Returned after an extended closure that began with the March 2020 COVID-19 shutdown; the show did not reopen with the park in July 2020 and stayed dark 644 days until this date.
Everything that changed here
across the land, newest first- 2025
Removed the signature runaway-boulder element after the 400-pound prop dislodged from its track and injured a cast member during the 4 p.m. performance; the idol scene was altered to omit the boulder pending a safety review.
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Added a new destination, the planet Seatos with purrgil space whales, plus transmissions from Ahsoka Tano, Cassian Andor, and Din Djarin & Grogu drawn from the Disney+ series, expanding the ride's randomized storyline to 250-plus variations.
20213 changes
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Permanently dropped the long-running audience-participation segment (guests chosen as on-stage 'extras' for the Cairo street scene) when the show returned from the COVID-19 closure.
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More than a year after Disney's Hollywood Studios reopened, Jedi Training: Trials of the Temple was still absent from the park's entertainment lineup.
Attractions Magazine's July 27, 2021 round-up of entertainment that had not come back lists 'Jedi Training: Trials of the Temple - interactive character show' under Disney's Hollywood Studios; it never returned.
20207 changes
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Returned to the Hyperion Theater after an extended COVID-19 closure, becoming the first major Actors' Equity stage show to come back at Disney's Hollywood Studios.
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Jedi Training: Trials of the Temple performed for the last time on the final operating day before Walt Disney World shut down for the COVID-19 pandemic, and it never reopened.
TouringPlans marks the attraction permanently closed and states 'this attraction's final day of operation was March 15, 2020'; Wikipedia's infobox dates the closure March 16, 2020, the day the park shutdown took effect. We record the last day the show ran. -
Mickey Shorts Theater opened, debuting the roughly 10-minute compilation short 'Vacation Fun – An Original Animated Short with Mickey & Minnie' in the former Star Wars: Path of the Jedi space; it premiered the same day as Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway.
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The building reopened on March 4, 2020 as the Mickey Shorts Theater showing Vacation Fun with Mickey and Minnie, its current use.
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The building reopened on March 4, 2020 as the Mickey Shorts Theater showing Vacation Fun, debuting the same day as Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway.
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The theater reopened as the Mickey Shorts Theater, re-themed with Mickey Mouse curtains and seating and showing the animated short Vacation Fun, on the same day Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway debuted.
MiceChat's preview, published March 3, 2020, describes the theater opening the following day with the exclusive short Vacation Fun, red and gold velvet curtains, seats styled after Mickey's shorts and a new post-show photo area, and names Path of the Jedi as the prior tenant. Wikipedia confirms the March 4, 2020 change and the simultaneous Runaway Railway opening. -
Went dark when Disney's Hollywood Studios closed for the COVID-19 pandemic, then stayed closed past the park's July 25, 2020 reopening amid an Actors' Equity Association dispute over live stage performers.
20191 change
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Added new segments to the ocean moon Kef Bir (with Death Star wreckage) and the Sith world Exegol from The Rise of Skywalker, debuting on the film's release date.
20182 changes
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Star Wars: Path of the Jedi played its final day of operation at Disney's Hollywood Studios and closed permanently.
TouringPlans states "This attraction's final day of operation was December 31, 2018," and Wikipedia's prose says it "was permanently closed on December 31, 2018." Two other figures conflict and were not used: the Wikipedia infobox lists January 1, 2019 (an apparent off-by-one against its own prose), and the Sounds Dangerous! article says the theater showed the film "From December 4, 2015, to May 14, 2018," which most likely marks the end of the daily run before the seasonal-only final stretch. -
In its final year the show ran on a seasonal schedule rather than daily.
daily showings→seasonal-only runSupported by Wikipedia's uncited prose, "After many updates, and a seasonal run for a year, the attraction was permanently closed on December 31, 2018." A previously recorded claim that the theater was reported closed for the season in October 2018 was dropped: its only source was a WDWNT article that returns HTTP 403 and could not be opened.
20172 changes
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Added new segments to the mineral planet Crait from The Last Jedi and a preview flight to Batuu, the planet later realized as Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge.
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An updated version of the show removed the Seventh Sister Inquisitor, put Kylo Ren in her place alongside Darth Vader, and trimmed the opening backstory.
Wikipedia supplies the date and states only that 'Kylo Ren replaced The Seventh Sister in both parks'; the trimmed backstory and the reworked training sequence come from Attractions Magazine's same-day report on the updated show, which gives no date of its own. Date precision rests on a single source, hence medium.
