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#027 - Star Tours - 10.27.2006
Top 7: Foods that should have been good, but weren’t

News Stories

• Drexel Heritage now has a line of Walt Disney inspired furniture. (source)
• The annual Disney-hosted pro-golf event took place this week, sans Tiger Woods. (source).
• A video is available on the internet with some searching (perhaps misplaced in a show note) that Disney is very upset about featuring cast members dressed in costume performing “suggestive” acts on one another. The employees were from Disneyland Paris.
• Anaheim, the city in which Disneyland is located, is debating proposals about what to do with land right next to Disneyland.(source: OCregister.com).
• A report is now out about a terminally ill boy that died after riding Space Mountain in Disney World in August, 2006. The boy suffered from terminal cancer of the lungs, spine and abdomen and fainted after riding the rollercoaster. He later died from natural causes.(source: local6.com)
• Yes, the Contemporary Resort is undergoing construction. No, there is no official word about DVC rooms being added.
• Yes, Wishes had some changes. No, its not significant. Just changing the finale fireworks from 360 degrees around the park to 180, to help with crowd flow.
• Yes, the Living Seas with Nemo looks cooler than I thought it’d be. No, I’m not going to classify it as an upgrade… yet.
• Yes, Cirque du Solei is holding auditions in Orlando. No, I’m not “La Nouba” … well, in France I am, but they hate me there.
• Yes, every other Disney site has video of Hallowishes, Nemo or the Food and Wine Festival. No, I don’t because I don’t live there. Sorry.
• Some dude figured out how to make Dole Whip at home using stuff you can buy off eBay. (source: the dude’s blog)

Top 7: Food that you thought would be good, but wasn’t
7. Eclairs in France
6. Everything in Mexico’s San Angel Inn
5. Norway - all of it
4. Pizza at Port Orleans, French Quarter
3. Germany - all but the beer and pretzles
2. Dole Whip
1. Tempura Kiku - not the chop-chop place, the one where they fry it… ALL of it.

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