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WALT DISNEY WORLD · BAY LAKE, FLORIDA

Hollywood Studios

“the hollywood that never was”

The Hollywood that never was and always will be — a deco boulevard that dead-ends into a haunted hotel, with a galaxy far, far away and Andy's backyard folded in behind the facades.

The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
Icon · Sunset Boulevard

✦ the tower improvises — every drop sequence is dealt at random

THE ANIMATED COLLECTION · 7 PIECES

queue-times

Hollywood Boulevard

1
Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway
Dark ride
Into the cartoon, through the Chinese Theatre.

Sunset Boulevard

4
Rock 'n' Roller Coaster
Coaster
A stretch limo launch into the LA night.
  • Beauty and the Beast — Live on Stage
  • Fantasmic!
  • Lightning McQueen's Racing Academy

Echo Lake

3
Gertie the Dinosaur
Landmark
Ice cream of extinction, served inside 1930s roadside America.
  • Star Tours: The Adventures Continue
  • Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular

Galaxy's Edge

2
Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run
Dark ride
Fly the fastest hunk of junk in the galaxy yourself.
Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance
Dark ride
Captured by the First Order — the most ambitious ride ever built.

Toy Story Land

3
Slinky Dog Dash
Coaster
Andy's coaster kit, sprung across the backyard.
  • Toy Story Mania!
  • Alien Swirling Saucers
opened
May 1, 1989
lands
Seven-ish
the icon
The Hollywood Tower Hotel
my headliners
Rise · Slinky · Tower

This park is a movie lot that dreams it's a movie: a deco boulevard aimed straight at a haunted hotel, with whole worlds — Batuu, Andy's backyard — hidden behind the soundstage facades.

Tower of Terror is the best ride-building Disney ever made: the queue, the library, the boiler room, and a drop sequence the elevator invents fresh every time.

Every piece above is hand-drawn and animated — the elevator drops, the lightcycle... wait, wrong park. The limo launches, Slinky springs, and the Falcon's engines glow. Flip to dark for the tower's lightning.

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