Photo via Stephen Janko on Flickr Found this photo on Flickr and just had to share it. This is The Great Movie Ride in Disney’s MGM Studios (now Disney’s Hollywood Studios) circa 1990. As a former MGM Studios employee (vacation planner from 99-00) it pains me to see the Sorcerer’s Hat at the end...
To celebrate the reopening of the Star Tours attraction at Disneyland and the Walt Disney World Resort, Disney.com has launched a new online destination that takes intergalactic travelers on an exciting adventure through hyperspace to a galaxy far, far, away! The site features exclusive videos starring Bree Starlighter, Chief Holo-Communications Officer and galactic travel...
Disney’s Hollywood Studios recently unveiled some new signage outside its gates near the “Group Sales” ticket window. Wonder if it will make it through the rest of 2011? This structure ties in the year’s theme of “Let the Memories Begin“. This banner looks very similar to the signage outside the Magic Kingdom save for...
DISNEY CHANNEL DUO: Characters Phineas (right) and Ferb (left) from the hit Disney Channel series “Phineas and Ferb” now greet guests of all ages in a new interactive meet-and-play experience at Disney’s Holllywood Studios in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The characters appear near Mama Melrose’s Ristorante Italiano in the theme park. (Gene Duncan, photographer)
A few weeks ago I was invited to preview Star Tours: The Adventures Continue at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. I have to admit…I was a little nervous! I had not been on Star Tours since I was required to ride it back in 1999 for my Traditions Class when I was hired on as a...
Disney Pixar Cars 2 star Lightning McQueen will replace Herbie the Love Bug on stage in Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show at Disney’s Hollywood Studios beginning June 5, 2011. Photo via Wade Menard
Returning to Star Wars Weekends at Disney’s Hollywood Studios as Celebrity Host of “The Clone Wars: Behind the Force,” actress Ashley Eckstein (voice of Ahsoka Tano in Star Wars: The Clone Wars) will also be bringing an all-new, unique range of Star Wars fangirl-focused products to the month-long event at Walt Disney World. Available...
Calling all sweet-toothed, Disney dessert junkies! Behold the newest dessert boxes recently rolled out at Disney’s Hollywood Studios! These are currently being sold at Hollywood Scoops which is on the corner adjacent to Rock’n'Roller Coaster and Tower of Terror. These new sweet treats are priced as follows… FANTASMIC SWEET TREATS ($13.99) or with sparkling...
If you have little ones I’m sure you’re aware by now that Playhouse Disney has officially transitioned to Disney Junior, a new multiplatform brand devoted to children ages 2-7 and their families. So it should come as no surprise that the existing “Playhouse Disney – Live on Stage” at Disney’s Hollywood Studios will be...
From the time Star Tours debuted at Disneyland Park in 1987 and at Walt Disney World Resort in 1989 until the attraction went dark for “reimagining” in fall 2010, guests embarked on a journey to the Moon of Endor and beyond, with a trainee pilot named REX at the controls of 40-passenger Starspeeder 3000...
