Disney's Hollywood Studios

:Not to be confused with Hollywood Pictures.
Disney's Hollywood Studios, formerly known as Disney-MGM Studios, is a theme park located at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA that opened on May 1, 1989. One hundred thirty-five acres (546,000 m²) in size, the park's theme is Hollywood classic movies and popular TV entertainment.
==Dedication==
==History==
The park was originally intended to be a new pavilion at the Epcot, which was to be called "Great Moments at the Movies" with the Great Movie Ride as its main attraction. This would have been located between The Imagination and The Land pavilions, before it was suggested to dedicate an entire park about filmmaking. The park would also function as a working studio with soundstages and production facilities for films and television and a new Florida unit for Walt Disney Animation Studios, which in addition to working on projects supervised by the main Burbank studio, would produce three of their own films, including Mulan, Lilo & Stitch, and Brother Bear. Reflecting the active studio focus, the park's icon would be a old-fashioned studio water tower decked out with Mouse Ears named the Earffel Tower. Through the various tour attractions at the park, this would allow guests a up-close look at how film production worked, though by the early 2000s, active entertainment production had essentially ceased and many production areas would be consumed by guest traffic and new attractions. A list of the park's productions can be found here.
To bolster the park's image and pool of films to draw inspiration from, Disney would establish a loose partnership with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). The only affiliation that MGM, now under the ownership of Sony Pictures, had to the Disney park was via contracts which allowed Disney to use the MGM name and lion logo in marketing, and separate contracts that allowed for specific MGM content to be used in a ride called The Great Movie Ride. However, rights for the entire pre-1986 MGM library were purchased by Ted Turner to create Turner Network Television and later, Turner Classic Movies, which in turn has become part of Time Warner. Therefore, the end of the MGM affiliation did not affected the content of The Great Movie Ride. On January 7, 2008, the park was rebranded "Disney's Hollywood Studios" with the official announcement made on August 9, 2007 by Disney officials. With the ongoing expansion work that began in 2015, it has been reported that Disney has been exploring new names for the park.
The park, originally opened under the conception of being a "half-day experience" to be paired with other new projects such as Typhoon Lagoon and Pleasure Island, would open to overwhelming success and drive a need for expansion in the years to come. The "Disney Decade" initiative included many proposed lands and attractions for the park such as Dick Tracy's Crime-Stoppers, Roger Rabbit's Hollywood, and The Great Muppet Movie Ride, though none of these would come to pass with many of these park plans being scaled back after Disneyland Paris's rough opening. In 1994, Sunset Boulevard, the first major expansion to the park, would open with The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror and eventually be joined by Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith in 1999. Additionally, as part of 2001's 100 Years of Magic celebration, the park would serve as the main host of the celebration with the Sorcerer's Hat icon that would replace the Earffel Tower in marketing as the park's icon for the next 14 years. In 2015, a new major expansion was announced that would demolish what remained of the park's unused production facilities and backlot, with Toy Story Land opening in 2018, Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge opening in 2019 and Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway opening in 2020.
On October 27, 2020, Walt Disney World reopened after being temporarily closed during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, but Walt Disney World announced that all entertainment would be laid off (at least until the summer of 2021), such as Citizens of Hollywood at Disney's Hollywood Studios and Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor at Magic Kingdom, due to a dispute between the and Walt Disney World.
==Attractions==
===Hollywood Boulevard===
*Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway
===Echo Lake===
*Star Tours: The Adventures Continue
*For the First Time in Forever: A Frozen Sing-Along Celebration
*Mickey Shorts Theater
**Vacation Fun
*Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular! 
===Grand Avenue===
*Muppet Vision 3-D
===Toy Story Land===
*Alien Swirling Saucers
*Slinky Dog Dash
*Toy Story Midway Mania!
===Animation Courtyard===
*Disney Junior Play and Dance!
*Walt Disney Presents
*Star Wars Launch Bay 
===Sunset Boulevard===
*Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith
*The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
*Theater of the Stars
**Beauty and the Beast Live on Stage
===Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge===
*Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance
*Millennium Falcon: Smuggler's Run
==Entertainment==
===Current===
*Citizens of Hollywood (1989-2020) (Reopened in 2024)
*Fantasmic! (1998-2020) (2022-)
*Wonderful World of Animation (2019-2020) (2021-)
*Disney Movie Magic (2017-2019) (2021-)
==Special Events==
===Current===
*Disney After Hours
==Recent Park Map==
== Future Attractions and Entertainment ==
=== Monstropolis ===
* Monsters, Inc. Door Coaster
==Former Attractions and Entertainment==
*Superstar Television (1989-1998) (Replaced by Disney's Doug Live!)
