Yesterworld: The History of Disney’s Studio Backlot Tour (The Abandoned Backstage Studio Tour)
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- Exploring the history of Disney’s Original Backstage Studio Tour (AKA The Studio Backlot Tour) at Hollywood Studios, formerly Disney MGM Studios. Including Inside the Magic tour, Backstage Pass, Catastrophe Canyon, the movie prop Boneyard, Who Framed Roger Rabbit Loony Bin, Studio Showcase and more!
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"Sure, Universal has Back to the Future, Jaws, and King Kong, but do they have... *checks papers* The Lottery, starring Bette Midler?"
Michael Eisner, 1989 (probably)
And now they have Harry Potter because Disney botched getting it when they had the first opportunity with J. K. Rowling....
@GrantAtTheMic that's just sad
@@scoutmaster33 That was Disney's own fault. They kept interfering with the planning stages and Rowling didn't like the fact that there would be no Hogwarts castle. Disney stone cold refused because they didn't want Cinderella's castle competing with Dumbledore's! Incredibly, there was another meeting but it went so badly that she got up and left! She walked across town to archrival Universal and they literally handed her a blank checkbook. If you see Diagon Alley, Rowling's influence can't be denied: it was built to her specifications. She was adamant that the buildings be tall enough to block out the rest of the park. Even if standing on the stairs next to Escape from Gringotts, you cannot see past the entrance to Diagon Alley. That was intentional because Rowling want to make sure it was totally immersive. I guess we should thank Universal for agreeing to go along with her wishes because in the end, it turned out marvelously...
Lmao I’m dead
@@largol33t1 not to mention, Disney didn't like that Jo Rowling's story was going to become darker and edgier, and the Disney company was adamant on having EVERYTHING kid friendly so they passed up on the movies deal with her
Fun fact: Audrey Hepburn is the only handprints that are at the Chinese theater in MGM and not at the real Chinese theater
Jake Sciongay I heard they never asked her and since they didn’t ask until after Disney, she wouldn’t do it
Shelby Lynn lkk
Wow I hope they never tear down the theater but from how things are going with Disney nowadays, especially with The Great Movie ride being shut down...idk 😬
Larry O I bet they would save the hand prints section of concrete for sure.
And some of the Disney characters that were added later.
Great video! My wife and I are a "Backlot couple", we met working at this attraction in 2007. We'll be married 10 years in April. We're friends with another Backlot couple who've been married 8 years! There was something really special about the Backlot tour that made it more of a family than a group of Cast Members working together. That was a really tight-knit group and a ton of us were there for the very very last tour. I even saw my wife and I in the footage you used from that very last tour!
Did you still celebrate Chiller Day when the attraction closed? My husband worked there when the original event happened.
Nice!
Aw, that was such a heartwarming story! Hope you guys enjoy your anniversary! :)
I LOVE hearing stuff like this! -- K
Met my wife working at the Tour as well. I was a tour guide from 1989 - 1994.
Oh gosh, seeing The Magic of Disney Animation clip at 4:51 gave me chills. Going to that when I was 12 literally changed my life. I decided then and there that I wanted to be a Disney animator and I wouldn't stop talking about it for the rest of the trip, so my father went back and got hold of a handout they had for aspiring artists like me that described the path to that kind of career. I modeled the rest of my life after that handout and ended up working with Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon eventually as an adult. Still dreaming of working for Disney one day, but wow seeing the place that set me on my course twenty years ago is really something. Disney truly does have a special way of inspiring and bringing joy.
thisismysea
This is a great story to hear its amazing how you have managed to really follow that plan all the way and succeeding
thisismysea awesome
What shows did you work on
@@555elohwssa8 The Lottery, starring Bette Midler
brich2929 lol
Ah yes the Studio Backlot Tour. Where else could you see props and sets from one of my favorite movies of all time.....The Lottery starring Bette Midler?
I think you forgot to mention that one of the first uses of the backlot was for a production called The Lottery starring Bette Midler.
* Homer throwing Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" into the fireplace *
This reminds me of something Troy McClure from the Simpsons would say in an advertisement.
The Lottery vs BTTF, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones.
Dang, that’s a toughie...
..The Lottery does have Bette Midler in it.
I’m pretty sure the most obscure prop I recall seeing was the Coyote, the sports car from Hardcastle and McCormick.
RIP MGM Studios 😢 Seeing the behind the scenes of the movie making process fascinated me as a kid! That park was always my favorite and seeing it slowly die over the years is just sad. I never realized how aaaah popular Bett Mildler was 😂. Star Wars land will be cool and all but nothing can replace the magic of movie making
It is still in the French one and is great
Starwars
And now it’s destroyed, because nobody cares about the old stuff. I swear, Disney could literally remake rides and put them in another park (and also make money, because there are a lot of different aged fans... people like me and other Disney Nerds would LOVE that.
