Recently Lou published guides #4 and 5, Liberty Square and Mickey’s Toontown Fair. Lou’s Audio Guides are filled with stories and details that you don’t find in any guide book. Listening to Lou’s guides you learn about the architecture and the story behind the story to the buildings, rides and attractions. The Audio Guides are perfect for the Disney fanatic who thinks they know everything there is to know-because they too will learn some thing. It is also perfect for someone who has yet to make it to the park but has always dreamed of going. Lou’s vivid descriptions enable the listener to picture the park in their mind’s eye and enjoy a mini-vacation-no matter where they are when they listen.

Liberty Square

The Liberty Square Audio Guide takes time to explain why there is this corner of the Magic Kingdom dedicated to American history. You will also learn how the story flows from Fantasyland into Liberty Square and why the buildings are built where they are and in the different colonial era styles. Unfortunately many of us don’t slow down and really take in the beauty and the history of Liberty Square…and we should-the details are amazing.

After listening to the Liberty Square Audio Guide I was inspired to spend some time there last week and snap a few pictures of the Liberty Tree and some buildings.

Mickey’s Toon Town Fair Audio Guide was not scheduled to be the next guide released but when Walt Disney World announced that Toon Town would be demolished to make way for the expansion of Fantasyland, Lou knew his production schedule would have to be changed. He worked diligently so that he could release the guide while Toon Town is still open and I’m glad he did. I listened to this guide on my drive to the Magic Kingdom last week and it inspired me to take some time and enjoy Toon Town before it is gone for good. On the Audio Guide Lou explains the history of the area now know as Mickey’s Toon Town Fair. It has very temporary beginnings as Mickey’s Birthdayland and then became Mickey’s Starland before becoming Mickey’s Toon Town Faire. I hope to go back one more time, with my iPod in tow so that I can wander this special land, where Mickey Mouse and his friends vacation, while listening to Lou weave the story behind the one place you can be guaranteed to meet Mickey Mouse.

In case I don’t get the opportunity to go back again, I took a lot of pictures last week, I hope you enjoy them.

You can purchase any of Lou Mongello’s Audio Guides to Walt Disney World from Lou’s website. They are available on CD for $8.99 or as a Digital Download for $6.99. They would make unique Christmas gifts for the Disney lover in your family.

Disclosure: I received a free digital download of each of these Audio Guides for the purpose of this review. All opinions are 100% mine.

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On my trip to Disney World last week for the Princess Tiana event, we listened to the Audio Guide to Main Street USA during our 1.5 hour drive. Lou, a talented wordsmith, takes his listeners on a very detailed, educational and entertaining trip down Main Street. Many people don’t know or understand why each window and store on Main Street USA have names of companies and their proprietors etched on them. Walt Disney used these windows as the credits of the “show” that is the Magic Kingdom. In these windows are the names of people who are important to the Disney family, the history of Disney animation and Walt Disney World itself. Lou explains every window and door on Main Street USA.  He explains the history of the different stores and buildings as well as the vehicles that travel up and down the street.

If you are a huge Disney fan, a history buff, or even someone who may be visually impaired-you want to own these audio guides. I pride myself in knowing a lot about Walt Disney World and every time I listen to Lou’s audio guides I learn something new. Here is a preview of the Main Street USA Audio Guide.

If you would like to purchase your own set of all 3 audio guides you can do so on the WDW Radio site.

Even though I would like to keep them for my collection, I have decided to give away the Audio Guide to Fantasyland and the Audio Guide to Adventureland to one lucky reader of The Mom Maven.
Mandatory 1st Entry visit Lou’s website, click on podcasts and take a look through the topics of his podcasts. Come back here and leave me the date of the podcast and what topic interested you.

Bonus Entries may be completed after the mandatory 1st entry

*Tweet This up to 1x per day leave the tweet URL in your comment: You can win @LouMongello ‘s Audio Guides to WDW from @MomMaven http://bit.ly/2yAX4N #giveaway

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The winner will be chosen on 11/12/09 at 10:00pm ET by Random.org. US residents only please leave a valid e-mail or Twitter handle with your entries.

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Tonight Lou is hosting a LIVE broadcast of WDW Radio, here is all the info on that cool event.

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Today’s giveaway is for 2 of Lou’s WDW Radio products first a copy of the third issue of Celebrations Magazine. This issue is sold out and no longer available to the general public-I wish I had one for myself-but this is for you. Check out the Celebrations Magazine website here.

The second item in this giveaway is a Disney Trivia Page-a-Day calendar.

How do you enter to win these 2 awesome Disney prizes?

Mandatory Entry:

Visit WDWradio.com and check out all that Lou has to offer. Since today is the Disney Hollywood Studios 20th anniversary, check out the DHS trivia section of the website and find out how many attractions there were on opening day 5/1/89. Leave your answer in the comments.

Bonus entries: Leave a separate comment for each one you complete.

• subscribe to my blog’s RSS feed
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• follow Lou @loumongello and I @MomMaven on Twitter

This giveaway is open to US Residents only. A winner will be chosen Friday, May 8th 8:00pm. Good luck!

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