As I recall, I was dressed in a swallow-tailed tuxedo which Velcroed up the back. I was selected to be hit in the face with a pie by Curly Howard in a scene starring the Three Stooges. I myself got recruited to be part of a presentation of SuperStar Television.
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This sponsored-by-Sony show gave upwards of 30 visitors to this theme park to make appearances in classic TV shows like “I Love Lucy,” “Bonaza” and “Gilligan’s Island.” “Super Star Television” Credit: ThrillSpace Many still consider this to be one of the stupidest decisions ever made by Mouse House executives. Sadly, when Walt Disney Animation Studios decided in the early 2000s to shift over to producing CG films (Disney’s last two hand-drawn films – to date, anyway – were 2009’s “Princess & the Frog” and 2011’s “Winnie-the-Pooh”), the decision was made to shutter the Florida studio and lay off most of the staff who worked there. Among the films that were primarily produced in Florida were “Mulan,” “Lilo & Stitch,” “Brother Bear” & “Roller Coaster Rabbit.”
This was where Guests could visit the fish bowl (That’s what all of the artists & animators who actually work in the glassed-in portion of this walk-through attraction called this part of the tour) and peer down at work being done on upcoming animated features & shorts. Which was the “Magic of Disney Animation” attraction, which was home to Disney Feature Animation – Florida from 1989 – 2003. Our look at now-long-gone attractions at Disney-MGM (Now Disney’s Hollywood Studios) now continues with something of a heart-breaker. Both of these were discontinued in September of 2014 to make way for “Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge.” “The Magic of Disney Animation” When Guests complained about how long the original version of the Studio Backlot Tour was, Disney then turned this attraction into two separate experiences: a backstage tram ride and THEN a walking tour of its Florida soundstages. Then Guests took a walking tour of the three state-of-the-art soundstages that Disney had just built in Florida. This nearly two-hour-long experience began with a tram ride through Residential Street (Where you could then see a recreation of the “Golden Girls” house) and then a thrilling detour through Catastrophe Canyon. Which took many different forms during the over-25-years that this experience was available to Guests visiting the WDW Resort.Įarly on, the Studio Backlot Tour had a rather rigid form. We continue with the Studio Backlot Tour. After that, this attraction was rebranded as the “ABC Sound Show” (Which then tied this theme park show in with Disney’s August 1995 acquisition of ABC / Cap Cities). Sadly, “The Monster Sound Show” only ran at Disney-MGM from May of 1989 through July of 1997. It also gave Disney-MGM at least one attraction that paid tribute (sort of) to horror films. It was a way for Disney to showcase some of the amazing devices that its FX wizards had built over the past 60 years to then create those crazy sound effects featured in its full-length films & animated shorts. This Guest participation show (four members of the audience were recruited to recreate the various sound effects that were prominently featuring in a short film starring Chevy Chase & Martin Short) actually served a dual purpose. How many of you recall the Monster Sound Show sponsored by Sony? Ah, what might have been … Credit: Yesterworld “Monster Sound Show” But if the Imagineers had had their way, you’d have come face-to-face with the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man as Peter, Ray, Ego & Winston wielded their proton packs.
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Circa 1989, I mean).ĭid you know? … That the Great Movie Ride was originally supposed to have featured a scene built around “Ghostbusters” ? Sadly, Universal snagged the theme park rights ahead of Disney for that 1984 Columbia Pictures. Which was the most sophisticated Audio-Animatronic figure that WDI had ever produced. Once you climbed aboard your theater car, you were literally whisked over the rainbow to the Land of Oz (Watch out for the Wicked Witch of the West. The exterior of this 95,000 square foot show building was a faithful recreation of Hollywood’s iconic Chinese Theater. This was the thesis attraction for this entire park (much like Spaceship Earth is for Epcot), a celebration of all things cinema.
“The Great Movie Ride”įirst up, it’s the Great Movie Ride. So many great attractions have come & gone over the past three decades that we thought that it would be fun to look back at a few of our favorites. … It was 34 years ago that the Disney-MGM Studio theme park first opened its door.
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