291 days to go: BACKLOT TOURS

291 days to go: Today I'm going to do a run though on Disney's Hollywood Studios: Backlot Tour. During the line of this ride you'll see props from movies like Pirates of the Caribbean, Pearl Harbor and U-571. The have TVs that have director of the these movies explaining the difficulties and techniques used to film the special effects from the movies. You start the attraction by walking down a 2 tier viewing platform that over looks a small watery set area with a submarine and a naval ship. They take volunteers from the crowd to act in a small skit. This skit shows on a small scale how they shoot the battle scenes in the water using torpedoes and explosions. After the small skit is over. You continue through a warehouse full of movies props and then load up onto a tour bus. The tour take you along a drive lined with larger props some being the motorcycle and airplanes from Indiana Jones, the roller from Who Frames Roger Rabbit, and Herbie. Then you get a peek at the wardrobe warehouse and an animatronic warehouse. After all that you'll enter a canyon and enter an other live action scene with flooding, an earthquake, and a semi truck explosion. This is practically the only unchanged part of the attraction. you will then go past the larger props again one of the being Walt Disney's personal airplane and all other kinds its fun to try to name what movie they are from. This ride is more targeted towards teens to adults, they explosions get the younger kids attention for a minute but the care very little for most props. I give this ride a 3 out of 5 stars just because its not a thumbs up to keep all age groups happy.