WD Gaming And Disney History WD Gaming And Disney History yeah Disney doesn’t care about history and old rides anymore. I would 100% be down for a graveyard of old rides park. Literally rebuild every old ride in one park... they’d make so much money!!! I feel like that is definitely something Eisner would have done. Idger could careless
WD Gaming And Disney History The Carousel of Progress
This is so sad. Literally my favorite park is unrecognizable. Animation, backlot, and even the Great Movie Ride. All gone. I loved it bc it was a part of what made me want to be a film fan.
Same. I was there as a kid in its opening year, and my family went back a few times during the 90s. It was just weird and confusing. Every time I went back, half the layout had changed, and a bunch of stuff I remembered being there was gone. I liked the rides that got added, but as a young film fan, it kind of hurt seeing them constantly cutting back the production side.
I will always have a Great Movie Ride shaped hole in my heart. -- K
We Can Show You the World I remember my last ride on it... spend cowering down in my seat cause I was scared of the Gangster...
Especially when they got rid of Jaws, Back to the Future, and other classic rides in favor of...Jimmy Kimmel?
And the lights, camera, stunt show
0/10 not enough Bette Midler
I agree. Their gifts shops did not have any Better Midler tshirts, magnets, coffee mugs, key chains, or license plates!!!!
Political Memes are my favorite kind
agreed
I’ve got a fever and the only prescription is more Bette Midler
Disney: Hey man, can I copy your homework?
Universal: Sure, just change some things so no one will notice.
Disney:
... (what Disney said.)
So true😂😂
It's funny that my brain thought the Rodger rabbit thing was at Universal and I thought the golden girls and tram were at Universal too. It's so crazy that I have detailed memories of the scene where they would get two audience members (usually kids) to go on the back of the ant and they would do a green screen and make them seem like they were hanging on flying. Man I wish I could go back in time...
Thank you yesterworld for a great trip down memory lane. You do amazing work my friend! Life is so fleeting!
Brandon Drangel Well, if you’re talking about Touchstone, then yes. That was one of Disney’s marketing labels, really this label was for films that weren’t exactly kid friendly and didn’t want to be put under Disney name. Home Improvement really wasn’t even bad, but was still placed under the label.
Disney: *makes the ride longer* How's this?
Universal: Eh, good enough.
Imagine if "Honey, I shrunk the kids" starred Bette Midler
Honey I Won The Lottery
Florida’s laws are basically hostile toward the movie industry. This is why the production aspect of MGM and Universal’s parks died. When it’s cheaper to build an entire city facade in Georgia rather than film on location in Florida, active, tourable movie studios will never be practical in this state.
That's why I feel like of all the states competing for the title "Hollywood of the East" Georgia has the best argument in its favor. It's been pretty successful at creating tax and incentive laws to entice producers. North Carolina really shot itself in the foot with bathroom bills and such. Louisiana still has consistent work done there so it's not a done deal, but with the construction of Pinewood Studios I think Hollywood is really making a commitment.
@@Unownshipper 2 years later and it’s hard to disagree…Georgia is the East coast equivalent of Hollywood without any doubt
@@Unownshipper They didn't shoot themselves in the foot with the bathroom bills, they enforced normal decency and kept the decadent, depraved Hollywood set out of their state.
Yesterworld: The Lottery Staring Bette Midler
I think I forgot to mention, but did you know one of the first productions to film on the backlot was the Lottery starring Bette Midler?!
I didn't know that, that's awesome!
Was it really?! Amazing! I had no idea!
It's only 3 minutes long. The episode about The Lottery would be longer than the actual "film"!
I worked at the Studio Backlot Tour in the Shuttle portions of the ride in 2012, and we all wondered why it was still open. You got a brief look backstage and at costuming, then you saw the Disney Plane, then Catastrophe Canyon, and the Boneyard. But the Boneyard only held a few props toward the end and much of the ride was bland. Plus, if we didn't hit our exact mark in Catastrophe Canyon, the shuttles wouldn't shake and roll. It became harder to activate this feature, as the shuttles grew older. There was one shuttle in particular that almost never activated this portion of the ride. They even closed our ride for refurbishments for a month and the only change was one addition to the boneyard in the form of a prop from the box office bomb The Lone Ranger. It was like they had stopped caring about the ride. It was really sad, because there were portions of it that were really cool, but too many dead spots.
"Disney should be run from a creative POV rather than a financial POV" - god, I wish that were still their attitude...
That coming from the mouth of the man who hired Paul Pressler. Eisner has never had an original or sincere thought in his life.
The amount of SHADE being thrown in this video was amazing! I laughed quite a bit! I remember this studio tour from the early 90s and I was a huge fan of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. I also remember the Pochantas and Hunchback of Notre Dame shows too. Majority of that stuff my family has on home videos.
I have photos of the Hunch Back of Notre Dame!
