The WDW News Today Podcast - Standard Episodes

Join me, Tom Corless, and a cast including Jason Paul, Jason Diffendal, and Justin Heyman for a variety show dedicated to the Walt Disney World Resort and its many fans. Plenty of Walt Disney World information and fun awaits you on this edition of 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 have a lot to discuss, including rumors of change in the Fantasyland Forest Expansion plans, Kodak leaving the Imagination pavilion at Epcot, and more details on Disney's Art of Animation Resort, amongst a number of topics. Following the report, I have an interview with Disneyland News Today's Jason Paul about the creation of the song you'll hear behind me at the beginning of the show, WDWNT: The Podcast Theme Song. 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. Don’t forget to visit the entire WDWNT Network of Disney-inspired websites and podcasts by visiting www.WDWNT.com

Join me, Tom Corless, and a cast including Scott Smith, Justin Heyman, Banks Lee, Conner Purzycki, and Brandon Struve for a variety show dedicated to the Walt Disney World Resort and its many fans. Plenty of Walt Disney World information and fun awaits you on this edition of the WDW News Today Podcast!!! WDWNT announces the boarding of the Endor Express, non-stop Starspeeder service to episode 161. All passengers, please prepare for immediate boarding. Hello, I am Tom Corless, human-cyborg relations and welcome aboard our Star Tours tribute special. Please make sure your safety restraints are securely fastened for "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly", as well as a special guest interview this week as we say goodbye to the original Star Tours at Disney's Hollywood Studios. Now hang on, tug on your safety straps, and enjoy this week's WDW News Today Podcast. 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. Don’t forget to visit the entire WDWNT Network of Disney-inspired websites and podcasts by visiting www.WDWNT.com

Join me, Tom Corless, and a cast including Scott Smith, Jason Diffendal, Jose Castillo, John Rick, Josh Siegel, John Rick, Banks Lee, Chris Lastrapes, and Brandon Struve for a variety show dedicated to the Walt Disney World Resort and its many fans. Plenty of Walt Disney World information and fun awaits you on this edition of the WDW News Today Podcast!!! To kick off this week's show, we have the complete, un-edited recording of our first-ever live show from the Walt Disney World Resort. It's definitely worth a listen as it features the return of the extremely popular "Where in the World is Tom Corless?", and perhaps the most poorly played edition of "Disney Don't Forget the Lyrics" ever. Following that, a number of staff members from around the WDWNT Network join me for a review of all the festivities from WDWNT: The Weekend. And finally, to wrap up this week's show, we take an in-depth listen to the new Starry-O-Phonic sounds from Space Mountain at the Magic Kingdom. 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. Don't forget to visit the entire WDWNT Network of Disney-inspired websites and podcasts by visiting www.WDWNT.com

Join me, Tom Corless, and a cast including Scott Smith, Jason Diffendal, and Justin Heyman for a variety show dedicated to the Walt Disney World Resort and its many fans. Plenty of Walt Disney World information and fun awaits you on this edition of the WDW News Today Podcast!!! On this week’s show, we have the return of one of most popular segment series, the Walt Disney World dining discussions. We begin this week with a look at table service restaurants at the Magic Kingdom. As you can imagine, the discussion eventually turn s into a heated debate about the Disney Dining Plan, but hopefully this won't make you not tune in to future editions. 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.

Join me, Tom Corless, and a cast including Scott Smith, Anthony Yacullo, and Chris Lastrapes for a variety show dedicated to the Walt Disney World Resort and its many fans. Plenty of Walt Disney World information and fun awaits you on this edition of the WDW News Today Podcast!!! On this week’s show, we have one of our signature segments focusing on one of Walt Disney World's signature attractions. It's "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" of Space Mountain at the Magic Kingdom. We'll go step by step through what we like and don't like about the original version of the world's most famous roller coaster. 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.

Join me, Tom Corless, and a cast including Jason Diffendal, Scott Smith, Brandon Struve, Adam Roth, and Justin Heyman for a variety show dedicated to the Walt Disney World Resort and its many fans. Plenty of Walt Disney World information and fun awaits you on this edition of 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 have a lot to discuss, including the extension of the Main Street Electrical Parade at the Magic Kingdom, the end of High School Musical at Disney's Hollywood Studios, a few updates on Star Tours: The Adventures Continue, and we'll tell you why you may soon be able to spend a night inside the Haunted Mansion on your Walt Disney World vacation. Following the report, WDWNT Reporter Adam Roth joins me to recap the events of Star Wars Celebration V in Orlando, as well as the one-night-only mega-event that was "Last Tour to Endor" at Disney's Hollywood Studios. 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.

