On this week's show, Paul Barrie from A Window to the Magic is back for another What's News episode where we look back at all of the news items that occurred throughout the Disney company in the month of November. We will, of course, spend some time talking about the shake-up that we saw at the top of the company with Bob Iger returning as CEO and what that might mean for the Walt Disney Company and Disney fans alike. Then we'll touch on some of the news items we heard about like the Guardians o...
Dec 14, 2022•1 hr 52 min
On this week's show, we're bringing you some special Disney classic and theme park audio care of our loyal listener and audio archivist Sam Polkinghorne. First, we start the show off with a super long mashup of music from a Disney attraction that has been in the news quite a bit over the last several years - The Main Street Electrical Parade. Sam has contributed various renditions of Baroque Hoedown for us to enjoy this week in a mashup to end all mashups. If you're a fan of the Main Street Elec...
Nov 28, 2022•1 hr 19 min
On this week's show, we're not just talking about The Mouse on All About the Mouse. We're also going to talk about another well-known resort with multiple theme parks right down the street from Disney....Universal Studios. As Disney fans, many of us are partial to Disney theme parks and the Disney brand itself, but many of us (myself included) also really enjoy Universal Studios, Islands of Adventure, City Walk, and the Universal property hotels. I'm joined this week by Adria and Carey from our ...
Nov 23, 2022•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 683
On this week's show, I'm counting down through a list of all 22 of the Disney-owned resort hotels in Walt Disney World as they appear on my list of favorites. Over the years, I have been fortunate enough to have the opportunity to stay at just about every one of the resort hotels on Disney property in the "Disney bubble". I've also spent countless hours touring and enjoying many of these resort hotels even when I haven't been staying at them. They all have something unique to offer Disney guests...
Nov 14, 2022•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 682
On this week's show, Paul Barrie from A Window to the Magic is back to cover all of the news and events that occurred throughout the Disney company in the month of October. To name just a few of the topics we'll talk about this week: Magic Band Plus debuts at Disneyland, Imagineer Bob Weiss retires, Disney Genie+ experiences a price increase and switches to a tiered pricing structure, Disney announces new nighttime entertainment and other exciting ways to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the D...
Nov 07, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 681
On this week's show, we're getting festive with a special Halloween episode of All About the Mouse. It's no secret that The Haunted Mansion is one of my favorite attractions in all of Walt Disney World and Disneyland. Not only does it have some of the best effects that have stood the test of time, but it has a story that resonates throughout the mansion that has become both legend and lore at the same time. Behind the scenes, the creation of The Haunted Mansion has an equally mesmerizing story t...
Oct 31, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 680
On this week's show, it's time again to take a look back at the news items that occurred throughout the Disney company in the previous month. Paul Barrie from A Window to the Magic joins me again to look back at the month of September and recap the newsworthy items that occurred throughout the world of Disney movies, theme parks, and more. And, let's see, there was a little thing called the D23 Expo that took place last month in the city of Anaheim, CA that produced quite a bit of news in many d...
Oct 11, 2022•1 hr 55 min•Ep. 679
On this week's show, I'll be sharing some more audio from the summer convention circuit recorded and contributed to us by our good friend Blake Reilly from The Blake and Sal Show. This time, we have audio from the Chicago Cominc and Entertainment Expo (C2E2). This audio features a panel titled "Creating Star Wars: Playing in a Galaxy Far, Far Away" with Dave Sheidt, Jeffrey Brown, Joe Corroney, Katie Cook, and Ramon Perez. This is a collection of authors and artists who have worked together to b...
Oct 09, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 678
On this week's show, we take a look at the Africa in Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park and ask ourselves what would we keep, change, or replace about this themed land. Special guests Steven and Paige from the Parks Academy podcast join me along with Sarah Evans to look at one of our favorite themed lands in Walt Disney World. We'll look at all of the attractions, restaurants, shops, and more and look at whether we would keep these things the way they are, change them in some way to improve them...
Sep 19, 2022•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 677
On this week's show, we're back with another recap of Disney news from August 2022. Paul Barrie from A Window To the Magic joins me again for another What's News episode where we talk about all of the major (and minor) news happenings from around the Walt Disney Company. There are quite a few things to unpack this month from the various different theme parks including changes coming to booking theme park reservations, new meet and greet characters not seen before coming to Halloween parties on b...
