It was a very nice celebration of Disney’s Hollywood Studios 30 years of adventure yesterday with a special ceremony taking place at Center Stage. The 30th Anniversary Ceremony was a lovely tribute to a theme park that is in the middle of a massive expansion… Read More »30th Anniversary Ceremony at Disney’s Hollywood Studios
A name change for Disney-MGM Studios was announced eleven years ago today, August 9th 2007. The theme park gate at Walt Disney World opened in 1989 and originally featured a partnership with the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio that allowed Disney to us the MGM name and some… Read More »11 Years Ago today we learned Disney-MGM Studios would change its name
The Earffel Tower started its life as the icon for Disney-MGM Studios, a park Michael Eisner ordered built to prempt the theme park Universal Studios was building just down the I-4 freeway, which is now known as Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Last night it met with… Read More »Earffel Tower removed overnight from Disney’s Hollywood Studios
With the closure of the Magic of Disney Animation a major chapter in the history of Disney’s Hollywood Studios came to an end. The building that once housed Disney’s east coast animation studio will now become something else (rumored to be a preview center of… Read More »Video: Tour The Florida Animation Studios from Disney-MGM Studios
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Lights, camera, action! This statue of a cameraman is really the forgotten icon of Disney’s Hollywood Studios. The statue marks the spot where the park’s dedication plaque now resides.
Many people overlook the second plaque in the area. The one dedicating the “Cameraman” statue itself. It features a quote from Walt Disney himself, “Movies are a medium of expression like a symphony orchestra… or a painters brush and canvas.”
“The World you have entered was created by The Walt Disney Company and is dedicated to Hollywood–not a place on the map, but a state of mind that exists wherever people dream and wonder and imagine, a place where illusion and reality are fused by… Read More »A Birthday Wish for Disney’s Hollywood Studios 25th Anniversary
May 1 is the silver anniversary of Disney’s Hollywood Studios. With 25 years of history and decades of Hollywood icons to celebrate, you might expect a year long bash at the third gate to open at Walt Disney World. However, that’s not the way Disney… Read More »25th Anniversary Events Announced for Disney’s Hollywood Studios on May 1
Here’s a little blast from the past; a video from 1989 that details the making of Disney-MGM Studios. The park, even with a new name, has lost touch with the original vision articulated in that video. We keep hearing rumors about how Disney’s Hollywood Studios… Read More »Videopolis: The Making of Disney MGM Studios