Episode 74 - There Is Something Wrong With Us

[John]

The INTERCOT Insider Disney Podcast
Episode 74 - There Is Something Wrong With Us!
The Crew: Cindy Jachrimo, Melanie Bounds, Ian Mitchell & John Yaglenski


- Epcot reference right off the bat.
- Missing but not missing the Oscars.
- Ticket Prices increase, break $100 for the first time. *Comparing other parks. Pass options. Non-Expiration option is gone.
- Annual passes for the water parks? *Didn’t know they existed.
- Orlando becoming an upscale market?
- John’s Trip. *4 hours refreshing the browser to find a room at the last minute.*
- All Star Movies started the stay. John thinks he has outgrown staying there. Likes AOA and Pop Century though. *Food court is still an issue. *Different lines for everything is a nightmare for a family.
- Day 1 to Epcot! Enjoyed LaCava and then moved on to Germany. *
- Day 2 to Universal. Warm Butterbeer is excellent!
- Day 3 random act of Disney kindness. To refresh the magic - take someone who hasn’t gone to the park before with you.*
- John loved Monsieur Paul - one of the best meals he has ever had at Walt Disney World.
- The last 3 hours of John’s vacation. What was supposed to be fun turned into a disappointing experience in crowd management and monorail maintenance. System needs some love. May be time to set aside some funds toward system upgrades.
- Speedway closing for transportation improvements. *Wondering if that means an improved guest experience into the Magic Kingdom parking lot?
- Can’t imagine Disney without monorails…
- Our special guest - Ana Fallas of the Disney Parks Mom’s Panel. She tells her story of a 7 year jouney to where she is today. Tells of her mom saving and how she contributed by babysitting to go to Disney World. Magical Moments at Epcot with a first step. We step through her favorites park by park!
- INTERCOT’s Take It or Leave It - None of us can remember what we were supposed to do! Mel - Leave It, Cindy - Leave it, Ian - Leave It, John - Leave It.
- Jungle Cruise Restaurant coming to Adventureland Verandah! *New restaurant.
- #runICOT & #cheerICOT 2016 planning and Paris run as well. Light the Night in Celebration, Florida.*
- We still love the mouse after all these years. *Plenty of magic still left to go around.
- Spread the random Acts of Disney Kindness - buy someone a Mickey Bar. Be Good and Do Good.


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[goofy for pluto]

Great Podcast.

When Disneyland first opened the monorail was considered an attraction, not just as transportation.
I am sorry to hear about all the issues John had trying to get to the park from the Poly. and I hope he isn't correct about the buses being the future. Totally agree with him when he said.
"I don't want to visit a Walt Disney World without a monorail"

[dpamac]

We should make the INTERCOT Do Good Be Good spread the kindness a thing...

[disneykidsince1970]

So happy to see the podcast on my itouch this morning!

*more comments later but for now...

Take it or Leave it.. TAKE it BUT... would be great if they could take more fun, random shots. I also take LOADS of pix...but I never actually IN them. One day, my kids will ask where I was all the times we went to Disney...

my point is that I would like to have more WITH ME ... but wish that the photographers wouldn't take so long to take the perfect shot... The perfect shot in front of the castle is great... but I don't need a lot of them.

I would rather have photographers in more locations where you could get really quick shots, just for fun...

We did Memory Maker this last trip and I have great shots of all of us on the rides (movies of us on the Mine Train too) and a few fun ones in Epcot but..

We had decided to spring for the VIP tour on our 2nd day and so, b/c we were shuttled around "behind the scenes" - we didn't take even 1 shot with a Disney photographer all day. At the very end, we asked the tour guide to take a few shots of us but by then, we were so tired, no one had a lot of bandwidth..and we looked a bit haggard. It would have been great to have random "action" shots of all of us or just the kids...but perhaps this would slow down the traffic flow too much?

Can't wait to listen to the rest!

Carolyn

[cer]

"A Disneyworld without monorails is not a place I want to go." -J. Yaglenski

This.

If we need to start a campaign or make tshirts with this quote and start the #savethemonorail hashtag. I am in full support.

The speculation of the future of the monorail was the saddest part of the podcast. I hope they protect it.

Show some love to the monorails!

[disneykidsince1970]

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if we need to start a campaign or make tshirts with this quote and start the #savethemonorails! Hashtag. I am in full support.

Show some love to the monorails!

love that!!

[PopPhan]

"A Disneyworld without monorails is not a place I want to go." -J. Yaglenski

OR....In Spanish "Un Disneyworld sin monorraíles no es un lugar que quiero ir"

C'mon, if you are going to talk monorails......

[Tink1]

We should make the INTERCOT Do Good Be Good spread the kindness a thing...

agree

N