List of Disney's Hollywood Studios attractions

Action on the set of Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular!

The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror attraction.

The hero car makes the finale jump at Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show

Disney's Hollywood Studios consists of five themed areas. Major attractions are listed below.

Hollywood Boulevard

Hollywood Boulevard is lined with shops selling Disney merchandise and food. This is also the location of Disney-Pixar's "Pixar Pals Countdown to Fun!" parade. While parades are a major attraction today, the area was not originally built to handle parades, and an appropriate sound system and other facilities had to be retrofitted after initial construction. Michael Eisner, who had a major part in the park's creation ever since the earliest development, demanded the opening land operate on the same principle as Main Street, U.S.A. — a street lined with shops and food, but in a style more fitting to the Studios.

• The Great Movie Ride, a dark ride paying homage to several classic films is located at the end of Hollywood Boulevard.
• Beauty and the Beast - Live on Stage, appeared on Hollywood Boulevard until the Theater of the Stars moved to Sunset Boulevard in 1994.

Echo Lake

• Star Tours, a motion simulator, identical to the ones at Disneyland, Tokyo Disneyland, and Disneyland Paris. Closed in September 2010 for transformation into Star Tours: The Adventures Continue. ^[1]
• Star Tours: The Adventures Continue, a 3-D motion simulator ride, set in the Star Wars universe. It is the refurbished prequel to the original attraction.
• Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular!, a live-action performance showing how movie stunts are done. The show re-enacts various scenes from the film Raiders of the Lost Ark.
• Sounds Dangerous!, a show following Drew Carey through a day as an undercover detective when his video camera fails and the audience is left in the dark wearing earphones, following his adventure through sound cues.
• Jedi Training Academy, a live show at the Rebels stage. Based on the teachings and practices of the fictional Jedi Knights from the Star Wars films, the show depends heavily on audience participation, focusing on children. Each participant is given a lightsaber and Jedi robes and is taught a routine set of swordfighting moves.

Streets of America

• Muppet*Vision 3D, a 3-D movie experience — also replicated at Disney's California Adventure
• Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show, a car & motorcycle stunt show that debuted at the Walt Disney Studios Paris
• Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: Movie Set Adventure, Kids can have fun in this playground based on the movie Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
• Cover band Mulch, Sweat, and Shears performs several times a day, five days a week, next to the Tri-City Diner popcorn stand.
• Studio Backlot Tour, showing how movie special effects are done. Guests see a movie scene set on the Special Effects Water Tank filmed using volunteers from the audience and various special effects. The audience sees this final sequence edited all together in an action sequence called 'Harbor Attack'. After that, guests board tour shuttles and are taken through Catastrophe Canyon, to see fire and water effects, are driven past large-scale movie props, and are shown Creative Costuming department along with lighting and grip and the carpentry shop.

Pixar Place

• Toy Story Midway Mania!, an interactive 3D shooting gallery featuring Toy Story characters.

Animation Courtyard

• Voyage of the Little Mermaid, a live performance using puppets, lasers, movies, human actors, and water (mist). The show recreates the animated Little Mermaid movie, in an abbreviated form.
• The Magic of Disney Animation, a short presentation showing how animated films are made. In side the Animation Academy you can take a drawing class from one of the Disney Artists and learn to draw a classic character, like Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Pluto, Winnie the Pooh, Stitch, Jiminy Cricket and lots more of Disney classics.
• Disney Junior - Live on Stage!, a live performance featuring television characters from shows Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Handy Mandy, Little Einsteins, and Jake and the Never Land Pirates.

Mickey Avenue

• Walt Disney: One Man's Dream, a museum-like walkthrough attraction that explores the life of Walt Disney and his legacy through photos, models, rare artifacts and a short biographical film narrated by Julie Andrews.

Sunset Boulevard

• Beauty and the Beast - Live on Stage, a simplified version of the film.
• Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith, an indoor roller coaster in the dark with three inversions and a high-speed launch
• The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, a thrill ride which drops guests in an elevator in a randomized set of 4 sequences each involving multiple high speed drops and ascents. In addition, special effects including smell, lighting and sound enhance the thrill.
• Citizens of Hollywood, improvisation actors who roam the Street throughout the day.

