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It's still WHAT WOULD WALT HAVE DONE? MONTH on Escape From Vault Disney! And for our second belated episode of What Would Walt Have Done? Month, the randomizer goes all the way back to 1976 to pick an ambitious misfire released just in time for America's bicentennial, a would-be epic treasure hunt adventure set in the Reconstruction-era American South that aims to be Budget Mark Twain by way of Budget Robert Louis Stevenson, depicting America as a chaotic lawless hellscape where former slaves run back to their plantations, snake oil medicine can be refashioned into Molotov cocktails, impromptu hoedowns turn into attempted gangbangs at the drop of a hat and we're supposed to take the big evil frightening villain seriously even though his name is "Spangler." Also the guy who voiced Prince John is in it but he doesn't suck his thumb even once. Join Tony Goldmark, Ryan Hipp, Madeline Maye and Chris Nebergall as they fruitlessly hunt for the TREASURE OF MATECUMBE!

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RYAN HIPP
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MADELINE MAYE
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CHRIS NEBERGALL
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It's WHAT WOULD WALT HAVE DONE? MONTH on Escape From Vault Disney, as we devote March 2024 to movies, featurettes and/or TV specials produced by Walt Disney Productions during that odd, awkward inbetween time from 1968-1984, after Walt died but before Eisner took over! And for our first episode of What Would Walt Have Done? Month, we're joined by the man who literally wrote the soon-to-be-released book on that era, Meet the Robinsons director Stephen Anderson! And for our topic, the randomizer goes all the way back to 1977, the summer when Star Wars had the unmitigated audacity to dominate the box office 35 years before Disney owned it. The only competition Disney had that summer was a Herbie sequel and an animated talking mice movie, so the Disney execs thought "Hey, y'know what Walt would've done? He would've paired the animated talking mice movie with 48 minutes of documentary-style footage of a bear and a raccoon in the woods just kinda wandering around, narrated by an obscure country singer who, for thoroughly unclear reasons, is named 'Mayf Nutter.' That'll steer audiences away from Luke Skywalker blowing up the Death Star for sure!" Are you starting to understand why Disney struggled in the 70s? Join Tony Goldmark, Stephen Anderson, David Ganssle and Luke Ski as they chase A TALE OF TWO CRITTERS! 

Pre-order Stephen's new book! https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/disney-in-between-the-lost-years-1966-1986 

Here's that "bear and bees" video we were talking about btw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehm7q6uTtsA  

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STEPHEN ANDERSON
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DAVID GANSSLE
Website: https://doggans.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doggans87 
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/doggans

LUKE SKI
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/thegreatlukeski

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This week, the randomizer goes all the way back to 2019 to pick yet another NatGeo special! And since it's become abundantly clear that every NatGeo special is exactly the same, I'm gonna devote the rest of this description to talking about the life of actor/comedian Chris Elliott. Born in 1960 in New York City as the fifth and youngest child of Bob Elliott of Bob & Ray fame, Mr. Elliott was hired as a production assistant on Late Night with David Letterman and soon began playing various wacky characters on-camera. This led to supporting roles in such films as Manhunter, The Abyss, Groundhog Day and There's Something About Mary, as well as starring roles in his own FOX primetime sitcom Get A Life and the feature film vehicle Cabin Boy. More recently, in the 2010s he had his own Adult Swim series Eagleheart, and a regular supporting role on Schitt's Creek. Chris Elliott's surreal, offbeat style of humor has been a comedy staple for over forty years and counting, and he continues to be an always-welcome character actor to this day. Join Tony Goldmark, Morgan Funder, Brianna Garcia and Kit Leitmeyer as they challenge the authority of the WORLD'S DEADLIEST, season three, episode one, "War of the Carnivores!"

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MORGAN FUNDER
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheWire2
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/AnIdiotsLantern

BRIANNA GARCIA
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/BriannaCherry
YouTube: https://youtube.com/briberry 

KIT LEITMEYER
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A two-and-a-half-hour supercut of all sixteen "What Else Is Not On Disney+?" minisodes, featuring more-or-less the entire conversation Tony Goldmark had with David Ganssle in the spring of 2023 in which they went through the entire Not On Disney+ Month shortlist and said a few words about each item.

This week we're bypassing the randomizer for yet another Guest's Choice episode, which in this case doubles as a belated Christmas episode AND triples as an even-more-belated Halloween episode! Our good friend and newly-sentient amorphous blob of characters Garrett Smith "makes" us watch one of the most groundbreaking animated features of all time, a 1993 stop-motion animated borderline-experimental quasi-operatic tone poem of a film about the shenanigans that ensue when the bored leader of an annual tradition finds a buncha magic trees containing the other annual traditions and decides to colonize one of them, filled with gorgeous sumptuous visuals, haunting musical numbers and some guy's name in the title who didn't direct it and only visited the set maybe ten times. Join Tony Goldmark, Rob Bergman, Garrett Smith and Gaby Tyrrell as they wake up screaming from TIM BURTON'S THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS!

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ROB BERGMAN
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GARRETT SMITH
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GABY TYRRELL
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GhoulishGabs 

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This week, for our belated second Christmas episode of this winter season, the randomizer goes back to 2021 to pick another piece of Disney+ original content that continued the grand holiday tradition of the televised Yule Log. Hand-crafted from paper art by Brittney Lee, Walt Disney Animation Studios' acclaimed visual development artist on Frozen and Frozen 2, this warm and inviting hearthside scene sets a festive holiday mood Stylized cut-out paper flames combine with imaginative visual effects (including a touch of snow provided by Elsa) and silhouetted images of Anna, Elsa, Olaf, Kristoff and Sven to add to your holiday fun and enjoyment. Join Tony Goldmark, Kyle A. Carrozza, Morgan Funder and David Ganssle as they curl up by the Christmas tree with a warm blanket and a mug of hot cocoa and enjoy the ARENDELLE CASTLE YULE LOG: CUT PAPER EDITION! 

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KYLE A. CARROZZA
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Podcast: http://kyleandluke.com
Bandcamp: https://tvskyle.bandcamp.com

MORGAN FUNDER
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/AnIdiotsLantern

DAVID GANSSLE
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/doggans

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