*The Monster Sound Show (1989-1999) (Replaced by Sounds Dangerous!)
*Dick Tracy Starring in Diamond Double Cross (May 21, 1990 - February 16, 1991)
*Dick Tracy's Crime Solvers
*The Hunchback of Notre Dame: A Musical Adventure (1996-2002)
*The Spirit of Pocahontas (1995-1996)
*Here Come the Muppets (May 25, 1990 - September 2, 1991) (Replaced by Voyage of the Little Mermaid)
*Disney's Doug Live! (1999-2001) (Replaced by The American Idol Experience)
*Who Wants to Be a Millionaire – Play It! (1989-2006) (Replaced by Toy Story Midway Mania!)
*Star Tours (1989-2010) (Replaced by Star Tours: The Adventures Continue)
*Journey into Narnia: Creating The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe (2006-2008)
*Journey into Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008-2011) (Replaced by The Legend of Captain Jack Sparrow)
*Sounds Dangerous! (1999-2012) (Replaced by Star Wars: Path of the Jedi)
*The American Idol Experience (2009-2014) (Replaced by For the First Time in Forever: A Frozen Sing-Along Celebration)
*Studio Backlot Tour (May 1, 1989 - September 27, 2014) (Replaced by Toy Story Land)
*The Legend of Captain Jack Sparrow (December 6, 2012 - November 6, 2014) (Replaced by Toy Story Land)
*The Sorcerer's Hat (March 28, 2001 - January 7, 2015)
*Disney's Magic of Disney Animation (May 1, 1989 - July 12, 2015) (Replaced by Star Wars Launch Bay)
*Earffel Tower (May 1, 1989 - April 2, 2016)
*Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: Movie Set Adventure (December 17, 1990 - April 2, 2016) (Replaced by Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge)
*Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show (May 5, 2005 - April 2, 2016) (Replaced by Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge and Toy Story Land)
*The Great Movie Ride (May 1, 1989 - August 13, 2017) (Replaced by Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway)
*Club Villain (January 16, 2016 - October 31, 2017) (Replaced by Lightning McQueen's Racing Academy)
*Disney Junior - Live on Stage! (October 1, 2001 - September 1, 2018) (Replaced by Disney Junior Dance Party!)
*Star Wars: Path of the Jedi (December 4, 2015 - January 1, 2019) (Replaced by Mickey Short Theater)
*Star Wars: A Galaxy Far, Far Away (April 4, 2016 - February 22, 2020)
*Star Wars: A Galactic Spectacular (June 17, 2016 - March 12, 2020)
*Disney Junior Dance Party! (December 22, 2018 - March 12, 2020) (Replaced by Disney Junior Play and Dance!)
*Voyage of The Little Mermaid (January 7, 1992 - March 15, 2020)
*Jedi Training: Trials of the Temple (October 9, 2007 - March 16, 2020)
*Disney Society Orchestra and Friends (August 2 - October 3, 2020)
*Lightning McQueen's Racing Academy (March 31, 2019 - October 7, 2024)
==Events Hosted at Disney Hollywood Studios==
*ESPN: The Weekend (Late February or Early March; discontinued as of 2012)
*Grad Nite (Starting in April 2009)
*Star Wars Weekends (June)
*Night of Joy (September as of 2008)
*ABC's Super Soap Weekend (November; discontinued as of 2008)
==Gallery==
===Former Logos===
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===Guide Map===
Hollywood Studios Guide Map 2013.jpeg|A 2016 Guide Map featuring Star Wars Awakens
MGM 2011.jpg|A 2011 Guide Map featuring Star Tours: The Adventures Continue
Hollywood Studios Guide Map 2010.jpeg|A 2010 Guide Map featuring The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
MGM 2010.jpg|A 2010 Guide Map featuring The American Idol Experience
MGM 2008.jpg|A 2008 Guide Map featuring Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show
MGM 2007.jpg|A 2007 Christmastime Guide Map featuring The Osborne Family Spectacle of Lights
MGM 2005.jpg|A Disney MGM Studios 2005 Guide Map featuring Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show
MGM 2002.jpg|A Disney MGM Studios 2005 guide map featuring Disney Stars and Motorcars Parade
MGM.jpg|A 1995 guide featuring The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, Beauty and the Beast Live on Stage, Star Tours, and Genie from Aladdin.
===Concept Art===
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DHST.jpg|A Disney Hollywood studio T-shirt
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Tower-terror-overlay-50th-anniversary-high-res-1920x1080.jpg|2021 Concept Art for a new look of Tower of Terror's Beacon of Magic at the World's Most Magical Celebration in Walt Disney World's 50th Anniversary celebration.
==External links==
*Walt Disney World Resort - Disney's Hollywood Studios web page
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