Disney Movie Magic returned to Disney's Hollywood Studios' nighttime lineup after being pulled from the schedule and removed from Disney's website in 2024.
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The Pixar Pals Motorcade stopped running and disappeared from the My Disney Experience entertainment listings, ending motorcades at Disney's Hollywood Studios.
The date is year-only by design. ResortsGal states only that "The motorcades at Disney's Hollywood Studios concluded in early 2023" and gives no date for the Pixar motorcade specifically. The WDWinfo article returns HTTP 403, so its publication date could not be confirmed; its lede, visible on wdwinfo.com's own search results page, reads "While looking through My Disney Experience to plan a day at Hollywood Studios, I noticed something was missing under the entertainment tab, the Pixar Motorcade." Permanence is confirmed by the absence of any motorcade or cavalcade among the live child entities for the park on ThemeParks.wiki.
20225 changes
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The motorcade was running redesigned costumes for Woody, Jessie and Buzz Lightyear.
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The Pixar Pals Motorcade became the only motorcade left at Disney's Hollywood Studios after the Mickey and Friends Motorcade ended and its characters moved to standing greeting spots.
BlogMickey: "Now, the only motorcade that remains at Disney's Hollywood Studios is the Pixar Pals Motorcade," with the Mickey and Friends Motorcade listed as closed on in-park tip boards and Mickey and Minnie moved to Red Carpet Dreams. ResortsGal dates the Mickey and Friends Motorcade's end to February 12, 2022. -
The Mickey and Friends Motorcade ran its final performances at Disney's Hollywood Studios on February 12, 2022 and did not return.
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The motorcade's retirement was reported a week in advance, with its final six performances set for February 12, 2022.
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As the motorcade ended, Mickey Mouse was returned to his former meet-and-greet location in Red Carpet Dreams and Chip 'n' Dale moved to physically distanced sightings around the park.
Reported as the plan at the time of the closure announcement ('will move'); the date each character change actually took effect is not documented.
20213 changes
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Disney Movie Magic returned for Walt Disney World's 50th anniversary, running alongside Wonderful World of Animation and adding a new roughly two-minute live-action Mulan sequence.
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On the park's published entertainment schedule for October 31, 2021, the motorcade held six posted showtimes rather than the unannounced appearances it had debuted with.
Showtimes listed that day were 12:15pm, 1:15pm, 2:15pm, 4:45pm, 5:45pm and 6:45pm. This date is a schedule snapshot, not the day the change took effect - the date posted times replaced unannounced appearances is not documented. -
Returned to the Chinese Theatre on August 1, 2021, after going dark in the March 2020 pandemic park closure, brought back for Walt Disney World's 50th anniversary celebration.
20207 changes
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The Pixar Pals Motorcade debuted with the reopening of Disney's Hollywood Studios, bringing Pixar characters down Hollywood Boulevard as one of the park's new contactless character cavalcades.
LaughingPlace previewed the cavalcades on July 8, 2020 ahead of the reopening, describing Pixar stars who "arrive on Hollywood Boulevard" and noting guests "won't be able to enjoy the up close character meet and greets or line the streets for daily parades." Wikipedia corroborates that the park was closed from March 16 to July 15, 2020. -
The Mickey & Friends Motorcade began running at Disney's Hollywood Studios in July 2020, carrying Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Pluto and Chip 'n' Dale down Hollywood Boulevard toward the Chinese Theatre in place of the park's suspended parades and character meet-and-greets.
One of three motorcades running after the park's July 2020 reopening, alongside the Disney Junior Stars Motorcade and the Pixar Motorcade. The earliest coverage we can corroborate is dated July 18, 2020 and described them as 'new impromptu Character Cavalcades we've been catching every now and then since the parks reopened' - the exact debut day is not established. -
Star Wars: A Galactic Spectacular ended its run when Disney's Hollywood Studios closed on March 16, 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the show did not return when the park reopened that July.
Wikipedia lists Disney Movie Magic and Wonderful World of Animation as what took over the Chinese Theater projection surface; an updated Wonderful World of Animation returned August 1, 2021. The park's Wikipedia article lists no Star Wars nighttime spectacular in the current lineup as of 2026. -
Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway opened at Disney's Hollywood Studios — the first Disney ride-through attraction to star Mickey Mouse — running a trackless ride system inside the park's Chinese Theatre and replacing The Great Movie Ride, which had closed August 13, 2017.
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Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway opened inside the same Chinese Theatre building, replacing The Great Movie Ride with a trackless dark ride.
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Star Wars: A Galaxy Far, Far Away performed for the last time at Disney's Hollywood Studios, roughly two and a half weeks before Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway opened.
Both Attractions Magazine and Blog Mickey reported February 22, 2020 in advance as the final day; Blog Mickey stated the show would not be relocated elsewhere in the park, including Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge. -
Disney confirmed the show would close, with February 22, 2020 announced as its last day.
At the time of the closure announcement the show presented moments from the Skywalker Saga with Rey, Chewbacca, Darth Vader and Kylo Ren.
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Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge opened at the park, and the First Order stormtroopers who had marched on Hollywood Boulevard were redeployed to patrol inside the new land instead.
The land's August 29, 2019 opening date is independently confirmed, but the relocation itself is sourced to the July 3, 2019 announcements - AllEars: "the First Order will be redeploying its troops to patrol Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge when the new land opens on August 29, 2019" - and no opening-day confirmation was located, hence medium confidence. -
March of the First Order gave its final performance on Hollywood Boulevard and did not return.
