MiceCast

Epcot's World Showcase has neglected spots like Morocco and open areas ready for new countries. Your hosts debate which pavilions to skip, refresh, or replace with Australia and South America. 47 Minutes.

Disney sacrificed the original Epcot Future World vision on the altar of IP and kiddie attractions. Your hosts dig into what was lost, what should have stayed, and why characters never belonged there. 53 Minutes.

New Disneyland president Jill Estorino discusses first impressions from parking to bag checks and security screening. The hosts call the coverage and comments word salad while sharing why the current system still feels inconsistent and intrusive. 60 Minutes.

Jeff from the Meandering Mouse joins MiceCast to revisit the early days of Disney podcasting. For the Halloween season we also include a ghost story from the Golden Horseshoe. The old 2006 clip still hits different, and the hosts don't hold back on how the parks have changed since then. 108 Minutes.

From the original post that started the chatter, to the ridiculous comments about the mountain sinking, the track never being replaced, and the submarine lagoon somehow holding the whole thing up with water weight, your hosts walk through the real-world reasons none of this adds up. An $800 million price tag for a rebuild (roughly the cost of an entire land like Galaxy’s Edge) and a former WDI...

Disneyland guests treat the original attractions like sacred cows. Magic Kingdom guests? Not so much.The hosts dig into why Imagineering and corporate protect the Anaheim originals while Florida gets the rethemes, losses, and “improvements.” 60 Minutes.

Disneyland isn’t a museum. Walt said it would never be complete. So did he actually demolish attractions that were still drawing guests? A 1956 Disneyland Incorporated guidebook is the map. Phantom Boats didn’t work. Tomorrowland’s early exhibits left for the new Tomorrowland, and the buildings mostly stayed. Fantasyland held. Pack mules were an operations problem, not a hit Walt killed. Jungle...

A rented scooter is not a FastPass and it is not a DAS pass. Your host's take on the Instagram scooter gangs, the back door, and the Knott’s paper clock Disney should steal. Able-bodied guests are filming themselves circling the park on ECVs. Invisible disabilities are real. So is the “usual suspects” act: weave, honk, demand the exit, and treat $60 like a line skip. Your hosts lived the...

The People Mover track is gone. Walt’s apartment lamp was not a sacred light from 1966. Sometimes Castles’ Ry sits with Greg, Mike, and Shaft to kill folklore, walk the trestle, and comment about Iger. Ry (Sometimes Castles) wrote I Love Disneyland and lives in the TikTok/Instagram news cycle. The old podcasters worked the graveyard shift, held the key to Walt’s apartment, and walked Tomorrowland...

Josh D'Amaro is six months into the CEO chair. He cut marketing, he cut creatives, he brought back "ladies and gentlemen," and the stock is sitting flat. Your hosts give the parks guy running the whole company a checkup. They do not pretend film is carrying anything. 38 Minutes.