Does anyone know if they still do this with celebrities..or is it a VERY RARE Occaision that this happens anymore in front of The Great Movie Ride?
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Hand Prints in front of GMR
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Captain Hank
Well-Known Member
The hand print ceremonies still happen, however Disney is not allowed to actually place them in the GMR courtyard. It's kind of a long story, but a few years back the real Chinese Theater was taken over by a different company which wanted the handprint ceremony to be exclusive to the real theater. This also ties in to why the Hat is placed where it is.
Captain Hank
Well-Known Member
All of the handprints in the GMR courtyard are real and were done exclusively for Disney. Several even have Hidden Mickey's in them that were put in by the celebrities while they were signing their tablet.
hauntdmansion79
Active Member
They are real, I've seen pictures somewhere of them being done at MGM. I love seeing them when I go, especially Jim Henson's and Kermits! Through lots of reading, I've come to understand why the Theater is covered by the hat and why they can't do any more hand/foot prints....but no matter how legit the explanation, I still find it sad and disappointing because they had such a cool thing going on with the theater at MGM.
disneytati
New Member
Are there Julie Andrews' handprints at MGM?
Figments Friend
Well-Known Member
Yeah, i think so.....
I am pretty sure i saw them there a few years back when last i really looked at them all.
Roger Rabbits' is the BEST for me!
I am pretty sure i saw them there a few years back when last i really looked at them all.
Roger Rabbits' is the BEST for me!
PintoColvig
Active Member
Don't know if it's true or not but I heard that some celebrities were invited to stay several days and participated in handprint ceremonies over the course of there stay so that there several sets of the handprints but only one placed out in front of GMR.
MonoRon
Member
It has been done there before. Back in 1995 or 96, I saw Greg Kinnear do it. At the time I had no idea who he was or what he did.
hauntdmansion79
Active Member
There is a bunch of info on the hat inside this thread, you have to weed through the wand stuff, but the hat's in there a bunch.
http://forums.wdwmagic.com/showthread.php?t=109431
Here is a quote from that thread from Lee who is very reputable:
The hat was indeed built to hide the theatre. No doubt.
The reason is that they wanted every park to have a visible icon like the Castle, SSE, and Tree. Unfortunately, most people thought of the theatre as the icon for the Studios. That's a problem since Disney doesn't own the design of the theatre. It was built by permission of the real theatre's owners, and they never licensed the use of it as a marketing icon for the park.
Originally, Disney wanted the Earful Tower to be the icon...but due to it's position backstage where it isn't very easily seen or photographed by guests...it didn't work out as well as they had hoped.
So...they needed a new icon in a visible spot....and they got one.
Simple as that. The hat ain't moving.
JimboJones123
Well-Known Member
Still missing the Earful Tower logo. DSP has that as their logo right?
Hummer1676
New Member
Yeap. And you talk about a small disney park. You can do the entire park in less than 2 hours.
MommytoMJM
New Member
There also handprints tiles in the entrance to Theatre of the Stars where they hold BatB. James Doohan is up there which is one of the most memorable to me.