BlogMickey: "March of the First Order will have its final showing on July 6th, going dark on July 7th." The same report adds that from July 7 the Star Wars Guided Tour substituted characters from the stage show Star Wars: A Galaxy Far, Far Away. Wikipedia's attraction list closes the run on the same date. -
It was reported that March of the First Order and the park's roaming stormtroopers would give their final performance on July 6, 2019, ahead of the opening of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge.
Both outlets published July 3, 2019; LaughingPlace states "The March of the First Order at Disney's Hollywood Studios as well as roaming Stormtroopers will host their final performance on July 6th." -
Debuted as a nighttime projection-mapping spectacular on the Chinese Theatre celebrating 90+ years of Disney and Pixar animation, launching with Disney's Hollywood Studios' 30th anniversary and replacing the Disney Movie Magic projection show.
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Wonderful World of Animation premiered on the same Chinese Theater projection surface for the park's 30th anniversary, replacing Disney Movie Magic, while Star Wars: A Galactic Spectacular continued its own nightly run.
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The show gave its final performance of its original run and was retired, replaced by the new projection show Wonderful World of Animation for the park's 30th anniversary.
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The Great Movie Ride operated for the last time after 28 years, the last of the park's opening-day attractions to close permanently.
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Disney announced at the D23 Expo that The Great Movie Ride would close and that Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway would take over the Chinese Theatre building.
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Disney Movie Magic debuted unannounced at Disney's Hollywood Studios, a roughly 10-minute nighttime projection-mapping show on the Chinese Theatre facade celebrating Walt Disney Studios' live-action films.
201611 changes
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The Frozen fireworks did not return for a third summer, and Star Wars: A Galactic Spectacular opened on June 17, 2016 as the park's nightly fireworks show.
Not a successor. The same list carries an earlier Star Wars fireworks show, Symphony in the Stars: A Galactic Spectacular, in the 2015-16 season, so the nighttime slot did not pass directly from the Frozen show, and neither Star Wars show was a reskin of it. -
Star Wars: A Galactic Spectacular held its world premiere at Disney's Hollywood Studios, replacing Symphony in the Stars: A Galactic Spectacular as the park's nightly Star Wars fireworks show and adding projection mapping on the Chinese Theater facade along with lasers, fire and searchlight beams.
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Star Wars: A Galactic Spectacular held its world premiere the following night, taking over as the park's nightly Star Wars fireworks show.
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Symphony in the Stars: A Galactic Spectacular gave its final performance and was retired.
Wikipedia's prose says only "its retirement in June 2016" and D23 dates the regular run as December 18, 2015 to June 2016; the June 16 day comes from Wikipedia's infobox and is consistent with the successor's June 17, 2016 premiere. No independent corroboration of the exact day was located. -
Star Wars: A Galaxy Far, Far Away joined Disney's Hollywood Studios' daily schedule, playing several times a day on the central stage in front of The Great Movie Ride.
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The opening lineup included the first in-park role for a life-sized BB-8, which appeared as part of the show's character vignettes.
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Walt Disney World announced a new Star Wars nighttime spectacular for Disney's Hollywood Studios for summer 2016, describing projections on the Chinese Theatre and surrounding buildings, a tower of fire, spotlight beams forming lightsabers in the sky, and fireworks.
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Disney announced a new Star Wars stage show for the Center Stage area near The Great Movie Ride, set to debut April 4 with live vignettes featuring characters such as Kylo Ren, Chewbacca, Darth Vader and Darth Maul.
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Disney announced Star Wars: A Galactic Spectacular, a nightly fireworks, laser and projection show, for summer 2016, calling it the next generation of the park's existing Star Wars fireworks show.
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A ticketed Symphony in the Stars dessert party with reserved viewing began running each Friday, Saturday and Sunday from January 8 through March 20, 2016, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., with the fireworks at 7:45 p.m.
Recorded because it pins the show's nightly 7:45 p.m. slot and confirms it was running in early 2016; the dessert party is a paid viewing offering, not a change to the show and not a separate entity in this record. Dated to the documented start of the run rather than to the announcement, whose date the two research passes disagreed on. -
March of the First Order began at Disney's Hollywood Studios, with Captain Phasma leading a squad of First Order stormtroopers in a procession along Hollywood Boulevard.
Wikipedia's Hollywood Boulevard entertainment list gives the run as May 4, 2016 - July 6, 2019, but that entry carries no inline citation and no contemporaneous 2016 report could be found, so only the year is recorded. The Wayback Machine's earliest capture of Disney's own attraction page is September 21, 2017 (a query for 2016 returns that 2017 snapshot as the closest match), so the archived page corroborates the description and the Hollywood Boulevard route but not the debut date.
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The show was retooled as Symphony in the Stars: A Galactic Spectacular and began a nightly regular run on December 18, 2015.
special-event display→nightly nighttime spectacularD23 dates the regular run "between Dec. 18, 2015, and Jun. 2016." An earlier draft credited projected imagery on the Chinese Theater facade to this show; neither source supports that, and Wikipedia attributes the projection mapping to the June 2016 successor. -
Disney announced that Star Wars Weekends would not return, retiring the motorcade, with work on the park's Star Wars Land expansion due to begin in 2016 and year-round Star Wars offerings including Star Wars Launch Bay and Jedi Training: Trials of the Temple arriving that December.
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Disney discontinued Star Wars Weekends after the 2015 season, ending the festival that had hosted Hyperspace Hoopla.
Wikipedia records the festival as running '1997, 2000-2001, 2003-2015' and ended 'due to construction of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge and the larger daily presence Star Wars will have in the park onwards.' Recorded because it foreclosed any return of the show, not as a change to the show itself, which had already ended two years earlier. The November timing is single-sourced to Wikipedia, so confidence is medium. -
Disney discontinued Star Wars Weekends in November 2015 because of construction for Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, ending the annual event that had hosted the fireworks show since 2014.