I went on this ONCE when I was younger and loved every minute of it. For a while I was convinced it never even existed since nobody else talked about it. I’m so sad that I never got to buy anything from the gift shop at the end too :( truly a lost gem. Thank you for this video!
SM Russo nobody ever talks about them. We are the ones who need to keep the memories alive!
I felt the same way on this one. I rode it once in the previous year before it’s closing and I just couldn’t tell if it was some weird dream my mind concocted or if it was actually a real thing. Glad I’m not the only who thought they were imagining things😂
They had a prop from Phantom of the Opera, it was a bowl of nuts, and it was for sale. Didn’t get it due to the fact that was at least 5 years ago (2014, the last year I went) and I was young.
I went on this when I was like 11 many years back and I always wondered if I'd made it up too 😂
There was deadass a 47 minute ad CZcams put before this video. CZcams truly thought I would prefer to watch their ad for an hour and not the video I clicked
Kallie Eidson people can legit pay to sponsor any of their videos to get views. In fact that’s what a lot of ads are, videos uploaded to CZcams the same as any other, and sponsored. I’ve seen some insane sponsored videos from MLM 30 minute pitches to a 45 minute cooking show. It’s nuts.
Disney Dan yes, I kind of want to skip the beginning of some of his videos because of ads. Your videos are great too!
Joseph Stalin lucky...
This has happened to me on another video, 50 minutes! It was about some dumb evolution of a product from some small company.
Sure am sad I missed a two hour tour where I could have seen all those iconic set pieces from that totally amazing iconic Bette Midler movie. My life will never be complete.
"The Lottery starring Bette Midler" is now stuck in my head like a bad song.
The worst thing was getting rid of the magic of animation and making it launch bay when it has it's own whole land
I think- much like its counterpart in Disneyland- it's meant to drum up excitement for and serve as a placeholder until the land is built. I wonder what they'll do with both locations after?
Agreed! Im worried to see what will happen to it & all of the Star Wars attractions at Disneyland in Tomorrowland!
Brian Riven Yeah, that was inexcusable!
While I agree with disliking the elimination of the Magic of Animation, it was no longer a functioning animation studio, so I understand why it was eliminated. In addition, Galaxy's Edge hasn't opened yet and Launch Bay has been there for a few years. I imagine it will go away when Galaxy's Edge opens. Launch Bay was to meet the Guest demand for Star Wars in the meantime. -- K
Please, for the love of all that is holy, team up with Kevin “The Purge” Perjur for the Michael Eisner special and make him do the Pro-Eisner position.
Robert TYSEC I would ABSOLUTELY pay for this!!! Much like the Defunctland v Rob Plays debates
bigevilworldwide1 Ok, but the joke here is that Kevin HATES Eisner. So making him be pro-Eisner would be hilarious.
@bigevilworldwide1 To be fair, many studios are afraid of releasing new movie concepts and possibly losing money. I wish it wasn't the case.
bigevilworldwide1 i hate the live action remakes as well, but i honestly don’t think it’s that big a deal that iger has brought more ips into the parks. imo disneyland was created with a bunch of stuff tying into disney’s films in the first place, so it’s not that different to add in new ips now
also yeah most pixar sequels are unnecessary but i personally loved toy story 2 and monsters university 😅
@@roberttysec4122 If anything, it's more like a love/hate relationship.
So, I'm wondering. Did they film something there called "The Lottery" Starring Bette Midler?
it was a 3 minute short film designed to demonstrate filmmaking at the park.
One of my favorite aspects of New York street was one of my family members thinking he found a real shop and walking into an empty fake room on the set before being politely scolded by cast members.
If this taught me anything it’s that I’m going to have to see “The Lottery” with Bette Midler!
Shoutout to the studio tour in Disneyland Paris!!! The resting place of the gargoyle statues from hunchback of notre dame!
Good luck!! I tried to find a copy and the attraction monitor footage was the best I could find, I'm sure someone has it taped and selling it on Ebay though...
Thank God I got the opportunity to ride on the OG tour so I got the Lottery starting Bette Midler experience!!
My 1st job was for a company in Florida that manufactured wooden propellers for vintage aircraft. We made several life sized propellers for the scene in the film Pearl Harbor where the fighter planes are being strafed on the runway. The prop planes that weren’t destroyed during filming ended up in the backlot tour. It was always cool to be able to see something I worked on, not only in the film but also in the tour. I always loved that ride & my connection to it so I was sad when I found out it closed.
Great video, glad to see that the history of this ride is being passed on.
I remember i always wanted to go on this just to see the 'Golden Girls' house
i was 7 and it's one of my favourite disney memories lol
From the perspective of someone who LOVES Disney but has just experience Disney World for the first time in Sept 2018, it's crazy to think about how many changes have happened. I came into the park loving everything there, but its weird to think about how my opinions would differ had I experienced all the original attractions
Ricky Scurvy I first visited Disney in 1991, and all of the parks were fantastic! Very educational and exiting! Now it’s all about catering to people with short attention spans!
