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…
3. The park was quickly "plussed" by a ride that changed Disney Parks forever... A pivot point in the "Ride the Movies" era, the Age of the Simulator, and the introduction of modern IP in the parks, it must be... the story of the original STAR TOURS! parklore.com/lost-legends/s…
4. No celebration of Disney's Hollywood Studios can be complete without the story of its most fabled Modern Marvel... THE TWILIGHT ZONE TOWER OF TERROR is still considered one of Disney's best rides ever. Here's how it was created: parklore.com/modern-marvels…
5. Finally, as part of our Possibilityland series, we took a walk through the park as it might appear if some of its never-built, cancelled, or abandoned attractions had come to be... Welcome to Disney's Possibility Studios! parklore.com/possibilitylan…
The story of Disney's stateside studio park is fittingly filled with big screen twists and turns, but hopefully these five in-depth entries (and the 100+ member exclusives on parklore.com/extras) help encapsulate the eras and ideas behind this blockbuster experiment! #wdw 🎬
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