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The fireworks gave their final performance as the 2015 Frozen Summer Fun run ended on September 7, 2015, and the show was never staged again.
Inside the Magic gives the 2015 run as June 17 to September 7. Wikipedia's park attraction list files "Frozen Fireworks Spectacular (2014-15; seasonal)" under former nighttime entertainment. -
The Frozen Royal Welcome ran for the last time on September 7, 2015, the published end of the second and final season of Frozen Summer Fun at Disney's Hollywood Studios.
September 7 is the end date of the announced June 17 to September 7 run given in contemporary coverage, not a separately reported final performance. Wikipedia records the parade's run as Summer 2014-2015 and it did not return in 2016. The companion Frozen sing-along is a separate attraction that became a year-round show at the Hyperion Theater on June 17, 2015 and still operates. -
The show returned for a second summer on June 17, 2015 with a new pyro design and with Olaf out on stage alongside Anna, Kristoff and Elsa instead of appearing only on a screen.
Inside the Magic wrote that "the new Frozen stage is highly visible in front of the Chinese Theater" and that "the fireworks has also gotten some new pyro design" - the 2015 event was built around that stage rather than the Sorcerer Mickey Hat projections used in 2014. -
The processional returned for a second season as the Frozen Royal Welcome, travelling down Hollywood Boulevard with a brand new float for Queen Elsa.
Coverage described the parade as otherwise pretty much the same as 2014. Mid-season coverage in August 2015 instead described it as running once a day, so the daily count is not firmly settled. -
The motorcade ran for the last time on the closing day of the final Star Wars Weekends, which ran May 15 through June 14, 2015.
The May 15 - June 14, 2015 run of the final Star Wars Weekends is sourced, as is the motorcade's place in the 2015 line-up; June 14, 2015 is its last performance by inference rather than from a source naming that specific date. -
A Turner Classic Movies-sponsored refresh debuted, adding a new pre-show film and ride narration featuring TCM host Robert Osborne along with an all-new closing montage and TCM branding on the marquee and queue posters.
Disney announced the TCM partnership in 2014 and D23 described the refresh as arriving "by spring"; only Wikipedia supports the exact debut day, so the date is filed medium.
20148 changes
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Disney extended Frozen Summer Fun through September 28, 2014, and cut the fireworks from nightly to Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays only from September 5 onward.
nightly→Fri/Sat/Sun only from Sept 5, 2014The announcement, bylined August 7, 2014, said the fireworks would be presented each night except August 23 through September 1, then Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays only from September 5 to 28. -
Disney extended Frozen Summer Fun Live by four weeks, keeping the 11 a.m. Royal Welcome processional running through September 28, 2014.
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Frozen Fireworks debuted at Disney's Hollywood Studios as the 9:45 p.m. nightly finale of the limited-time Frozen Summer Fun event, giving the Sorcerer Mickey Hat on Hollywood Boulevard a Frozen treatment under fireworks.
Billed in 2014 simply as "Frozen Fireworks"; the event was announced to run July 5 through September 1, 2014. Anna, Elsa, Kristoff and Olaf featured in the show, and Inside the Magic's 2015 follow-up establishes that Olaf appeared only on a screen that first year. A Frozen Summer Fun Premium Package ($59 adult / $34 child, tax and gratuity included) sold reserved viewing and a dessert party for the fireworks. -
Anna's & Elsa's Royal Welcome debuted at Disney's Hollywood Studios as part of Frozen Summer Fun Live, with Anna and Elsa riding a horse-drawn sleigh down Hollywood Boulevard alongside Kristoff and a flurry of skaters, skiers and ice cutters.
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After the Florida run ended, the parade was revived at Walt Disney Studios Park in Paris on April 4, 2009 and performed there for the last time on July 3, 2014.
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Disney announced that a Star Wars-themed fireworks show and other nighttime entertainment would close each event night of Star Wars Weekends 2014 in place of Hyperspace Hoopla.
Attractions Magazine, February 21, 2014: 'Hyperspace Hoopla has been a regular, popular way to end each day of Star Wars Weekends for many years,' and 'This year, fans will be able to end each event night with a Star Wars themed fireworks show, and other nighttime entertainment.' The article references a Symphony in the Stars fireworks show only as something the new show was expected to resemble, so no replacement title is asserted in this beat. -
No daily parade replaced it; the seasonal Frozen Royal Welcome Ceremony filled a daytime entertainment slot during the summers of 2014 and 2015.
The Pixar Play Parade article states the retirement left the park "without a main daytime parade outside of the Frozen Royal Welcome Ceremony which appeared throughout the summers of 2014 and 2015." The attraction list separately records a one-day 25th Anniversary Parade on May 1, 2014, so this beat is limited to the absence of a daily parade. -
The fireworks display began running annually during the park's Star Wars Weekends event.
one-off event appearances→annual event runSupported only by the Star Wars: A Galactic Spectacular article; the separate Star Wars Weekends article does not mention this show.
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The show was presented again for Star Wars Day on May 4, 2013.
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The 2013 edition, billed as Hyperspace Hoopla: Dance-Off with the Star Wars Stars, was taken over by Emperor Palpatine and themed '30 Years of Music' for the 30th anniversary of Return of the Jedi, with hosts Snig and Oopla still running the Good Guys versus Bad Guys dance-off.
