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It's the 32nd Anniversary of Disney's Hollywood Studios at #wdw! With its lavish boulevards of Golden Age grandeur, beige boxy soundstages, and modern IP lands, this park is a big ole lovable mess of contradictions. Park Lore's got a few in-depth stories to celebrate it... 🧵 
1. One of just two rides open when the park debuted, THE GREAT MOVIE RIDE was an epic, cinematic dark ride through the greatest scenes in cinema history; "A Spectacular Journey *Into* The Movies!" Here's the story of this closed classic: parklore.com/lost-legends/g…
2. The Studios' only other ride in 1989 was the flip side of the Tinseltown story. The BACKSTAGE STUDIO TOUR was a multi-hour guided visit to a "real, working" production facility... that never really worked. It's one of the most-read stories on Park Lore! parklore.com/declassified-d…
1978 #Epcot Center brochure:
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I love this cover. Note the white building to the left of Spaceship Earth - this was an early concept for the American pavilion which would have sat at the entrance to World Showcase in the 1978 design of Epcot!
To the farther left is The Land.
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I love this cover. Note the white building to the left of Spaceship Earth - this was an early concept for the American pavilion which would have sat at the entrance to World Showcase in the 1978 design of Epcot!
To the farther left is The Land.
1978 #Epcot Center brochure:
You can see the placement of the American Adventure in the model here. Note the Land model is closer to the final version - whereas the painting is the earlier version as proposed by Tony Baxter.
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You can see the placement of the American Adventure in the model here. Note the Land model is closer to the final version - whereas the painting is the earlier version as proposed by Tony Baxter.
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Here is a closer look of Tony Baxter's original concept of The Land as portrayed in the cover art (which is a Herb Ryman painting, I believe)
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