Your one-stop shop for the stories, secrets and shenanigans of a popcorn-fueled theme park journalist. Join author, reporter and expert Carlye Wisel for breaking news, unexpected interviews and reported stories about Disney and Universal every week. It’s an audio theme park party — and you’re invited! Have a vacation question, Epcot comment or Galaxy’s Edge hot take your friends no longer wanna listen to? Call us at 747-CHURROS (747-248-7767) and we might play your call on a future episode! Very Amusing is brought to you with special thanks to Acast and ICM Partners.
yesssssss! the long-awaited episode recounting the stories, secrets and shenanigans of this month's Disney World's 50th Anniversary celebration is HERE and more fun than stowing away in my suitcase! (It's a hard shell! not comfy!!)
Come for the fun, stay for a glorious Star Wars: Gala... Read More
YES we got MISS PIGGY on the podcast to chit-chat about Muppets Haunted Mansion, out 10/8 on Disney+!
WATCH IT OR GONZO WILL FOLLOW YOU HOME!!
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We will be back in full force next week with a mega dispatch from Walt Disney World's 50th Anniversary, but until then, we've got a lil' roundup of everything I saw and did at Disney's Hotel New York - The Art of Marvel while in Disneyland Paris!
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YUP!!! Come along on Very Amusing's first (and EXTREMELY safe!!) international journey, where I discuss what it was like to visit a foreign theme park that requires vaccines, masks, and a whole lot more.
Relevant Links:
https://www.demarches-simplifiees.fr/commencer/passe-sanitaire-et... Read More
DUFFY THE DISNEY BEAR IS ADDING A NEW PAL — LinaBell —TO HIS GANG AND I CAN'T WAIT TO TELL YOU MORE ABOUT HER!!!!!!
I'm ONCE AGAIN joined by MY gaggle of friends in this follow-up to last season's episode: Eva Lee, Manager, Content Planning at Walt Disney Imagineering, and THE DUFFY ... Read More
Our HOW THINGS WORK series is back with Marie Colabelli, Senior Producer of Large Format Experiential Media & Installations who gives us the inside scoop (and shocking stories!!) behind what it took to create Soarin' Around the World and the process by which she and her team worked to u... Read More
Can you hear the distant music? Smell the ocean breeze? That's because we're going on a *virtual vacation* to Aulani, A Disney Resort and Spa!
Join Imagineering’s Jeanette Lomboy and Aulani’s Nate Rhodes as we chit-chat about the glorious Hawaiian resort, its immense level of artistic d... Read More
Malcolm Gladwell: not a Hidden Mickey. Quite the opposite, in fact. As you’ll soon hear, the famed journalist, author and host of podcast Revisionist History is very new to all things Disney. So how did he, fresh on the scene, wind up so deep in The Little Mermaid that he arrived at thi... Read More
oh yeah, baby! we're answering a bucketful of your phone calls on this week's ALL CHURROS HOTLINE EPISOOOODE!
related links:
Bloomberg story about Tokyo Disney Sea: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-02/why-disney-fans-have-their-post-pandemic-sights-set-on-japan
Eater st... Read More
A Disneyland at Home episode? In July 2021? Yep. Trust me, this one's worth it.
Relevant Links:
Mark's Star Tours: https://www.tiktok.com/@ricksavage64/video/6976318927353908485
Mark's Homemade Rides on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo1CN5Ds7gSIF7Nn_60lmhQ
Brandon's Mini D... Read More
Come along as we talk about a famed Disneyland bar...in a secret place...that no one can really talk about. Here goes nothin'!
Follow David Yeh @Coheteboy and @EndorExpress on Instagram, and find more at EndorExpress.net
Relevant Links:
Club 33 Gargoyle Mug ($1800 on eBay!): https:/... Read More
Join Alex Evans and Winona Bechtle as we dive into the storied Disney theme park legacy of the historic Bob Baker Marionette Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
Learn more about Bob Baker Marionette Theatre at:
http://www.bobbakermarionettetheater.com
#EGGGATE: https://www.instagram... Read More
we're taking the week off to wrap up research for the rest of the season!!!!!!!!!! enjoy this lil' teeny tiny episode for this week (:
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It's Shanghai Disney Resort's fifth anniversary, so we're taking it back to their Grand Opening celebration — and discussing everything you never saw.