Attractions Magazine, published May 18, 2013: 'The Hyperspace Hoopla has been taken over by Emperor Palpatine this year' and 'This year's Dance-Off theme, in honor of the 30th anniversary of Return of the Jedi, is 30 Years of Music.' Wikipedia records the in-show rename: 'Emperor Palpatine hijacked the show and renamed it Emperor Palpatine's Hyperspace Hoopla.' Held at month precision - May 18 is the report date, published on the opening weekend of the season. -
Disney Channel Rocks! gave its final performance on Hollywood Boulevard and closed permanently after about two and a half years.
WDWMagic's attraction page records "Closed: April 6 2013" and Wikipedia's attraction list gives the same day; TouringPlans lists April 7, 2013. No successor show took over the rolling-stage slot on Hollywood Boulevard. -
Pixar Pals Countdown to Fun! was retired, leaving Disney's Hollywood Studios without a daily daytime parade.
Month-level only. The Pixar Play Parade article, checked directly, states the parade "was retired in April 2013" with no day. The Hollywood Studios attraction list gives a span ending April 6, 2013, but that Parades table carries no inline citations and no contemporaneous trade coverage of a final performance could be located, so the day is not recorded here. -
WDWMagic reported that Disney Channel Rocks! would give its last performance on April 6, 2013, and that the show had already been removed from the official calendar for dates beyond April 6.
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Hyperspace Hoopla played its final performances during Star Wars Weekends 2013 and never returned.
Attractions Magazine's retrospective runs its video collection 'starting with 2008 and going until its final year in 2013.' The February 21, 2014 replacement announcement is cited here only for the 'never returned' half of the claim, not for the 2013 date. Wikipedia's phrasing that the show 'retired in 2014' reflects the first year without it rather than a 2014 performance. No source gives an exact final performance date, so the closure is recorded year-only.
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On the opening day of Star Wars Weekends 2012 the motorcade ran down Hollywood Boulevard with the 501st Legion, that weekend's visiting celebrities including Ray Park and Ashley Eckstein, and Disney characters in Star Wars costume.
The Disney Tourist Blog page carries no publication date but its photographs are captioned as the first weekend of Star Wars Weekends in May 2012, matching the dated video coverage. -
Star Wars Weekends 2012 was announced for May 18 through June 10, 2012, with the gala "Legends of the Force" parade billed among the event's headline offerings.
20116 changes
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The show was presented for the Star Tours Galactic Party on May 19, 2011.
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Hyperspace Hoopla returned for the 2011 season presented nightly on the large stage in front of the park's hat icon, enhanced with a video screen and special effects.
Attractions Magazine, published May 21, 2011: 'The show is now presented nightly during Star Wars Weekends on a large stage in front of the hat icon at Hollywood Studios' and 'the show has also been enhanced with a video screen and special effects.' Held at month precision deliberately - May 21 is the report date, not the date the change took effect, as the season had already opened when the article ran. -
Pixar Pals Countdown to Fun! debuted on the same route just over two weeks later, reusing Block Party Bash's floats with the former Army Men floats rebuilt into single-character floats.
The successor ran from January 16, 2011 into April 2013 and was itself retired, leaving the park without a main daytime parade. Wikipedia also says the successor reused Block Party Bash's theme tune, but contemporaneous coverage of the debut described the soundtrack as the one new element, so the music claim is not asserted here. -
Pixar Pals Countdown to Fun! debuted at Disney's Hollywood Studios, taking over the park's daily parade slot from Block Party Bash.
Inside the Magic, published January 13, 2011, states the parade premieres Sunday, January 16, 2011 with a first showing at 3:00 p.m., "taking the place of the popular Block Party Bash parade." Attractions Magazine, January 17, 2011, reports it "made its debut yesterday," independently fixing the date at January 16. -
The parade reused floats and dancer costumes from Block Party Bash, with the former Army Men floats rebuilt as single-character floats, and added Remy from Ratatouille along with Carl and Russell from Up.
Float reuse and the Army Men rebuild come from the Pixar Play Parade article; the added Ratatouille and Up characters come from Inside the Magic. A claim that the Block Party Bash theme tune was reused was dropped: the two sources conflict, with Attractions Magazine describing the soundtrack as the one new element. -
Block Party Bash gave its final performance at Disney's Hollywood Studios after nearly three years, ending the production permanently.
Florida run: March 14, 2008 - January 1, 2011. Yesterland states it "ran from March 14, 2008, to January 1, 2011," matching the park attraction list and the Wikipedia article prose; the conflicting January 11, 2011 in that article's infobox comes from its closed and closed2 fields being transposed between parks.
20108 changes
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Disney Channel Rocks! gave its first performance at Disney's Hollywood Studios, a roughly fifteen-minute street show on a rolling stage that travelled up Hollywood Boulevard and stopped in front of the Sorcerer Hat Stage with songs from the High School Musical series, Camp Rock and StarStruck.
WDWMagic's opening-day report listed showtimes of 10am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm, 4:30pm and 5:30pm daily and described the format as following the High School Musical show it replaced, with more edgy choreography. Chip and Company's October 31, 2010 piece described the finale as a remix of a High School Musical song. -
Disney Channel Rocks! took over the travelling Hollywood Boulevard stage twenty days later, broadening the format from High School Musical alone to a mix of Disney Channel properties.
Its set list drew on High School Musical, Camp Rock, The Cheetah Girls, Jump In! and StarStruck; it ran until April 6, 2013 per AllEars, LaughingPlace and WDWMagic, while TouringPlans lists April 7, 2013. -
High School Musical 3: Senior Year - Right Here! Right Now! gave its final performance at Disney's Hollywood Studios and closed permanently after a run of just under two years.
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Disney announced that the show replacing High School Musical 3 would be called Disney Channel Rocks! and would begin on October 22, 2010.
