Oh the joy of hearing “Hello I’m Michael Eisner” and wondering if he’s about to create a top tier attraction.. or send the company into massive dept
@ConnorCampbell-ch5mk8 ай бұрын
It’s a 50/50
@Atmblack038 ай бұрын
His execution was bad but his intentions initially weren't..look at how much people now love Disneyland Paris/ Euro Disney. How much thought they put into that park alone. People just didn't show up and it impacted the future of the other parks after.
@TheZackofSpades8 ай бұрын
Why not both?
@Seantendo8 ай бұрын
I always think of the intros he would do for The Wonderful World Of Disney. To me it always meant movie time.
@CaelumTheWolf8 ай бұрын
Or both at the same time
@williamcrossley27698 ай бұрын
Now that the Great Movie Ride is gone we really need the Muppets Great Movie Ride. That way we could still experience a version of the classic ride.
@SlipperySoap8 ай бұрын
I see your point!
@ab5olut3zero958 ай бұрын
Would be loads better than the runaway railway or whatever it’s called now
@vanillac0keh3ad4 ай бұрын
@@ab5olut3zero95 runaway railway is great. yall are so annoying and hate anything new lol
@Radioshack654 ай бұрын
@@vanillac0keh3adYeah, no. Disney can make S tier new attractions and everyone knows that. Cosmic rewind and Rise of the resistance are excellent examples. But Runaway Railway is mid af and great movie ride was a classic. I don’t hate runaway railway, but I will never excuse replacing a classic with a ride that isn’t at least as good or better than the original. Also Great movie ride was literally like a perfect embodiment of hollywood studios theme (which disney has forgotten and doesn’t care about anymore)
@vanillac0keh3ad4 ай бұрын
@@Radioshack65 great movie ride was mid af, a very weak imitation of the universal tram ride. The entire park existing in florida in a disney context made no sense anyway. But runaway railway is a cute fun attraction. Idk. The romanticization of everything they remove gets exhausting, its warranted at times but not over something like the great movie ride lol like yall really do the most sometimes
@johnn13818 ай бұрын
DHS definitely needs more Muppets, we were robbed of Muppets Studios.
@SRKStar8 ай бұрын
It’s also I feel like spiked in popularity online recently in the 2020’s with all of the videos out about them from movies to specific characters to topics, there’s a lot more love I feel like than back in the day also more respect. And back in the day as in the 2000’s to 2010’s I feel like. At least online.
@FreshGarbage08 ай бұрын
@@SRKStar I completely agree, Muppets are extremely popular at the moment with Gen Z and Millenials and soon (already for the millenials) they'll be growing up with jobs and children and wallets
@antonio__698 ай бұрын
*cries in california adventure*
@porcelainthunder22138 ай бұрын
Muppets are a dead/legacy property.
@nicksorenson9408 ай бұрын
I can tell that it was Eisner who was pretty big on wanting Kermit and the gang to become officially part of the Disney family even back then, while now they're finally owned by Disney under Iger and constantly feel slept on and neglected when compared to Star Wars and Marvel Studios. It is nice to know that people can still be able to watch The Muppet Show on Disney+ now, but I do think that The Muppets themselves definitely deserve better.
@elementalturnip8 ай бұрын
DHS Cast Member here! In the backstage areas kinda between Galaxy's Edge and Toy Story Land/Pixar Place there are still remnants of the old Streets of America facades. They've definitely seen better days but they're still there. Obviously all of that stuff is out of guest view and I had no idea until I had to go back there for something but yeah.
@jalapeno11198 ай бұрын
My heart is so happy that they're still there
@ActuallyFreakyBob8 ай бұрын
Can you take a vid and upload it?
@elementalturnip8 ай бұрын
@@ActuallyFreakyBob I would love to but it's against the company policy to film backstage areas. I'd get in serious trouble if I did.
@lucaswinters95658 ай бұрын
You can see some from Muppetvision exit area also!!
@bradwhite58848 ай бұрын
I wish some of the old parts of the ride still exist tbh, or maybe move them somewhere else if they ever revive it tbh, so yeah
@turcj8 ай бұрын
Disney should give some love to the Muppets. Since they just replaced the seats, I would guess that Muppet Vision is sticking around - as it should. They should turn Mama Melrose's into character dining: reopen that huge Muppet Store: and turn Star Tours into a Muppet ride - Pigs in Space would be an easy and comical overlay.