Join me, Tom Corless, and a cast including Jason Diffendal, Scott Smith, and Justin Heyman for a variety show dedicated to the Walt Disney World Resort and its many fans. Plenty of Walt Disney World information and fun awaits you on this edition of the WDW News Today Podcast!!! On 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 singing food, rockin' parodies, and flying hang-gliders inside The Land pavilion at Epcot. We'll travel back to the Kitchen Kabaret, and take our time machine all the way up to the cloning of a California Adventure attraction, and beyond. 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 at www.WDWNTtheWeekend.com for information on our first-ever fan event at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. Registration for the event is closing August 15th, so register ASAP!!! WARNING! – The standard/normal edition of The WDW News Today Podcast will be moving to its own feed on August 16, 2010. Please search iTunes for the “Standard Episodes” feed and be sure to subscribe to it if you wish to continue to download only the standard/normal edition of the show. Links to the standard edition RSS Feed and iTunes feed are available in the sidebar of www.wdwnewstoday.com. We apologize for any inconvenience but hope these changes will make downloading and enjoying the show easier for you.

Join me, Tom Corless, and a cast including Jason Diffendal, Banks Lee, Scott Smith, Brandon Struve, Jose Castillo, and Anthony Yacullo for a variety show dedicated to the Walt Disney World Resort and its many fans. Plenty of Walt Disney World information and fun awaits you on this edition of the WDW News Today Podcast!!! To kick off this week's show, we have the fifth edition of our newest segment called "The Top Ten". It's an interactive and fun segment where the WDWNT Podcast Team and our listeners come together to create top ten lists for Walt Disney World in many different categories. We continue this week with the top ten table service restaurants at the Walt Disney World Resort. Following that, we have another edition of Town Square Talk without Mayor Justin Heyman. On this trip down Main Street WDWNT, we'll be providing information on WDWNT: The Weekend (which, might I add, is just three weeks away), the season finale of "See Ya' Real Late", the return of the Super Obscure Show to WDWNTunes, WDWNT: The App, and we'll also be informing you of a very important change that will affect how you download this program every week. 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 at www.WDWNTtheWeekend.com for information on our first-ever fan event at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. Registration for the event is closing August 15th, so register ASAP!!! WARNING! – The standard/normal edition of The WDW News Today Podcast will be moving to its own feed on August 16, 2010. Please search iTunes for the “Standard Episodes” feed and be sure to subscribe to it if you wish to continue to download only the standard/normal edition of the show. Links to the standard edition RSS Feed and iTunes feed are available in the sidebar of www.wdwnewstoday.com. We apologize for any inconvenience but hope these changes will make downloading and enjoying the show easier for you.

Join me, Tom Corless, and a cast including Jason Diffendal, Banks Lee, Scott Smith, and Anthony Yacullo for a variety show dedicated to the Walt Disney World Resort and its many fans. Plenty of Walt Disney World information and fun awaits you on this edition of the WDW News Today Podcast!!! On this week's show, we have a huge edition of the Walt Disney World Resort News and Rumor Report. In this week's report, we have a lot to discuss, including the 2010 Epcot International Food and Wine Festival, the return of Captain EO, a new experience coming later this year to Disney's Animal Kingdom, and what you can expect during the 2010 holiday season at the Walt Disney World Resort, just to name a few of the topics we'll be covering. 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. Registration is now open and our event is filling-up fast, so register ASAP!!! WARNING! - The standard/normal edition of The WDW News Today Podcast will be moving to its own feed on August 16, 2010. Please search iTunes for the "Standard Episodes" feed and be sure to subscribe to it if you wish to continue to download only the standard/normal edition of the show. Links to the standard edition RSS Feed and iTunes feed are available in the sidebar of www.wdwnewstoday.com/blog. We apologize for any inconvenience but hope these changes will make downloading and enjoying the show easier for you.

Join me, Tom Corless, and a cast including Jason Diffendal, Brandon Struve, Banks Lee, Scott Smith, and Chris Lastrapes for a variety show dedicated to the Walt Disney World Resort and its many fans. Plenty of Walt Disney World information and fun awaits you on this edition of the WDW News Today Podcast!!! To kick off this week's show, we have another edition of "The Golden Age". In this discussion featuring the Magic Kingdom Resort area, 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 the report, we have a special piece of audio I recorded while out at the Disneyland Resort last week, featuring the re-dedication of the park for its milestone 55th anniversary. 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. Registration is now open and our event is filling-up fast, so register ASAP!!!

