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Four Park Challenge
Hey everyone, I’m Mike, she’s Sophie, and that’s Brenda, and we’re On the Road with Mickey! This is Season 2, Episode 23 for June 7, 2021, and our feature topic today is our Four Park Challenge. Today we are coming up with our special four park challenge — one attraction (or ride) and one show to do at each park! So, grab a drink, relax, and join us as we talk about all the things that we came up with! Here’s our rundown of what we talked about:
- Cheddar from the Big Cheese
- Mike: Over at Animal Kingdom, it was recently announced that Tusker House Restaurant will be reopening on June 20th! You can start making bookings for the restaurant as of this past Friday, June 4th.
- Sophie: A while back we reported on a new baby zebra born at Animal Kingdom. The baby is coming along quite nicely, and he has now been named Dash.
- Mike: Dates are released for the Disney After Hours Boo Bash! Starting August 10th and running through October 31st on select nights. Tickets in August and September are $129 for children under age 10 and $139 for anyone over age 10, plus tax. October pricing is $159 for children and $169 for anyone over age 10. October 31st pricing is $199 per person.
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- Feature Topic: The Four Park Challenge
- Brenda’s choices:
- Living the dream at Walt Disney World, not worrying about her 4 park challenge choices. 🙂
- Sophie’s choices:
- First, get up at 7 am and get a boarding pass for Rise of the Resistance.
- Then spend a leisurely hour getting ready for the day.
- Take the first bus over to Animal Kingdom
- Ride: Expedition Everest
- Show: Festival of the Lion King
- Next, hop on a bus to Magic Kingdom
- Ride: Haunted Mansion (I don’t care. It’s my favorite.)
- Show: Mickey’s PhilharMagic
- Go to the Rivera for a quick lunch.
- Take the Skyliner to Epcot
- Ride: Spaceship Earth
- Show: Reflections of China
- Hop back on the Skyliner, have dinner at Caribbean Beach, and go to Hollywood Studios
- Ride: Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway
- Show: Fantasmic!
- [Challenge complete]
- Reward: Rise of the Resistance.
- Mike’s choices:
- Magic Kingdom: Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, Country Bears Jamboree
- Epcot: Frozen Ever After, American Experience
- Hollywood Studios: Millennium Falcon: Smuggler’s Run, Muppet Vision 3D
- Animal Kingdom: Expedition Everest, Festival of the Lion King
- Listener Responses
- Tony:
- MK – Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, MNSSHP Fireworks
- Epcot – Test Track, Illuminations
- HS – Rise of the Resistance, Fantasmic
- AK – Flight of Passage, Festival of the Lion King
- Jennifer:
- MK: Haunted Mansion; Festival of Fantasy Parade (not a fan of the new fireworks show).
- AK: Expedition Everest; FOTLK show
- EPCOT: Living with the Land; Fav show used to be the British Invasion band. Not sure what I’d stick around to watch now.
- HS: ToT; Beauty and the Beast Live on Stage
- Cindy:
- MK – BTMRR, Cavalcades
- EPCOT – Soarin’, Beauty & Beast Sing a long
- HS – Rise of the Resistance, One Man’s Dream
- Ak – Expedition Everest, Nemo the Musical
- Dana:
- MK – Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, Carousel of Progress (consider that a show)
- AK – Flight of Passage (because I haven’t done it yet), Nemo
- EPCOT- Soarin, not sure about a show choice there
- HS – Toy Story Mania, Fantasmic
- Sheila:
- We have done this one time We went to Ak first did FOP, then went HS did Great Movie Ride, then to Epcot Spaceship Earth then last we did MK 7 dwarfs mine train. We only did one show, that was Carousel of Progress.
- Tony:
- Brenda’s choices:
- This Day in Disney History for June 7
- Disney Who’s Who Character:
- Linguini from Ratatouille
- Walt Disney Quote
- “Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious…and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” ~ Walt Disney
- Listener Picture Submissions
- We have photo and video submissions this week from the following listeners:
- Heather
- Holly
- We have photo and video submissions this week from the following listeners:
- Coming Next Week: Brenda’s WDW Recap
- Sponsorship
- On the Road with Mickey is sponsored by Pixie Vacations by Mike Ellis and Tech Solutions NC.
As always, thank you for listening. We are having a lot of fun talking Disney, and I’m glad you are enjoying it as well! Remember, you can reach us in many ways — by email to info@ontheroadwithmickey.com. You can also talk to us on our Facebook Page, On the Road with Mickey or in our On the Road with Mickey Group. Feel free to join us! Have a great week, and we’ll be back to talk with you again next week!
