Magic With The Mermaids

Welcome to Magic With the Mermaids! In this episode, we’re talking about one of Lindsay Lohan’s most iconic films (in Nic’s opinion) The Parent Trap! Join us as we discuss whether we see ourselves as more of a Hallie or an Annie, where we’d rather live, our views on how iconic Martin and Chessy are, whether Meredith Blake deserves to be treated as she is, and our favourite scenes from this Nancy M...

Welcome to Magic With the Mermaids! Happy Summer everyone! In this episode, we’re talking all things Disney Summer. Join us as we chat about what we think are the most Summery Disney and Pixar films, our favourite Disney princess Summer outfits (it’s Frozen Fever), and our Summer season ideas for the Disney parks. What’s your favourite Disney Summery film? Let us know in the comments. Follow us on...

Welcome to Magic With the Mermaids! In this episode, we’re talking about one of the best things about a Disney trip: snacks! Join us as we talk about the snacks we must get on every Disney trip, seasonal versions of Disney snacks, the most iconic snacks in each park (in our opinion), underrated snacks, and more. We even start some controversy by each naming one snack we’d get rid of! What’s your f...

Welcome to Magic With the Mermaids! It’s our birthday episode! Happy birthday to us! We are entering our terrible twos with an episode all about birthdays in Disney. Join us as we discuss who has the best birthday in Disney (Rapunzel) and the worst (maybe also Rapunzel?). We also give Mickey & friends jobs for planning a party, choose a Disney Princess to plan a party for us, and pick a birthday g...

Welcome to Magic With the Mermaids! In this episode we’re hitting the nostalgia hard by chatting about Disney’s Renaissance era! That’s right 90s kids, this episode is for you. Join us as we chat about our favourite and most nostalgic films from this era of classic Disney animation, our favourite characters and soundtracks (Phil Collins’ Tarzan soundtrack amongst others), and why there are few to...

Welcome to Magic With the Mermaids! Bright Suns! For the first episode in our Hollywood Studios miniseries, we’re heading to Batuu for an episode all about Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge. Join us on Black Spire outpost as we discuss our favourite station on Millennium Falcon Smuggler’s Run (and why its engineer), the characters we’d like to meet on Batuu, attractions we’d like to add to the land, and our...

Welcome to Magic With the Mermaids! In this episode (the last in our Magic Kingdom miniseries), we’re talking about the opening day attractions. Join us as we discuss our favourite opening day attractions, which ones we’d bring back, and which ones we think may close in the future. We’re also chatting about the attractions we think we would’ve queued for, and which land had the best rides. Come li...

Welcome to Magic With the Mermaids! In this episode, we’re chatting all things Toy Story. Join us as we discuss our favourite characters, whether we’re Woody or Buzz Lightyear girls, who the best villains in the franchise are (Lotso anyone?), and our thoughts on the Toy Story 5 trailer. We also talk about our favourite Toy Story attractions in the Disney parks. Which is your favourite Toy Story fi...

Welcome to Magic With the Mermaids! In this episode, we’re taking inspiration from those “Spring in Disney” videos on social media and doing our very own Spring episode. Join us as we discuss the films that are giving Spring and which studio we’d like to see make a Spring film. We also head to Spring at the Disney parks, with our favourites from EPCOT Flower & Garden festival and the Swing Into Sp...

We’re Magic With the Mermaids, and you’re watching Disney Channel (draws Mickey ears with a wand). In this episode, we’re talking all things Disney Channel. Join us as we discuss our favourite shows, the Hannah Montana songs we love, and our favourite Disney Channel stars. We’re also chatting about reboots and Mickey Mouse shorts, so grab your nostalgia popcorn and come join us. What’s your favour...

Yo-ho! Welcome to Magic With the Mermaids! In this episode, we’re continuing with our Magic Kingdom spotlight with a classic Disney attraction: Pirates of the Caribbean. Listen along for some fun facts about the ride, hear why it’s two members of the podcast’s favourite ride, and why we think it’s so popular. We also discuss some of the differences between the rides. So if you’re up for a relaxing...

Welcome to Season 3 of Magic With the Mermaids! Happy 2026! We’re kicking off our third season with an episode all about our plans, goals, and hopes & dreams for the year in this episode. Join us as we chat about our Disney trips, theatre shows, concerts, holidays and more that we’ve got planned for the year, and whilst we chat about our goals for 2026. Tell us about your 2026 in the comments: any...