@BrightBlueInk6 ай бұрын
No please not Star Tours, I love that ride! But I definitely want more Muppets.
@oliviadorothy5 ай бұрын
ALLLLLLL I want is the muppet store to re-open!!!!!!!! I’ve been waiting SO LONG!!!! Give me my muppet merch!
@BigAL68xyz4 ай бұрын
Muppet Vision 3D is awesome! It made me feel like a kid again. It was like really being in the same theater in which the Muppet Show TV series took place. The box with the animatronic Statler and Waldorf was the icing on the cake.
@idfd3z20 күн бұрын
this didn’t age well ☹️
@doofusdan_16 күн бұрын
@@idfd3z no, no it did not
@Double-R-Nothing8 ай бұрын
#5 has a special place in my heart, since my parents first met at Endor Vendors
@louispacetime15768 ай бұрын
That’s pretty amazing
@gr33ngirlsea5 ай бұрын
Did they work there or did they happen to meet as guests there?
@BOYVIRGO6664 күн бұрын
@@gr33ngirlsea Synchronized shoplifting
@BahamaVader8 ай бұрын
Man Hollywood Studios has come a LONG way. I love what it is today, but I really do miss the great movie ride.
@JW-mz8ym8 ай бұрын
Same
@wdwnutjm7 ай бұрын
we went that very first summer of 1989- such a great park! I really miss all the behind the scenes stuff- presentations of the sound effects, blue screens, etc. where you could get right up out of the audience and be a part of it. so much fun
@XpediousF8 ай бұрын
I loved MGM. It was worth it just for Star Tours, Indy Jones, Muppets, Tower of Terror, and of course the great movie ride!! Could spend all day just riding over and over and over
@terencejay88458 ай бұрын
There was a law suit re the Tower of Terror. A woman who had bad abdominal adhesions (fibrous scar tissue - I have some myself ) from surgery, would ride it because of the drop and sudden stop, which loosened some adhesions. So, she would join the 'singles' line and ride it again and again, sometimes all day. The park tried to ban her from riding and she sued them as there was no limit mentioned on the ticket. The park relented and she had free rein to carry on. I loved that ride. EDIT: I found this. 'In 2009, Disney was sued by Denise Mooty, a lady who rode the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror over 50 times a day. Every day. Mooty suffered from abdominal adhesions, and claimed that the frequent drops on the ride at Disney's Hollywood Studios helped to ease the pain.' It says she was banned for abusing workers, but she denied that.
@Zoopop137 ай бұрын
add aerosmith and thats my MGM. honestly this and Epcot are prob my favourites, though i love me some dinoland and dinosaurs as well. haunted mansion is my MK go-to, but more old Disney i dont like barely any of their new endeavors as of late.
@leeirby38576 ай бұрын
@@Zoopop13 And don't forget the concerts that MGM studios used to do like Joey McIntire and Britney Spears back in the 90's
@KYLO_JEN4 ай бұрын
One of the remnants I enjoy the most is the end of Muppet Vision when they blast through the wall of the theater and it shows what MGM looked like at the time they filmed the bit.
@Iamthegame197 ай бұрын
i miss old mgm, glad i saw it as a kid but wish i could see it as an adult. remember more of it and appreciate it more
@buildingthemagic8 ай бұрын
One more for the books: some of the street signs on Sunset Boulevard still bear the original “seal” of the park - with the Earful Tower in its unredacted. The trash cans have that modified one, but you can still find a few of the good old ones here and there.
@lumbahjacki41338 ай бұрын
I’m such a Muppets Vision 3D Stan and am honored to be seen and acknowledged!!!
@cgimovieman8 ай бұрын
First visited MGM in July of 1989. I was already very much into movies, and the park had such an influence on me that I went to college for film production and moved to Orlando. Sadly, much of any real production ceased right around or just after I finished school and entered the workforce, and in the years since I’ve realized how naive I was as a kid and teen, believing in MGM as being crafted into the new “East Coast Hollywood”. It was always a theme park first and a studio second, or even third. Still, in the 2000’s and early 2010’s I worked with many people in Orlando in the television industry who were former staffers at MGM. They have the fondest memories of its earliest days, working on shows like The New Mickey Mouse Club, back when some of the cast who became celebrities today were on it, parts of big animated films like Beauty and the Beast, and films like Parenthood and Passenger 57. I’ve lived in Orlando now for 26 years, and unfortunately my career has totally died as I’ve been unable to part with my dream here. But I still think back on that glorious summer of 1989, when MGM was brand new and all was right with the world.
