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1. MGM_030125_001.JPG: The Sorceror's Apprentice hat is usually shown as the symbol of the park
2. MGM_030125_050.JPG: You see the Mickey Mouse water tower on the "backstage tour". During Christmas time, they used to put a Santa Claus hat on top of it but I'm told they don't do that anymore.
3. MGM_030125_054.JPG: They promote this as the Golden Girls' house and say that exterior shots for the show were taken here. I was told that's technically correct. The three stars came down one day and were briefly filmed waving from the front of the house. That was it. Note that left over Christmas decorations over the house.
4. MGM_030125_062.JPG: This is part of the "backlot tour". It features a fire complete with thousands of gallons of water which come tumbling down. Kind of cute.
5. MGM_030125_082.JPG: Props from "Reign of Fire"
6. MGM_030125_093.JPG: Prop from "Aliens"
7. MGM_030125_095.JPG: Prop from "Planet of the Apes" (the new one)
8. MGM_030125_100.JPG: Prop from "Judge Dred"
9. MGM_030125_102.JPG: Prop from "Star Wars"
10. MGM_030125_110.JPG: This kids' playground features oversized characters to remind people of the movie "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids".
11. MGM_030125_117.JPG: This Muppet fountain is outside a 3-D in Muppetland show
12. MGM_030125_146.JPG: Various scenes from the 25-minute version of "Beauty and the Beast" that they present several times a day. The story pretty well follows the Disney cartoon, complete with most of the songs, with two variations (all of the townspeople try to kill the Beast, not just Gaston; there's a full dance number after the Beast changes into the non-Beast character).
13. MGM_030125_230.JPG: The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror consists of being strapped into an elevator which raises and then drops like it's possessed. When you reach the top levels, the doors open and you get this incredible view of the park which is combined with the terror of knowing that you're about to plummet to the bottom.
14. MGM_030125_254.JPG: One of the Disney characters walking the park is Cruella Deville. Someone walked past and yelled "Puppy killer!" The character sneered, "Let's be a little less obvious, shall we?"
15. MGM_030125_258.JPG: Yep, a Star Wars ride. You're put in a vehicle that looks like the inside of a transport ship. You're then sent through the Death Star and a variety of stellar formations before you land. The cool thing is that when you land you find that the ship never actually moved; you were just jostled up and down while the movie in front of you simulated movement. There's a Back to the Future ride at Universal that's almost identical to this.
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Wikipedia Description: Disney-MGM Studios
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Disney-MGM Studios is a theme park at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA. The third park to open at the resort, it debuted on May 1, 1989. Spanning 135 acres (546,000 m�) in size, the park's theme is show business, drawing inspiration from the heyday of Hollywood in the 1930s and '40s.

The only affiliation Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has to the park is via contracts that allow Disney to use the MGM name and lion logo in marketing, and separate contracts that allow for specific MGM content to be used in The Great Movie Ride.

On August 9, 2007, Walt Disney World President Meg Crofton announced that the park's name will be changed to Disney's Hollywood Studios effective January 7, 2008. In announcing the name change, Crofton said, "the new name reflects how the park has grown from representing the golden age of movies to a celebration of the new entertainment that today's Hollywood has to offer—in music, television, movies and theater."

Dedication:

The World you have entered was created by The Walt Disney Company and is dedicated to Hollywood—not a place on a map, but a state of mind that exists wherever people dream and wonder and imagine, a place where illusion and reality are fused by technological magic. We welcome you to a Hollywood that never was—and always will be.
—Michael Eisner, May 1, 1989

Park development:

The idea which led to the Disney-MGM Studios began at its sister park, Epcot. A team of Imagineers led by Marty Sklar and Randy Bright had been given an assignment to create two new pavilions for the park's Future World section. The fruits of the brainstorming sessions were the Wonders of Life pavilion and the Great Movie Ride pavilion. The second of the two was to have sat between the Land pavilion and the Journey Into Imagination pavilion, and was to look like a soundstage backdrop, with a movie theater-style entrance in the middle. The actual attractio ...More...
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