I was only there in 2013 or 2014, I was too young to remember much. Wish I was able to see all of these old rides there instead of this garbage.
When I first visited Hollywood studios in 2009, I was only 7 years old and I loved the backstage tour along with the Great Movie ride and stuntshow. It’s too bad that I wasn’t born to see the actual good times of this park but much to see how much it actually changed. I’m very vaguely disappointed that Disney decides to change all of their aspects of the studio into just rides that Disney interprets from the movies. Now, I’m a college student pursuing engineering, I hope that I come in the right mind to create something far better than coping out of movies.
Original better
This is a great video!
And better yet...
It includes THE LOTTERY STARRING BETTE MIDLER
!
Dorothy with Minnie Mouse ears OMG
WE’RE OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD, THE WONDERFUL DISNEY OF OZ -
He did a good job
Expedition Theme Park just did a video on the backlot tour...COINCIDENCE? Or am I experiencing the Eisner Effect?
A very, very bizarre coincidence especially since I was originally supposed to upload yesterday but kept running into problems with the video
@@YesterworldEntertainment Who cares! More info, more to love! You both are so great, so I see this as TWO gifts!
@@YesterworldEntertainment Huh, how strange.
Its just like Alien Encounter awhile back with Defunctland putting out their video in the same week coincidentally
Yesterworld Entertainment That would’ve been even more of a coincidence, Expedition Theme Park uploaded it yesterday
The amount of SHADE you keep throwing Eisner in this video is giving me life.
Coming up on 2 years later, and I still hear his voice in my head from time to time saying “The Lottery, starring Bette Midler”
Disney's MGM studios was basically honey, I shrunk the kids' the lottery starring Bettie Midler studios
I feel like if I was an artist, the last thing I would want is dozens of guided tours constantly looking at me working. That feels more like a punishment than anything else.
I remember going to MGM during this time and seeing the props and how movies were made. I always found it incredible and I was lucky enough to go there while they were working on The Lion King, show casing their next movie, Mulan. This is what made me want to get into animation.
I loved, loved, loved the backlot tour. MGM was where I learned about all the movie making magic - foley, special effects, stunt work. I was 10 the first time we went to Disney, and I fell in love with movie making there.
I would have fuckin loved this as a kid. Seeing the actual Snowspeeder? Hell yes. Seeing miniatures? Yes. I love all of this
I would go to Disney World every 4-8 years and when I went in 2016 I hadn’t realized the Backlot Tours was gone. So I was super excited to ride it since it was my favorite attraction at Hollywood Studios. Once I couldn’t find it on the map while looking around for it in the park, I started tearing up and it kinda ruined my day. Very heartbroken to say the least.
Pretty interesting how both Universal and Disney were going all-in into making central Florida a real "second Hollywood" where you can see real movies and TV shows being made, complete with seeing the stars casually stroll through the studios, as you might see at the Universal Studios Hollywood tours. But neither could really pull it off. They really did it all backwards from California. The reason the world's first real "theme" parks were made in Southern California in the first place was precisely to allow the masses to come see how the movie magic was done. Disneyland was created as studio "set" in a sense, with employees referred to as "cast members", etc. Even if it wasn't a real working studio (with the real studios being back in Burbank, not Anaheim), it's no coincidence that Disneyland was build in So Cal near where all the real action took place.
Now, Florida could pull off Disneyland (in the form of the Magic Kingdom at Disney World) just fine given that its allure didn't necessitate actual filming taking place there. Meanwhile the allure behind Universal Studios in Hollywood was originally just the studio tour, where you tour real movie sets where you can see a lot of history with old sets from classic films. I think that the idea that either Disney or Universal could recreate that in Florida was just pure folly. For one, Florida was never going to be a hub of TV and movies in the same way that So Cal was. And two, it's really hard to replicate the history that the original Universal Studios lot in Hollywood has (or any other studio lot in Hollwyood). You can't just create the tour straight out of the gate. You need to build that history over time. Instead Disney and Universal just built the tour in Florida first, and then just hoped that the movies and sense of history behind their tours would follow.
.........Who writes this much in a comment. How long did this take you?
@@staterbr0s347 Less than 5 minutes. How slowly do you type?
Actually there was a huge push by all of Florida at that time to bring in more production and it did look like it was going to grow (movie Parenthood etc) but it just dried up. Full Sail University started around this time and they kept promising us it would come...it didn't...I moved out of state
amcaff funny how this guy wants you to think Disney was stealing Universals ideas but in reality Universal stole Disney’s idea to have a theme park in Orlando!
amcaff all Disney parks employees are called Cast Members
Is it sad that I would prefer to watch historical videos like these about Disney parks then a desire to visit them?
