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Mike Scopa

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Former blogger for MousePlanet and Alll-Ears.net; former co-host of WDW Today Podcast V1.0, Co-Host of The Mickey Miles & More Podcast and current host of Substack's "The View from Scopa Towers Podcast."

44 Followers  |  17 Following  |  83 Posts  |  Joined: 30.11.2023  |  1.5242

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From Pumpkins to Wreaths: The Parks I would say about 15-20 years ago I became real interested in the holiday decorations at Walt Disney World and I would ask everyone and anyone who worked at Walt Disney World for information on just h...

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07.11.2025 14:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The View from Scopa Towers Podcast - Episode 59 This Substack is for Disney fans who are looking for insight, news, advice, and some interesting stories in my "Disney Vault" that I hope to share with you. Let's have some fun!

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30.10.2025 20:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Planning Tools When someone contacts a travel agent, or as they like to be called, “vacation planner,” the first thing the agent will ask is “Do you have a My Disney Experience account?”

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29.10.2025 20:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Play these Games! There are a lot of attractions we all love to experience over and over again.

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22.10.2025 13:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Movies! Movies! Movies! It will be interesting how the upcoming Disney movies will be received by audiences.

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15.10.2025 18:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Lighting the Way With the International Food and Wine Festival in full gear at EPCOT these days it can certainly be said that of the four theme parks, currently EPCOT is enjoying the largest crowds.

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12.10.2025 20:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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If I were in Charge of Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party I don’t know exactly what year it was when I first experienced Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party (MNSSHP).

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08.10.2025 20:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Saga of Riverfront Square Last weekend I attended the Oktoberfest Festival at the local Anheuser-Busch Brewery.

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03.10.2025 23:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Disneyland vs Walt Disney World If you were to begin to describe the differences between Disneyland and Walt Disney World you would easily find yourself spending a long time listing and defining those differences.

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02.10.2025 16:37 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Choosing the Right Walt Disney World Moderate Resort These days with the prices as they are I often think that young families for the most part, when wanting to stay on property, end up staying at a Walt Disney World value resort; the lowest priced reso...

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29.09.2025 14:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Safest (as well as the Happiest) Place on Earth? So as I write this I’m still kind of stunned as to what happened to me these last 15 hours or so and it has made me think that a Disney theme park may just be the last place on Earth where we can actu...

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22.09.2025 16:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My Interview with Cinderella Castle: Part II - 2025 It’s been 16 years since I’ve had a chance to touch base with the Cinderella Castle but perhaps the wait was worth it.

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15.09.2025 22:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My Interview with Cinderella Castle: Part I When I became a blogger some 400 years ago I sat back and thought about what I’ve enjoyed reading over the years and thought that I would try and write blog articles that were different.

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12.09.2025 20:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What Would Doc Say? On Wednesday of this week, we learned that children in Florida will no longer be required or mandated to receive vaccines against preventable diseases including measles, mumps, chickenpox, polio and h...

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05.09.2025 15:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Promise of Progress City: Part II In The Promise of Progress City: Part I, I focused on the origins of this model for EPCOT and how it was Walt Disney’s vision of an “Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow.”

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02.09.2025 16:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Promise of Progress City: Part I I know you all have done this.

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01.09.2025 14:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Is the Pope Jewish? It’s been about a year since I started this substack and some 130+ posts and 58 podcast episodes later I am still just getting started.

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30.08.2025 16:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Live Action Problem At last count there has been a total of no less than 17 Disney animated films that have been made into live-action movies.

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23.08.2025 15:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The View from Scopa Towers Podcast: Episode 58 - Music We Never Forget This Substack is for Disney fans who are looking for insight, news, advice, and some interesting stories in my "Disney Vault" that I hope to share with you. Let's have some fun!

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22.08.2025 15:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Day the Tower Opened: Part III Funny how talking about the Tower hit me a week or so ago when I was thinking about that day way back in 1994.

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20.08.2025 13:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Day the Tower Opened: Part II It’s always exciting to do a soft opening of a Walt Disney World attraction.

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15.08.2025 15:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Day The Tower Opened: Part I With all the ongoings at Walt Disney world I started thinking about all those that have occured in the past 50 years and in a few cases I was lucky to have either experienced these attractions on thei...

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10.08.2025 21:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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"Everyone is Important! " “Everyone is Important.” Those are three simple, yet very important words.

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07.08.2025 23:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams On my last Substack I listed some things I wanted to do on my next trip to Walt Disney World.

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03.08.2025 20:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My To-Do List Sometimes, and I am sure many of you go through this exercise, I return from a trip to Walt Disney World and either on the plane or when I get home I think to myself, “Rats, I forgot to….” and I come up with one or several things I meant to do, eat, drink, experience, or whatever.

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01.08.2025 14:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hulk Hogan and Disney Terry “Hulk Hogan” Bollea has passed away.

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24.07.2025 16:45 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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It All Started with a Carousel Sometimes the actual catalyst for an action or an idea is never truly given the credit it so deserves.

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20.07.2025 16:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Addressing the Animatronic in the Room Honestly, I hemmed and hawed about touching upon this subject, but, over the last three days it became clearer and clearer that I just HAD to put my thoughts down on paper…err…SubStack.

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16.07.2025 20:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Who is Eleanor Audley? The name, Eleanor Audley, may not ring a bell so allow me to bring you up to speed.

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13.07.2025 18:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Becky, Beagles, BedBugs and Buzz Lightyear Good-Bye Becky

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09.07.2025 19:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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