Escape From Vault Disney

It'll take me a bit more time to finish the Davy Crockett and the River Pirates episode, so in the meantime, here's the first of a few more MINISODES in which me and David Ganssle continue making our way through the Not On Disney+ Month shortlist in alphabetical order! In this minisode, we briefly discuss The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Honey I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, The Horse In the...

This week, the randomizer goes all the way back to 2018 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 Daryl Hall. Born in 1946 in Pottstown, PA, Mr. Hall majored in music at Temple University in Philadelphia, met his performing partner John Oates in...

This week, the randomizer goes all the way back to 2019 to cover the very first smash hit original series Disney+ ever produced, a relic of a magical bygone era when streaming platforms would actually KEEP their original shows available! My, what a novelty. In this case, it's an episode of the popular live-action Star Wars series that asks the bold question "what if we focus on a character you've...

This week we're bypassing the randomizer for yet another Guest's Choice episode, in which our good friend Chris Nebergall makes us watch one of Walt Disney's more acclaimed live-action features, a 1954 megahit Jules Verne adaptation featuring groundbreaking special effects, an Oscar-winning director, three Oscar-nominated actors and an intelligent screenplay that didn't talk down to the audience....

Escape From Vault Disney will be back with a full episode sometime next week (we mean it this time!) but in the meantime here's another bonus MINISODE where Tony Goldmark and David Ganssle continue making their way through the Not On Disney+ Month shortlist in alphabetical order. In this minisode, they briefly discuss Ferngully: The Last Rainforest, Fillmore!, Follow Me Boys!, Freaked, Futurama, G...

Escape From Vault Disney will be back with a full episode next week, but in the meantime here's another bonus MINISODE where Tony Goldmark and David Ganssle continue making their way through the Not On Disney+ Month shortlist in alphabetical order. In this minisode, they briefly discuss the Disneyland 35th Anniversary Celebration special from 1990, a whole buncha vintage Donald Duck shorts (specif...

Escape From Vault Disney will be back in May with our next full episode, but in the meantime here's another bonus MINISODE where me and David Ganssle continue making our way through the Not On Disney+ Month shortlist in alphabetical order. In this minisode, we briefly discuss a banned episode of Darkwing Duck, the series Dave the Barbarian, a bunch of Disney's animated WWII propaganda shorts (spec...

Escape From Vault Disney will be back in May with our next full episode, but in the meantime here's another bonus MINISODE where me and David Ganssle continue making our way through the alphabetical list of everything on the Not On Disney+ Month shortlist. In this minisode, we briefly discuss Cabin Boy, Captain EO, the 2015 remake of Cinderella, Clerks: The Animated Series, the 1995 made-for-TV re...

Escape From Vault Disney will be back in May with our next full episode, but in the meantime here's a bonus MINISODE where me and David Ganssle continue making our way through the alphabetical list of everything on the Not On Disney+ Month shortlist. In this minisode, we briefly discuss Believe You Can...And You Can!, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Blossom S3E19: "Of Mice and Men," The Boatniks, The Bo...

Escape From Vault Disney will be back in May with our next full episode, but in the meantime here's a bonus MINISODE where me and David Ganssle start going down the alphabetical list of everything on the Not On Disney+ Month shortlist. In this episode, we briefly discuss The 7D, the Aladdin TV series, Anastasia (1997), The Barefoot Executive and Batman: The Movie (1966)!

It's the fifth and final week of NOT ON DISNEY+ MONTH on Escape From Vault Disney! And to wrap the month up, the randomizer goes all the way back to 1958 to cover one of Walt Disney's "True-Life Adventures" nature documentaries, specifically a particularly infamous little film about Arctic fauna that you probably know by reputation even if you don't quite recognize the title. But once you Google t...

NOT ON DISNEY+ MONTH on Escape From Vault Disney just keeps on lumbering along! For our fourth and penultimate week of Not On Disney+ Month, the randomizer goes all the way back to 1999 to cover a documentary on the man who originally created, designed and animated the world's most famous tri-circled talking cartoon rodent. The rodent's name was of course Mickey Mouse, but the man's name, contrary...

It continues to be NOT ON DISNEY+ MONTH on Escape From Vault Disney! For our third week of Not On Disney+ Month, the randomizer goes all the way back to 1984 to pick a home video compilation of content made for a fledgling young premium cable channel called The Disney Channel, specifically the series borne out of someone saying "Hey, y'know those newfangled 'music-videos' all the kids seem to like...

