The Great Movie Ride

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The Great Movie Ride Overview

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The Great Movie Ride is located at the end of Hollywood Blvd, inside the Mann's Chinese Theater. An original ride to the park, the Great Movie Ride features authentic movie props and costumes in the pre-show area. As you meander through the queue area you are treated to classic movie moments. Once you're settle in the huge slow moving trams you are treated to memorable movie moments from a variety of genres. In true Disney fashion you are treated to a surprise twist in this classic ride through the movies!

The Great Movie Ride History

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The Great Movie Ride basically evolved from the Epcot movie pavilion, The Great Movie Ride is an offshoot of what the original Epcot attraction was supposed to be. "The idea for the Studios theme park was due in part to a pavilion that was planned for Epcot. Disney Imagineers planned a pavilion for Future World focusing on the movies and Hollywood. It would have a ride-through attraction, similar to the "Great Movie Ride," and am Audio-Animatronic, behind-the-scenes history of the making of Mickey Mouse cartoons called "Mickey's Movieland." Not long after he took over as the "Head Mouse" at Disney, Michael Eisner realized the enormous potential for more than just a single pavilion (with maybe a little inspiration from the people at Universal Studios... you know, the ones that were building the theme park up the street...) and Disney-MGM Studios was born."

The Great Movie Ride opened as the flagship attraction of the new park on May 1, 1989.

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The Great Movie Ride Trivia

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• Imagineers used the blueprints of the original 1927 Meyer and Holler building for reference when they designed the replica of Grauman's Chinese Theaterthe . The theater is built to full-scale, and roof section was constructed seperately and hoisted into place by a crane.
• Before the Gene Kelly audio-animatronic was shipped off to Walt Disney World, Gene Kelly himself had to inspect it.

The Great Movie Ride Hidden Mickeys

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• In the loading dock area, a shadow of Minnie Mouse's head profile is visible on the wall murual.
• Look at a house on the far right of the loading dock mural. To see a tiny Mickey sitting in the window.
• In Gangster Alley, look for Mickey Mouse's borwn shows to be pokeing out from underneath the "Public Enemy Poster"
• At the end of Gangster Alley, a shadow of Mickey appears in the right-most window, near the top of the "Chemical Company"
• Look at the upper left wall at the end of the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" scene to spot Mickey and Donald.

Great Movie Ride Reviews

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5/22/2008

Reviewer: Brandon, MI, USA
One of the original attractions of the park, the Great Movie Ride holds up well. Sometimes it is overlooked with Tower of Terror and Rock 'n' Roller Coaster being there, but this is an impressive ride as well. The Wizard of Oz scene is still classic.

7/9/2006

Reviewer: Lalane , USA
I thought this ride was great! All of the anamatronic figures were just fabulous, (such as the Witch from the Wizard of Oz scene), and also I liked how our "tour guides" got involved with the movie scenes as well. I liked the part w/ the indiana Jones -type of feel, and how our tour guide was "dissapeared", and turned into a skeleton. This ride was very entertaining and well worth the wait. Oh, and whoever is Warren Taylor From Lancashire, UK, who also wrote a comment about this ride, I have a comment for you, "Why did you say such harsh things about this ride, no one cares if you didn't like it, you obviously need to get a life and go say something nice because this ride was good, and you need to get your head out from underneath your shoe"! Thank you DISNEY, you guys are really something!

3/21/2006

Reviewer: Jennifer G., Edgewood, USA
A great ride... It is amazing to watch some of the old movie theatical trailers in the queue line. Although my children got frightened during the queue line with the ALIEN theatical trailer, and the ride section on the Nostromo it's self. Other that that it is a great family ride. It also takes us back to some of hollywood's most talked about and famous movies. Disney don't renovate this, it's fine the way it is and it really makes us feel like we are in the movies.... (I cry during the end when they show things from the movie too.)

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