20163 changes
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In April 2016 Disney closed and demolished the majority of the Streets of America, the section that held the Premiere Theater used for the show's final run, to clear land for Toy Story Land and Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge.
Wikipedia's Disney's Hollywood Studios article: 'in April 2016, the majority of Streets of America - including the backlot street facades, the Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show, the Earffel Tower, and the remaining backstage areas - was closed and demolished in preparation for Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge and Toy Story Land.' The Frozen sing-along article places the Premiere Theater in that section. Only the month is published there, so this beat is dated April 2016; the day-level April 2, 2016 date appears in Wikipedia's Lights, Motors, Action! infobox for that attraction. The venue loss is a documented coincidence with the show's disappearance, not a sourced cause. -
Kylo Ren replaced Darth Maul in the show at Disney's Hollywood Studios.
Wikipedia states 'On February 21, 2016, Kylo Ren replaced Darth Maul at Disney's Hollywood Studios'; Attractions Magazine's same-day report confirms Kylo Ren appearing in the show at the park. -
The Comedy Warehouse Holiday Special played its last scheduled performances on January 1, 2016, at the end of its fifth annual holiday run, and did not return in a later season.
No source announces a formal closure; this date is the published end of the 2015-16 run and should be read as the last confirmed performance date, not an announced closing. A full index of Comedy Warehouse coverage at Attractions Magazine - the outlet that reported the show's return in 2011 and 2015 - lists nothing about a Hollywood Studios run after 10 Dec 2015; its only later item is 'Comedy Warehouse reunion show announced for July 15 in Anaheim' (21 Jun 2016), off-property. Inside the Magic's last item is likewise the December 2015 announcement.
201511 changes
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The show returned for a fifth year on December 19, 2015, back at the Premiere Theater, with six performances a day through January 1, 2016.
Attractions Magazine (10 Dec 2015) names the fifth year, the Premiere Theater, six shows daily, and the run 'Dec. 19, 2015 through Jan. 1, 2016'; re-verified against the live article. Inside the Magic (14 Dec 2015) independently names the same theater and dates. The move back off the American Idol stage lines up with the Frozen sing-along taking that Echo Lake theater permanently on June 17, 2015, per Wikipedia. -
The show returned as Jedi Training: Trials of the Temple with a new set and a new storyline that took younglings to an ancient Jedi temple, where the Seventh Sister Inquisitor from the Disney XD series Star Wars Rebels joined Darth Vader as a villain.
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Star Wars: Path of the Jedi, a roughly ten-minute film compiling scenes from the Star Wars saga in thematic rather than chronological order, opened in the ABC Sound Studio theater at Echo Lake as part of the park's Season of the Force.
Month precision only. Wikipedia's Sounds Dangerous! article and the Path of the Jedi infobox both give December 4, 2015, while the Path of the Jedi article's own prose says July 4, 2014 with no citation. The 2014 date is not credible because the film was created for Season of the Force, which began at Disney's Hollywood Studios in December 2015 when Star Wars Launch Bay opened with the event. No source was found that settles the exact day. -
Added a new destination segment set on Jakku from The Force Awakens, featuring a wrecked Star Destroyer field, the Millennium Falcon pursued by TIE fighters, and a crash-landing escape sequence.
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Disney confirmed that Star Wars Weekends would not return in 2016 because work was beginning on the park's Star Wars land, ending the annual event that had hosted the Padawan Mind Challenge.
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The original Jedi Training Academy gave its final performances in early October 2015 and went down to be rebuilt as a reimagined show.
Sources differ by one day: Attractions Magazine, reporting on October 5, 2015, says the run 'ended its current run on Oct. 4'; Wikipedia states the original closed October 5, 2015. Held at month precision. -
For the First Time in Forever: A Frozen Sing-Along Celebration moved permanently into the former American Idol Experience theater in Echo Lake, by then renamed the Hyperion Theater.
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Relocated to its permanent home in the Hyperion Theater in Echo Lake, taking over the space vacated by The American Idol Experience.
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The Padawan Mind Challenge played its final performances on June 14, 2015, the closing day of the last Star Wars Weekends, which ran May 15 through June 14, 2015.