It's still NOT ON DISNEY+ MONTH on Escape From Vault Disney! And for our second week of Not On Disney+ Month, the randomizer goes all the way back to 2003 to pick a Disney-acquired 20th Century Fox romantic comedy that asks the bold cinematic question, "Hey, remember when romantic comedies didn't suck? Remember when they were actually romantic and actually funny and you'd actually enjoy watching t...

It's NOT ON DISNEY+ MONTH on Escape From Vault Disney, in which this podcast ventures outside the confines of Disney+ for the first and only time! And for our first of five episodes of Not On Disney+ Month, say, did you know that in 1981, Disney made a movie where Bill Cosby played a demon from Hell? Cuz it's true! In 1981, Disney made a movie where Bill Cosby played a demon from Hell. Now, for so...

DISCLAIMER: This episode was recorded and released prior to the arrest of one of its guests, Kyle Carrozza. We at Escape From Vault Disney strongly condemn Mr. Carrozza's actions and offer our deepest sympathies to his victims, and we will not be inviting him on this podcast again in the future. That said, rather than attempt to rewrite history, we have decided to leave this episode online and int...

This week we're bypassing the randomizer for yet another Guest's Choice episode, in which our good friend Haley Baker Callahan makes us watch a Lucasfilm classic from 1988, in which George Lucas finally gets fed up with sci-fi purists decrying Star Wars as "more of a fantasy" and says "Oh, you want a fantasy? I'll give you a fantasy!" And because everyone in the 80s knew for a fact that Lord of th...

This week, the randomizer goes all the way back to 2021 to once again cover a Disney+ original documentary series all about, what a shocker, just how awesome Disney is at doing the things Disney does! This time, it talks about that one time all the countries in the world converged on Flushing Meadows in Queens, and Walt Disney, Pepsi-Cola, the "No Wire Hangers" lady, a team of exhausted overworked...

This week, I'm joined by the hosts of the Channel KRT podcast as the randomizer goes all the way back to 2022 to pick everyone's absolute favorite type of content we cover on this podcast, YET ANOTHER NATGEO SPECIAL! And this one's about those lovable striped predatory carnivores that have graced cereal boxes and early-90s comic strips the world over, tigers! Specifically the tigers native to the...

Escape From Vault Disney will be back on January 25th with our episode on the NatGeo special Russia's Wild Tiger, but in the meantime, here's a BONUS MINISODE featuring outtakes (caused by different technical difficulties) from the recent chaotic Arendelle Castle Yule Log episode!

This week, for our final Christmas episode of 2022, the randomizer goes back to 2020 to pick a piece of Disney+ original content that continued the grand holiday tradition of the televised Yule Log. Originally devised in 1966 by television executive Fred M. Thrower for New York City's WPIX, for over fifty years now the Yule Log has brought the relaxing, soothing warmth of a crackling seasonal fire...

DISCLAIMER: This episode was recorded and released prior to the arrest of one of its guests, Kyle Carrozza. We at Escape From Vault Disney strongly condemn Mr. Carrozza's actions and offer our deepest sympathies to his victims, and we will not be inviting him on this podcast again in the future. That said, rather than attempt to rewrite history, we have decided to leave this episode online and int...

This week, for our first of three special Christmas episodes of 2022, the randomizer goes all the way back to 1992 to pick the blockbuster sequel to one of the biggest Christmas smash hits of all time, a heartwarming holiday tale set in the Big Apple, complete with all the staples of a Merry Christmas: family, Christmas trees, toy stores, generosity, school pageants, travel complications, chronic...

This week, the randomizer goes all the way back to 2016 to pick exactly what all my most dedicated listeners tune in to this podcast to hear, ANOTHER DAMN NATGEO SHOW! For the second week in a row. Hey, don't thank the randomizer, it's just doing its very stupid job. This particular NatGeo show is a reality show all about the veterinarians working at a Florida animal hospital that specializes in c...

This week, the randomizer goes all the way back to 2020 to pick one of the roughly nine zillion NatGeo documentaries on Disney+ all about sharks! Yes, sharks, those oft-maligned predators of the deep who were the subject of exactly one really good movie almost fifty damn years ago and the general public is still inexplicably fascinated with them, even though unless you're a fish, you're statistica...