Podketeers - (a Podcast With A Group Of Friends That Talk About Disney, Art, Food, Technology, And More!

In this episode, Heyzen and Melissa talk about their first impressions of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge and their experience in the park opening weekend. Melissa also gives us a rundown of some of the entertainment that guests have experienced at Disneyland since opening day.

This week we talk about some amazing opportunities that Melissa and Gavin will have the chance to check out. The walls of Project Stardust have finally come down and we talk about some of the magic that brought us. Plus we tell you a little history on the Marvel Cinematic Universe and how we feel it impacted society.

This week, we wrap up this month's Fantasyland talks with some Armchair Imagineering because dragons!

This week we talk Disney's new Flex annual pass, what we'd like to see as part of a Disneyland Forever when it returns this summer and we continue our Fantasyland talks with some history about Peter Pan's Flight!

This week we talk about the $2 billion rise of Avengers: Endgame as it continues to decimate records, Guardians of the Galaxy pays homage to different animation styles, reservations for Galaxy's Edge go live and we talk about about our attempts to get a time slot plus Gavin tells us about the Fantasyland dark rides!

In this episode we discuss a special foosball table featuring Heyzen's favorite Avenger, Iron Man. Google has a cool Avengers Easter Egg that we mention in this episode and you'll want to check out, Mel and Gavin experience Mickey's PhilharMagic and they give us their thoughts PLUS Melissa tells us about Walt Disney's Silly Symphonies!

In this episode we discuss Disney's theme choice for their new Anaheim parking structure, the announcement for reservations to visit Galaxy's Edge, Disney now owns more of Hulu, and we wrap up our talks on Mickey's Toontown with some Armchair Imagineering!

This week we discuss additional changes coming in preparation for the opening of Galaxy's Edge (including changes to Adventureland and the Disneyland app). A teaser has finally dropped for the upcoming Star Wars film and we now know the title! We got an official announcement for what we can expect to see on Disney+, launch date and price. Plus, Gavin continues our talks on Toon Town by telling us about Roger Rabbits Car Toon Spin!

In this episode we talk about a group of Avengers that made a surprise appearance at California Adventure, we discuss some of the downside at Fox after the conclusion of the Disney acquisition, an academy award winning director is leaving Disney for Sony, extra-wide strollers and smoking are now banned at Disney parks and we cap off the episode with Melissa telling us a little about Toontown!

In this episode we announce the winner of our March Mayhem competition. Melissa gives us her thoughts on the new live-action Dumbo film. Gavin heads to WonderCon plus we talk about the original Imagineers that helped build Disneyland!

This week we talk about Heyzen's experience trying to meet Disney-Inspired Artist, Jason Ratner, Gavin and Melissa give us some updates on their submissions for the D23 Haunted Mansion Design Competition, Melissa tells us about some limited time magic on Indiana Jones, plus we bring wrap up our talks on Main Street with a good ol' Armchair Imagineering Session!

Heyzen and his wife recently had the opportunity to take the Warner Brothers studio tour and we talk about some of the things from the tour, we comment on the news that James Gunn is back on as director for Guardians of the Galaxy 3 after being fired by Disney last year, plus we continue our stroll on Main Street, U.S.A as Heyzen tells you a little about the history of Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln.

In this episode we chat about the news regarding content on Disney's upcoming Disney+ streaming service, Disney is taking an interesting approach to the opening of Galaxy's Edge and we talk about how effective it might be, we talk about Captain Marvel and how it did its opening weekend opening, and Melissa takes us down memory lane on Main Street, U.S.A as she tells us about some of the shops that Main Street has seen.

In this episode we also talk about some of the news regarding Galaxy's Edge, changes coming to Epcot, plus we tell you about the Disney Legends award and we have a round-table discussion about who we would like to see receive this award.

In this episode we discuss the Pixar SparkShorts called 'Smash and Grab' and 'Kitbull'. We discuss how the latest trailer for Frozen 2 made us see Elsa a little differently. We also wrap up this month's talks about Disney California Adventure with a little Armchair Imagineering!

This week we said goodbye to Disney Legend, Dave Smith the founder of the Disney Archives and we talk a little about who Dave was and the legacy he's leaving behind. We give some details on our 2nd annual March Mayhem and we continue our series on Disney California Adventure where we talk about we what is commonly referred to as "DCA 2.0".

In this episode we talk about Melissa and Gavin's experiences checking out Mickey's Mix Magic. We talk about something new that Pixar is doing called SparkShorts and why think this uncommon approach to storytelling is a good thing for the Disney Company. Plus we take you down memory lane to when Disney's California Adventure opened and and tell you a little history about what we all lovingly refer to as DCA 1.0.

The latest teasers for Avengers Endgame and Toy Story 4 dropped during the "big game" and we talk about what purpose those trailers serve. We talk about Project Stardust, the new Mickey popcorn buckets, and Gavin tells us about Disney and Sci-Fi movies!

Ep241: Armchair Imagineering (A Brighter Tomorrow) SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | iHeartRadio | Spotify | Stitcher | RSS °o° --------------------- °o° By now you probably know that Heyzen likes to nerd out on Pokemon Go. As he mentioned in this episode, several people had expressed interest in the "level 40" design he had made and it's now available for purchase! We don't know if this will permanently be in the #PodketeersGear Store but  for now it's available! :) If you place an order for yourself or a friend, we'll need the Trainer name and the year level 40 was reached so that the shirt can be customized. You can enter that info in "Order notes" during the checkout process. Check out the designs: Closure Kingdom Hearts fans have been waiting for 13 years for the release of Kingdom Hearts 3 hoping to have some closure. If you need to catch up with the story before playing, here is deep dive i

In this episode we continue our series about Tomorrowland as Melissa gives us some background on Space Mountain! We also talk about Lee Unkrich announcing that he's leaving Pixar, the Spider-man: Far From Home trailer and more!