Show Notes Episode 3 Thursday July 27

Episode 3 Show Notes...

Disney News

Heres some Disney news Walt Disney Co. has agreed to buy Hungama, an Indian children's TV channel that broadcasts in Hindi, for about $30.5 million as it ramps up investment in the fast-growing market.

When Radio Disney celebrates its 10th birthday this weekend, it will broadcast the celebration and corresponding concert in California as a live Web cast.

Disney pin-trading nights are coming to an end at Walt Disney World hotels, and some collectors wonder if it's because of declining interest.

Never mind that movie ticket sales are picking up and that Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest could become the biggest hit in motion-picture history. As studios slash jobs and restructure to boost profits, Hollywood's creative and executive ranks are having a collective anxiety attack.

Shades Corner Rumors and News.

EPISODE 1 (Episode 3 of the disney resorts podcast) Welcome to the first Shades corner. This part of the show is sent in by Shadesofgreen96 from my forum site. This week shades has a few rumors and facts about Disney. Lets start with WDW. -Shades Of Green , on WDW property , was first called the Disney inn before Disney sold it over to the U.S. Goverment/military. In October the PGA ( professional golf @$ociation ) is in WDW every year , at the course behind SoG for a championchip game. -Who Wants to be a millionaire , in MGM studios , will be replaced with a new attraction. I don't know what , but shades will do some research on this. - MGM Studios in WDW will probably be renamed to Disney Studios... This is still hanging and Shades will also do more research on this too. Now lets hop over to the movies. - PotC 2 , dead mans chest , has made all time records for the box office. The box office hasn't seen so much money since "Star wars, revenge of the sith" Came out. -Also , Disney has decided to cut down on movie making for the next few years. That's it for Shades's corner , To send in news for next week's episode , comment on shade's corner , or just to say hi , E-mail her at shadescornerdropbox@yahoo.com

Attraction of the Week Enchanted Tiki Room.

The Enchanted Tiki Room contains Walt Disney's first Audio-Animatronic performers, a rowdy, rousing cast of 225 all-talking, all-singing, all-whistling birds, flowers, masks, drummers, and tiki poles. Once Walt had solved the problem of animating three-demensional figures, he thought of putting a Chinese restaurant in Adventureland where a audio-animatronic Confucius-like character would amuse the diners by spouting Oriental words of wisdom. This expanded into a more elaborate idea of staging a dinner show featuring a cast of performing birds. Finally the notion of a restaurant was dropped, as it proved to not be practical for Disneyland. What was left was a 17-minute revue with an Audio- Animatronics cast. The Enchanted Tiki Room, "overflowing with the color and spirit of the islands," opened in 1963. Four avian emcees -- Jose, Micheal, Pierre, and Fritz -- lead a company of animated orchids, bird-of-paradise flowers, parrots, macaws, toucans, cockatoos, carved wooden tiki poles, tiki drummers, and masks. This musical show includes the songs wonderful music of the famous Sherman brothers, Richard and Robert. Musical numbers include "The Hawaiian War Chant," "Let's All Sing (Like the Birdies Sing)," "Aloha to You," and, of course, the show's theme song, "In the Tiki, Tiki, Tiki Room" plus others.