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Original Back Lot Tour
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Florida_is_hot
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Tram tour included the outside sets, costuming, outside sets residential street, Catastrophe canyon, done the water tank thing, they used to go into special effects display, got a family to do a scene from "Honey I Shrunk the kids", took you on walking tour behind the working stages, finished in the theater that shows the Disney Bio film today.
Get the order confused it has been a long time.
Hollywood Studio had not been a working studios in years.
Get the order confused it has been a long time.
Hollywood Studio had not been a working studios in years.
joel_maxwell
Permanent Resident of EPCOT
It seemed much longer than that, in a good way. In its time, it was just incredible. Great memories as a kid.
Id hit youtube or a Martin Tribute video. See Here (bottom of the page). Prepare to spend half your life on this video site.
MansionGoer13z
Active Member
My Brother and I got to do the Honey I Shrunk the Kids part. I completely forgot about it till Florida_is_hot mentioned it. Yeah the Backlot Tour was Epic back then. Too bad its not what it was in the 1990's.
PhilharMagician
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I thought it was more like 3+ at it's peak. It definately took most of the day and it was a true tour of a working studio.
NYwdwfan
Well-Known Member
I also remember seeing the outside facade of the Golden Girl's house.
ShookieJones
We need time for things to happen.
Yup it actually really used to be a backlot tour.
Now it's a sham on a tram.
Now it's a sham on a tram.
sweetpee_1993
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When it was the long tour of the working facilities wasn't it an extra cost to do? Like doing a "back stage" tour today? I didn't go to MGM until 04 even tho I lived in Orlando when it opened and a few years after. First, we understood it to be bare bones with not much to see or do. This wasn't helped by the fact that I was a teenager and local teens looked at WDW's offerings as kiddie stuff or for old folks (uncool). Unless it was Pleasure Island. We all thought that was fine. My ex-step-sis used to go to MGM a couple days a week with a girlfriend who always had free tix for admission & to sit in the audience for the taping of The Mickey Mouse Club (ala Britany/Justin/Christina days). That little girlfriend of hers was pretty well-to-do so one of her folks must've been someone important out there. Over the years we had lots of friends whose parents worked for Disney.
DisneyWall-E
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@sweetpee_1993. I dont think that it cost any extra to do the tour back in the day. I know this because my dad was kinda cheap back then so he would have never paid for us to go on it. I remember that the first time we took the tour my younger brother was chosen to ride the bee from Honey I Shrunk the Kids movie.
Disneyfanatic!!
Member
The Backlot Tour was good up until they decided to drop LMA on half of it. IMO, when Residential Street died so did the tour.
rodserling27
Well-Known Member
My sister and I got to do that too! Cool stuff, great memory from my childhood.
HouCuseChickie
Well-Known Member
It was either 91 or 92 when we first went and I know we did some kind of back lot tour. I only remember bits and pieces...I guess it was catastrophe canyone and/or something w/water and special effects that stand out. However, the part that stands out most was something with the Golden Girls' house...assuming this was part of the same tour.
If I also recall, there wasn't much to do in MGM at the time. So, having a lengthy tour worked well.
If I also recall, there wasn't much to do in MGM at the time. So, having a lengthy tour worked well.
harryk
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When we took the tour it began in the animation studio where we viewed some of the artists painting cells and then we slowly moved on the the water tanks where they had guests act as ship captains getting shot at from aircraft and then a trip through costume warehouses and a tram ride through the area taken over by LMA and saw the residential street where the Golden Girls house was and off to Catastrophe Canyon. The tour ended where it currently ends. All in all it was about 3 hours and had no fee attached to it.
The BST today is a shadow of what it was.
The BST today is a shadow of what it was.
I haven't even been able to bear going on it the last several years, because it is a shadow of its former self. Once we figured out how to get in the exit to see the AFI exhibit, there was no need to ride the tram at all.
Not only the Golden Girls house, but the one from the spinoff (Richard Mulligan & Kristy MacNichol, I think--he was a vet?), and my personal favorite, Alice's house from Adventures in Wonderland!
I remember two different productions being filmed on some of our tours--HBO/Tom Hanks' "From the Earth to the Moon", and the TV show "Mortal Kombat" (or was that a movie?)
And viewing the Bette Midler classic, "The Lottery Ticket", then going across the street to the prop house and seeing many of the props used in the film, including the NYC subway car!! (is that still there?)
I really enjoyed that attraction...yeah, it was long, but it was worth it!! I imagine that if it still existed in its original form, it wouldn't get much traffic because of the shorter attention spans nowadays.
Once we figured out how to get in the exit to see the AFI exhibit, there was no need to ride the tram at all.Not only the Golden Girls house, but the one from the spinoff (Richard Mulligan & Kristy MacNichol, I think--he was a vet?), and my personal favorite, Alice's house from Adventures in Wonderland!
I remember two different productions being filmed on some of our tours--HBO/Tom Hanks' "From the Earth to the Moon", and the TV show "Mortal Kombat" (or was that a movie?)
And viewing the Bette Midler classic, "The Lottery Ticket", then going across the street to the prop house and seeing many of the props used in the film, including the NYC subway car!! (is that still there?)
I really enjoyed that attraction...yeah, it was long, but it was worth it!! I imagine that if it still existed in its original form, it wouldn't get much traffic because of the shorter attention spans nowadays.
joel_maxwell
Permanent Resident of EPCOT
Lets just say... it was a commitment. It wasnt for the faint of heart if you were looking at your watch to see how much time was left.