Is it sad that I watch videos about attractions that I've never been or plan on checking out? I just enjoy theme park history but I don't like roller coasters lol
I love watching these videos in the run-up to going to them/at the time when I’m going to them. It’s so cool, hearing about all this history and then going to the place itself and seeing stuff like the remnants of long-gone attractions. It’s a feeling I can’t really explain. Of course, I’m gonna watch a Yesterworld video whether I’m going to a theme park or not.
Depends on the content.
Not at all, and it's free. Watching this saved me time and hundreds of dollars I don't have. :D
Well nowadays everything is so political and people have the attention span of the lifetime of a quark. Those were great days . It’s only natural to want to reminisce!
Such a deep cut with that scene from "The Good Son". Well done sir. Well done
I think you're the first to notice!! It seemed like the obvious clip choice, deciding between the fate of Elijah Wood or Macaulay Culkin
@@YesterworldEntertainment Such a strange yet memorable film. Honestly I catch a lot of your sneaky film edits and as an embarrassingly avid film nerd, I commend you and thank you. Love your content. Btw, have you done the Finding Nemo history yet and how do you feel about that ride? Personally I feel like it leaves alot to be desired but it definitely has potential for something really special.
Man, I remember doing this as a kid. And the great movie ride. Classics. Hopefully they get revived one day. I bet Disney could make a whole new park called yesterworld and put all these classics there.
"there is something so familiar about your voice"
Ha Ha ha, both the people old enough to have seen Charlie's Angels and watching this will get that joke
Please explain
I've just gotta know, were there any references to The Lottery, starring Bette Middler?
This is honestly sad because I genuinely enjoy learning about how things are made in movies and looking at old film sets/props. It’s always fascinated me.
For some reason, I now feel like I should watch The Lottery starring Bette Midler
2 hours... it was worth it back then... and the really corny jokes. Those jokes last longer than the rides. It’s just sad. I really wish I could experience the old parks, but I’m 14 so I never did. Love your videos!
WD Gaming And Disney History I feel you man I’m 14 as well and never got to experience this good stuff
Yeah I’m in my mid 20s and I just happened to be lucky enough to go to Disney World and Universal Studios parks a few times right before a lot of the the old rides and even great ones were taken down. I was young, but I still remembered them and am glad I was just old enough to get on some of these classic rides.
DaveDynamite1 if I could ❤️ your comment I would.
Universal is recording some of their rides in VR now to preserve them, you can watch the old Jurassic Park ride on CZcams (they're remodeling it for Jurassic World soon), hopefully they will do it for other attractions, and Disney will follow suit.
I tell you what I wish I could’ve done - DISNEY QUEST. Why didn’t I go on it before closing? Well...
1. I am too young (I’m currently 14 too)
2. I’m a UK citizen, and our closest Disney park is Disneyland Paris (which never had Disney Quest)
10:35 George Lucas' acting lol. Compared to this, his cameo in Beverly Hills Cop 3 was Oscar-worthy.
How far MGM and Epcot has fallen.
And everything else. Like I say, the jokes last longer than the rides...
@@wdgaminganddisneyhistory6024
Both parks weren't all that good, they may have a couple of noteworthy stuff, but most of it was bleh.
Major changes were needed for two meh parks.
Except more people will be going to the park when star wars land opens then ever went when it was mgm.
@@MarkyMatey I agree with MGM/Hollywood Studios. Watching this vid, you'd see the endless corridors of sound stages and production buildings, location of certain attractions, etc. and it is a total clusterfuck of uninteresting attractions (Narnia, Jack Sparrow show), outdated properties, and dead ends. Once Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway is finished, the park will be completely finished and finally have a TRUE identity. If there is one thing I wished they could've worked out, is that there needs to be more Roger Rabbit in this park. I thought that IP fit PERFECTLY in this park. Epcot? Today's Epcot I'd agree to an extent, but It's original state looked pretty cool and I thought it had an identity. It wasn't bad at all. If there are 2 gripes with Epcot that I have today, It's The Seas and the Imagination Pavilion. Mission:SPACE and Test Track I think are very worthy successors to Horizons and World of Motion respectively, but damn are the Seas with Nemo and Friends and freakin' Journey into Imagination starring Figment totally terrible restructures of their original attraction...LOL. PS- Ellen's Energy Adventure was pretty bad too and it's bulldozing didn't come soon enough. ugh.
I'm really looking forward to Epcot's refurbishment as well. I think it will take take the park from meh to respectable again.
Bearded Zoo Guy Compendium There’s a good video on never built attractions for Epcot that Didn’t involve IP’s.
Great video! Lots of great memories. I love how people now reference Bette Middler’s The Lottery like it was a legitimate movie. It was a very, very, very short promo piece - more of an extended sequence - that was created almost exclusively to feed into the backlog tour, and to show off the lots capabilities. I remember, even as a young kid, recognizing this the first year of the park when I visited, and being a little disappointed they had to resort to that. Still, you got references and locations from Honey I Shrunk the Kids and Big Business, so I wasn’t too bummed.
