594 The Disney Dream Girls

Welcome to the show for the Disney Dream Girls Podcast - show number 594 for Sunday 3rd May 2026.

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Julie Svendsen - Concept Show Designer

Photo Credit - WDFM 

Her father Julius was a Disney animator and he helped her to get a job as an accounting clerk at WED Enterprises in 1970. After several years of art school, and a BFA, she returned to WDI to work on the design teams for New Fantasyland at Disneyland, EPCOT, Typhoon Lagoon, Blizzard Beach, Disneyland Paris, Disney California Adventure, The Disney Stores and Shanghai Disneyland.

Favourite project she worked on:
“I can’t say that I had any favorite projects—they were all interesting in their own way. Each was a new variety of challenges and creativity which ran the gamut from coming up with concepts for different areas of the Walt Disney World water parks, Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach, to partnering with John Hench to sketch and create a montage of different Disneyland attractions for their appearance on bedspreads for the Disneyland Hotel.”

What is Svendsen’s favourite Disney Parks attraction?
“Wow, that’s a tough one. I’d say it’s a tie between Pirates of the Caribbean, Haunted Mansion, and the Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse. But, when I was a kid, I loved the Frontierland Mine Train attraction and the Tomorrowland Flying Saucers.” 

Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party

Here are the dates - will you be attending?

EPCOT International Food and Wine Festival

The festival dates are here - what is your favourite thing to do or eat?

That's it for this week! 

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583 The Disney Dream Girls

Welcome to the show for the Disney Dream Girls Podcast - show number 583 for Sunday 15th February 2026. 

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On this week's show, we take you to the spot in the world of Disney we are dreaming about, share some history, share some news and then talk restaurants on the Disney Cruise Line. 

Women in Disney

Photo Credit D23 website

This week we celebrate Peggie Fariss - Executive, Creative Development.

Main Feature - Disney Cruise Line Restaurants

We then rank the restaurants on the Disney Cruise Line from what we have sailed on to those we are yet to enjoy.  

Which are your favourites? Were we wrong in placing the World of Marvel at the very bottom?

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

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DDG 335 With Terri Hardin aka the Pumpkin Queen

Welcome to the show notes for the Disney Dream Girls Podcast, show number 335, for Sunday 18th October 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 weeks show, we are joined by our friend (and former Disney imagineer) Terri Hardin, who we have nicknamed the Pumpkin Queen.

Terri shares her love of pumpkin carving and how she got into this fascinating art craft. Below you can see some of the amazing pumpkins she has carved but you will find more information on her website terrihardin.com 

Terri shares how she got began pumpkin sculpting to now being a judge on the Food Network show - Outrageous Pumpkins. Have you seen the show yet?

Any chat with Terri would not be complete without the many digressions - so listen in and enjoy!

To find out how you can join one of her group online pumpkin carving sessions, visit her website TerriHardin.com and whilst there you can see some of the other projects she is involved with. She is an amazing artist, below I have shared one of the many videos from her YouTube page - the Cheshire Cat.

That is about it for this week and we hope you have enjoyed reading this blog as well as listening to the podcast. 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.

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That's it for this week, so thank you for reading and listening to our Disney musings.
Much love,
Michelle & Jayne xxx

316 - Tales From Terri Hardin

Welcome to the show notes for the Disney Dream Girls Podcast, show number 316, for Sunday 124h May 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 Terri Hardin to join us to share some more of her entertaining Tales. In her career, she has worked with some very famous people and on today's show we asked her to share some of her memories. To find out the stories behind the pictures, you will have to listen to this week's show!

Elizabeth Taylor - The Flintstones

Sigourney Weaver - Ghostbusters

Whoopi Goldberg - Theodore Rex

Dolly Parton - Theme Park Work

This particular song, means a great deal to Terri and I have included it for you all to enjoy. 

Michael Jackson - Captain EO

If you want to hear more tales from Terri Hardin, follow the links below:
Show 277 - Galaxy's Edge
Show 201 - Imagineer Chat 
Show 192 - My Life and Star Wars 
Show 139 Terri Visits Disneyland Paris 
We hope you enjoy the show! But until next time, it is goodbye from us and until then, keep up to date with us by ensuring you follow along in all of our social media sites:

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Disney Dream Girls 201 - The Disney Imagineer Interaction

Welcome to the show notes for the Disney Dream Girls Podcast, show number 201 for Sunday 19th March 2018. If you want to listen, whilst you read these notes, all you have to do is press the green triangle on the audio player below.

Coming up on todays show, Michelle is joined by former Disney imagineer Terri Hardin to do what Terri does best - talk!

Our discussion began with Terri talking about some of the projects she is currently involved in. The first being the third sculpture in her impressions range, namely Baby Groot.

 

The next in the set will be the three hitch hiking ghosts from the much loved Haunted Mansion but they will be presented in a manner not attempted by any other artist! For the details you will have to listen to the show!

Another project Terri is working on is a Paris Retreat. Where you can by guided, by Terri, through not just Disneyland Paris but also Paris itself. 

Those of you who are avid listeners of the show, you will know that Terri worked on a number of attractions at Disneyland Paris. On her retreat, you will get to hear about them from conception to visualisation and then be able to question and discuss these with her right by the attraction.

What makes this tour unique is that you get the opportunity to appreciate Paris through the eyes of an artist. On the retreat, prepare for some foodie elements too as Terri loves her fine cuisine!

The final item Terri discussed was a very special creative course she is planning for October 2018. During this event she will tease out your creativity and guide you through the  how draw and she also mentioned playing with clay! If you wish to register an interest in this, or any of the other mention items please get in touch with either Michelle or Terri. Terri can be reached via her website http://terrihardin.com/

Concept Model Galaxy's Edge - Photo Credit Disney Parks Blog

Then the discussion turned to Galaxy's Edge (aka Star Wars Land) and its upcoming opening in Disneyland in 2019. Terri had heard some rumours about opening day and she did not mince her words!

Along the way a few other topics were discussed but the show ended with Terri sharing a few details about the Muppets. Many of you may not realise that Terri is also a highly regarded puppeteer, having worked on previous Muppet shows and films such as Ghostbusters and The Flintsones. So Michelle couldn't let her go with out discussing that and also sharing her Nicolas Cage story.

So that just about wrapped up show 201. If you want to hear the entire audio of Michelle's conversation with Terri Hardin, rather than the edited down version played on the podcast, you can visit our Patreon website and find out how you can get access to this and other exclusive audio and content - Patreon Link.

Don't forget to visit Terri's website to keep upto date with her projects and, as usual our contact details are:

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Just for transparency, we have not in any way received any financial remuneration for sharing the links to Terri Hardin's work - we are merely fans who like to let other people know what she is currently working on.