Day 8
Disney MGM Studios - The full day.
I had a fairly full day at Disney MGM Studio back on Day 3 but I’ve returned to do the things that I missed the first time around and for the Fantasmic Buffet that was part of my "package" trip.
Tower of Terror!
First off, I went to Tower of Terror and got a fastpass for later on and then headed to the New York area to get some pictures of the streets. Disney Channel "Star" Kim Possible and some other dude were just standing around so I got a picture with them. I don’t watch the show, but c’mon - I just don’t like face characters of cartoons. Works for the princesses but I would’ve rather seen a big head.
More characters here than any given time at Disneyland!
Kim Possible
The streets of the world were cool to see and the Osborne Christmas lights were already up. I headed to the Back lot Tour next which started in a building that had props and models from Pearl Harbor. Most of them were just shells and not in very good shape but I guess you have to look at something. The next exhibit was a water tank where they filmed some guest doing various things and Inner-cut it with some real film footage. Water tanks, bullet hits and minor explosion. Everything I’ve seen before, but was nice to see this show. Then we were moved to the prop warehouse and onto trams to take us to the back-lot.
Water Tank.
The back-lot consisted of passing by prop cars, thru a warehouse with costumes and thru Catastrophe Canyon, which was kind of cool. Albeit very simple setup, it was one of the best parts of the tour. The coolest part every was Walt Disney’s personal aircraft, so they say, on display. This one would have been fun to be able to board and check out. Very cool
Walt’s Wings
Also caught a glimpse of the Herbie split car used in the Motor Cars Stunt show.
And one from Herbie: Fully Loaded
This was cool. They had a Snowspeeder and one of Jabba’s Skiffs from the Star Wars Films.
After a painfully short back-lot tour, we were dropped off at a exhibit featuring some of the movies greatest villains. There were various costumes and props on display, but for the Star Wars geek, these were the coolest!
Vadar costume and a Tie-Fighter model
And part of the Death Star surface molding. Very, very cool!!
By this time I still had about an hour until my Lunch reservations at The Sci-Fi Diner, so I did some looking around and went on the "Sounds Dangerous" with Drew Carey show, which is just basically a sound demo/ film where you sit in a theater to watch a "pilot" where we follow undercover cop Drew Carey. Its like the recent version of Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln where you get your hair cut and the such. It was a time killer but I was glad to see it – once.
Me and At-At - keeping the Star Wars theme.
Nice touch!
Mickey’s Hand prints at the Chinese Theater - oddly done on my 19th birthday!!