604 The Disney Dream Girls

Welcome to the show for the Disney Dream Girls Podcast - show number 604 for Sunday 19th July 2026. 

As always, if you wish to listen to the podcast direct - click the player below.On this week's show, we discuss some missing theme park elements that we miss and then talk about the various types of spinner rides that are attractions in Walt Disney World.  

We do have a Patreon Page and if you would like to drop us a $1 a month (or more) it would really help us with the running costs. This also keeps our show from having to add adverts in order to keep the show up and running. Supporters from $5 or above get additional podcast content - exclusively just for them. 

Finally, we encourage you to follow (and interact with) us on our our socials - @disdreamgirls our email address is info@disneydreamgirls.com and join us as on our Facebook Page - Disney Dream Girls Podcast Family.

 

585 The Disney Dream Girls Podcast

Welcome to the show for the Disney Dream Girls Podcast - show number 585 for Sunday 1st March 2026. 

As always, if you wish to listen right now - click the link below.

Coming up on this week's show, we look at a list of the best and the worst Disney attractions and then discuss our thoughts on them. 

This is the list Gemini gave us for the best Disney attractions: 

10. Tron Lightcycle Run 

9. Big Thunder Mountain Railroay - DLP

8. The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror - DHS and TDS

7. Avatar - Flight of Passage - DAK

6. Indiana Jones Adventure - DLR and TDS

5. Mystic Manor - TDL

4. Enchanted Tale of Beauty and the Beast - TDL

3. Pirates of the Caribbean: Battle for the Shrunken Treasure - SDL

2. Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind - EPCOT

1. Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance - DHS & DLR

On the show, we delve into our views on these. What would be your top ten of best Disney attractions? Have any of these surprised you?

This is the list Gemini gave us for the worst Disney attractions:

1. Tommorrow Land Speedway / Autopia

2. Journey into Imagination with Figment - current version

3. Mission Space Orange

4. Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage

5. Alien Swirling Saucers

6. The Wildlife Express Train to Rafiki's Planet Watch

7. Magic Carpets of Aladdin

8. Seas with Nemo and Friends

9. Star Tours - The Adventure Continues

10. Tiana's Bayou Adventure

Le us know your thoughts! 

That's it for this week - catch you next time!

We do have a Patreon Page and if you would like to drop us a $1 a month (or more) it would really help us with the running costs. This also keeps our show from having to add adverts in order to keep the show up and running. Supporters from $3 or above also get the podcast earlier and from $5 additional podcasts - exclusively just for them. 

Finally, we encourage you to follow (and interact with) us on our our socials - @disdreamgirls our email address is info@disneydreamgirls.com and join us as on our Facebook Page - Disney Dream Girls Podcast Family.

568 The Disney Dream Girls

Welcome to the show for the Disney Dream Girls Podcast - show number 568 for Sunday 19th October 2025.

On this week's podcast, Michelle and Jayne talk about some news items that caught their eyes. Plus, just for this week (Jayne hopes!) we are joined by Michelle's Bearista bear.

We discuss rider closures and re-openings. We are always please to hear when attractions get a little glow up to make them even better for us. 

After that, we have a little bit of Disney maths and Jayne updates everyone with her trip planning. Jayne ends the show with a listener question - what Disney challenge should we do on our trip? 

As always, if you wish to listen right now - click the player below.

We hope you enjoyed our podcast and if you would like to hear more from us, visit Patreon and consider supporting us financially in exchange for a range of exclusive benefits.

We encourage you to follow (and interact with) us on our our socials - @disdreamgirls our email address is info@disneydreamgirls.com and join us as on our Facebook Page - Disney Dream Girls Podcast Family.

 

447 The Disney Dream Girls

Welcome to this week's Disney Dream Girls Podcast - show number 447 for Sunday 19th March 2023. 

If you would like to ensure you never miss a show, please subscribe to us via your podcast catching place or alternatively you can listen in using the audio player below.

Coming up on this week's show, we share some history and then discuss the our favourite attractions at the Magic Kingdom - along with sharing some facts and top tips on the way!

What is your favourite Magic Kingdom attraction? 

Have you a top tip to share? We would love to hear from you.  

To get further Disney Dream Girls Podcasts, as well as giving something back to the show, please visit our Patreon page to find out more https://www.patreon.com/DisneyDreamGirls

We invite you to give your opinions on our Facebook page - find the Disney Dream Girls on Facebook.

You can also subscribe via iTunes to ensure you never miss a show and also, whilst there, why not leave us an iTunes review? Click here for the iTunes page for the Disney Dream Girls.