Entertainment

Theater of the Stars

• Now Playing (May 1, 1989 – ? 1989)
• Show Biz Is (May 1, 1989 – April 1990)
• Hollywood! Hollywood! (May 1, 1989 – April 1990)
• Dick Tracy starring in Diamond Double Cross (May 21, 1990 – February 21, 1991)
• Hollywood's Pretty Woman (September 24 – November 3, 1991)
• Beauty and the Beast - Live on Stage (November 22, 1991 – present)

The theater is also used for occasional corporate, seasonal, promotional and internal events, and presentations.

High School Musical

• High School Musical Pep Rally (January 21, 2007 – September 8, 2007)
• High School Musical 2: School's Out (September 24, 2007 – September 13, 2008)
• High School Musical 3: Senior Year (October 24, 2008 – October 2, 2010)

ABC Theater Right

• Superstar Television (May 1, 1989 – September 26, 1998)
• Doug Live! (March 15, 1999 – May 12, 2001)
• Get Happy with ABC (August – October 2002)
• The American Idol Experience (February 14, 2009 – present)

ABC Theater Left

• The Monster Sound Show (May 1, 1989 – August 1996)
• ABC Sound Studio (July 1, 1997 – February 20, 1999)
• Sounds Dangerous! (April 22, 1999 – present)

New York Street

• Muppets on Location: The Days of Swine & Roses (1991 – 1995)
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990 – 1994)
• Ace Ventura Pet Detective: Live in Action (1995)

Premiere Theater

• Beauty and the Beast - Live on Stage (1993 – 1994; built on a temporary basis while Theater of the Stars was being constructed)
• The Spirit of Pocahontas (June 23, 1995 – February 24, 1996)
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame - A Musical Adventure (June 21, 1996 – September 28, 2002)
• Currently used for seasonal special events. Night of Joy, Star Wars Weekends, ESPN the Weekend, etc. (January 2008 – present)

Walt Disney Theatre

• Making of
  • The Lion King (1994)
  • Pocahontas (1995)
  • Toy Story (1995 – 1996)
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (premiered 1996)
  • Evita (closed July 1997)
  • George of the Jungle (July – November 1997)
  • Flubber (November 1997 – January 1998)
  • Armageddon (June 1998 – June 1999)
  • Star Wars (during Star Wars Weekends)
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire – Play It! (April 7, 2001 – August 19, 2006)
• Toy Story Midway Mania! (May 31, 2008 – present)

Animation Courtyard Theater

• Coming Attractions (May 1989 – ? 1990)
• Here Come The Muppets (May 25, 1990 – September 2, 1991)
• Voyage of the Little Mermaid (January 7, 1992 – present)

Soundstage Theater

• Soundstage Restaurant (May 1, 1989 – November 14, 1998; featuring sets over the years from Big Business, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin)
• Bear in the Big Blue House - Live on Stage (June 7, 1999 – August 4, 2001)
• Playhouse Disney - Live on Stage!
  • (October 1, 2001 – April 3, 2005; featuring Bear in the Big Blue House, Rolie Polie Olie, Stanley, and The Book of Pooh)
  • (April 11, 2005 – January 1, 2008; JoJo's Circus replaces Rolie Polie Olie)
  • (February 1, 2008 – January 29, 2011; featuring Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Handy Manny, Little Einsteins, and My Friends Tigger & Pooh)
• Disney Junior - Live on Stage! (March 4, 2011 – present; Jake and the Never Land Pirates replaces My Friends Tigger & Pooh)

Nighttime entertainment

• Sorcery in the Sky (1990 – 1998) — This fireworks show debuted in 1990 when the film Fantasia was celebrating its 50th anniversary. The show was canceled in 1998, and its replacement was Fantasmic!, debuting later that same year. While Sorcery in the Sky is no longer performed, a Hollywood-themed fireworks show is still occasionally presented during corporate functions and on special evenings such as New Year's Eve and Independence Day.
• Lights, Camera, Happy New Year! (2004 – 2007) — This show debuted in 2004 as the New Year's Eve fireworks display for Disney's Hollywood Studios. The display is visually similar to the Independence Day fireworks show.
• Fantasmic! (1998 – present) — This nighttime spectacle with water projection screens, fireworks and Disney characters has drawn record numbers of guests to the park.