@themaxcollective8 ай бұрын
x
@jimmymelendez1836Ай бұрын
@@themaxcollective Huh?
@AverytheCubanAmerican7 ай бұрын
Everybody gangsta till Eisner says, *"Hullo, I'm Michael Eisner".* A fun fact about Tatooine, it was filmed in Tunisia! George Lucas chose Tunisia because he was attracted to the country’s architecture! The Lars homestead’s white domes were located in the town of Nefta, built low into the desert floor to stay cool. A room in a cave network in Matama stood in for some of the interiors of Luke’s childhood home. The adaptations to survive the harsh desert of Tatooine were real innovations used for thousands of years across Northern Africa. Lucas returned to Tunisia again for The Phantom Menace. Anakin Skywalker’s home, a cool stone building with stairs carved into its facade, was filmed in Ong Jemel. This time, there was a greater reliance on built sets, though they still drew from architectural styles used by the Tunisians. Attack of the Clones was also filmed there, while the sequel trilogy made use of places like Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni salt flat to stand in for Krait (The Last Jedi) and the UAE's portion of the Rub' al Khali desert became Jakku (The Force Awakens). Tatooine is meant to be a barren desert planet, but in real-life Tunisia the weather was more temperamental. On the second day of the shoot, a freak rainstorm ruined the day’s filming, tightening an already limited schedule of 11 days in the country. The problems only grew from there. Anthony Daniels could hardly move in his suit, those stiff movements are about as good as he could manage. The controls that operated R2-D2 were better at picking up Tunisian radio signals, necessitating that the droid be pulled along the desert floor on skis by a wire. Things only got worse from there. Blistering heat during the day turned to unforgiving cold at night. The crew operated on very little sleep and many sickened with dysentery as the shoot dragged on past the planned 11 days. A massive sandstorm destroyed the Jawas’ sandcrawler, which then had to be rebuilt in just one day. That same sandcrawler almost started a very real war when Muammar Gaddafi accused the Tunisians of preparing to stage an invasion, with the sandcrawler mistaken as a real military vehicle. They quickly moved away from the Libyan border.
@vonfluffinstuff57968 ай бұрын
I loved the MGM studios. My 1st visit to Florida and we went on the backlot tour, and saw how lilo and Stitch was drawn and animated. I absolutely fell in love Stich is my fave character 😍
@JaniceJean138 ай бұрын
The Great Muppets Movie Ride would have been so perfect. I wish that was made.
@inkwadnito9668 ай бұрын
“The Great Muppet Movie Ride”?? Brilliant!!
@pault55578 ай бұрын
Jim Henson even talked about it in a documentary about The Muppets and how it would be about making movies, but everything would be wrong! 😎
@josephhutton75748 ай бұрын
Great video! This is so tough for me. Hollywood Studios is just a different park that happens to occupy the space MGM Studios held. MGM was my favorite place on the planet. It's such a strange experience to see your childhood favorites get slowly replaced over a few decades. Some of the new attractions are great, but I'll forever miss the golden days of MGM Studios.
@nicksorenson9408 ай бұрын
This is why in a perfect world there would exist all the space in the world for adding new attractions and nothing from before should ever have to be lost or replaced.
@weston4078 ай бұрын
I miss The Great Movie Ride so much 😔 of all of the rides and attractions that have come and gone in Orlando, that one might be the one I miss the most
@micheleosullivan31224 ай бұрын
When I rode Runaway Railway 20 years after GMR, I loudly chanted “JUSTICE FIR SIGOURNEY!” Husband pretended not to know me.
@Meatball20228 ай бұрын
Loved MGM during the Osborne family Christmas. That was amazing.
@brianplord7 ай бұрын
I think it's very sad that these parks have moved away from the educational/entertainment hybrid model they used to follow. I remember loving the back lot tour as a kid, as well as strolling down those movie set streets. Same at EPCOT Center. The educational stuff at EPCOT really rounded out the park and gave it its character. Everything has become so 'BIGGER, FASTER, MOVE MOVE MOVE!', in your face. 'RIDES RIDES RIDES'. 'Look here, look there!'. WDW used to have a calming charm to it that's long gone.
@lutherheggs4516 ай бұрын
Epcot was literally meant to be a fascist city where your thoughts, speech and actions were all constantly monitored, had Walt gotten his Epcot. MGM was never meant to be educational, they meant it to be a real actual working studio. What they didn't consider was how hard it was to run an actual working studio when you also have all the constant noise of a theme park 10ft away.
