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This week's show is, sadly, the final show of All About the Mouse. We have a nice long show in store for you, though! Paul Barrie from Window to the Magic is joining us again to recap the news items that occurred throughout the Disney company during November and December 2023. Together, we'll recap sad events like the passing of Dick Nunis and exciting news announcements, like the return of Fantasmic! at Disneyland. We'll also talk about World Celebration opening at Epcot, the materialization of the Hat Box Ghost at the Haunted Mansion in Walt Disney World, and a whole lot more! To cap off our final show, Paul will read some messages emailed in by you, the listeners, remembering all of the fun and excitement we've had here at All About the Mouse over the last 16 years!

On this week's show, Bryce Yelverton and Sarah Evans join me again to reveal the winner of Walt Disney World Background Music Madness. I know we begin this bracket-style tournament to find out the #1 piece of music audio in all of Walt Disney World way back in March of 2023, and it has taken us a long time to get to this point. We are finally ready to reveal the winner that you, the listeners, voted for!
Then, we'll revisit our Disney predictions for 2023 to see which ones came true and which ones didn't.

On this week's show, we continue our tradition at All About the Mouse of celebrating Christmas with Christmas audio from the parks. One of the things I love about Christmas is waking up Christmas morning and opening up presents with the family by the tree with Christmas music playing in the background. I've curated this year's audio of Disney music, all from Magic Kingdom, just for that purpose. You can huddle around the tree with your family and enjoy these various pieces of Christmas audio from Magic Kingdom in the background or you can pop on your headphones, close your eyes, and imagine yourself in the park enjoying these special Christmas presentations from Walt Disney World. Either way, I hope you enjoy this week's show and have a very merry Christmas!

Paul Barrie has a special announcement regarding the final episode of All About the Mouse!

On this week's show, I have a major announcement to make at the very top. Then, I'll take you on an in-depth look at the Disney castles from the theme parks around the world. As most of you know, Walt Disney started the legacy of the Disney company's iconic castle logo way back in 1955 when he opened Disneyland with Sleeping Beauty castle placed directly in the main view of guests as they walked into his park. This week, I'll take you a little further into that castle with some stories and fun facts and then we'll visit all of the other castles around the world and talk about their inspirations, the attractions within them, which one is the tallest, and which one almost wasn't even a castle at all.

On this week's show, we're back from a little bit of an unexpected break. Paul Barrie from A Window to the Magic joins me again to recap the news items from around the Disney company that occurred throughout the months of September and October. We'll touch on all of the highlights that were announced at Destination D! We'll also look at some of the highlights from the 100th anniversary celebration of the Walt Disney Company as well as talk about the new limited-time nighttime entertainment offering at Disneyland with a distinct New Orleans flare, the easing of park hopping restrictions in Walt Disney World, the opening of Journey of Water in Epcot, an incident that occurred involving wildlife roaming around Magic Kingdom park, and much more!