MouseStation 67 – Listener Feedback
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form or via voicemail on our toll-free feedback line (1-866-939-2278). You
can also make suggestions by replying to this post.
If you want to contribute a story for our Monday Magical Moment segment (and
possible inclusion in the Cast Place column here on MousePlanet), you can
either use our email Magical Moment story
form or the toll-free feedback line. (We love it when you use the voice
mail system, because then we can play your call on the show!)
Note from Mark: As I write this, I’ve just checked into my room at MousePlanet
sponsor Hotel Royal Plaza. My Owner’s Locker was waiting for me, and it’s
huge! I knew that it would be big, but it’s one thing to ponder and another
to try to bring that thing into the room. Even after I pick up some stuff
to put in there, it’s still going to be pretty empty between now and my next
trip. I’ll have to see what I can do about that.
Listener Feedback Friday!
In this week’s Listener Feedback:
Jesse Peterson let us know that there was a problem with the download link
in last Friday’s show notes. We were able to get that corrected. If you tried
to download last week’s Listener Feedback and couldn’t get it, please try
again. Thanks for letting us know, Jesse!
Bruce let us know that one complete show was all he needs.
Rob said that he didn’t care whether it was one feed or multiple feed, but
asked us for chapter stops if we made it one feed. It seems that Rob was confused
about the difference between combining the feeds and combining the shows.
We still have four shows per week, but we are only maintaining the one combined
feed instead of separate MouseStation and MousePlanetWatch shows in addition
to the combined feed.
Paul Mattias from Coventry, RI left a voicemail noting that he enjoys the
new show format and asking Mark about Thanksgiving crowds. He’s been having
lots of trouble making dining reservations and he’s worried about what the
crowds will be like.
Mike answered first, noting that he and Paul’s kids shared a love for Mickey’s
Backyard Barbecue.
Mark said that when he was down last year for Thanksgiving, the crowds were
manageable over the weekend, but they built each day until it was extremely
crowded on Thanksgiving. As long as you don’t set too ambitious a schedule,
you should be all right. He and his family had their Thanksgiving dinner at
the Yacht Club Galley, which had been converted to a buffet for the day. It
was actually very good.
Mike noted that, as a cast member, he had his Thanksgiving dinner at Planet
Hollywood because there are never any crowds there.
Dave in San Francisco wrote in while delaying his work on grading high school
math papers.
He thinks that a single feed would be easier, but it’s not a big deal either
way.
He is envious of Scott Siegel’s solo trip, and is wondering what backstage
tours he should take. Mark recommended Backstage Magic, a 7-plus hour tour
that goes backstage at three parks, and lets you see a whole bunch of cool
stuff. It’s a lot of money, but it’s worth it. Mark will also give some feedback
on the UnDISCOVERed Future World and Keys to the Kingdom tours, since he’s
taking those tours this weekend to review them for the MousePlanet Park Guide.
Mike loves UnDISCOVERed Future World, but isn’t that big on Keys to the Kingdom.
He recommends Backstage Safari.
He already has reservations at the Swan, and wondered what is the earliest
that each of us has planned a trip. Mike planned his solo Disney Cruise Line
trip six years in advance. Mark started detailed planning on his famous 23-person
trip about a year in advance, though the initial idea started about four years
before that. It took some doing to get the three-bedroom Grand Villa and three
two-bedroom Villas at Old Key West all lined up, and it took almost two years
of points.
He can’t make it for MouseFest, but he promises to do The Hustle in San Francisco
and think of us. We’d love to see video of it.
He wanted to get paid by Mike, so he noted that “Simba Rules.”
Scott Siegel called in to follow up on his email from two weeks ago. Scott
wanted to let us know that he didn’t miss Jiko, that it’s included in the
Wanyama Safari, but now he wanted to know what else he might be missing. He
also noted that a friend of his was giving him a hard time about going to
Disney, and she has never taken her kids. He also said that he’d supply photos
and a trip report when he gets back.
Mark noted that he could always talk to the cast members and see if they
could give him any ideas. Mike told him to take a nap and not to run himself
ragged.
Todd Anger wrote in to let us know that he’ll have to wait for his niece
to play Spectrobes before he could give us a review. He also noted that he
was the first listener to the WDW Today podcast to refer to Pop Century as
Scopa Towers after Len Testa coined the term.
Sheila Schutzenhofer forwarded us a DisneyLink article about Walt Disney
World’s $10 million contribution to help Florida Children’s Hospital construct
a new facility. She also let us know that she loads MouseStation to her iPod
and listens while she trains for the Walt Disney World Marathon.
Joe from LA wrote in with a couple of suggestions.
He suggested that we consolidate our current four shows per week into three
shows, with a little listener feedback on each show. We don’t want to put
listener feedback onto shows because it would shorten the amount of time that
we had for the other topics, because we’d prefer to remain with approximately
30-minute shows (which is kind of funny because this show ran well over 40
minutes!) and because we’d than have to try to match the listener feedback
with the shows day that it was related to.
He also suggested that we add more different segments for our Monday show
and rotate them in and out of the show to give us more flexibility in creating
the show. Mark had actually been toying with the same idea, but he hasn’t
had time to come up with additional segments. If you have any ideas on what
additional segments we could throw into rotation on Mondays, please let
us know!
He also noted that he prefers a single feed.
Mike and Mark then debated over MouseStation’s form of government.
Vance Cope called in four voicemails in which we got to hear his entire trip
in under four minutes.
Mike had a hard time dealing with the fact that Vance preferred Finding Nemo
– The Musical to Festival of The Lion King.
Mark and Mike debated a bit about the HalloWishes fireworks show. Mark is
seeing the show tonight, so he’ll have a report on a future show.
Shawn Coomer thanked us fro reading his site
address on the show, and giving a little bit of an update.
Paul Gan wrote to remind us that a Walt Disney Museum is being built a the
Presidio in San Francisco so that Mark doesn’t have to pay to visit the Disney
Archives. Mark noted that, while the museum is being created by the Disney
family, there may not be much from the Disney Archives. He still would want
to visit the Archives (though a tour of the Museum would be great, as well.)
With that, we ran out of time and had to hold the rest of the emails and
voicemails for next week.
Feedback and MouseFest
Please weigh in on the idea of returning to a single feed via email
or by calling our toll-free feedback line at 1-866-939-2278. Don’t forget
that we love voicemails because then we can put your voice on the show!
Don’t forget to send in your entry for our Owner’s
Locker contest by Halloween!
We also wanted to remind you that we have now scheduled our MouseFest meet
for the podcasts. The MouseStation Hustle-tini Meet will begin at 5:30 p.m.
at Classic Concoctions in the Everything Pop food court at Disney’s Pop Century
Resort for Bluetinis to get our nerve up to get up and boogie. We’ll make
sure that we’re in the lobby before 6 p.m. so that we can do The Hustle, then
return to Classic Concoctions or elsewhere to record some more for the podcast.
For more information on the Hustle-tini or any other MousePlanet-sponsored
meet at MouseFest, check out our MouseFest
information page. If you’ve got any ideas on what might make a cool MouseStation
T-shirt for MouseFest, let Mark know!
Wrapping up
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Thanks to our West Coast correspondent Andrew Rich, and audio engineer and
sound editor Steven Ng.
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