Sep 07, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 676
On this week's episode, Blake Reilly from The Blake and Sal Show (with Mark) is here as a special guest to share his adventures from the convention circuit in the summer of 2022. From Fan Expo Chicago (July 8, 2022), there are two panels. The first is Some of My Favorite People Are Bounty Hunters: A Conversation with Carl Weathers. The second one is called Snips & Skyguy: A Clone Wars Reunion with Ashley Eckstein & Matt Lanter.
Sep 01, 2022•1 hr 35 min
On this week's show, I'm giving a trip report from my recent vacation to Walt Disney World and Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure in Orlando! Against all of my better judgement, we decided to take our family to do theme parks in Orlando in the month of August, the hottest time of the year. While there were many moments of hot, sweaty, misery, there were also some fun times we had along the way. We even got them chance to partake in some brand new experiences like Guardians of the Galaxy:...
Aug 22, 2022•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 674
On this week's show, we reveal the winner of this year's March Madness-style Disney bracket tournament - WDW Themed Land Madness. Before we announce the winner, though, we'll recap the matchups that led to this moment. Bryce Yelverton and Sarah Evans join me to look back at all 32 themed lands from the 4 Walt Disney World theme parks that competed in this year's tournament.
Aug 15, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 673
On this week's show, Paul Barrie from Window To The Magic and I are both back to recap the news and events that happened throughout the Disney company, movies, and theme parks in the month of July. Some of the news items that we'll touch on include the fight that broke out in Fantasyland at Magic Kingdom, new MagicBand+ introduced to Walt Disney World, Marvel movie announcements that were announced at the San Diego Comic Con, Disneyland's closure of limited time nighttime shows and re-opening of...
Aug 08, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 672
On this week's show, I'm joined again by our Disney Conversation Starters panel to talk about all things and anything Disney. These shows are always a lot of fun with this lively group of Disney fans and loyal listeners, because we sit down and start talking about anything Disney and just see where the conversation takes us. We don't know what we'll end up talking about or where the conversation will take us, but we do know that, whatever it is, will be full of varying opinions, a lot of laughs,...
Aug 01, 2022•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 671
On this week's show, we're back with Round 5 of Walt Disney World Themed Land Madness! We started this bracket tournament back in March where you all have been voting for your favorite themed lands in Walt Disney World, and we're down to the final matchup! Before we get to the announcing which 2 themed lands will be in the final showdown, though, we have to announce the winners of our Final Four. Sarah Evans joins me again to look at the 4 lands that were in the Final Four, announce the winners ...
Jul 25, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 670
On this week's show, Paul Barrie joins me again for our monthly look back at the Disney news items that occurred throughout the Disney company, theme parks, movies, and resorts during the month June. There were quite a few announcements about more things returning to the parks, we got more details about the upcoming D23 Expo, we got news about holiday happenings in Walt Disney World and Disneyland, and a whole lot more!
Jul 18, 2022•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 669
On this week's show, I'm speaking with author Sariah Wilson about her new book "Cinder-Nanny". Sariah is a Disney fan and author of several best-selling romance novels including "Roommaid", "The Seat Filler", and "The Paid Bridesmaid". Her new novel, "Cinder-Nanny", is a modern and somewhat different take on the timeless Cinderella classic love story where Diana Parker plays nanny for a family while on vacation in Aspen, Colorado. Despite possessing none of the necessary requirements for the job...
Jul 11, 2022•54 min•Ep. 668
On this week's show, I'm joined by first time AATM guests for a new recurring segment we'll be running on the show called "Keep, Change, Replace). Paige and Stephen from the Parks Academy podcast join me, along with our good friend Sarah Evans to look at Disney's Animal Kingdom's Asia area of the park. We'll review all attractions, dining, snacks, shopping, and other details of the park and ask ourselves the question, "If were Imagineers would we keep, change, or replace them?" What would you ch...
