Episode 004 - Emoji Blitz
- Author
- Glenn Welch
- Published
- Mon 10 Oct 2016
- Episode Link
- https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/tronfm/TRoN-004.mp3
- Recorded 10/2/16
- Disney Emoji Blitz
- Chris discovered it and is trying to catch up to Glenn
- What characters do we have?
- Happy 45th Birthday to Walt Disney World!
- Giveaways: guide map and button
- Guide map book is being released on 10/18
- Review the book after it comes out
- Our love of maps
- Castle show
- Merchandise for sale
- Celebrations for the 10th, 15th, 20th, and 25th were big; the rest have just been merchandise release
- Hoping the 50th is a huge blowout
- The Disney fan community seems to be celebrating it more than Disney is
- Remembering Epcot’s 25th celebration display in Innoventions
- One Man’s Dream has less and less
- Giveaways: guide map and button
- Disney has disabled the MagicBand interactivity
- News article from [WDW News Today](http://wdwnt.com/blog/2016/09/walt-disney-world-quietly-disables-magicband-interactivity-rides/)
- Some people complained or didn’t like it
- One of the biggest selling points of the MagicBand technology
- Stitch’s Great Escape to operate seasonally
- News article from [WDW News Today](http://wdwnt.com/blog/2016/09/breaking-stitchs-great-escape-operate-seasonally-permanant-closure-imminent/)
- Great news!!!
- Should be closing for good soon
- “Wreck It Ralph” attraction will be going there
- Not really Tomorrowland, but it doesn’t seem to matter
- "Alien Encounter”
- Glenn liked AE from a risk taking perspective
- It was original and not tied to existing Disney IP
- Chris didn’t like it because it was pessimistic
- "Timekeeper"
- Robin Williams’ fallout with Disney
- [News article](https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/robin-williams-disney-feud-revisited-94616911256.html)
- Chris’ life has become the final scene in “Carousel of Progress"
- Home automation
- Learning from TV/YouTube
- Final scene needs to be updated, since it’s current now
- It would be nice to have it completely redone by doing every 50 years (1900s, 1950s, 2000s, 2050s)
- Or replace it with the original from the ’64/’65 World’s Fair
- We can’t talk about the CoP, or they’ll just close it
- “That guy” that’s our hero at Disney and is keeping it open
- Other plans for the CoP
- Disney Emoji Blitz. Again. (Sorry about this.)
- With iOS 10, you can have them as stickers
- Buying character emojis
- The game has so many “gotchas"
- The reason we had no agenda for this podcast. Sorry again, everyone.