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The show moved from the Rebels Stage near Star Tours, its home since at least 2008, to the larger stage in front of the park's Sorcerer's Hat, beginning with Star Wars Celebration V's 'Last Tour to Endor' event.
Rebels Stage→Sorcerer's Hat stageWikipedia is the only source opened for this move: the show was held 'at the Rebels Stage from 2008-2010' and thereafter at 'the stage in front of the Sorcerer's Hat (since Star Wars Celebration V's Last Tour to Endor event in August 2010).' Single-sourced, so confidence is held at medium. -
WDWMagic reported that High School Musical 3 at Disney's Hollywood Studios would close on October 2, 2010 to make way for a then-unnamed new show based on Disney Channel hits including the High School Musical series, Camp Rock and StarStruck.
The same article already gave October 22, 2010 as the successor's start date, before the name was known. Wikipedia's list corroborates the October 2, 2010 end of the High School Musical 3 show. -
A Disney Parks Blog announcement stated that the Wildcats would give their final Disney's Hollywood Studios performance on October 2 and that a new show would debut on October 22.
The date is the WDWMagic thread's first-post date reproducing the Disney Parks Blog text, so the original post may predate it slightly. The same announcement covered Disney California Adventure, where the Wildcats' final performance was October 17. -
Symphony in the Stars, a Star Wars fireworks display built on John Williams' film scores with archival voice and sound clips from the films, debuted at Disney's Hollywood Studios during the park's "Last Tour to Endor" event.
Held at year precision: Wikipedia's Star Tours article dates the Last Tour to Endor event to August 14, 2010, but the show's own sources give only the year. D23 describes this earlier version as "presented at select Star Wars events" before its later regular run.
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A preview of Star Wars Weekends 2009 named the procession "Legends of the Force, a Star Wars-themed motorcade" and gave the event's run as each Friday, Saturday and Sunday from May 22 to June 14, 2009.
Earliest use of the "Legends of the Force" branding corroborated in a contemporaneous source.
20089 changes
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High School Musical 3: Senior Year - Right Here! Right Now! took over the same Hollywood Boulevard show slot about six weeks after School's Out! ended.
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High School Musical 3: Senior Year - Right Here! Right Now! debuted on the rolling Hollywood Boulevard stage at Disney's Hollywood Studios, taking the slot over from High School Musical 2: School's Out!, which had ended on September 13, 2008.
Day precision comes from TouringPlans and Wikipedia's attraction list, which both place the opening at the same Hollywood Boulevard location on October 24, 2008 - the same day the film reached United States theaters. Wikipedia lists the show under the shorter title "High School Musical 3: Right Here! Right Now!". -
High School Musical 2: School's Out! gave its final performance on Hollywood Boulevard after a run of just under a year.
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Block Party Bash officially opened at Disney's Hollywood Studios, taking over the park's daytime parade route from the Disney Stars and Motor Cars Parade.
Units were themed to Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc. and The Incredibles. The production was conceived as a mobile stage show with show stops rather than a conventional parade; its original cast included over 60 dancers, 16 acrobats and 12 pairs of jumping stilts. -
Block Party Bash, relocated from Disney California Adventure, opened on the park's parade route six days later as the stated replacement for the Disney Stars and Motor Cars Parade.
The parade article records a Block Party Bash soft opening on March 9, 2008. Block Party Bash itself ran at the park until January 1, 2011; the January 11 date in that article's infobox comes from transposed per-park fields, and Yesterland, the article prose and the attraction list all give January 1. -
Block Party Bash held its soft opening at Disney's Hollywood Studios, one day after the previous parade closed.
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The Disney Stars and Motor Cars Parade gave its final performance at Disney's Hollywood Studios after more than six years, clearing the park's daytime parade route.
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The Disney Stars and Motor Cars Parade ran for the final time at Disney's Hollywood Studios, after six years and five months in the park's daily parade slot.
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The parade's host park was rebranded from Disney-MGM Studios to Disney's Hollywood Studios, and the parade kept running under the new park name until its final performance two months later.
Disney announced the rebrand on August 9, 2007, effective January 7, 2008; the park's attraction list carries the parade under the same name through March 8, 2008.
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High School Musical 2: School's Out! opened as a daily live street show performed in front of the Sorcerer's Hat on Hollywood Boulevard, taking over from High School Musical Pep Rally.
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The street show returned nine days later retooled as High School Musical 2: School's Out!, using the same rolling stage and the same Hollywood Boulevard route.
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High School Musical Pep Rally, the Hollywood Boulevard street show that held the slot first, gave its final performance.
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High School Musical Pep Rally gave its final performance on Hollywood Boulevard after a run of just under eight months.
The day is read from the run Wikipedia's attraction list gives for the show (January 22 - September 14, 2007); no contemporaneous report of a final-performance announcement was found, so the date is carried at medium confidence. -
High School Musical Pep Rally opened at the Disney-MGM Studios as a travelling street show whose portable stage rolled down Hollywood Boulevard before parking at the Sorcerer's Hat to perform.
The format had debuted at Magic Kingdom near Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress in October 2006; the Studios version added two songs and recast the performers as fans celebrating the movie rather than East High students.
20062 changes
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A car themed to the Pixar film Cars was added, part of a set of changes that grew the procession from its original 15 cars to 18 over the course of the run.
Year-only precision for the Cars addition; the source describes the growth from 15 to 18 cars as happening over time rather than on one date, and says floats themed to Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Hercules were removed at an unspecified point. -
Hyperspace Hoopla was already being staged as the character dance party that closed each night of Star Wars Weekends by 2006.
