History of Disneyland's Flying Saucers & Craig's Goodbye
Connecting with Walt - A look into the history of the man behind Mickey Mouse, Disneyland and Walt Disney World
DIS Unlimited
4.8 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2024
⏱️ 128 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Michael and Craig discuss the history of the gone but not forgotten Disneyland attraction Flying Saucers and its legacy before saying farewell to Craig!
Links:
- Michael’s Disneyland History Segments
- Important DIS links and more information!
- Connecting with Walt on Twitter
Sources:
Books/Magazines:
- The “E” Ticket Magazine Number 39: The Adventureland Story, Disney Historian Michael Broggie, also Flying Saucers
- The Disneyland Story: The Unofficial Guide to the Evolution of Walt Disney’s Dream by Sam Gennawey
Websites/Articles:
- Progress City, USA: Patent Pending – Disneyland’s Flying Saucers, 1966
- Disney History Institute: Disneyland 1961 – Flying Saucers by Todd James Pierce
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | From West to East and Kingdom to Kingdom, you're listening to the Connecting with Walt is brought to you by dreams and limited travel, experts at helping you plan the perfect Disney vacation. |
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| 0:52.9 | Hey there, hi, they're ho there, |
| 0:58.8 | and welcome the episode 293 of connecting with Walt. |
| 1:02.1 | I am your host and is historian Michael Bowling, |
| 1:05.9 | and I am joined by my co-host, executive producer, |
| 1:08.6 | and good friend Craig Williams. |
| 1:16.4 | Well, this is a big day for us, Craig. How are you today? I am doing okay, a little nervous, especially after we've had a couple months off while you've been a world traveler |
| 1:24.3 | making us all feel jealous. Oh, world travel. Yeah, to England and Norway. |
| 1:28.5 | I'll talk more about that when we get into, you know, what did we do in our spring hiatus? |
| 1:34.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:34.9 | Towards the end here. |
| 1:36.9 | But if folks did not hear the Orlando show on Tuesday. |
| 1:47.8 | You have a big announcement for us. |
| 1:49.0 | Yes. |
| 2:04.5 | I am saddened to say that this will unfortunately be my last episode of connecting with Walt as your co-host executive producer. We will still remain good friends, obviously. Good. I'm happy to hear that. Yeah, the other two parts of it will be changing. |
| 2:11.5 | Who knows what will happen in the rest of my life. So I don't want to say that I won't ever be back on |
| 2:17.1 | this show again as a guest host in the future one day. Because, you know, maybe. That would be fun. Who knows? For the time being, probably not because of what I'll be doing. But yeah, I am leaving my position at the Diz Unlimited and Dreams Unlimited Travel. And I will be |
| 2:39.2 | joining the amazing team over at the Walt Disney Company. And I am very excited. I am getting to |
| 2:49.9 | quite literally have a dream job. But I'm not quite ready to share what that dream job is. |
| 2:57.2 | But it is, you know, it's going to allow me to help continue Disney's incredible storytelling and really help connect people more to Disney. And I just am so |
| 3:13.9 | incredibly excited for the opportunity. I am truly, truly devastated to be leaving my |
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