The Park Hopper Society

We discuss the history of Lightning Lane at Disney World. From the early days of paying for individual rides, through ticket books, Fast Pass, Genie+, to today's Lightning Lane we discuss how things have changed and what we think of the current version. We also take a look at the 2025 Festival of the Holidays food menus.

We are joined by the one and only Frankie Goodman! We talk Disney, the history of the Disney World Junkies Facebook group, and so much more. You never know what exactly you're getting with Frankie but you always know it's going to be entertaining! He was an incredible guest and we had an absolute blast talking to him.

We talk about what we're thankful for at Disney, and we talk about what we'd change if we could be CEO for a day. Plus we ask the question: Do the seasons change too early at Disney? 

To celebrate our 13th episode and Halloween being almost here we discuss the scariest day you can have at Disney. Including things like getting sunburnt on a 40 degree rainy day. We also attempt to rank our 3 scariest rides at Disney but end up just talking about past, present, and future rides at Disney that could be scary.

We discuss the recently announced price increases at Disney and do a little historical research to try to provide some context. We also play Pass or Stay with the moderate resorts and the Cabins at Fort Wilderness (which on this day were listed as a moderate on the Disney website for some reason).

We discuss our recent trip to Disney where we completed our Speedrun Challenge (a ride and a snack in all 4 parks before lunch). We recap some of our favorite moments and give our opinions on The Beak and Barrel. We also discuss the recently announced Candlelight Processional narrator lineup for the 2025 Festival of the Holidays.

It's our 10th episode!!! To celebrate we all made a top 10 list of our favorite rides and attractions at Disney World and discuss them in an extremely unorganized fashion. We also briefly recap and discuss Destination D23. Thank you to everyone who has listened to any of our episodes so far, you're all amazing! Here's to the next 10 and many more after that too!

It's finally the one everyone has been waiting for! We discuss all of our favorite things at the Magic Kingdom, from rides to food to fireworks. We also talk about what menu items we're most excited about for Food and Wine 2025 (spoiler alert: it's most of them).

We discuss our perfect day at Animal Kingdom and how and why we think this park is underrated and misunderstood. We also go over our plan for our upcoming Speedrun challenge. 

Gary and Britt recap their recent trips to Disney World. We share our opinions about the new Disney Starlight parade, Geo-82, and the newly reopened and reimagined Test Track. We answer a listener question about when we became (or realized we were) Disney people. And we briefly discuss our upcoming trip in September. 

We discuss our perfect day at Hollywood Studios and play a new game called that we creatively named Stay or Pass.

We give an update on the podcast now that we kind of know what we're doing. We talk about our perfect day at Epcot, and we discuss this Eat to the Beat lineup for the 2025 Food and Wine Festival.

We discuss the new Disney park announced for Abu Dhabi and how our own approach to planning a Disney trip has changed over the years.

We discuss what to do if you're sick or injured at Disney. We also talk about changes at Epcot, a new Disney parade, and the upcoming reimagining of the Dinosaur area of Animal Kingdom.

We discuss a recent solo trip and give our own advice on whether or not you should take a solo trip to Disney. We also talk about the 2025 Festival of the Arts (though we have an immature nickname for it) and talk about festivals in general at Epcot.

The very first episode of the soon to be critically acclaimed new podcast the Park Hopper Society. In this episode we try to cover planning a trip to Disney World as well as some of our favorite restaurants.