Disney's published 2015 lineup has the show running every day of the event, and the event's last day was June 14, 2015; the event was never held again, so no later performance is possible. Wikipedia was dropped from this beat because it neither names the show nor gives the 2015 dates. -
For the 2015 season the trivia game took first-come, first-served sign-ups at the Epic Stunt Theater, home of the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular, from children ages 4 to 11 who had to be accompanied by an adult.
Fan event guide posted May 14, 2015, the day before the season opened. It lists the Epic Stunt Theater as the sign-up location and directs guests to sign up after Jedi Training Academy, a separate show; it does not separately state where the game was performed, so no performance venue is claimed here. -
The film's saga footage ended with the death of Darth Vader and segued into the final theatrical trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
TouringPlans documents this content but does not date it. Year assigned from The Force Awakens' December 2015 release, which brackets the show's opening; Wikipedia notes the film debuted with footage from the original six films and that preview content was added ahead of each subsequent release.
20147 changes
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For the 2014 holiday season the show moved out of the Premiere Theater, which the Frozen sing-along was then occupying, and into the larger former American Idol Experience theater in Echo Lake.
Inside the Magic (31 Dec 2014): 'Previously housed where the Frozen sing along is now taking place, it now got a nicer, bigger home at the American Idol building.' Wikipedia dates The American Idol Experience's closure to August 30, 2014, freeing that Echo Lake theater, and states the Frozen sing-along 'premiered at the Premiere Theater in the Streets of America section of Disney's Hollywood Studios on July 5, 2014' and did not leave it until June 17, 2015 - so the Comedy Warehouse's prior home was unavailable that December. Day-level date not published; kept at month precision. -
The American Idol Experience played its final performances and closed permanently after five and a half years.
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Disney moved the closing date forward from early January 2015 to August 30, 2014, cutting the announced run short by roughly four months.
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Debuted at the Premiere Theater in the Streets of America as part of the 'Frozen Summer Fun' event, hosted by two Royal Historians of Arendelle with appearances by Anna, Elsa, and Kristoff.
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Disney announced that the show would close in early January 2015 after more than five years of performances.
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At Star Wars Weekends 2014 the Padawan Mind Challenge was hosted by Ashley Eckstein and featured a new Empire character who revealed what had become of Snig and Oopla, the hosts of the retired Hyperspace Hoopla, while a family of park guests played trivia against C-3PO.
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The empty theater was repurposed for film sneak peeks, beginning with Maleficent on April 18, 2014 and followed by Guardians of the Galaxy from July 4, 2014, Frozen Fever in 2015 and Star Wars: Path of the Jedi from December 4, 2015 to May 14, 2018.
20123 changes
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A November 2012 report said the show had been given a larger amphitheater and a two-week engagement for its second year, up from the one-week showcase it played in 2011.
1 week→2 weeksMain Street Gazette, 'Comedy That Just Won't Die' by Ryan P. Wilson, posted 11/29/2012: 'It was announced this week the Comedy Warehouse Holiday Special will be returning to Disney's Hollywood Studios. Last year the Pleasure Island alum were granted a week long showcase at the park, but this year they have been granted a larger amphitheater and a two week engagement.' The live mainstgazette.com URL no longer responds, so only the Wayback capture is cited. Confidence is medium: a single archived blog post, no corroborating outlet, and the source never names the larger venue. The beat is dated to the report, not to a performance. -
Sounds Dangerous! Starring Drew Carey closed permanently on May 18, 2012 after three years of seasonal-only operation, and the venue reverted to being listed as the ABC Sound Studio theater.
Wikipedia and Walt Dated World both give May 18, 2012 as the closing date, but Yesterland reports the last actual performance came in 2011, so the final show date is less certain than the closing date itself. The emptied theater was redressed as the temporary "Carbon Freeze Me" experience for the park's Star Wars Weekends event. -
SoundWorks closed permanently with the ABC Sound Studio theater it served, whose show Sounds Dangerous is recorded as running through May 18, 2012.
No source I could open gives SoundWorks its own final date, so this is year precision at medium confidence. Walt Dated World states "Sounds Dangerous ran from April 22, 1999-May 18, 2012"; Yesterland records the show's likely last actual operating day as May 1, 2011 and notes the seasonal attraction disappeared from park guidemaps in spring 2012. Yesterland confirms the closure was permanent by describing "Photo opportunities in the space that had been Soundworks" after the building reopened as Mickey Shorts Theater on March 4, 2020; a photo-op area is not a successor attraction, so no replaced_by is asserted.