Jun 27, 2022•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 667
On this week's show, we're revealing the surprising results from Round 3 of Walt Disney World Themed Land Madness. Sara Evans and Bryce Yelverton join me to reveal the results from our Elite Eight matchups between the remaining WDW themed lands in our March Madness-style bracket tournament where you, the listeners, have been voting for your favorite themed lands in all 4 of the Walt Disney World theme parks. At the end, we'll announce our Final Four matchups that you'll be able to vote in from n...
Jun 14, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 666
On this week's show, I'm joined again by Paul Barrie from A Window to the Magic for another look at the news items that occurred throughout the Disney company, theme parks, resorts, movies, and more during the month of May, In this monthly segment that airs on both of our respective podcasts, Paul and I will talk about annual pass changes at Disneyland, announcements from the Star Wars Celebration convention in Anaheim, virtual queuing for the new Guardians of the Galaxy coaster at Epcot and muc...
Jun 06, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 665
On this week's show, we're featuring select audio from each of the WDW Themed Land Madness Elite Eight lands. We are just days away from the final votes being cast in our WDW Theme Land Madness Round 3 matchups featuring our Elite Eight lands, so I thought it would be fun to feature attraction, entertainment, and ambient audio from Adventureland, Galaxy's Edge, Asia, Frontierland, Old Fantasyland, Pandora, Africa, and Liberty Square.
Jun 01, 2022•2 hr 33 min•Ep. 664
On this week's show, Nate Evans joins me again for our continued look at the Walt Disney Company's first CEO, Walt's brother, Roy O. Disney. We continue our look at Roy with our focus this week being on the creation of Disneyland and the contributions that Roy made in order to help Walt's crazy dream of going from making movies to building a theme park come to fruition.
May 23, 2022•59 min•Ep. 663
On this week's show, Sarah Evans joins me again to reveal the results of our Round 2 matchups from WDW Themed Land Madness. Together, we'll look at how each of our matches ended up and then we'll reveal our Round 3 Elite Eight matchups.
May 16, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 662
On this week's show, Paul Barrie from A Window To The Magic joins me again for our monthly look back at the news from all around the Disney company, theme parks, and resorts including the return of nighttime entertainment to Disneyland, the disappearance of mandatory mask requirements from everywhere on property, changes coming to Kite Tails at Disney's Animal Kingdom, and a whole lot more!
May 09, 2022•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 661
On this week's week's show, author and poet Matt Mason joins me to talk about his new upcoming book of poems inspired by Disneyland entitled "At the Corner of Fantasy and Main: Disneyland, Midlife and Churros". I'll talk with Matt about his collection of poetry, how he came to fall in love with Disneyland, and more. Then, later in the show, I'll give a trip report that I've been sitting on for a while from my recent trips to Walt Disney World and my review of some new experiences that I got a ch...
Apr 25, 2022•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 660
On this week's show, I'm doing something a little different. Usually on this show, we talk about the seemingly endless amount of things that we love and enjoy about Disney. Recently, however, I saw an article from the Washington Post shared on social media that really caught my attention entitled "Disney's $5,000 Star Wars hotel and line-cutting fees: Some fans say the 'magic's gone'". My guest this week is Van from the Netcot podcast, and he joins me to talk about this article that he shared on...
Apr 18, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 659
On this week's show, we reveal the results from Round 1 of WDW Themed Land Madness. I'm joined again by Sara Evans and special guest Bryce Yelverton to reveal the results of who you voted for in the Round 1 matchups between the amazing themed lands that make up the 4 Walt Disney World theme parks. Later in the show, we'll reveal the Round 2 matchups that you can vote on between now and Sunday May 1st.
Apr 11, 2022•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 658
On this week's show, I'm joined again by Paul Barrie from A Window to the Magic to cover all of the news items that happened throughout the Disney company in the month of March. Last month, we saw announcements about the return of many things that have been missing for quite some time from the Walt Disney World resort and the Disneyland resort. We'll also talk about some of the updates on the Toontown construction at Disneyland, and much more!
Apr 04, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 657
On this week's show, we are taking an in-depth look at Disney's first CEO Roy O. Disney. Walt's older brother was instrumental in Walt's success from the very beginning. Nate Evans joins me in part 1 of a multi-part series focused on Roy. We'll begin by looking at Roy Disney's early life and upbringing in Missouri, his time in the Navy during WWI, his role behind the scenes as the money man, and much more!
Apr 03, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 656