@brianplord6 ай бұрын
@@lutherheggs451 where’d you read or hear that Walt wanted speech, actions, and thoughts monitored in his proposed community?
@MicheleKlinger8 ай бұрын
I recently found a map for MGM from 1997 in a box of random WDW trip memories, and it was fascinating trying to match up what was there then vs. now. I loved MGM as a kid and was OBSESSED with the backlot tour and Great Movie Ride (along with the muppets of course!). It’s amazing you can still find little tidbits of the old days leftover.
@jubipants8 ай бұрын
100% agree that the Muppets studio was such a loss for Hollywood Studios. But I also miss the back lot tour. I got to ride it during my very first Disney visit in 2000 and I LOVED it. It’s my People Mover, and I miss it.
@mundanestuff8 ай бұрын
Its my favorite park. Went there a few times in the 90s and again in 97 on our honeymoon, had a blast. Early June in Orlando, weather was great, tickets weren't insane. And maybe four times since?
@SizzleMap8 ай бұрын
Wow!! Thank you so much for mentioning my CAMERAMAN SCULPTURE video. I’ve been a fan of your channel for so long and you are a great inspiration. I have some more untold Disney stories that I’ve been working on. Would love to collaborate with you if you are up for it. THANKS AGAIN!
@michaelsullivan35818 ай бұрын
Yay SizzleMap!
@ericroll6 ай бұрын
I worked there from opening day until 1994. I had forgotten some of the info you brought up, especially the Muppets Studios development. In the early days, they tried to sell the park as a Working Movie Studio as much as a Theme Park. That did not last long. The "Working Movie Studio" was abandoned pretty quickly. I worked the Animation Tour, The Backstage Studio Tour (Tram section), and the Little Mermaid attraction. Now all 3 are toast. So much has changed! Almost all for the better--I Love Galaxy's Edge. But I do miss The Great Movie Ride. Oh, I also worked that attraction as well... oh, and Honey I shrunk the Kids... oh, and the Walking Tour... and all those are gone as well.
@coyoteartist7 ай бұрын
Good old Mikey. That was as close to the imagination and charisma of Walt as we'd ever get again. Always glad that I got to experience MGM Studios as it was supposed to be. Took the tram tour once and they were actually rehearsing on the Mickey Mouse Club set. Saw Britney Spears before she was anyone. Loved going to the Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater Restaurant. There are several times we'd go over there from Magic Kingdom just to have dinner. And of course the two best attractions, Muppets and The Great Movie Ride. Muppets got a lot of house in summer because it was a decent length and inside. Wish we'd gotten the Muppets Studio proper. I remember the first time I went on the Great Movie Ride in 1989 and how excited I got to see the Casablanca plane. As a 10 year old who loved Bogart movies, it was a like a holy grail to see that scene played out.
@FleshGolem4208 ай бұрын
I was in Anaheim the other day and the Haunted Mansion queue is totally scorched earth. You can just see glimpses of yellow earthmoving equipment back there. THERE WILL BE NO REMNANTS. Sigh.
@michaelsullivan35818 ай бұрын
Some has been saved and much respectful references will abound. Fear not foolish mortals...
@philipstehno14957 ай бұрын
My wife and I were in the Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular show while on our honeymoon in ‘96. I remember a lot of things highlighted in this video.
@Kparc12124 ай бұрын
Did you know, the Penguin conductor’s name is Napoleon? If you check the boxes at the bottom of the pre-show, his name is on the Delivery box for tuxedos.
@sunfastrose8 ай бұрын
I remember so many of the attractions and areas mentioned in this video; I particularly remember the “forced perspective “ area on the tram tour where it was shown how small model buildings could look large in movies. I share many of your opinions: Hollywood Studios is my least favorite park and I rarely go there. Muppets 3D forever. One thing I miss that was not original to the park but felt unique was they used to have a store that specifically sold villain merchandise; I loved that place.