No source we opened establishes a debut season. Attractions Magazine's retrospective says only 'Even though our coverage started in 2008, there were Hyperspace Hooplas that also took place in 2006 and 2007,' which makes 2006 the earliest attested year rather than a documented premiere. The June 22, 2008 article corroborates the format - 'a character-filled dance party that highlights the end of each day during Star Wars Weekends 2008' - but states no start year. Recorded year-only and at low confidence for that reason.
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Block Party Bash opened at Disney California Adventure, where the Pixar-themed parade ran until January 6, 2008 before its units were relocated to Florida.
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A Power Rangers unit was added to the parade lineup.
Year-only precision; the source lists this as a 2005 addition with no day-level date.
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Star Wars Weekends became an annual event from 2003, after having been held only in 1997, 2000 and 2001.
intermittent event→annual event
20021 change
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Cars themed to Monsters, Inc. and Lilo & Stitch were added to the parade lineup.
Year-only precision; the source lists these as 2002 additions with no day-level date.
20014 changes
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The Disney Stars and Motor Cars Parade premiered at the Disney-MGM Studios as part of the Walt Disney World Resort's 100 Years of Magic celebration, running a lineup of 15 character-themed cars from a backstage gate near Star Tours out onto Hollywood Boulevard.
Took over the park's daily parade slot previously held by the Mulan Parade, which had ended on March 11, 2001. The park was still named Disney-MGM Studios at this date; the rename to Disney's Hollywood Studios took effect January 7, 2008. -
The Disney Stars and Motor Cars Parade premiered on Hollywood Boulevard nearly seven months later as the Mulan Parade's named replacement.
The Wikipedia infobox for Disney Stars and Motor Cars Parade lists "Replaced: Mulan Parade," and Walt Dated World states the Mulan Parade "was replaced by the Stars and Motor Cars parade." The gap of about six months and three weeks and the unrelated concept are why this record is filed as a closure rather than a reskin. -
The Mulan Parade made its final run at the Disney-MGM Studios after just under two years and nine months.
Three sources give March 11, 2001, and Wikipedia's parade list shows no entry between this date and October 1, 2001. -
The show was brought back in 2001 for special-event performances on July 4 and New Year's Eve.
No Sorcery in the Sky→the show on two holiday nights a year, not a restored regular run.Wikipedia states verbatim: 'The show was brought back from 2001 to 2003 for performances on July 4 and New Year's Eve before being replaced with new shows in 2004.' The source gives no month or day for the return and no second source was found, so only the year is claimed here.
19988 changes
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Sorcery in the Sky ended its regular run on October 15, 1998, after more than eight years, on the same date Fantasmic! opened at the park.
Fireworks over the park→Fantasmic! in the purpose-built Hollywood Hills Amphitheater on Sunset Boulevard.Wikipedia's attraction list gives the run as May 29, 1990 - October 15, 1998, and the Fantasmic! article gives October 15, 1998 as the Florida opening in the Hollywood Hills Amphitheater, built as part of the Sunset Boulevard expansion. Fantasmic! took over the nighttime-spectacular slot; it did not take over the site or the format, and Sorcery in the Sky itself returned for special events from 2001. -
Sorcery in the Sky played its final performances in 2003 and was replaced with new shows in 2004.
Sorcery in the Sky→new holiday shows from 2004.This is the show's permanent end; its famous regular run had already closed on October 15, 1998, and by 2003 it appeared only on July 4 and New Year's Eve. The one source gives years only, so no closing month or day is claimed, and it does not name the 2004 shows that took over. -
The Mulan Parade began at the Disney-MGM Studios on June 19, 1998, taking over the parade route the Hercules parade had held.
Both listings give June 19, 1998 for the Disney-MGM Studios version and name the Hercules parade as its predecessor. -
The Mulan Parade debuted down Hollywood Boulevard at the Disney-MGM Studios on the same day Disney's Mulan went into wide release in U.S. theaters.
Walt Dated World records that the parade "started down Hollywood Boulevard on June 19th, 1998" and "wove its way down Hollywood Boulevard," and styles the production "Disney's Mulan Parade." Mulan's Hollywood Bowl premiere was June 5, 1998; June 19 is the wide U.S. release. -
The Hercules "Zero to Hero" Victory Parade ran for the last time at the Disney-MGM Studios in 1998, after a run of less than a year.
Held at year precision on purpose. A day-level date of April 18, 1998 appears only in Wikipedia's attraction list, whose Parades table carries no inline citations; D23's entry, checked directly, gives no closing date at all, and the Disney Wiki records this closure as bare "1998" while giving exact days for the parades on either side of it. The day will be recorded once a second source supports it. -
The park's previous daytime parade, the Hercules "Zero to Hero" Victory Parade, ended earlier in 1998, leaving the parade route open.
Wikipedia's attraction list gives the Hercules run as June 27, 1997 - April 18, 1998, immediately preceding the Mulan Parade, but that table carries no inline citations and the Disney Wiki records only "1998" for the closure, so this beat is held to the year our Hercules record supports. -
The procession ran with over 53 performers and a 150-foot Great Wall of China dragon that took 17 performers to operate, set to an instrumental arrangement of "Honor to Us All" with sections of "I'll Make a Man Out of You."
Units included Mushu on a bicycle providing commentary, the Matchmaker with Cri-Kee, parasol dancers and pagodas, Mulan's parents, Hun warriors, Shan Yu on a skull-decorated platform, the Great Wall dragon, acrobats and stilt-walkers, a horse-drawn wagon carrying the main characters, and the Emperor closing the parade. No cited source states how often the parade ran, so no frequency is claimed. -
Coca-Cola's run as the attraction's presenting sponsor ended after nine years.
