Today's vintage photograph is from 1989 and right from Hollywood: the Disney-MGM Studios to be exact. Does this building look familiar to you? It should! It's now the home to Vacation Fun - An Original Animated Short with Mickey & Minnie. But back in the day, it was the location of the The Monster Sound Show, a great and original interactive show where guest got to be "Foley artists" and match pieces of film with the corresponding sounds they'd create. It was much more difficult than it looked- and a whole lot of fun.
Times change, and the dropped its look behind the movie magic to follow Universal Studios "ride the movies" mantra. Not a bad move. Disney's Hollywood Studios does have some blockbuster hits like Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance and Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway, but there were pieces of the original park I wish were still around.
Anyone else here a fan of the Great Movie Ride?
I'd love be able to have seen all these co-exist as they should have.
Removing one for the other is shortsighted in a park so needing new and
more attractions. Ah, the blessing of space...
Check out more retro photos and a look at the park's history here.
(Photograph copyright Mark Taft.)
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