@greendogit38438 ай бұрын
19:04 the name of it really wasn’t said but according to IMDB the movie is called “The Adventures of Mark Twain” (1985)
@davidleanza11428 ай бұрын
I loved this video. My first job at WDW was a tour guide at The Backstage Studio Tram Tour. I did that job for 7 months before moving to the MK to open the Surprise Celebration Parade and Spectromagic as a dancer/character performer. I can still recite that tour script. I have a lot of emotions walking through that arch and seeing my beloved tour building and the Animation Building. “Off to your right hand side is the symbol of the Disney MGM Studios, the Earful Tower. It’s stands an incredible 13 stories high and has a hat size of 342 and 3/8” Another remnant you can see if as you enter Toy Story Land, on the backside of building that houses the Walt Disney Story, you’ll see it says The Roy O Disney Production Center.
@maryminott25938 ай бұрын
Disney MGM was my favorite park back in the day
@SailorDisco8 ай бұрын
I hope they never get rid of Muppet Vision 3D. Losing that means losing Jim Henson’s last film.
@papingosstudios1618 ай бұрын
Eventually they are gonna get rid of it
@krob24458 ай бұрын
Back in the late 80s early 90s MGM was at its peak for nostalgia. Loved visiting my Golden Girls house every tram ride. 😊
@johnpirtle18128 ай бұрын
One of my favorite remnants is the “Sid Cahuenga’s One-of-a-Kind” bungalow. I suspect that a vast majority have no idea that when it opened in ‘89, it sold authentic movie props, celebrity autographs, and Hollywood memorabilia. I remember seeing the actual striped coat that Dick Van Dyke wore in Mary Poppins for sale in the shop. It was a really fun place until they changed it into a photo pass center in 2013.
@oliviadorothy5 ай бұрын
My dad was a huge memorabilia fan and bought a ton of stuff from Sid Cahuenga’s - much of which I still have in original Disney packaging. It’s so cool!
@noodler77648 ай бұрын
The tone you hit in these vids is impeccable 11/10
@michaelsullivan35818 ай бұрын
A simple statement of fact!
@ML-dz5ix5 ай бұрын
MGM Studios in the ‘90’s was awesome! So many great memories 😊
@kaygee51158 ай бұрын
I appreciate the love for Muppet Vision 3D. It never gets the credit it deserves and I truly hope it's there forever.
@JimmyTwothumbs5 ай бұрын
I’ll never forget waiting in the queue for the great movie ride. Lying on the rails, and watching old and new classic films. That was one hell of a ride.
@larako79588 ай бұрын
backlot tour and the great movie ride were the best
@bdchiaccio8 ай бұрын
I remember MGM when it opened. SO much better than HS is now. We stayed almost all day and loved all of the attractions, including Star Tours with the AT-ATs. We barely stay a few hours now. Miss those good old days. RIP GMR!
@TReeseTV8 ай бұрын
15 minutes ago? Wow, I'm early! Always happy to see a new Offhand Disney video
@Jambalaya01035 ай бұрын
I loved the original Great Movie ride and Backlot Tours! I love loved Wizard of Oz and cried seeing it in Great Movie as a little kid…it made me so happy.
@Star_light.198 ай бұрын
I love Hollywood studios as it is now, but I feel like we definitely need more to it. Definitely more muppets.
@LiquidSteel_048 ай бұрын
Wow this was a fantastic video, it would be sick to see similar concepts about the other parks in both Florida and California. Didn't expect a "top 5" video to be 25 minutes long but it was amazing. Awesome as always, Dallin
@TerzaGuardia8 ай бұрын
I always liked MGM Studios a lot as a kid in the mid-90s. Epcot was my favorite because The Living Seas was just about the coolest thing I'd ever seen, but MGM was a VERY close second, followed by Universal when it opened.
@macmacbsu61448 ай бұрын
The world needs a parkeology/offhand Disney collab
@gijoemasters6 ай бұрын
They need to reopen that Muppet store that used to be right at the exit from Muppet Vision. The building just sits there and is still Muppet themed, like c'mon
@waltereturner6 ай бұрын
Agreed. I miss that store.
@TBustah8 ай бұрын
So much wasted space… Why not put a museum in one of those shuttered buildings? They’ve got to have decades’ worth of film memorabilia and old stuff from the parks in storage. It’d raise interest in the park and decrease traffic in the others (at least when it comes to regulars and Disney adults), and it would have to cost a lot less than a more conventional attraction because there’d be less to build. What’d be the overhead? Lighting, air conditioning, and a few cast members to run it? They could even rotate in new exhibits to encourage repeat visits.