Wikipedia gives the Coca-Cola sponsorship as 1989-1998; no month or day is supported, so the beat is filed to the year.
19975 changes
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The Hercules "Zero to Hero" Victory Parade debuted at the Disney-MGM Studios on the same day Disney's Hercules entered general release on 2,621 screens.
D23, Disney's own archive, gives the June 27, 1997 debut: "Began at Disney-MGM Studios on June 27, 1997." The Wikipedia film article states the general release followed on June 27, 1997 in 2,621 screens after the June 13 limited opening. -
The Hercules "Zero to Hero" Victory Parade opened as the park's next parade, nineteen days after the Toy Story Parade's final performance.
D23 gives the June 27, 1997 debut; Wikipedia's list shows it as the next entry after Toy Story Parade in the park's parade chronology. The listings establish order and dates only, not a route. -
The Toy Story Parade gave its final performance at the Disney-MGM Studios, ending the run of the parade the Hercules parade would succeed.
Two independent listings agree on June 8, 1997, leaving a 19-day gap before the Hercules parade debuted. -
The Toy Story Parade performed for the last time after a run of about nineteen months.
The closing date comes from listings rather than contemporaneous coverage: Wikipedia's former-attractions table gives "Toy Story Parade (November 22, 1995 - June 8, 1997)" and the Disney Wiki entry gives the same day. Yesterland's page, checked directly, carries the premiere date only and no end date. The same Wikipedia table's Aladdin's Royal Caravan and Block Party Bash spans match Yesterland's independent pages exactly, which supports its accuracy here. -
Star Wars Weekends debuted at the park then known as the Disney-MGM Studios, establishing the annual event that would carry the Legends of the Force celebrity motorcade.
D23 and Wikipedia both date the event's debut to 1997; neither names the motorcade in that first year, so the motorcade's own debut year is unconfirmed and is not claimed here. The park was not renamed Disney's Hollywood Studios until 2008.
19955 changes
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The Toy Story Parade premiered at the park roughly three months later, becoming the next parade in the park's slate.
Wikipedia's parade list runs Aladdin's Royal Caravan directly into Toy Story Parade (November 22, 1995 - June 8, 1997) with no parade between them, and Yesterland dates the Toy Story Parade premiere to the day Toy Story opened in U.S. theaters. No source consulted describes a direct handover or states the Toy Story Parade's route, so this is recorded as succession in the parade slate rather than a replacement in place. -
The Toy Story Parade premiered at the Disney-MGM Studios on the same day Toy Story opened in U.S. theaters.
Yesterland: "Toy Story Parade premiered at Disney-MGM Studios (now Disney's Hollywood Studios) on November 22, 1995 - the same day that Disney-Pixar's Toy Story opened in U.S. movie theaters." Wikipedia's attraction list gives the run as November 22, 1995 - June 8, 1997. No source consulted states the parade's route, so none is claimed. -
Aladdin's Royal Caravan performed for the last time at the Disney-MGM Studios, ending a Florida run of two years and eight months.
Yesterland, D23 and Wikipedia's attraction list all give the Florida run as December 21, 1992 to August 27, 1995. -
The park's previous parade, Aladdin's Royal Caravan, ended its Hollywood Boulevard run about three months before the Toy Story Parade premiered.
Yesterland dates Aladdin's Royal Caravan "from December 21, 1992 (about a month after the movie opened) to August 27, 1995" and places it "down Hollywood Boulevard at Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park"; Wikipedia's list gives the same span and shows it immediately preceding the Toy Story Parade. -
Floats carried Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Slinky Dog, Mr. Potato Head, Hamm, Rex, Bo Peep and the Green Army Men, in what Yesterland calls the forerunner of every later Toy Story attraction at a Disney park.
Yesterland calls it "a traditional parade, with floats and marching units" and captions units for the Green Army Men, Hamm and Mr. Potato Head, Buzz Lightyear, "Woody, Rex, Lenny, and Mr. Spell," a Hot Wheels car, Barrel of Monkeys, Rocky Gibraltar, Slinky Dog, "Troll and Bo Peep," and Etch. Dated year-only because every photo on the page is dated 1997, so the lineup is documented mid-run rather than at premiere.
19932 changes
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The original Theater of the Stars off Hollywood Boulevard, where the show had played, was cleared in September 1993 to make space for the construction of Sunset Boulevard.
A rebuilt, covered Theater of the Stars opened on Sunset Boulevard, where Beauty and the Beast - Live on Stage resumed on July 15, 1994. -
The original Theater of the Stars off Hollywood Boulevard closed and was cleared to make way for the Sunset Boulevard expansion.
D23 gives the Hollywood Boulevard venue's run as May 1, 1989 to May 2, 1993 and says it 'was moved to a location on Sunset Boulevard'; Yesterland says the theater 'was flattened to make way for Sunset Boulevard'; Wikipedia lists the theater as off Hollywood Boulevard 1989-1993 and on Sunset Boulevard from 1994. The Theater of the Stars name still operates today on Sunset Boulevard, but that is a different, larger amphitheater at the far end of the street, not this show's stage.
19923 changes
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Aladdin's Royal Caravan debuted at the Disney-MGM Studios, a street parade built around the "Prince Ali" number from Disney's Aladdin, about a month after the film reached U.S. theaters.
D23's Disney A to Z entry, Yesterland and Wikipedia's Disney's Hollywood Studios attraction list all give December 21, 1992 for the Florida debut. Yesterland describes live performers working with puppets in Disney's first use of lightweight inflatable costumes, alongside dancing camels, harem dancers, a snake charmer and three Genie treatments (a bathtub Genie, a split-in-two Genie and a 32-foot Genie), and calls it the first parade at any Disney park based on a single film. -
The procession's signature units carried golden camels whose heads turned from side to side and spit water into the crowd lining the street.