From what I gathered, and I could be wrong, it aired on TV as a full fledged movie....but there's a reason you can't find a copy today.
I’d never heard of the Goosebumps Horrorland Funhouse prior to this video! I’d love to see more about that!
I loved the Backlot Tour!!! We always road it, when it was raining. I don't remember hearing anything about The Lottery, staring Bette Midler.
I would've loved to see the animators back in the day...
jujucatjuca wouldn’t we all
Kelly Andrews wouldn’t we all
I remember bear in the big blue house! I use to watch it all the time when I was younger. Ahh the nostalgia.
Before I finish this video I just wanted to say thank you so much for putting these amazingly well made mini-documentaries together! This is an AMAZING channel for anyone who loves old and new theme park history/info. And I bet these videos took alot of time on your end! Most of these are put together with a single, or multiple pictures. And sometimes they don't even bother with visuals all together! Not only does your footage, and pictures match the context and give more insight to what you are saying in that specific moment in time, but the editing is PERFECT and really makes these videos feel like full professional productions and documentaries!! You should be working in the entertainment world my friend! Either way, thanks and thanks again for dedicating your time for us to have these amazing videos. As someone who loves anything involving theme parks and their history, this is the best channel for me, especially for long forgotten attractions and deeper info on these places!! You're the best!! Oh and your occasional jokes with the character of you floating around are always perfectly placed and never overdone! And always funny!! Love it!!
I was working for a video production facility in Florida and we did a lot of the advance promotional work for Disney. When the Disney facility was completed I tried a number of times to use it for their own productions but they wanted so much money to use the facilities it was not possible. So they basically priced themselves right out of the market. This was a very accurate presentation of just how fake the whole place really was just doing staged demo shows for the guests. I remember having so much fun in the park, behind the scenes and after-hours "playing" with things and being in places I am sure they would not have wanted me to be. I can remember being with some folks from Cinema Products in CA while giving a Steadicam training workshop and they were completely mesmerized by Sunset Blvd and the Chinese theater. All I have are a few pins, some snapshots and some great memories from that special time.
Been a fan of yours for a while, I love your videos man.
This video is fantastic, can't wait for more.
Thanks Jimmy, glad you enjoyed the video!!
@@YesterworldEntertainment Your Welcome.
Jimmy Parker same here
damn.... i miss this place so much, sad its gone
Yeah, this so sad. Alexa, play The Lottery starring Bette Midler.
8:41 And then Goldie Hawn’s husband Kurt Russell showed up and stepped on tiny Rick Moranis for looking up his wife’s dress. 😂
this is the Bette Midler count
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we have scored 4 Bette Midlers ,Bette Midlers,Bette Middlers,Bette Midlers
👍😂 now i can skip to the Bette Middlers
If you say her name four times your tv automatically turns on to Bette Midlers
she's a great actress, I just remember her better as Winifred Sanderson
you’re a godsend
It must've been around 1967 or '68....when I got to go on the Universal Studios tour in Hollywood. If I could go back & experience THAT day....I would. The tram tour seemed to last for hours, with several stops along the way. An actual tour guide who KNEW something about the movie-making process.... walked us thru several sets & even a few dressing rooms....explaining things. I returned in the late 1990s, but the tram tour had been shortened to under about an hour.....& the rest of the place had been transformed into little more than a bunch of amusement park rides.
You do such a great job of going through park experiences! Even though I missed out on rides like this, it gives me ideas and inspires me to visit the parks and learn more.
I’m glad I was able to ride it a couple times. Part of history
I LOVED the Backlot Tour. Was my favourite thing to do in Orlando. Used to really enjoy seeing first hand how movies and TV shows were actually made and witnessing the shear scale of the sets that needed to be created in order to produce the films realistically. Seeing the original vehicles, props and fashion was also such a highlight. Was like an interactive movie museum. I suppose now that a lot of films are just put together with ‘usually’ unauthentic CGI, the use of real elements aren’t needed as much in Hollywood. Big loss!
I’m sad the the dip mobile just sat rotting away. I went to Hollywood studios as a kid and all I really remember about the whole park was the dip mobile and the great movie ride. I’ve been going to Disney world every other year for 2 decades and only went to that park that one time.
Even though it became disappointing in it's later years, it's still an attraction I wish I got to experience in some way. When I got to Florida in January of 2015 it was already closed unfortunately but anytime you went to Lights, Motors Action Stunt Show, you could see Catastrophe Canyon and dream of a time long gone where one ride, made up almost all of a Disney theme park!
I loved the backstage tour. We were there one day when Mickey Mouse Club was filming and they pointed out Britney Spears in particular.
We went there when I was a little kid and I LOVED the animation studio part. I wanted to be an animator when I grew up and I knew the answer to all of the questions the guide asked us kids. It got to the point where they were like "OK, let other kids answer now."