@WheezyLiam6 ай бұрын
4:54 The iconic attraction was always The Great Movie Ride. It was the whole reason the park was built. Initially conceived as an Epcot pavilion, the idea for the ride was so well-liked that it basically spawned the concept of the park entirely around it. And now it's gone. If that doesn't speak volumes about the state of modern Disney Parks management, I don't know what does. Also, in that same timestamp, look closely at the bottom of that Beauty and the Beast sign on the right side of the screen. There's a logo that still features the Earful Tower.
@ninac19548 ай бұрын
I’m so grateful I got to visit MGM Studios when I was younger. It’s was always my favorite park as I was in love with the idea of Hollywood and moviemaking. The tram tour, lights camera action, and the Sanfransico street/wall were the best
@pault55578 ай бұрын
Can we agree on one thing: the PRESHOW for Muppet Vision 3D was a great attraction in and of itself! True Muppet chaos and humor!!! 🙌❤️😎
@micahpilson98366 ай бұрын
Your narration and editing are very entertaining. Thanks for posting this. :)
@fandomcentralstation7 ай бұрын
Finally, some MuppetVision 3D love! I’d kill for more Muppets in the parks. I actually once got seated in the very first show of the day for MuppetVision
@DimitriyMykhaylovDisneyFan8 ай бұрын
I Miss the Old and True Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park
@ameliadiaz80408 ай бұрын
Me too.
@jamesf7918 ай бұрын
I love Disney but only watch it via other people's videos. I haven't been since 1990 😭. But did go to the MGM studios. I remember they had an "I love Lucy" show.
@rengarcia51898 ай бұрын
This is off topic, but I want your thoughts on 20,000 Leagues under the Sea. That is an E ticket ride I would have loved. Sadly, I never rode it, never even knew it existed.
@shelbycates76 ай бұрын
studios will always be my favorite park. it was my favorite before i did the college program and then when i got placed there in 2019 i loved it even more
@stusoldcars42483 ай бұрын
So glad I got to experience the tram tour back in 2003 when visiting from the uk. Was all gone by 2016 when I went back and even less to do in the park with all the boarding up for the work for galaxy's edge
@VideoGamePhilosopher8 ай бұрын
I’ve still never ridden, slinky dog dash. I enjoy rollercoasters all right but I feel like I can see it all from the ground.
@andrewspruell84984 ай бұрын
I loved the New York Street....all of the shop windows and the vintage items....as a collector of antiques it was great...wish I could have gotten some of them.
@Sonny_Eclipse5 ай бұрын
I attended both Epcot and the MGM Disney Studios within the first months of operation and with a few noticeable exceptions it’s been down hill for both since the first so-called upgrade
@UCRfZb91nX-triozNmzvaRrA8 ай бұрын
This is Amazing I never knew anything this stuff I remember hearing about The Muppet show though
@King_Oli.8 ай бұрын
OFFHAND DISNEY !! YAY I love when you upload bcause then i know that im gonna have a good day !
@UmmYeahOk8 ай бұрын
9:40 Really? You’re not even going to mention the best remnant, the largest hidden Mickey (at the time)? It’s one of the many reasons so many of us hated that “temporary” Sorcerer Hat and the stages. The rooftops are no longer painted, and the tree smile is over grown, but Echo Lake is his ear!!!
@josephmara47817 ай бұрын
I used to love the tram tour! I remember the Golden girls house!
@astro_bear8 ай бұрын
When in MGM you forgot to mention riding Rockin Rollercoaster. Definitely the best by a long shot.
@eydiehunter48056 ай бұрын
OMG!!!!! The BEST ride ever!❤❤❤❤❤
@mosquitonkosak8 ай бұрын
10:39 Its Blanch's house from Golden Girls! I remember going on the backlot tour and seeing it. I made me excited being that it was the facade from the actual show. Sad it was torn down years ago and no longer exists.
@Suzziee76066 ай бұрын
I too miss some of the old stuff... Just watched sizzlemap's piece. Very well done. Thank you for recommending.
@Meatball20228 ай бұрын
6:07 a 2 hour tour? Absolutely not. Much longer than that. At one point it was tied into a walking tour making a mini naval movie, then the movie “the lottery”, and also a walkthrough of active sound stages - on top of the tram. Closer to 4 hours at one point
@UmmYeahOk8 ай бұрын
Correct. In fact, this is why there was the bathroom by the current Toy Story Land entrance. You were intended to go at your own pace, so if you and your party needed a bathroom break, missed the one at before getting in line for the tram, and missed the one after getting off the tram, there was no worry as you could always catch the next part of the tour later. It was only later when the naval movie became the start of the tram tour, and the former entrance became just the queue to see the art of animation. This was always a full day park, just guests didn’t seem to realize that there is more to theme parks than just rides.
