In honor of Stacy Fulford, the Hollywood Studios Streetmosphere characters held a pie-eating tribute on Sunset Boulevard yesterday in Mimi Kaboom’s honor…
Fulford, who portrayed Mimi Kaboom for several years at the park, tragically passed away earlier this week.
Our latest photo report brings us to Disney’s Hollywood Studios in the midst of Disney’s Hollywood Studios appreciation week for a look around at what’s new and exciting in tinsel town. Ready when you are C.B.!
Streetmosphere characters Mayor Sonny Burbank and Evie Starlight welcome guests to the park.
Officer Percival Peabody of the Hollywood Police Department also ensures that guests walk, and not run to their first destination.
Happy 28th Anniversary
On May 1st 2017, Disney’s Hollywood Studios celebrated its 28th birthday!
The park of course opened as the Disney-MGM Studios in 1989, changing its name in Early 2008.
The only opening day attraction left standing at this point is the Great Movie Ride, but rumors persist of even that closing in the next 2 years.
For whatever reason, the Epcot Flower and Garden Festival MagicBand is now available at the Studios.
A number of older designs have been updated for the MagicBand 2, some even using the new white and black band base colors.
40th anniversary banners remain outside of Star Wars Launch Bay.
Wait times for the character meet and greets have been short lately. Chewbacca was posted as 20 minutes.
Only 15 for Kylo Ren.
Even the new BB-8 meet and greet has had short wait times.
That sadly hasn’t stopped guests from destroying the walls…
It’s a pretty cute meet and greet experience if you haven’t seen it yet:
New designs celebrating the 40th anniversary of Star Wars can be found at the D-Tech on Demand location inside of Star Wars Launch Bay.
Skywalker Vineyards wines are also available now. We actually bought a bottle and tried the new flight at the Brown Derby, so we will dedicate a post to this in the coming days.
Work continues on the Star Wars and Toy Story themed lands.
This barrier for Star Wars land continues to rise over the walls.
A peek through the walls at the beginning of PIXAR Place reveals the current state of Toy Story Land.
There appears to be a structure of some kind being erected in the middle of the Slinky Dog Dash rollercoaster now.
It appears that the coaster will barrel through it, whatever it is.
These pics from a few days later show some progress on the walls going up at the other end of PIXAR Place.
The Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales preview has moved in at Walt Disney: One Man’s Dream.
The Moana meet and greet recently closed inside, leaving us to believe that the Star Lord and Groot meet and greet coming will be located here.
The exit is currently boarded up as well.
A costume worn by Javier Bardem in Dead Men Tell No Tales is now on display.
The preview is quite good, leading me to believe we might just be returning to form in the series.
It is now certain that this lone standing section of New York Street will remain as modifications are being made to the structure.
Meanwhile, Star Wars Land rises next door.
Not only are the facades being touched up, but new elements are being added.
A new awning was installed at the end of the street.
With much of the original signage stripped, it will be interesting to see what becomes of this area.
The former Writer’s Stop lies behind walls, amidst rumors that this may be the Club 33 location for Disney’s Hollywood Studios. How cool would it be to either here through a facade on New York Street?
No trip to Hollywood Studios is complete without a ride on Star Tours.
In Tatooine Traders, a number of new items can be found.
WDWNT Reporter Zach Larson visited the Magic Kingdom and Disney’s Hollywood Studios on Monday and has a ton of newsworthy photos to share with us, so let’s take a look: Construction has gone vertical on the Disney Vacation Club wing of the Grand Floridian Welcome to the Magic Kingdom There are two of these posters in the tunnel now… not only is it not an attraction… but it has more posters than any others… Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom sign near Town Square Theater Work continues on the Confectionary and Chapeau facades Work still going on near the Main Street bridge This new railing was installed during the work Didn’t your parents ever teach you not to touch trash-cans? Still not a whole lot of theme to this walkway between Tomorrowland and Storybook Circus Work on the water tower at Fantasyland Station is complete A look from the Barnstormer reveals that the second Dumbo spinner is nearing completion. We can also see the true height of the Seven Dwarfs’ Mine Train The mountain of the Mine Train will be pretty tall The second Dumbo is fully decorated Workers on top of Under the Sea: Journey of the Little Mermaid The covered part is the lift hill as the train will roll out of the mountain Work continues on turning Tigger’s Bouncy Place into something else Some tarps now up in front of the Castle Wall construction A second set of walls now makes for a tight passage They are working on the back end of the Village Haus facade now It’s still quite a mess back here Now “it’s a small world” has tarps up Work continues on the former Skyway site Next-gen FASTPASS testing at the Haunted Mansion It will be interesting to see what this looks like when they are done They were forcing guests down the graveyard side if you weren’t using FASTPASS, but you could still bypass the interactive queue Work continues on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad Everything looks fantastic! GOAT! Package Pick-Up still behind tarps Awesome shot of the Avengerail in action… I hope you’ve seen the movie by now… A look at the Grand Floridian DVC construction from across the water They’ve installed a rocky shoreline Moving over to Disney’s Hollywood Studios, it looks like the Sorcerer Mickey topiary is on the move again as walls are up Stage for Star Wars Weekends is going up Citizens of Hollywood recently had a character shuffle. This is the “new” Mimi Kaboom Things got heated… ACTING! BRILLIANT! I don’t think the security booths are coming back…
WDWNT Reporter Josh Siegel visited Disney’s Hollywood Studios on Saturday to catch a special one-day appearance of Agent P (Perry the Platypus) from Phineas and Ferb. While he was there, he took a plethora of newsworthy photos, so let’s take a look:
Gone is the billboard outside the park, but the Memories have Begun… Read More about Josh Siegel’s 8/6/11 Hollywood Studios Photo Report
WDWNT Reporter Zach Larson visited the Studios on Monday and has some photos from his trip to share with us:
Do you know your Streetmosphere? Officer Percival Peabody and Otto Von Bonn Bonn Read More about Zach Larson’s 7/25/11 Hollywood Studios Photo Report
Zach Larson’s 5/7/12 WDW Photo Report
Josh Siegel’s 8/6/11 Hollywood Studios Photo Report
Zach Larson’s 7/25/11 Hollywood Studios Photo Report