20113 changes
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The Comedy Warehouse Holiday Special debuted at Disney's Hollywood Studios on December 25, 2011, playing six 22-minute improv performances a day at the ABC Sound Studio theater in Echo Lake through December 31.
Revival of the Comedy Warehouse improv club that closed with Pleasure Island in 2008; the cast was made up of former Comedy Warehouse performers. Attractions Magazine (23 Dec 2011): 'The 22-minute shows will take place at 11:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 3:45 p.m., 4:45 p.m. and 5:45 p.m. from Dec. 25 to Dec. 31 at the ABC Sound Studio (formerly Sounds Dangerous Theater),' and 'The shows are included with admission to the theme park.' Its 26 Dec 2011 follow-up confirms the show opened Christmas morning. Wikipedia places the ABC Sound Studio / Sounds Dangerous theater in Echo Lake; Sounds Dangerous itself did not close until May 18, 2012, so in December 2011 this was a seasonally-operating theater rather than a vacated one. -
Reopened as Star Tours – The Adventures Continue after the original closed September 7, 2010 — a full reimagining to a 3D high-definition motion-simulator system with a randomized, branching storyline visiting multiple destinations aboard the Starspeeder 1000.
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The Padawan Mind Challenge was running as part of Star Wars Weekends at Disney's Hollywood Studios by the event's opening weekend of May 20-22, 2011.
Earliest documented appearance, not a confirmed debut. A fan trip report covering Weekend #1 states "The Padawan Mind Challenge was still in progress when we arrived" and places it near the Sorcerer's Hat stage ahead of that evening's Hyperspace Hoopla; a site search of the same blog returns no earlier mention. The Inside the Magic piece does not name the show and is cited only to establish that the 2011 event opened May 20 and ran through June 12.
20093 changes
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After the 1,000-seat theater had sat unused for years, The American Idol Experience opened in it as the venue's next resident attraction.
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The American Idol Experience opened at Disney's Hollywood Studios, inviting park guests 14 years or older to audition and then compete in live shows decided by audience voting.
Housed in the 1,000-seat Echo Lake theater built for SuperStar Television, which had sat largely unused since Doug Live! closed in 2001 apart from the three-month Get Happy...With ABC! promotional run in 2002. The venue had been the ABC TV Theater from 1999 to 2008 and carried the SuperStar Television Theater name again through the American Idol run. A media preview the previous evening, February 13, drew what Attractions Magazine called the largest gathering of American Idol alumni ever, including all seven previous winners, with performances by David Cook and Carrie Underwood. -
Daily performances ended on January 4, 2009 and the show moved to a seasonal schedule, running only during busy periods such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter and summer.
Wikipedia's attractions list gives the span as "April 22, 1999 - January 4, 2009, seasonally until May 18, 2012"; the Sounds Dangerous article says only that the seasonal move was announced in early 2009.
20071 change
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Jedi Training Academy began running as a regular daily show on a stage beside the Star Tours building in Echo Lake, with children ages 4 to 12 trained in lightsaber technique before facing a Star Wars villain.
AllEars states the show 'became a regular feature at the Studios in October 2007' after previously appearing only during Star Wars Weekends, and places the stage adjacent to Star Tours with sign-ups at the Indiana Jones Adventure Outpost. Only Wikipedia's infobox carries day precision (October 9, 2007), uncorroborated, so the beat is held at month.
20041 change
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Replaced the Nazi swastikas on the show's German trucks, aircraft and actor uniforms with the Balkenkreuz cross, removing the symbol from the production.
swastika→Balkenkreuz
20023 changes
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Get Happy...With ABC! played its final performance and closed as scheduled at the end of its limited run.
AllEars states "This show closed as scheduled on October 5, 2002" and Wikipedia's attraction list gives the same closing date; neither records any return, and no later ABC season-preview show played the park. Worth keeping straight: Wikipedia's article on The American Idol Experience describes this same theater in its infobox as "Doug Live! (1999-2001)" with "Theater vacant from 2001-2008" - a claim this three-month 2002 booking contradicts. That is logged here as an error in that source, not as history. The venue did stay without a resident production afterwards until The American Idol Experience opened on February 14, 2009. -
Get Happy...With ABC!, a limited-run promotional presentation for the network's autumn lineup, opened in the same theater and ran through October 5, 2002, the first show to occupy the venue after Doug Live! closed.