Wikipedia's attraction list records that the mechanical camels were later placed outside The Magic Carpets of Aladdin at the Magic Kingdom; no source consulted dates that reuse. -
Dinosaurs Live ran for the last time at the Disney-MGM Studios, closing after roughly eleven months.
Both sources give the identical end date of August 29, 1992, and no source indicates any later revival. The run from September 26, 1991 to August 29, 1992 is eleven months and three days.
19918 changes
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Beauty and the Beast - Live on Stage opened on the same stage 19 days later and played the Hollywood Boulevard Theater of the Stars until 1993.
Recorded as venue context, not as a successor: the stage hosted a rotation of shows in 1991, so this record is classified as a closure rather than a reskin and carries no replaced_by pointer. -
Hollywood's Pretty Woman gave its final performance after a run of about six weeks.
D23 A-to-Z gives the closing date as November 3, 1991; the Wikipedia attractions list gives the same span ("September 24 - November 3, 1991") and The WDW Expert notes "Its run lasted less than six weeks." -
Dinosaurs Live began running as a parade at the Disney-MGM Studios.
Date corroborated by two independent sources: Wikipedia's DHS attraction list, which files it under the Parades subsection, and Dave Smith's Disney A to Z: The Official Encyclopedia, whose entry reads in full 'Dinosaurs Live Parade at Disney-MGM Studios from September 26, 1991, to August 29, 1992.' The D23 permalink and the Open Library full-text hit reproduce that same encyclopedia entry, so they count as one source, not two. Neither source describes the parade's cadence, so no claim of a daily schedule is made. Wikipedia italicizes the title and links 'Dinosaurs' to the ABC sitcom of that name, indicating a tie-in to the then-current series; neither source states the connection outright, so it is recorded here as what the source shows rather than as established fact. -
Hollywood's Pretty Woman took over the same Theater of the Stars seven months after Dick Tracy's final performance, running through November 3, 1991.
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Hollywood's Pretty Woman opened at the original Theater of the Stars, the open-air stage off Hollywood Boulevard at the Disney-MGM Studios.
D23 A-to-Z: "Stage show at Disney-MGM Studios from September 24 to November 3, 1991." Walt Dated World places it at "the original Theater of the Stars location", which had hosted "Hollywood, Hollywood!" from opening day until August 31, 1991. Wikipedia lists the venue as "Originally located off Hollywood Boulevard (1989-1993) and relocated to Sunset Boulevard (1994-present)", which is why the zone is hollywood_blvd: Sunset Boulevard did not open until 1994, after this show had closed. -
The show was a musical revue set at Club Hollywood, a nightclub run by Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse and Goofy, saluting women of Hollywood entertainment including Jeanette MacDonald, Judy Garland, Ginger Rogers, Carmen Miranda and Madonna.
Confidence is medium because the show's content rests on a single secondary source. That source also describes a Roger Rabbit appearance and a walk-around Muppet finale with Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy; we have not published those details because no second source corroborates them and "Muppets on Location: The Days of Swine and Roses" was running at the same venue from September 16, 1991, per Walt Dated World, which makes a mix-up plausible. -
The show played its final performance at the Theater of the Stars after a run of four months.
Only Wikipedia's attraction list carries the exact August 31, 1989 date and no primary Disney source corroborates the day, so confidence is held at medium. That same list shows the next production at the theater, Dick Tracy starring in Diamond Double-Cross, opening May 21, 1990, and records no later run of this show. -
The show gave its final performance at the Theater of the Stars and closed permanently after just under nine months at the park.
19904 changes
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The Disneyland Videopolis staging closed after about six and a half months, leaving the Disney-MGM Studios production as the only version still performing.
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A second staging of the show opened at the Videopolis theater at Disneyland on the day the Dick Tracy film was released, putting the production on both coasts at once.
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Sorcery in the Sky debuted at Disney-MGM Studios as the park's nighttime fireworks show.
Wikipedia's attraction list records that the show debuted in the year the film Fantasia was marking its 50th anniversary and 'featured music score from such films as Puttin' on the Ritz, The Wizard of Oz, Singin' in the Rain, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Mary Poppins, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Wars, Chariots of Fire, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Fantasia'. D23's entry supplies the inflatable Mickey Mouse with fireworks shooting from his pointing finger. -
Dick Tracy Starring in Diamond Double-Cross opened at the Theater of the Stars, the open-air venue off Hollywood Boulevard near the Hollywood Brown Derby, 25 days before the Dick Tracy film reached cinemas on June 15, 1990.
19892 changes
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Hollywood! Hollywood! A Star-Studded Spectacular opened at the outdoor Theater of the Stars off Hollywood Boulevard as the Disney-MGM Studios' opening-day stage production.
Wikipedia's attraction list gives the run as May 1 - August 31, 1989 at Theater of the Stars; D23 dates the Hollywood Boulevard theater itself from May 1, 1989, the park's first day. Yesterland refers to the 1989 show by the short form 'Hollywood, Hollywood' without giving a date, so that title appears in sources as a variant of the same production. -
The Great Movie Ride opened with the Disney-MGM Studios as one of the park's original attractions, housed inside the park's replica of Grauman's Chinese Theatre at the end of Hollywood Boulevard.
Presented by Coca-Cola; an earlier planned version titled "Great Moments at the Movies" with Sears, Roebuck & Co. as sponsor fell apart before the park opened.
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