Our other contact information is:

Twitter @DisDreamGirls and @Jaynephipps

Email info@disneydreamgirls.com

Instagram @DisDreamGirls

358 - The Focus Is On Disneyland Paris

Welcome to the show notes for the Disney Dream Girls Podcast, show number 358, for Sunday 11th April 2021.

If you want to listen, whilst reading these notes, just click the player below or alternatively find us on iTunes, Libsyn, Stitcher Radio, or any good podcast catching apps.

We also send our best wishes to Kevin Rafferty, who retired from Walt Disney Imagineering on 1st April 2021.

Our friends over at All Ears have a wonderful review of his career visit - All Ears post.

In our on this day in Disney history section, we mention that Euro Disney opened on this day in 1992 making next year its 30th anniversary. Due to Covid-19, sadly the park remains closed. However, we take a few moments to celebrate the things we love about this beautiful theme park.

Michelle's Top 5

Sleeping Beauty Castle together with La Galerie de la Belle au Bois Dormant and Taniere du Dragon, which Jayne also agreed with!

Phantom Manor - Jayne's also!

Big Thunder Mountain - Jayne's also!

Disneyland Railroad

Walt's American Restaurant

Jayne's Top 5

Sleeping Beauty Castle

Facebook live from DLP

Phantom Manor

Big Thunder Mountain

View from Phantom Manor

 

Adventure Isle

Le Pays des Contes de Fées

That's about it for this week - we hope you enjoy the show and we will be back next week for some more Disney chatter.

You may be aware we have a Patreon account so if you wish to hear more from us, pop on over to https://www.patreon.com/DisneyDreamGirls

We invite you to give your opinions on our Facebook page - find the Disney Dream Girls on Facebook.

You can also subscribe via iTunes to ensure you never miss a show and also, whilst there, why not leave us an iTunes review? Click here for the iTunes page for the Disney Dream Girls.

Our other contact information is:

Twitter @DisDreamGirls and @Jaynephipps

Email info@disneydreamgirls.com

Instagram @DisDreamGirls

We are proudly part of the After Dark Podcast Network @TADPodNetwork

327 A Mixed Bag Of Disney Weird and Wonderful

Welcome to the show notes for the Disney Dream Girls Podcast, show number 327, for Sunday 9th August 2020. If you want to listen, whilst reading these notes, just click the player below or alternatively find us on iTunes, Libsyn, Stitcher Radio, or any good podcast catching apps.

On this week's show, we start with sharing some Disney history from this day, before moving on to sharing some weird and  wonderful sights from our past travels to the Disney theme parks.

It Is All About Mary But Not...

On 9th August in 1899, Pamela Lyndon Travers OBE, was born as Helen Lyndon Goff  in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia and sadly passed away on the 23^rd April 1996.

Photo Credit Literary Ladies Guide

After her father's death – when she was 7 – the family moved to a family members sugar plantation in New South Wales and were supported by a great aunt. She changed her name to Pamela after World War I and began an acting career but had to support herself and wrote for a Sydney newspaper.

In 1924, she left Australia to set up home in England but travelled and following a trip to the Soviet Union, her first book was published called Moscow Excursion. Shortly after, in 1934, she fell ill with pleurisy and as she was recovering took to writing a fantasy story.

Mary Poppins was the first of eight books ranging from 1934 to 1988 and were illustrated by Mary Shepard (she was the daughter of the illustrator for the first Winnie the Pooh books).

During World War II, she was working for the British Ministery of Information in Manhattan, New York. Around this time, Roy Disney got in touch about allowing Disney to use her Mary Poppins character.

She never married and had an adopted son called Camillus.

Strange Theme Park Sights

During our trips to the parks, we have seen many a strange thing. So we thought we would share some with you on the show... Michelle's top two were:

Nappy change in the Dumbo soft play pre-queue but leaving the dirty diaper.

The preacher who got escorted from the property.

And you will have to listen to the show to hear the rest! Do you have a weird and wonderful Disney story to share with us? Let us know!

Michelle also announced that she has booked a trip to stay at the Newport Bay Club hotel in Paris later in the year but there will be more about this oncoming shows.   

That's about it for this week. You can find us @DisDreamGirls on Instagram and Twitter. We have the Disney Dream Girls page on Facebook as well as the Disney Dream Girls Podcast Family. 

If you wish to support us financially and keep the show advert free, visit us at https://www.patreon.com/DisneyDreamGirls and there you can find out the benefits of doing so including exclusive additional podcasts!