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Get Happy...With ABC! opened in the ABC TV Theater at Echo Lake as a 25-minute preview of ABC's upcoming television season, built around the network's new "ABC Happy Hour" programming block.
AllEars places the show in "the theme park's ABC-TV Theater, located next to the Sounds Dangerous show" and gives the run as July 1 to October 5, 2002; Wikipedia's attraction list gives the same dates and locates it in the Hyperion Theater (Soundstage 10), the same building under its present name. Segments previewed Alias, According to Jim, Life With Bonnie, 8 Simple Rules..., George Lopez, Push Nevada, That Was Then, Dinotopia, ABC Monday Night Football and The Jimmy Kimmel Show, with Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Michael Vartan, Jim Belushi, Bonnie Hunt, George Lopez, John Ritter, Jimmy Kimmel, Diane Sawyer, Charles Gibson and John Madden appearing in the material. AllEars labels that line-up ABC's "Fall 2003" schedule, but every series named premiered in the 2002-03 season, so the sentence above says "upcoming" rather than repeating a season year the show's own run dates contradict. The theater had no resident production at the time - Doug Live! had given its last performance there on May 12, 2001, per both sources - which is how a three-month booking could take the stage.
20011 change
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Doug Live! gave its final performance and closed permanently after a run of just over two years.
Nothing took the theater over on a permanent basis for nearly eight years; Yesterland describes the venue afterwards sitting unused for years as a victim of cost containment.
20001 change
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Reopened after a roughly six-month refurbishment that rebuilt and enlarged scenes and added new state-of-the-art lighting and sound, also readying the show for FastPass.
199910 changes
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The same theater reopened on April 22, 1999 with a substantially different show, Sounds Dangerous! Starring Drew Carey, which played through headphones in near-total darkness instead of using guest volunteers.
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Sounds Dangerous! Starring Drew Carey opened at Disney-MGM Studios on April 22, 1999 in the Echo Lake theater previously occupied by the ABC Sound Studio show.
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The roughly twelve-minute show seated guests in headphones and played most of its story in total darkness, with Drew Carey appearing on a projection screen as an undercover detective named Charlie Foster.
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Sounds Dangerous starring Drew Carey opened in the theater, and SoundWorks continued as its postshow with its own entrance beside the show's entrance.
D23 dates ABC Sound Studio: Sounds Dangerous to April 22, 1999. Yesterland, describing that era: "After the show, you exit from the theater into Soundworks, with its interactive kiosks and Soundstations private sound booths," and "There's an entrance to Soundworks right next to the Sounds Dangerous entrance." -
Sounds Dangerous! Starring Drew Carey, a headphone show with no guest Foley artists, opened in the same theater on April 22, 1999.
Sounds Dangerous! directly followed the One Saturday Morning Sound Show rather than this show, though its Wikipedia entry lists its previous attraction as "Monster Sound Show/One Saturday Morning Sound Show". The theater later held Star Wars: Path of the Jedi and has housed the Mickey Shorts Theater since March 2020. -
Disney premiered the musical stage show Doug Live! at Disney-MGM Studios, in which Doug and his friends performed daily and selected guests were brought on stage to play some of the other roles.
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Disney's Doug Live! opened in the former SuperStar Television theater, which had been rebranded as the ABC TV Theater.
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The ABC Sound Studio show closed permanently on February 20, 1999, ending the guest-Foley-artist format the theater had run since the park's opening day.
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The show's venue was renamed the ABC TV Theater, dropping the SuperStar Television Theater name it had carried since 1989.
Wikipedia lists the theater names as SuperStar Television Theater (1989-1998) and ABC TV Theater (1999-2008), matching the start of the Doug Live! run. No source gives an exact rename date, so this is held at year precision. -
The Echo Lake theater that had housed SuperStar Television was renamed the ABC TV Theater, the name the venue carried from 1999 through 2008.
Wikipedia's DHS attraction list carries the venue note verbatim as "Formerly known as SuperStar Television Theater (1989-1998; 2009-2014) and ABC TV Theater (1999-2008)", so only the year is supported - no month or day is given anywhere, and the span rests on a single source. The building is Soundstage 10, today the Hyperion Theater, home of For the First Time in Forever: A Frozen Sing-Along Celebration. This beat is kept because it is about the name this show's own venue bore, and it is why an ABC network preview played this particular theater.
19981 change
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SuperStar Television gave its final performance and closed permanently after more than nine years.