The Lottery Starring Bette Midler
disney must really love that movie
Am I the only one who remembers the Dick Tracy themed backstage walk-through, complete with video clips hosted by Warren Beatty during filming of Dick Tracy?
Kelly Andrews I do remember clips of that film, as well. Never seen it, though. ;)
I have the faintest memory of this.
That "colorful" gangster and cop bit in this video (on the studio tour) were actually only part of the tour the year Dick Tracy was released, and, of course, was called "The Dick Tracy Crimestopper's Show" (which could only be seen if you went on the studio tour that summer). That part of NY Street was painted like the Dick Tracy set and we had 3 or 4 versions of 2 minute shows that we rotated through. It was hot as hell but was great because it was 30 minutes on, 30 minutes off, so you got an hour and a half for lunch. We had a trailer behind the facade and had a couple of couches, a fridge, a dressing room, and gangsters wore this gaudy, purple suit. One benefit was going 101 (closing temporarily) whenever the ground was wet. In FL, it rained every day for an hour about 4pm - then you had to wait for the ground to dry. It was amazing how quickly the ground dried, even if it rained hard. Sometimes we went back on, sometimes not, it was up to the tech lead on duty. So sometimes you got to stop this hot, sweaty, humid work for a few hours and cool off in the trailer, chat up your pals, it was great. Until you had to go back on, usually at 7p for an hour or so. It was really, really hot. But luckily, mother nature gave us that break at 4pm daily. And we had no complaints, that was a nice, easy gig, even though it was tiring and HOT when you didn't get rain (it happened sometimes). Good times...
I was really bummed out when I heard the Great Movie Ride was closing. It was easily one of my favorite rides in all the parks because no matter hw many times I saw the same stuff and heard the same shpeal about it all I loved the animatronics and special effects and the looks into some of the most well known and iconic movies ever made. RIP Great Movie Ride
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM WHAT'S THAT MOVIE CALLED AGAIN? I'M PRETTY SURE IT STARS BETTE MIDLER!
I wonder what sparks these drastic changes. How do they know when to change something? Is it to attract local or overseas customers? is it really necessary?
To find out the reasoning behind it all, would be an interesting video.
I have had an epiphany about why I hate Hollywood Studios so much. I remember that Back Lot tram and walking tour and was fascinated by it. Seeing costuming and the set design and then going to see the animators drawing the next films. Now it's just crappy shows. Slinky Dog is fun but I loved seeing the behind the scenes. Worst park ever in my opinion now.
LaFemmeLisa yup
Haze unfortunately, there seems to be no off season anymore. And with Disney’s new pricing system for tickets, it’s what they’re hoping for. Bringing people in on what would’ve been the off season by offering cheaper tickets since they’ve raised prices so much.
What is the limit of the scope when you say "park?" Because Action Park was a thing.
They have no rides. My family and I finished the park in 5-6 hours
@@michaelprimiani9181 Your comment is going to age poorly.
When I was a kid my favorite place to visit was Universal Hollywood. It was an inspiration to me because I was always fascinated about film. That fascination is the reason why I work in industry today. You are so lucky you were able to experience MGM. I never got the chance. Thank you for sharing.
Dude I love your channel so much. I’ve been watching for a couple years and I love the quality of all of your videos. I such a big theme park fan and this is perfect for me. Keep up the the amazing videos!! And thanks for always giving me a place to go when times are bad
Nostalgic! Interesting return to my childhood, the boneyard is still a standout feature, max from flight of the navigator, the helicopter from blue thunder, Jonny 5 etc. I was a geek before I even knew it
I dont remember anything to do with bette midler but by then (90's) it was starting to look tired
Imagine my shock to find out that The Lottery (starring Bette Midler) is not on DVD. A tragedy.
I would pay obscene amounts of money to revisit Disney MGM Studios circa the mid 1990s. Hell, I'd pay obscene amounts of money just to ride The Great Movie Ride again.
Fantastic video. Thank you for the thorough and detailed history of this changing park. I visited it 3 times over a 30 year span and this video tied them all together. I'm grateful!
I've always been crazy about 101 Dalmatians, and one of my earliest memories is going to the MGM studios and seeing the props from the 101 Dalmatians like Cruella's car etc, I loved it.
Expedition Theme Park just barely beat you to it, but I think yours goes a little more in depth. I would have loved to experience Hollywood Studios in it's hayday, but the era is over, and we don't need an entire theme park to tell us about movie making (though it would be more fun). I just hope Galaxies Edge is a worthy replacement, and the "step into the movies" theme works.
so ya know if Galaxy's edge fails the same way it has done so far in Disneyland in California the park may fall into the threshold of being in danger of permanently closing given that no ride or attraction that was successful was built in the new millennium other than Toy Story Midway Mania (which is anchoring a land that is deemed a failure currently).