Reporters Keith Sharon, Arthur Levine and myself flew overseas to see Shanghai Disneyland before it opened to the public, and well, we... Read More
Ever wondered how a themed coaster is designed and built?! Universal Creative's Shelby Honea is here to tell us *everything* about Universal Orlando Resort's new Velocicoaster, including what it's like to finally ride something you spent years creating. (Years!!)
Spend more time with ... Read More
I took a hard-hat tour of Disney California Adventure's new Marvel-themed land last March. Then came the pandemic.
For fourteen months, I've had every detail of this land memorized. Now, it's time to relay all of it to you.
Spend more time with @CarlyeWisel…
ON INSTAGRAM!
https://www.... Read More
It's the triumphant return of HIDDEN MICKEYS, our series where we speak with a noteworthy celebrity who also happens to be a major theme park fan, and this season we have comedian, actor and writer TARAN KILLAM! You may know him from Saturday Night Live, Single Parents or even the Disne... Read More
Today, I pay for my crimes against Olu Mel.
Spend more time with @CarlyeWisel…
ON INSTAGRAM!
https://www.instagram.com/carlyewisel/
ON TWITTER!
https://twitter.com/carlyewisel
AT HER PRIVATE FACEBOOK GROUP!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/CarlyeWisel
AT HER WEBSITE!
https://www.carly... Read More
Disneyland and all its rides, characters and unexpected magic now exists online. To all who come to this happy digital space: welcome.
Thank you to...
The Max Lazer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFy4bSgyGYo
Matthew Serrano!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0rDLvg-Lfs
Get your Min... Read More
OH BABY, WE'RE BACK! In this otherworldly debut episode of Season 2, we're getting into all things Batuu with Walt Disney Imagineering's Scott Trowbridge — a two-time guest! — and The Art of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge author Amy Ratcliffe.
We wouldn't usually dive into a book straight a... Read More
RELEVANT LINKS:
Watch Shrek Retold!
Full list of artists in Shrek Retold
Read Wired's piece about Shrek Retold
CHECK OUT...
The Bechdel Cast! And Jamie's Lolita and My Year In Mensa podcasts!
Jamie Loftus' perfect website!!!!
3GI Incorporated
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$5 a month for bonus p... Read More
"SHREK FEST. LIKE, YOU ALREADY KNOW WHAT IT IS. AND IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS, THEN YOU'LL NEVER KNOW." — Grant Duffrin
Every year in Madison, Wisconsin, hundreds of people gather to competitively eat onions, rock out to Smash Mouth, roar as loud as they can and celebrate our bel... Read More
Think Shrek's global footprint is limited to a film franchise!? Think again!!!!
From an animatronic marionette show in Dubai to a waterpark in New Jersey, we're bopping around the world to discuss Shrek's long-lasting global legacy!!!!
Relevant Links:
SHREK 4-D ON YESTERWORLD
SHREK 4-... Read More
In which we explore once and for all if a beloved theme park character, Shrek, celebrates Hanukkah or not.
A delightfully unhinged holiday episode for you and yours!
Check out...
Ben Mekler on Twitter!
Arielle on Instagram! (nsfw)
Relevant Links:
The Tweet That Started It All!
Ariel... Read More
YES YES Y'ALL WE GOT THE GUY WHO DID THE JAW-DROPPING DRONE SHOW FOR PRESIDENT ELECT BIDEN!!!!! OKAY I'LL STOP YELLING AT YOU IN CAPS, BUT WE DID IT!!!!
Anyway, buckle up for a ROUSING chat with Nils Thorjussen, CEO of Verge Aero, and learn about how creating software and drones in-ho... Read More
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