19974 changes
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The theater was rebranded the ABC Sound Studio on July 1, 1997, retiring the Chevy Chase and Martin Short film in favor of a One Saturday Morning segment in which about seven guests, usually children, dubbed sound effects onto a 101 Dalmatians: The Series cartoon that was then played back for the audience.
Wikipedia's attractions list runs the Monster Sound Show through June 30, 1997 and starts the new show July 1, 1997; Yesterland gives only "July 1997". The guest-Foley format itself carried over, so this record treats the change as a rebrand of the same show rather than a separate attraction. -
The Monster Sound Show closed and the theater SoundWorks fed reopened as ABC Sound Studio: One Saturday Morning.
D23's ABC Sound Studio entry gives the sound-effects attraction titled One Saturday Morning a July 1, 1997 opening at Disney-MGM Studios, replacing the Monster Sound Show; the Monster Sound Show entry records the same handover. Impact is minor for this entity because no source describes the postshow during the One Saturday Morning run - only the show it fed is documented as changing. -
The theater reopened the next day as the ABC Sound Studio with the One Saturday Morning Sound Show, in which seven volunteers, usually children, scored an episode of 101 Dalmatians: The Series in place of the Chase and Short film.
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The Monster Sound Show gave its final performance on June 30, 1997, after eight years.
Wikipedia's attraction list gives the run as May 1, 1989 to June 30, 1997, and Yesterland dates the successor to July 1997. Walt Dated World instead treats the theater's sound shows as a single attraction that changed formats on July 1, 1997 and closed on February 20, 1999, and Wikipedia's Sounds Dangerous! entry similarly names its previous attraction as "Monster Sound Show/One Saturday Morning Sound Show".
19898 changes
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Original Star Tours opened at Disney-MGM Studios (now Disney's Hollywood Studios), a Starspeeder 3000 motion simulator on a single fixed flight to the Forest Moon of Endor piloted by the rookie droid RX-24 (Rex).
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Opened at Disney-MGM Studios as the park's marquee live stunt show, restaging scenes from Raiders of the Lost Ark with on-stage pyrotechnics and the runaway-boulder set piece.
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The Monster Sound Show opened with Disney-MGM Studios on May 1, 1989, seating guests in the Soundstage 11 theater at Echo Lake while four volunteers added live Foley sound effects to a comedy short starring Chevy Chase and Martin Short.
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SoundWorks opened as the walk-through postshow area of The Monster Sound Show, a Sony-presented attraction, on Disney-MGM Studios' opening day.
D23's Disney A to Z entry for Monster Sound Show states the attraction opened at Disney-MGM Studios on May 1, 1989, that "In the postshow area called Soundworks, guests can create their own sound effects, add their voices to classic movies, and enter the three-dimensional world of Soundsations," and that it was "Presented by Sony." Walt Dated World confirms the opening-day debut and that the show was sponsored by Sony; neither source attaches the sponsorship to the postshow separately, so the credit is stated for the attraction as a whole. -
SuperStar Television opened on the first day of the Disney-MGM Studios, presented by Sony, placing volunteers from the audience into recreations of scenes from I Love Lucy, Cheers, The Tonight Show, Gilligan's Island and The Golden Girls.
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The Monster Sound Show opened with the Disney-MGM Studios on May 1, 1989, presented by Sony, with four audience volunteers adding live Foley sound effects to a short comedy film starring Chevy Chase and Martin Short.
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The postshow's hands-on stations let guests dub the voice of Roger Rabbit at Movie Mimics, recreate sound effects from Forbidden Planet at Eerie Encounters, and hear three-dimensional audio at Soundsations.
Walt Dated World names the stations: "The Eerie Encounters section allowed visitors to recreate sounds from Forbidden Planet. Guests could dub in the voice of Roger Rabbit at Movie Mimics and encounter realistic sounds at Soundsations." D23 supplies the three-dimensional description of Soundsations. Confidence is medium and the date is held at year precision because the sources describe the 1989-1997 Monster Sound Show era without dating each station to opening day. -
The attraction emptied into the hands-on SoundWorks post-show, where guests recreated sounds from Forbidden Planet at Eerie Encounters, dubbed the voice of Roger Rabbit at Movie Mimics, and heard three-dimensional audio at Soundsations.
D23 and Walt Dated World both describe SoundWorks as the Monster Sound Show's post-show, but neither gives a debut date, so this beat is dated to the opening year only.
That's every change on the record in Echo Lake since 1989.
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