I have here my list of rides and attractions for Disney Studios as of opening day. Disney Studios will consist of six soundstages, a backlot (complete with Residential Street, similar to the now-defunct Disney-MGM attraction), an animation studio, as well as the Earfell Tower-- which will be an actual working water tower for the studio and park, unclike Disney-MGM's oversided prop! Disney Studios will open around the same time as the Magic Kingdom, or shortly afterward. Rides and attractions marked with a (FP) will use the FastPass Service:
1.) Cinemagic Special Effects Stage (FP): This is a live stage show focusing on special effects for TV and motion pictures; which also includes audience participation in a number of segments!
2.) Disney Sound Studio: At The Disney Sound Studio, guests add sound effects to various Disney cartoons! This is an almost completely hand-on attraction, unlike the Sounds Dangerous show with Drew Carey which currently runs at Disney-MGM.
3.) The Great Movie Ride: Although similar to the Great Movie Ride at Disney-MGM, this ride will have primarily different scenes from its Disney-MGM counterpart. Since I have never been to WDW (but I'm currently in the process of planning a trip!), and therefore, never rode GMR, I'll have to go by what I have seen listed in Birnbaum's Official Guide. So far, the only movie scenes I know of which would remain the same are the
Singing In the Rain and
Wizard of Oz scenes, since those were both landmark motion pictures, and that
The Wizard of Oz is a favorite anomg children; whom Disney's theme parks are primarily geared to! Not sure about the others, however, I will also include
Mary Poppins on my GMR, but usuing a different scene. WDW's GMR uses the
Chim Chim Cher-ee scene, whereas mine will use the
Supercalafragilisticexpialidocious song and dance segment from
Mary Poppins.
4.) The Great Muppet Movie Ride: This is basically a spoof of the Great Movie Ride; where the Muppets give guests their takes on various classic motion pictures; such as
Frankenstein,
The Wizard of Oz, and
Peter Pan, just to name a few; along with an original entitled
Pigs In Space: The Movie. Also, about halfway through the ride, we'll re-create the
HILARIOUS scene from
The Muppet Movie where the film jams and breaks halfway through the movie! In this scene, Kermit asks what happened, and The Swedish Chef (who is the projectionist) responds, with film wrapped all over him! Here is a sound byte of this scene:
http://users.ev1.net/~russ3/WavFiles/chef.wav
The Great Muppet Movie Ride was in fact planned for Disney-MGM, but was put off due to Jim Henson's death in 1990.
5.) Hyperion Theater: This is a large theater designed much like a movie palace-type cinema from the Golden Era of Hollywood. Hyperion Theater presents a multi-character show (using characters from various Disney cartoons together), similar (but not exactly!) to the show currently running on The Disney Cruise Line-- especially since I have heard a lot of good things about that show!
6.) Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular (FP): I know Disney-MGM has this, but I decided to include Indy since I think that this is one of their very best shows!
7.) Jim Henson's Muppet*Vision 3-D (FP)
8.) The Magic of Disney Animaton: This is an actual working animation studio, which produces and demonstrates for guests
3 different types of animation!:
a.) Cel Animation
b.) 3-D Computer Animation
c.) Clay Animation
In addition, The Magic of Disney Animation features an interactive area where guests can learn a few tricks of the trade! IIRC, the animation studio at Walt Disney Studios at Disneyland Paris has an interactive area like this one.
9.) Monsters, Inc. dark ride
10.) Star Tours: (FP)
11.) Studio Tour: Behind the Scenes
12.) That's Entertainment! Hollywood Gallery: This is similar to The Disney Gallery in this theme park resort's Magic Kingdom and the Main Street Gallery and Town Square Exposition Hall in Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom; but focuses on Hollywood and the entertainment industry in general. That's Entertainment! Hollywood Gallery includes various Hollywood-related exhibits, artifacts, and memorabilia.
13.) Tron: The Ride (FP): This ride is based on the 1982 motion picture
Tron, which will be designed as a dark ride with a few interactive elements much like Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin and the early 1980's Tron arcade game, which was also based on the movie.
14.) Twilight Zone Tower of Terror (FP)
15.) Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Play It! (FP)
PARADE: Disney Studios will feature a Hollywood-themed parade similar to the Lights, Camera, Action! parade at Walt Disney Studios Paris. Like the WDS parade, this parade will use actual parade floats instead of the antique cars used in Disney-MGM's parade. One of the most memorable floats from the WDS Paris parade which will also be used here is a giant movie projector float with Tinker Bell sitting in front of the projector's lens!
In addition, the parade at Disney Studios will include Hollywood-themed songs/show tunes such as
Hooray For Hollywood,
There's No Business Like Show Business,
We're In the Money,
You Ought to Be in Pictures, and
That's Entertainment!, just to name a few!
Last but certainly not least, Disney Studios runs the
Sorcery In the Sky fireworks show every night.
I also have here a list of possible lands/streets for Disney Studios:
1.) Animation Courtyard
2.) The Backlot
3.) Hollywood Boulevard
4.) Muppets Courtyard (which includes The Great Muppet Movie Ride and Muppet*Vision 3-D)
5.) New York Street
6.) Production Courtyard
7.) Sunset Boulevard
If anyone has questions, comments, and/or suggestions, please feel free to post! :)