@Meatball20228 ай бұрын
@@UmmYeahOk yea that attraction evolved a lot over time. They’d add parts, skip parts, etc.
@francoismonferran90318 ай бұрын
NEVER 4 hours NOT even 2! I was part of the Opening Crew of the Backstage Studio Tram Tour ... and even tour guided the original ALL tour which was the Tram part AND the walking part ... It lasted hardly one week ... since it was a toll on both the guests and the cast members! That was 35 years ago and memory may fail BUT, even then, it was around One Hour & a Half aat the most! All the rest is just legendary stuff! One would NOT walk through "active sound stages" ... Guests would see the sound stages - quite often totally empty! - from an elevated corridor, and behind huge glass windows, while TV monitors would spiel "what it was all about"! Trust me, that's how it all was ... back in May of 1989! And it was fun ... even for the cast members
@Meatball20228 ай бұрын
@@francoismonferran9031 elevated corridor yes. I should have clarified that. But they were active. I’ve seen sets for wheel of fortune, stargate sg1, and other stuff. The walk through. Plus tram. Plus catastrophe canyon. Plus the movie demo with the water tank. Plus the prop warehouse which later also became the movie the lottery. Absolutely close to 4 hrs. Lasted way longer than a week. First several years. They’d add and subtract parts depending on what was happening. The tram alone went thru the backlot. Plus boneyard. Plus the costuming. Plus cat canyon. Plus new York. Tram alone was 45 min or more. That water tank show was a good 30 min as they’d have to explain everything. Show the movie. Show the little torpedo thing. Pick the audience member. Put them in the little boat. Film again. Dump the water.
@keiraabi8 ай бұрын
when i was little my favorites were the backlot tour, the great movie ride, muppets 3D, and then tower of terror (im an 04 girl but 2006-2008 was my jam) edit: and the honey i shrunk the kids set and the meet and greets in that area. i wish they had those characters still. i hate myself for being scared of monsters inc when i was little 😭
@Buc_Stops_Here7 ай бұрын
It is funny, growing up in Florida in the 1980s, never went to the Disney/MGM park but I did go to the park with my kids a few years ago to Disney Hollywood Studios. Also, just last year took them on the WB lot tour in Burbank, CA. Interestingly the park tour here shown of the old MGM studios was like a small version of the huge real backlog tour the WB has out west. They even had a few shows in production on the day we visited (outtakes of an Arrowverse show primarily filmed in Vancouver, and Young Sheldon).
@danielpranger8 ай бұрын
love the muppetvision 3d area music in the background
@CrockettsCabin4 ай бұрын
That tram tour was great. My friend and I went in '89 or '90.
@ProBreakers8 ай бұрын
I’ve been to Disney World twice, in 2005 and 2023 and both times I went to the MGM and DHS, the rockin rollercoaster was down for maintenance…so pissed. Want to ride that.
@freekeefox8 ай бұрын
Gonna just leave out the greatest defunct MGM Studios attraction ever!?! What about the Honey I Shrunk The Kids play area!?!
@nicksorenson9408 ай бұрын
Back when Disney could truly say that they had their own movie franchise to capitalize on rather than having to fill the park with more Star Wars theming than it should really need.
@bradwhite58848 ай бұрын
@@nicksorenson940 Honestly, I've preferred Disney own then such, should one part as Disney own like we've seen or been there for years and the other part is all the licence part, like a two part one, one is the Disney Studio one and should stay intact while the other part is all of the franchise movies like Marvel, Star Wars and such, or a whole new park dedicated to all the licensed movies and such as well as all their assets they've bought over the years like ABC, Fox, Blue Sky, Lucasfilms, Marvel and so on all in one in their own park or part of the park while the Disney Studios should stay the same, so yeah
@facepalmmedia8 ай бұрын
If you're in the outdoor part of the Star Tours queue, you should call it a day because the park is way too overcrowded
@cindyheitman94556 ай бұрын
They used to film the Mickey Mouse Club there in the early 90's as well. Always wanted to go to a taping!
@sunnyd17228 ай бұрын
Going to both 2016 Disney Hollywood and Universal makes it SO clear that Disney copied the idea and rushed it out to beat Universal. That NY Ave is so much like Universal.
