MouseStation 32 – Listener Feedback
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Our new schedule features our collection of short subjects
on Monday, the full-length feature on Wednesday, MousePlanetWatch on Thursday
and listener feedback on Friday. We’d like your feedback on what you think
of the new schedule. Let us know what you
think!
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In this week’s Listener Feedback:
Amy wrote in to express her thanks for the new format, as it makes it easier
for her to listen to us.
Jesse Nugent wrote in, following up on his audio message from last week.
We apparently misunderstood his message, and he’s not adding a Walt Disney
World trip in January to a Disneyland trip at the end of the year, but rather
going to Florida instead of California. He was glad to get some information
about other places to visit in Orlando, as guidebooks to the area are hard
to come by Down Under. (We’re still planning to do a show looking at the marketing
– or rather, lack thereof – of the American Disney resorts in the
Australia/New Zealand/Southeast Asia area.)
Jesse also asked about whether the basketball court inside the Matterhorn
was built to allow Walt Disney to avoid height restrictions by having it classified
as a recreational building. That’s actually not the case, as the basketball
court came later when one of the mountain climbers brought in a hoop to give
the climbers something to do in their break area between sets. In actuality,
it’s smaller than a half-court. A link to a photo of the court can be found
here.
Doug from the Geek
Acres podcast called in to note that, while Pixar movies may have the
most popular new animated movie characters in the Disney stable, they’re going
a little overboard with putting them in the parks. He also suggested that
– while Spectrobes may not be a good candidate for a theme park ride
– Kingdom Hearts may fit the bill.
Steve Russo wrote in on a few subjects. First, he was unsure about how he
would like the new show format, but now prefers the multiple shows per week.
He also submitted a question for Ask the Kid (already recorded and queued
up for a future show). Finally he once again tried to Stump the Hosts.
Steve’s question this week was: “What does Photon eat?” Neither
Mark nor Mike could figure out where Photon is even from. While prepping the
show notes, Mark got a note from our audio engineer and sound editor Steven
Ng – who happened to be editing the show at that very moment – and
who noted that Photon is from Honey, I Shrunk the Audience, and so Mark can
say that he had no idea because he hasn’t seen HISTA in over ten years. (And
for those wondering, Photon eats “Jelly beans, boogers and pizza.”)
Thomas Seymour wrote in to agree that the new format is great because he
can listen to a new show almost every day instead of once a week. He suggested,
though that we add background music to the show.
NOTE: We’re still looking for some royalty-free music to use on the show
(especially with the new royalty structure that is threatening to cripple
the Internet radio stations), because we have no budget for the podcast. If
any of our listeners writes (and records) music, and you’d like to swap exposure
for the rights to use your songs for free, please let
us know!
Jonathan Cooper also enjoys the new format, and wishes that more podcasts
would try the format because too many shows that he subscribes to are over
an hour long. He may even start listening to the MousePlanetWatch news show.
Jonathan wanted to disagree with one thing from our “Is Change Good?”
show last Wednesday. He noted that Alien Encounter (his favorite attraction
of all time) actually had more warnings than just about any other attraction
and that people still complained despite the warnings. He can’t understand
why the same complaints haven’t been raised at Dinosaur and It’s Tough To
Be A Bug, based on the number of crying children he’s seen coming out of them.
Send in your suggestions, comments or tips via our email
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 Magical Moment segment (and possible inclusion in the Cast Place column here on MousePlanet), you can either use our email form or the toll-free feedback line. (We like when you use the voice mail system, because then we can play it on the show.)
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Thanks to our audio engineer and sound editor Steven Ng.
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