Very Amusing with Carlye Wisel

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.

Get In, We're Going to Disney World's 50th Anniversary! ・13.10.2021

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

PLEASE WELCOME MISS PIGGY!!!!! ・07.10.2021

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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A MARVEL MINI-SODE! ・29.09.2021

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!

RELEVANT LINKS:
https://www.youtube.co... Read More

Hello from Disneyland Paris! ・23.09.2021

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 RETURNS WITH AN ALL-NEW FRIEND! ・17.09.2021

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

How Things Work: Soarin' Around The World ・08.09.2021

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

All About Aulani's Luau! ・01.09.2021

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 Has Entered The Chat ・28.07.2021

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

It's A Churros Hotline Episode! ・21.07.2021

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

Disneyland at Home, Revisited ・14.07.2021

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

The Magic & Mystery of Club 33's Salon Nouveau ・07.07.2021

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

The Disney Legacy of A Famed Marionette Theatre ・30.06.2021

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

a brief intermission! ・23.06.2021

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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Inside Shanghai Disneyland's Opening ・16.06.2021

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

All About Velocicoaster ・09.06.2021

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!!)

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Avengers Campus! ・02.06.2021

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.

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Hidden Mickeys: Taran Killam! ・26.05.2021

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

The One About Duffy & Friends ・19.05.2021

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

The Happiest Place on Minecraft ・12.05.2021

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

The Creatures, Code Names and Concept Art of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge ・05.05.2021

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

Shrek Retold! ・23.12.2020

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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We're Going...To Shrekfest! ・16.12.2020

"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

The Sun Never Sets On Shrek! ・09.12.2020

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

SHREK-CEMBER! ・02.12.2020

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

Biden Drones! (Yes! Really!) ・25.11.2020

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