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Let us hear from you!

Send in your suggestions, comments or tips via our email feedback
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!)

Listener Feedback Friday!

In this week’s Listener Feedback:

We were a little short on feedback this week because there was a problem
with the mail form on MousePlanet.com while all of the technical staff with
knowledge of the mail system were in Florida for the Tower of Terror races.
It’s supposed to be fixed by now, so you should be able to use the mail form
to send us mail again. (Of course
you can always use the direct email addresses instead of the mail form.) In
the meantime, we stretched our answers a bit, and ended up running long anyway.

We first had some emails from Kim Barron. She had called us again because
we didn’t run her last voicemail as advertised last week. We explained that
the show had just run longer than expected, and her voicemail ended up being
right behind the cut due to the mix of feedback in the show. We then played
her original voicemail and another follow-up voicemail, both with her Epcot
Top 3 lists, which had some differences between them.

Her original Top 3 was:

  • Dining
    • 3. Sunshine Seasons/Margarita stand (tie)
    • 2. Chefs de France
    • 1. Le Cellier
  • Live Entertainment
    • 3. Mo’Rockin
    • 2. Matzuriza (Japanese drummers)
    • 1. Off Kilter
  • Attractions
    • 3. Mission: Space green team
    • 2. Seas with Nemo and Friends
    • 1. Soarin’/Illuminations (tie)

Her follow-up Top 3 was:

  • Dining
    • 3. Sunshine Seasons
    • 2. Chefs de France
    • 1. Le Cellier
  • Live Entertainment
    • 3. Mo’Rockin
    • 2. Turtle Talk with Crush
    • 1. Off Kilter
  • Attractions
    • 3. Seas with Nemo and Friends
    • 2. Mission: Space green team
    • 1. Soarin’/Illuminations (tie)

Apparently, in two weeks, the Margarita stand dropped out of its tie with Sunshine
Seasons, Turtle Talk replaced Matsuriza, and Mission: Space green team and the
Seas with Nemo and Friends swapped places.

Don’t worry, Kim. Our choices vary with time, too.

Next up was a voicemail from Dan the Light Man in Golden, Colorado. Dan and
Nancy wanted to respond to our show on The
End of Spontaneity and the listener
feedback on that show. While not used to doing too much planning, they
did call 90 days out from their trip and were unable to get the Fantasmic
dining package at the Brown Derby. They were also shut out of Le Cellier for
lunch and dinner for their entire 12-day trip.

However, they were able to eat at Victoria & Albert’s, which was a great
experience with great food.

They can see both sides of the tiered Fastpass controversy. While it’s not
as good for folks staying elsewhere, they think that folks staying at deluxe
resorts like the Grand Floridian deserve something extra.

Gwendolen Dupuis passed along the email that she received when she was not
selected to move on to the second round of the Disney World Moms panel. While
we’re sorry to hear that she wasn’t selected, but it’s nice to know or at
least that they’re taking t seriously and reading all 10,000 entries.

Steve Walker wrote to let us know that the parrot at Disneyland’s version
of Pirates of the Caribbean returned. It was not at the ride entrance on October
22, but was sitting on a shovel handle in the entrance scene on October 24.

It’s nice to know about the Disneyland attraction, but the parrot that we
referred to on the show was the parrot outside the Walt Disney World attraction,
who sang “A Parrot’s Life for Me” and whose perch was removed during
the remodeling of the attraction. The parrot now appears in the attraction’s
final scene with Captain Jack Sparrow, though it’s uncertain at this time
whether he still sings “A Parrot’s Life for Me.”

Sheila from southern Illinois, also known as disneyfan822, asked what she
should keep in mind as she runs her first Walt Disney World Marathon and what
she should make sure to see and do when she’s down there. She also said that
she’s disappointed that she won’t be able to join us at the Hustle-tini meet
at MouseFest.

Mark referred Sheila to MousePlanet’s Marathon
Guide, which has much of the information that she’s looking for. However,
he and Mike offered several suggestions for pre-marathon touring, as well
as some race-day thoughts.

Feedback and MouseFest

We’re trying to decide whether we should publish the show on days when there’s
no new MousePlanet content. The next time that this will occur will be on
Thanksgiving and the following day, where MousePlanet will not be publishing
new content on those days. Should we publish the podcast on those days anyway,
or will you be looking for the show on those dates, as well?

Please send us your comments 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.

Thank you for listening!

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