An enhanced podcast is a podcast with added features that standard podcasts do not have. Enhanced podcasts include advancements such as Chapter listings, this allows you to skip through segments or see all of the contents of this show. Enhanced podcasts also contain images allowing you to differ the chapters by or actually see a picture of what the podcaster is talking about. Enhanced podcasts have only one negative feature, you can not play them on most basic mp3 players. The file format for an Enhanced Podcast file is .m4a, which can play on an Apple iPod or a Microsoft Zune. If you need or would like a standard show, download the normal edition listed below this file. We hope you enjoy this WDWNT Network enhanced podcast. Join me, Tom Corless, and a cast including Jason Diffendal, Justin Heyman, John Coriglano, Scott Smith, and Chris Lastrapes for a variety show dedicated to the Walt Disney World Resort and its many fans. Plenty of Walt Disney World information and fun awaits you on this edition of the WDW News Today Podcast!!! This week we have a ver special edition of the WDWNT Podcast. In honor of our 3 year anniversary this week, this show is something a little different, we're calling it "The Happiest Homecoming in Ears". We're bringing back a classic retired segment from the WDWNT vault and an old friend will be returning in one our signature segments. To kick off this week's show, we have the long-awaited return of everyone's favorite game show, "Disney Don't Forget the Lyrics". Following that, 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 Splash Mountain at the Magic Kingdom. All this and much more Walt Disney World information and fun awaits you on this 3rd Anniversary Edition of WDW News Today Podcast. 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. Registration is now open and our event is filling-up fast, so register ASAP!!!

Join me, Tom Corless, and a cast including Justin Heyman, Jason Diffendal, Brandon Struve, and Banks Lee for a variety show dedicated to the Walt Disney World Resort and its many fans. Plenty of Walt Disney World information and fun awaits you on this edition of the WDW News Today Podcast!!! On this week's show, we're celebrating the anniversaries of two attractions from Tomorrowland at the Magic Kingdom, the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter and the WEDway Peoplemover. To kick off this celebration, we'll be dissecting Alien Encounter in honor of its 15th anniversary with one of our signature segments: "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly". Following that, we have a rather "moving" 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 revolutionary ride system that stunned the world at the 1964 World's Fair, defined a generation at Disneyland, and eventually advanced theme parks into a new era at Walt Disney World: the WEDway Peoplemover. We'll travel back to the beginning and see where this attraction has its roots planted, and travel all the way to today where it's know at the Tomorrowland Transit Authority, or more affectionately as the TTA. 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. Registration is now open and our event is filling-up fast, so register ASAP!!!

Join host Tom Corless for the WDW News Today Podcast Awards, a celebration of 150 episodes of WDWNT! Special guests, surprising moments, and more make up one of the most memorable episodes of the show ever!!! It all begins with "WDWNT at 150: A Magical, Musical Look Back". The greatest moments in the history of the WDW News Today Podcast have been assembled into a single montage of the people, moments, and insanity that have made WDWNT what it is today. The fun continues with our "Virtual Red Carpet Special". Banks Lee and Brandon Struve interview guests as they arrive for the WDW News Today Podcast Awards (and buy time as the show is delayed due to technical difficulties). To cap it all off, it's the actual awards show! You voted, now it's time to see who are the winners at the first (and hopefully last) WDW News Today Podcast Awards! 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. Registration is now open and our event is filling-up fast, so register ASAP!!!

Join me, Tom Corless, and a cast including Justin Heyman, Scott Smith, Anthony Yacullo, and Banks Lee for a variety show dedicated to the Walt Disney World Resort and its many fans. Plenty of Walt Disney World information and fun awaits you on this edition of 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 new details on two exciting upcoming Walt Disney World attractions, Under the Sea: Journey of the Little Mermaid and Star Tours II, among a number of topics. Following the news, we have a very special presentation. Since we had some technical issues this week and couldn't get our second segment done, we're going to give you a chance to catch an episode of our new late night talk show, "See Ya' Real Late" with Tom Corless. Hopefully, we'll be able to persuade a you to stay up with us on select nights this summer for our most ambitious project yet after you have a listen to exactly what we've been up to. All this and much more Walt Disney World information and fun awaits you on this week's WDW News Today Podcast. 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. Registration is now open and our event is filling-up fast, so register ASAP!!!

Welcome to a very special edition of the WDW News Today Podcast and the Disneyland News Today Podcast. I am you host Tom Corless, and I'll be taking you on a coast-to-coast adventure from the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida to the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. The reason? To cover all the excitement of the bi-coastal seasonal campaign known as Disney's Summer Nightastic. To start our trip, Banks Lee and Brandon Struve will help me review the Walt Disney World offerings taking place between June 6th and August 14th. We'll follow that up with some binaural audio of the Main Street Electrical Parade at the Magic Kingdom and an amusing trip aboard the recently enhanced Twilight Zone Tower of Terror at Disney's Hollywood Studios. We'll then head west to the Disneyland Resort where Chris Lastrapes, Conner Purzycki, and Sean Dickey will help me re-cap the California offerings you can catch between June 11th and August 29th, including the new nighttime spectacular at Disney California Adventure: World of Color. Our colorful coverage doesn't stop there, as we then will feature binaural audio of the opening ceremony and premiere performance of the show, some source audio of the entire World of Color spectacular, and interviews with three individuals who were instrumental in the creation of this new nighttime masterpiece. So let's not waste another moment, it's time to dive into Summer Nightastic for a podcast that will have you saying "Let's Go To Disney's Summer Nightastic". 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. Registration is now open and our event is filling-up fast, so register ASAP!!!