Parades

• Dinosaurs Live (September 26, 1991 – August 29, 1992)
• Aladdin's Royal Caravan (December 21, 1992 – August 27, 1995)
• Toy Story - The Parade (December 1995 – June 8, 1997)
• Hercules "Zero to Hero" Victory Parade (June 27, 1997 – May 1998)
• Mulan - The Parade (June 19, 1998 – March 11, 2001)
• Disney Stars and Motor Cars Parade (October 1, 2001 – March 8, 2008)
• Block Party Bash (March 14, 2008 – January 1, 2011)
• Pixar Pals Countdown To Fun! (January 16, 2011 – present)

Former attractions

Name	Attraction Type	Description
Superstar Television	Interactive stage show	Here, guests could re-enact famous scenes from television history. Using chroma-key technology, the on-stage guests would be shown on TV monitors in the theatre appearing opposite famous celebrities. For example, a female guest would play Ethel Mertz alongside Lucille Ball's Lucy Ricardo in the famous candy factory scene from I Love Lucy. In another example, a guest would appear on the set of The Tonight Show being interviewed by Johnny Carson. It originally opened on May 1, 1989. It closed on September 26, 1998 and was replaced by Disney's Doug Live!. The theatre was renovated to host a new live-action show, the American Idol Experience, inspired by the hit television series of the same name and opened in February 2009.
The Monster Sound Show	Interactive stage show	Guests could become volunteer Foley artists and add various sound effects to a short comedy film starring Chevy Chase and Martin Short. "Sounds Dangerous" now uses this theatre. It originally opened on May 1, 1989. It closed on February 20, 1999.
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire - Play It!	Interactive stage show	One of the first attractions to make use of the former production soundstages. During Star Wars Weekends, a Star Wars Edition of the game would be played. The game began with Greedo answering questions and a Gamorrean guard in the audience cheering him on, followed by a typically played game featuring all Star Wars questions. The attraction was closed in 2006, and its soundstages were renovated for Toy Story Midway Mania, which opened in 2008.
Soundstage Restaurant	Quick service restaurant	Formerly located in the current Playhouse Disney Live On Stage theatre. Designed to look like a "live set" for the animated feature films Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast, and before that the live-action film Big Business.
Catwalk Bar	Bar	Cocktail bar located on catwalks above the seating and service areas for the Soundstage Restaurant. It was reached by a stairway and elevator between the Soundstage Restaurant and the Brown Derby.
Aladdin's Royal Caravan	Parade	Promoted the release of Disney's Aladdin. It featured spitting camels that are now outside The Magic Carpets of Aladdin at the Magic Kingdom.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Musical stage show	Based upon the 1996 animated musical film of the same name, was performed in the Backlot Theatre, which was renovated into the Premiere Theater, currently used for special events.
The Spirit of Pocahontas	Musical stage show	Based upon the 1995 animated film of the same name, was another performance located in the Backlot Theatre.
Here Come The Muppets	Stage show	The Muppet characters were portrayed in life-size costumes and performed songs in a concert form. Voyage of the Little Mermaid now performs in its place.
Doug: Live!	Stage show	Here, Doug and his friends performed daily. Guests were selected to play some of the other roles in the show.
Disney Stars and Motor Cars	Parade	Featured cars decorated to resemble various park characters, including those from Disney films and from the Star Wars film series.
Star Tours	Motion Simulator	Based upon the Star Wars film series. This ride was replaced with Star Tours: The Adventure Continues on May 20, 2011.
Journey into Narnia	Walk-through attraction	Guests could view props and set pieces on display from the The Chronicles of Narnia film series (originally distributed by Disney; now handled by 20th Century Fox), as well as meet the namesake of the second film in the series, Prince Caspian. This attraction was located in Animation Courtyard, and was closed on September 10, 2011[2].

See also

• List of Disney attractions
• List of lands at Disney theme parks
• Magic Kingdom attraction and entertainment history
• Epcot attraction and entertainment history
• Disney's Animal Kingdom attraction and entertainment history

References

1. ^ http://www.wdwmagic.com/Attractions/Star-Tours/Refurbishments.htm
2. ^ "One week remaining for 'Journey Into Narnia - Prince Caspian'". WDWMAGIC.COM. http://wdwmagic.com/Attractions/Journey-Into-Narnia-Prince-Caspian/News/02Sep2011-One-week-remaining-for-%27Journey-Into-Narnia---Prince-Caspian%27.htm. Retrieved 4 September 2011.