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Studio Backlot Tour: Walt Disney World Lost Disney World attractions
May 1, 1989- September 27, 2014
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Studio Backlot Tour was an attraction at Disney's Hollywood Studios at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. It is a combination of a walking and tram tour of the backlot area of the park.
When the park originally opened, the Studio Tour was a much larger combined tram and walking tour, lasting around two hours in all. The Tram section of the tour which started the attraction originally loaded at Animation Courtyard, going through the Costuming and Scenic departments first, then through Residential Street, a neighborhood of house facades used for shooting films and television shows such as Ernest Saves Christmas and The Golden Girls. The tram then passed through Catastrophe Canyon and would travel through New York Street, then having limited guest traffic, before unloading to start the walking part of the tour with the Water Effects Tank Demonstration. This was followed by a trek through shooting soundstages for various television shows, a Special Effects demonstration involving blue-screens and a giant bee prop from Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, and a Sound Editing studio. The Tour concluded at the Walt Disney Theater, where previews for upcoming films would be shown.
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As the park became more popular, the Tour would be scaled back, starting with the Walt Disney Theater's conversion into a stage show venue for Here Come the Muppets and eventually Voyage of the Little Mermaid. New York Street was opened to full guest traffic by the end of 1989. By 1991, the tram and walking tours were split into two separately billed attractions running approximately 30 minutes each, the walking section becoming Backstage Pass and the Tram tour's unload became the regular loading area and absorbed the Water Effects Tank.
In 2003, Residential Street was closed and torn down to make way for the Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show.
In 2008, the live cast member spiel was replaced by a pre-recorded one.
The attraction finally closed on September 27, 2014 due to the park's shifting focus away from movies and to the Pixar and LucasFilm properties. Following the attraction's closure, the signage was removed, though reports say that the backlot and props are still intact. It is believed that they were intact until the start of the construction of Toy Story Land which started in early 2016. Catastrophe Canyon was demolished in February 2016 and was watched by visitors at the Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show which was also closed in 2016.