@clair_doodle21748 ай бұрын
Fun fact I got lost as a small child at mgm and they took me behind honey I shrunk the kids playground and I got to see a lot of parade floats and designs. My dad was so pissed and scared lol.
@clintwilliams38187 ай бұрын
In the mid 90's my first time to WDW as a 6 year old, MGM Studios was overall the coolest park for me. Not even positive why, every attraction was just awesome.
@amberanthony8838 ай бұрын
No two hour tour. The tram tour was perhaps a 30 minute respite from walking in the sun.
@davidbandler5 ай бұрын
Back in the 80s/90s, you did Disney, Epcot, and Universal. Everyone knew MGM was a very budget clone of Universal so Disney wouldn't be completely shut-out of that niche of the theme park market and was trying to keep people on-property. It wasn't worth the ticket price then.
@BrightBlueInk6 ай бұрын
Funny thing, when i got to go to Disney World for the first time in 2021, Hollywood Studio ended up being my favorite park! I ended up spending a day and a half there!
@spaak_spaak8 ай бұрын
My first visit to WDW was in 1991 when I was 6. Aside from Figmet nipping my shoulder with his sharp snout while I posed for a photo with Dreamfinder, there’s nothing I remember better than MGM Studios. I can still picture the whole backlot tour, the TMNT stage show, and the Rocketeer flying around the Chinese Theatre before the fireworks. On Hollywood Blvd there was a live action version of the old gameshow What’s My Line where four 1930s Hollywood ‘residents’ would ask yes or no questions of a volunteer and then try to guess their job. A stenographer girl in tortoise shell glasses kept notes on what had been asked, and I can still hear the ‘stylish rich lady’ character shouting “RECAP!” before her turn. I loved it all so much.
@sabregunner16 ай бұрын
the tram tour was awesome. i do remember The Magic of Disney Animation as well
@travisc7506Ай бұрын
I went to Disney MGM Studios when I was a child the year it opened. There really wasn't much to do if remembering (I was about 6 years old). I do remember the backlot ride. I also remember a lot of closed and "Coming Soon" attractions as well. I'm pretty sure we spent only a few hours there and then went to a different park. Either Epcot or Magic Kingdom. Universal Studios was also very similar when it first opened as well. Also being from the NYC area I do remember wanting to walk around Disney's re-creation of the city and being disappointed when you couldn't. I don't believe we went there again after that.
@Ambientwestern6 ай бұрын
Best era. Great park, made me get into showbiz. Love this.
@lesliegriffith98308 ай бұрын
My mother and I were there the 3rd day it was open back in 1989. Took the tour and loved it. The Golden Girls house was there.
@michaelsullivan35818 ай бұрын
You never cease to astound me, Holmes! I attempt never to be hyperbolic, but this is a masterpiece! And, yes, we must have Muppet Vision 3K!
@CMANGUY8 ай бұрын
muppets will never go away. their whole vibe is throwing a wrench in the system and causing some chaos they do just fine as they are and everyone better love them. and it’s nice on a hot day.
@disneytherapy80288 ай бұрын
Can you do a video for the tragedy that was done with the removal of the great movie ride?
@mitchelljakubka8 ай бұрын
Always love an Offhand video! Keep up the great work dude!
@PsRohrbaugh6 ай бұрын
This type of park made sense when practical effects were at their peak. Today it's all CGI. I remember hearing that one of the Transformers movies was shot in a WEEK with the rest of the movie being CGI. Hard to make a back lot tour of thousands of digital animators.
@shaldred7 ай бұрын
yay! adventures of mark twain mention! the answer to "what were they thinking with this guy" is that the masked satan was based on unfinished drafts of a novel under the mentioned name "the mysterious stranger". in the drafts where the character is called satan he was usually a child and not the actual satan, so i have to assume the masked one from the movie was an amalgm of several different versions of that character.
@voodoocars21346 ай бұрын
This is Florida right? I went in 1990 and did the back lot tour. I remember the Flight of the Navigator spaceship laying on the floor and various other props along with some houses used in movies and sitcoms. On a side note- what was the island with all the nightclubs on it?
@robertjones17298 ай бұрын
Aloha Daylin and thank you for this. I really didn't know a thing about this park until watching this. I find it interesting that the Eisner plack is still there. They eliminated all visages of him from DCA. I like you LOVE the Mupets and their off hand humor. It would have been a blast having a Swedish Chef Restrant. Well thanks again and enjoy your channel alot