5/7/2023 0 Comments Movie footlight parade![]() Later, plans called for the ride to be built as part of the Hollywood Pictures Backlot area of the Disney California Adventure Park theme park at the Disneyland Resort. Due to budget cuts, however, Hollywoodland was canceled. Several years later, plans called for the ride to serve as the centerpiece of the proposed Hollywoodland at Disneyland, which would have been added to the park during the planned Disney Decade in the 1990s. First were plans to incorporate the attraction into the proposed “Disney-MGM Studio Backlot” project, a 40-acre (160,000 m 2) film studio themed retail and entertainment district that was planned (but ultimately never built) for downtown Burbank, California during the late 1980s. Three separate attempts were made by Walt Disney Imagineering to bring The Great Movie Ride to California. ![]() A show called CinéMagique was built in lieu of the ride due to claims by Disney management that the French preferred shows to ride-through attractions. Years later when the resort began turning profits, a show business themed theme park went into development again, and the Walt Disney Studios Park opened in 2002 at the Disneyland Resort Paris, although minus The Great Movie Ride. Plans called for The Great Movie Ride to be the main attraction for the Disney-MGM Studios Europe theme park, which was scrapped due to the early financial difficulties of the Euro Disneyland Resort. Lee Marvin's inebriated character of Kid Shelleen from Cat Ballou was planned to be included in the Western segment but was replaced with one of Clint Eastwood, as Marvin's family believed that particular portrayal was inappropriate to showcase. Chad Everett provided the voice for John Wayne's figure at the behest of Wayne's family. The attraction used the likenesses of numerous living and deceased actors to be recreated as audio-animatronics. The idea for the ride was expanded, and the Disney-MGM Studios went into official development. However, the newly assigned Disney CEO Michael Eisner and WDI president Marty Sklar decided the idea was strong enough to lead an entire new theme park. In a Walt Disney Imagineering book, it was revealed that The Great Movie Ride was originally planned as the main attraction in a show business themed pavilion at Epcot, which was to be called "Great Moments at the Movies". The Great Movie Ride directly inspired the creation of Disney's Hollywood Studios. The attraction was replaced by Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway. The Great Movie Ride closed on August 13, 2017, becoming the park's last opening-day attraction to permanently close. ![]() ![]() ![]() Turner Classic Movies sponsored the attraction for the final two years of its operation, with TCM film historian Robert Osborne serving as the attraction's host during that time. To accurately represent a broad spectrum of cinema, Disney also incorporated films from outside of its own library, mainly through its licensing agreement with MGM. Under the direction of Michael Eisner and Marty Sklar, the concept was expanded into a third theme park that included the dark ride as its centerpiece. The Great Movie Ride was originally developed by Walt Disney Imagineering as a pavilion for the Future World section of Epcot. The attraction-which debuted with the park on May 1, 1989-was located inside the park's replica of Grauman's Chinese Theatre, one of Hollywood's most famous movie palaces. The attraction employed the use of Audio-Animatronic figures, practical sets, live actors, special effects, and projections to recreate iconic scenes from twelve classic films throughout motion picture history. The Great Movie Ride was a dark ride located at Disney's Hollywood Studios at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida. ![]()
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