The Disney's Hollywood Studios Backlot Tour combines two demonstrations of special effects. One thing to know up front, this attraction will take anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour. If you don't have that much time to commit, save it for another visit.
Registered: December 2009 Location: Staten island Posts: 13
Review Date: Sun March 28, 2010
Would you recommend the product? No |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 2
Positive aspects of the product (pros):
None
Cons:
Outdated short and dull
Now is the time now is the best time( where did I hear this before?) to remove this attraction. It has seen better days. Get the monsters inc rollercoaster going on it's place: Posted via eTicket
friendnc Mouseketeer
Registered: January 2007 Location: Gastonia, NC (550 miles from Orlando, FL) Posts: 180
Review Date: Tue June 15, 2010
Would you recommend the product? No |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 2
Positive aspects of the product (pros):
Seeing sets and costumes during the walk throughs are interesting
Cons:
They cut out battleship preshow. Too much waiting/walking/standing for such a weak attraction
This attraction wasn't the best before they dropped the battleship preshow, but now it's worth skipping (as we do). For all of the space this takes up, it either needs a super-major overhaul or be totally replaced.
daf Earning My Ears
Registered: April 2010 Location: The Great Rift Valley Posts: 57
Review Date: Wed October 6, 2010
Would you recommend the product? No |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 1
Positive aspects of the product (pros):
Cons:
Wet seats
We had a miserable time on this ride.
This was back in 2007, but I'm assuming this problem is still there.
We waited to board this ride for an hour or so due to rain.
When it stopped, we were seated at the back bench in one of the trams. Soon after the tram started moving, huge amounts of water started pouring from the rooftop all over us and all over our bench.
Ours was the only bench that had puddle of water, which we obviously didn't want to sit in. So we stood.
The cast member talking on the tram requested that we sit anyway, although we tried to explain that we'd sit in the water.
This ruined our mood for the entire day.
michael61 Mouseketeer
Registered: May 2004 Location: FLA Posts: 203
Review Date: Tue December 28, 2010
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 8
Positive aspects of the product (pros):
relaxing and entertaning
Cons:
1 hour of the day gone
It is still a must due but it does take an hour out of a day. the fire truck is real cool and it was a BLAST
thetony45 It Don't Gazinta
Registered: March 2011 Location: illinois Posts: 89
Review Date: Sat March 26, 2011
Would you recommend the product? No |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 4
Positive aspects of the product (pros):
the PT boat scene at the begining
Cons:
everything else
The PT boat scene at the very begining to show how special effect make things look better was great (especilly because i was chosen to be a part of it)
After that everything else was downhill. The disaster scene at Catastropy Canon was interesting but the rest was a drive through nothing interesting. If there was anything interesting along the way you zoom by it quickly.
bellebookworm9 Future Au.D.
Registered: May 2009 Location: Buffalo, NY Posts: 2874
Review Date: Fri December 23, 2011
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 7
Positive aspects of the product (pros):
Cons:
My mom and I rode this in May 2010. There was a very brief wait in the early afternoon. For me, the highlight was seeing the chicken coop from the Hannah Montana Movie. The water battle and Catastrophe Canyon were pretty interesting, and I liked seeing the costume area as well.
bluesword Earning My Ears
Registered: March 2012 Posts: 13
Review Date: Thu March 15, 2012
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 5
Positive aspects of the product (pros):
see what its like at a production studio as well as how things work and actual props
Cons:
hollywood studios is no longer a production studio
As i said earlier Hollywood studios used to be a studio and this ride would offer a glimpse into a working studio but as time went on Disney realized that they would either have to move the studio or the park and they choose the studio
now while this ride has lost a lot of its magic it still has some interesting aspects of it from a live demo of effects to a very ride range of movie props including prince of Persia and probably john carter now
UConnFan Mouseketeer
Registered: March 2011 Location: Connecticut Posts: 364
Review Date: Mon February 4, 2013
Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 4
Positive aspects of the product (pros):
Cons:
This used to be a great ride, but it's not nearly as entertaining as it used to be. It's also a pretty long attraction. We skip it now.
(Rumor has it, it might be on its way out. Now may be the time to experience it if you haven't yet.)