast!!! In our one and only segment this week, we have another installment of our Walt Disney World history segment, Back to the Future! In this week's trip through time, we'll be looking at the history of a beloved Epcot classic called Horizons, and it's eventual replacement, Mission: SPACE. It's a fun and lengthy discussion as we delve into the fascinating story of the pavilion's development, death, and demolition, and then talk about the even more controversial tale of the big budget replacement that stands in Epcot today. If you would like to contact us with any questions, suggestions, comments, or concerns you can email us at wdwnewstoday@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail message at (206)-666-2982. Be sure to discuss this show, see our show notes, and vote for the segments you want to hear every week by going over to the WDWNT Network Community Forums at www.wdwnewstoday.com/forums. Please visit the official "WDWNT: The Weekend" website and sign up for the WDWNT: The Weekend event newsletter at WDWNTtheWeekend.com. Be sure to visit often as event details are updated quite regularly.

Join me, Tom Corless, and a cast including Justin Heyman, Chris Lastrapes and Scott Smith for a variety show that celebrates the Walt Disney World Resort and its many fans. So what are you waiting for? Let’s celebrate another week of Walt Disney World information and fun on the WDW News Today Podcast!!! To kick off this week’s show, we have your Walt Disney World Resort Weekend Update. In this week’s update, we will be discussing the future of the Tomorrowland stage at the Magic Kingdom, a new Fastpass option that is currently being tested only at Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park, and the new booking window guests will have beginning October 27th to make all dining, tour, and recreation reservations for Walt Disney World. Following the update, we have the return of our newest segment called "The Golden Age". In this controversial segment featuring the Universe of Energy at Epcot, we will continue our quest land by land, area by area, and space by space throughout the world to find the Golden Age of the entire Walt Disney World Resort. If you would like to contact us with any questions, suggestions, comments, or concerns you can email us at wdwnewstoday@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail message at (206)-666-2982. Be sure to discuss this show, see our show notes, and vote for the segments you want to hear every week by going over to the WDWNT Network Community Forums at www.wdwnewstoday.com/forums. Be sure to sign up for the WDWNT: The Weekend event newsletter at WDWNTtheWeekend.com and stay tuned for the official website launch in August 2009!!!

Join me, Tom Corless, and a cast including Justin Heyman, Anthony Yacullo, and Scott Smith for a variety show that celebrates the Walt Disney World Resort and its many fans. So what are you waiting for? Let’s celebrate another week of Walt Disney World information and fun on the WDW News Today Podcast!!! To kick off this week’s show, we have your Walt Disney World Resort Weekend Update. In this week’s update, we will be discussing some "Princess and the Frog" inspired additions coming to and already in the theme parks, the progress on Space Mountain and the current state of Tomorrowland at the Magic Kingdom, and the "return" of some classic extinct attractions in 2010. Following that, we have a great Walt Disney World based discussion that listener suggested. In this very opinionated round-table, we will be discussing what are possibly the best and worst attraction exits in all of the Walt Disney World theme parks. We're calling this segment "A Grand Exit". If you would like to contact us with any questions, suggestions, comments, or concerns you can email us at wdwnewstoday@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail message at (206)-666-2982. Be sure to discuss this show, see our show notes, and vote for the segments you want to hear every week by going over to the WDWNT Network Community Forums at www.wdwnewstoday.com/forums. Be sure to sign up for the WDWNT: The Weekend event newsletter at WDWNTtheWeekend.com and stay tuned for the official website launch in August 2009!!!

Join me, Tom Corless, and a cast including Justin Heyman, Jose Castillo, Anthony Yacullo, and Scott Smith for a variety show that celebrates the Walt Disney World Resort and its many fans. So what are you waiting for? Let’s celebrate another week of Walt Disney World information and fun on the WDW News Today Podcast!!! To kick off this week's show, we have the return of one of our newest segments, "The World's Finest". In our continuing effort to find the very best of Walt Disney World in each and every category, we'll be trying to decide what is truly the best Table Service restaurant in all of Epcot. After that, we will open up our WDWNT-mail box once again so we can respond to your many emails and voicemails. We hope to make this a regular segment on the program, bringing more interaction between this program and its listeners. If you would like to contact us with any questions, suggestions, comments, or concerns you can email us at wdwnewstoday@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail message at (206)-666-2982. Be sure to discuss this show, see our show notes, and vote for the segments you want to hear every week by going over to the WDWNT Network Community Forums at www.wdwnewstoday.com/forums. Be sure to sign up for the WDWNT: The Weekend event newsletter at WDWNTtheWeekend.com and stay tuned for the official website launch in August 2009!!!

Join me, Tom Corless, and a cast including Justin Heyman, Jason Diffendal, Anthony Yacullo, and Scott Smith for a variety show that celebrates the Walt Disney World Resort and its many fans. So what are you waiting for? Let’s celebrate another week of Walt Disney World information and fun on the WDW News Today Podcast!!! To kick off this week’s show, we have your Walt Disney World Resort Weekend Update. In this week’s update, we will be discussing the official addition of a tequila bar to the Mexico pavilion at Epcot, the new vice presidents of Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park and the Downtown Disney district, and the long awaited addition of a new feature to Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa. Following the Weekend Update, we have the debut of a new segment called "The Golden Age". In this inaugural segment featuring Tomorrowland at the Magic Kingdom, we will begin our quest land by land, area by area, and space by space throughout the world to find "The Golden Age" of the entire Walt Disney World Resort. Town Square Talk is back this week, highlighting the hottest topics around our WDWNT Network of websites and podcasts. On this trip down Main Street WDWNT, we’ll have all the details on some segments you can vote for in WDWNT Interactive, some brand new features of our WDWNTunes website, and talk a little bit more about our upcoming 2010 fan event, WDWNT: The Weekend. If you would like to contact us with any questions, suggestions, comments, or concerns you can email us at wdwnewstoday@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail message at (206)-666-2982. Be sure to discuss this show, see our show notes, and vote for the segments you want to hear every week by going over to the WDWNT Network Community Forums at www.wdwnewstoday.com/forums. Be sure to sign up for the WDWNT: The Weekend event newsletter at WDWNTtheWeekend.com and stay tuned for the official website launch in August 2009!!! Enjoy the Show!!! See Ya Next Week!!!

Join me, Tom Corless, and a cast including Adam Goodger, Craig Duncan, Chris Lastrapes, Scott Smith, and Luke Manning for a variety show that celebrates the Walt Disney World Resort and its many fans. So what are you waiting for? Let’s celebrate another week of Walt Disney World information and fun on the WDW News Today Podcast!!! To kick off this week’s show, Adam Goodger hosts a very special round-table discussion titled "It's Time for a Clear-out". In this discussion, we'll try to decide what attractions at both the Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland Resort Paris need to go. To conclude this week’s program, we have a very special edition of the Disney Brit Trivia Challenge. The WDWNT crew is competing against one another to see who can score the most points and earn bragging right over everyone else. Who will win? Listen in to find out. If you would like to contact us with any questions, suggestions, comments, or concerns you can email us at wdwnewstoday@gmail.com or leave us a voicemail message at (206)-666-2982. Be sure to discuss this show, see our show notes, and vote for the segments you want to hear every week by going over to the WDWNT Network Community Forums at www.wdwnewstoday.com/forums. Be sure to sign up for the WDWNT: The Weekend event newsletter at WDWNTtheWeekend.com and stay tuned for the official website launch in August 2009!!! Enjoy the Show!!! See Ya Next Week!!!