Season 1 Episode 20 – Shanghai’d

By Paul Hale | April 3, 2016 |

  Paul, Laura and guest host, Robert T. discuss tiered pricing, Disney’s Shanghai money-pit and how it relates to Disneyland current pricing and Disney’s lawsuit over foreign workers’ visas. Robert T. discusses DCA’s Food & Wine Festival, Wondercon and his Disney Cosplay Photo Shoot meetup, and the show wraps up with a brief review and discussion…

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Season 1 Episode 11 – Hair Salad

By Paul Hale | April 15, 2013

  This episode is another Disney Story Origins (number 4), where I discuss the Grimm fairytale “Rapunzel”, it’s origin, it’s historical context and compared it to Disney’s “Tangled”

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Season 1 Episode 8 – My Dumb Foundling

By Paul Hale | February 24, 2013

  Disney Story Origins Number 3 — The Little Mermaid “The Little Mermaid” originally titled Den lille havfrue, which is Danish for “the little seawoman” is one of the better known fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. In this episode I compare the original Little Mermaid with Disney’s version.

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