Things like Indiana Jones and Muppet Vision are likely to fall next, which means that if they already have yanked out nearly everything else that opened before Sunset Blvd. opened, that expansion would fall in danger of literally anchoring the park and must hold out on its own as long as possible (it almost already is given the park's current state). It would not surprise me if in the near future if Starwars in Hollywood studios pulls a Eruo Disney opening that the park gets considered for permanently shuttering.
@@christiphergedge5078😂 galaxy's edge failing
Wow, fantastic wealth of information on this change in Disney Florida's intent.
Totally loved the scene about not letting go of Star Wars off the cliff.
Oh my Goodness, this was an insane blast to the past when I went in around 2003 or 2004, there was a lot of Herbie stuff and I didn't even realize at the time it was being destroyed. I mean I was a kid. But I totally remember all the Honey I shrunk the kid's stuff and even the Great Movie Ride was one of my favorites. I'm glad I went back in 2017 before it closed.
I’m impressed by the sheer knowledge in this video! Just knowing all the buildings and different routes was so impressive. Thanks!
I literally just finished watching a video about this same thing by Expedition Theme Park. I waited a bit between the two so I can judge this one fairly. Both were really good! It's interesting seeing what each of you decided to focus on.
I'm sorry man but I love the Eisner era. Yea he might have done a couple stupid things but he did more unbelievably great things for the company and parks.
Totally agree, which is why I wanna eventually do a video exploring the good (and bad) of his time at Disney
@@YesterworldEntertainment can't wait. I really enjoy your videos so that will be a great one.
this and the great movie ride are extremely nostalgic to me. im thankful that i grew up with disney and universal passes
This is all news to me! Super interesting. 👍🏻😃
Man, I wish I could have gone to this before it was removed. Herbie, and Short Circuit were some of my favorite movies, so seeing those characters in front of me would have been beyond amazing. I can only hope that Herbie, and Johnny Five are at least well-protected somewhere, and weren't left to rot carelessly by Disney like most of their props, and displays were.
I visited this "park" last week and was really sadden and frustrated by what they have done to it. Frankly, there was nothing left. With the closing of The Great Movie Ride (which, frankly, is an atrocity equal to the tearing down of Cinderella Castle at the Magic Kingdom), I had no interest left in the place. Meh. I walked around for about an hour, looking at all the closed buildings and then left. Totally disillusioned and unsatisfied. Even the Magic Kingdom seems to have forgotten its roots and is now a cash-grab kiddie fun park now. Where is the class? Where is the dedication to Disney's rich history? Very sad and, frankly, unforgivable.
Thanks for posting this very interesting historical document. Much appreciated.
Well, it's now a theme park battle between them and Universal so Disney is now trying to incorporate IP and movies into the parks more cause of the huge success Harry Potter made.
gissneric too bad The Wizarding World is the only thing keeping Universal in business
Hollywood Studios is going through a phase.
Star Wars land is going to be one of the most advanced and immersive experiences in all of Disney, though, so get hyped~!
I love Hollywood history and the classic olde-tyme nostalgic/retro experience that it started as. I don't care to attend a Star Wars park. Meh. I'm hoping that the Magic Kingdom will keep its roots and continue to (somewhat) celebrate classic Disney at least.
A very interesting video... I feel privileged that my wife and I did our honeymoon in Disneyworld back in 2012 and saw all this stuff before it vanished. It will be even more interesting when we go back for our 10 year anniversary in 2022.
The television special for the Burbank studio's 50th anniversary came after the Disney MGM Studios.
The screening room, with Eisner's introduction, came first.
Just like many of the attractions in the park that are now gone, good thing I went on it in 2013 before it closed a year later. I would assume the planned Journey to the Center of the Earth portion would've been later reused for Tokyo's Disney Sea.
5:48 Oh my gosh, Dick Tracy! :D My buddy and I love that movie. I know they used to have some of the cars from the film in the tour's Boneyard section, but I'm assuming they're long gone by now.
I will always remember this ride and park. MGM studios was always my favorite, the shows were great and movies have always fascinated me. Being able to see props from my favorite movies and a peek behind the curtain in the backlot tour will forever be fond memories.
I worked at Disney in 1989 and as a movie fan this park was the best! I loved the "Star Chat" where they had a new celeb every day and would take Q&A and sign autographs. I went every chance I got when I was not working. I remember my fav. pun from the tram tour..."And that's the Earful tower. Some say its 14 stories tall, some say 15..but that's another story" - I remember the Mickey Mouse club filming, I remember everything. I don't cry much but this video had me tearing up... I am a Star Wars fan and like Galaxy's Edge, but bring back my old MGM Studios.
I expect nothing but 30 minutes of jokes about Michael Eisner in that future video!
OMG I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL
I just love how many times you say 'The Lottery with Bette Middler'. It just makes me chuckle
We went to MGM soon after it opened, and I was a kid in love with Roger Rabbit. The Loony Bin (and Roger's painted footprints leading to it) were the best thing ever to me!