Welcome to bloopers with the mermaids season 2! As we end our Winter break, we’re back with another bonus episode with some bloopers from season 2, aka, everyone reminding Nic about how loud she was in that one episode when only one of our mics was working. We’ll be back very soon with season 3!

Welcome to Magic With the Mermaids! Join Nic as she recaps some of the biggest Disney news of 2025 covering Disney+ announcements, Walt Disney Animation, Star Wars and Disney Pixar movie news, and Disney parks news! What are you most looking forward to of the big Disney announcements from the past year? Follow us on socials for even more magic! Instagram: @magicwiththemermaids TikTok: @magicwtheme...

Welcome to Christmas Magic With the Mermaids! In this episode, we’re discussing one of our favourite things: Disney Christmas. Join us as we chat about Disney Princess Christmas outfits, which Disney hotel we’d like to spend Christmas at, and which Disney characters we think would give the best Christmas presents. We also talk (spoiler-free) about Stranger Things 5, so if you’re in the mood to lis...

Welcome to Magic With the Mermaids, or, brrrrmaids if you will, because in this episode, we’re talking about the Frozen franchise. Listen as we chat about everyone’s favourite Arendellian sisters, the best fashion in Frozen, our predictions for Frozen 3, and why Jade hates Olaf. While you’re listening to our great Frozen blowout (yoohoo), why not leave us a comment and let us know some of your Fro...

Welcome to Magic With the Mermaids. In this episode, we’re chatting about the daytime parade at Magic Kingdom - Festival of Fantasy. Join us as we chat about our favourite floats, our experiences with the parade, what floats we would add to FoF, and where it falls in our parade rankings. We even get our imagination station hats back on and design new snacks themed to the parade, and we came up wit...

Welcome to Magic With the Mermaids. Happy Halloween, and happy 50th episode to us! Join us for our third Halloween special as we chat about characters who we think should be villains, our favourite villain songs, and our ideas for villain origin stories. Our imagination station is also back, and this time we’re redesigning Disneyland Paris’ Halloween party! Who’s your favourite Disney villain? Do...

Welcome to Magic With the Mermaids! Happy spooky season! In this episode, we’re shining a spotlight on one of the mermaids’ Halloween favourites: Hocus Pocus. Join us as we chat about our favourite quotes, which characters we had a crush on as kids, our favourite outfits, and why Sammy hates Max Dennison so much. Also hear about Nic’s favourite characters: Jay and Ice, which quote Rachel says ever...

Welcome to Magic With the Mermaids! In this episode, we’re talking about every little girl’s favourite topic: Disney Princesses. Join us as we discuss our favourite princess films, classic “I want” songs, Disney Princess fashion, and who we think is underrepresented in the Disney Parks. We also discuss who we’d add and (controversially) remove from the line up. Come along, don your tiara, and list...

Welcome to Magic With the Mermaids! In this episode (after waffling about Taylor Swift and baby animals), we’re continuing our Walt Disney World parks series with a new park: Magic Kingdom. And what better way to kick off our Magic Kingdom miniseries than with a lands battle? Join us as we debate which land has the best attractions, characters, food, and imagineering, and tally how many times Jade...

Welcome to Magic With the Mermaids! In today’s episode, we’re talking all things Disney Parks stage shows. Join us as we discuss our top 3 shows, have a hot debate over two Animal Kingdom classic shows, bring shows back from extinction, and pull in to Imagination Station as we design a new show for each Walt Disney World park! Let us know your favourite Disney Parks show in the comments, have you...

Like, welcome to Magic With the Mermaids! In this episode, we’ll totally be talking about Disney Dreamlight Valley! Come and, like, join us as we talk about our Dreamlight Valley favourites, our thoughts on the gameplay, and how we think it stacks up against other Disney games. We also talk about who and what we’d like to add to the game, and a little bit about the DLC. Have you played Disney Drea...

Welcome to Magic With the Mermaids! In this episode, we’re doing our first full west end show review (sort of). We all went to see the new (or is it….?) Disney’s Hercules musical in London’s west end, so naturally we had to discuss what we thought of it. Join us as we talk costumes, songs, cast, staging, and how we rate Hercules compared to Disney’s other stage shows. Have you seen Hercules? If so...

Welcome to Magic With the Mermaids! In this episode, we’re igniting our imaginations by chatting about the king of imagination (and EPCOT): Figment. Join us for some fun Figment facts, why we think he’s so popular, where we’d rank the ride (only one of us has actually been on the ride), and what we think of Disney Parks OCs in general. This is the final part of our EPCOT Extravaganza, so make sure...