322 Disney and Alice in Wonderland

Welcome to the show notes for the Disney Dream Girls Podcast, show number 322, for Sunday 5th July 2020. If you want to listen, whilst reading these notes, just click the player below or alternatively find us on iTunes, Libsyn, Stitcher Radio, or any good podcast catching apps. Welcome to this week's show notes and we have one main topic - Alice in Wonderland.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was written by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, under his pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It was originally published in 1865 and has been translated into 97 different languages. From the book, there have been many film versions over the years - including an X rated version! And to find the link to that one and Star Wars - you will have to listen to the podcast!

The Disney version of the film was released in 1951 and even today, the characters are known and loved by many. This shows that they may be identifiable to modern society as well as well-crafted. We start our discussion by looking at the characters and where to find them in the Disney theme parks. 

Photo Credit WDW Mickey Hunter

For many, character meals are the best places to guarantee meeting characters from this franchise and Disney has a few options from a children's party to breakfast or dinner. 

Michelle reminisced back to her first Disneyland Resort trip and shared about meeting the Mad Hatter and Alice at Goofy's Kitchen. 

Meanwhile, Jayne recalled meeting characters at 1900 Park Fair, where Alice took a shine to a then young Ethan. 

Then, we look at Alice in Wonderland in the parks, and there are the teacup rides, a dark ride, and mazes plus character meets.

Additionally, the Disneyland Hotel at Tokyo Disneyland has the most amazing themed hotel rooms to this franchise.

We then daydream a little about how else these characters could be more present in the parks.

What else would you like to see in the parks to enhance this franchise?
  
That's about it for this week. You can find us @DisDreamGirls on Instagram and Twitter. We have the Disney Dream Girls page on Facebook as well as the Disney Dream Girls Podcast Family. If you wish to support us financially and keep the show advert free, visit us at https://www.patreon.com/DisneyDreamGirls and there you can find out the benefits of doing so. 

309 Tommy's Top Ten for A Disney Park

Welcome to the show notes for the Disney Dream Girls Podcast, show number 309, for Thursday 9th April 2020. If you want to listen, whilst reading these notes, just click the player below or alternatively find us on iTunes, Libsyn, Stitcher Radio or via any good podcast catching apps. 

On this week's show, we welcome our good friend and fellow podcasters - Tommy Allison and we set him the challenge of creating his own bespoke Disney theme park. So below, you will find his ten attractions. 

1. Starting out his must include - The Original People Mover with the Tahitian Terrace resurrected with delicious Polynesian foods.

Photo Credit Walt Disney Archives

2. Next, another attraction from the past of Disneyland would be an updated version of Circle-Vision 360 featuring the history of Disneyland.

3. To a wonderful new take on a classic dark ride, he would like to add the Beauty and the Beast attraction that is currently being built in Tokyo Disneyland. On to this, he will add an upscale dining establishment. To see a sneak peek - click here to the Disney Parks Wesbite. 

4. Next, he gets creative by adding an amalgamation of the existing Snow White dark ride with the Seven Dwarves Mine Train that is over in the Magic Kingdom. This new attraction would have a dining experience in the mining element of the ride.

Photo Credit Walt Disney World Website

5. His next take is from Hong Kong Disneyland, where he would bring across the trackless ride - Mystic Manor.

Photo Credit Disney Parks Blog

6. Another attraction from the past he would like to bring back is the Skyway and theme this with a snack style treat box. 

Photo Credit Disney Parks Blog Walt Disney on The Opening Day of The Skyway

7. For a thrill ride, he would like to add the Tron attraction that exists in Shanghai Disneyland and is being built in the Magic Kingdom.

Photo Credit Tokyo Disneyland Website

8. Finally, Tommy has decided to add a boat ride and for this, he will steal Sinbad's Storybook from Tokyo DisneySea.

Photo Credit TDR Explorer Website

9. Another Tokyo attraction he would bring to his park is the Star Jets and these would have a themed ice-cream parlor. 

10. His final attraction would be the Pirates of the Caribbean but with additional elements, perhaps an even real-life mermaid lagoon. 

So that is Tommy's Ten for Disneyland. What would you ten look like?

That is about it for this week. Don't forget our Facebook page by searching Disney Dream Girls and you can also find us on Twitter and Instagram under @DisDreamGirls

 

Find our guest - Tommy Allison on the Dis Geek Podcast and The Cruise Dudes.

If you would like additional podcast content, you may wish to consider supporting us via our Patreon page where there are lots of exclusives awaiting you, so visit https://www.patreon.com/DisneyDreamGirls