tlmadden73
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Oct 9, 2014
Right .. it is currently closed and transforming into Mickey's Railway .. so a wash.Yo
You're forgetting Great Movie Ride.
But .. overall .. the park is getting 4 net new "ride" attractions (I never counted Backlot Tour as a "ride" .. it was really just a tour with a part you get in a vehicle (as the name implied).
It was altered several times and shortened each time. This wiki does a decent job of explaining the iterations and causes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_Backlot_Tour
Ya .. I think the park's "making of movies" theme was great for maybe about 10 years. The problem is a movie studio tour is filled with a lot of one and done attractions. The Backlot Tour was very memorable to me as well, but after doing it once it really was a long, boring attraction with all the surprises gone and with nothing new to see. The sound effects show (which is now just a re-used theatre) and Streets of America were cool the fist time, but after that .. the Streets was this big empty space for a photo op.
While all that was fun in the late 80s and early 90s, it is easy to understand why the park is getting a makeover (probably about 5-10 years too late). Universal Studios figured it out way a bit sooner that the "theme park movie studio" idea was dead and moved away from those attractions way sooner. (Seeing how Jaws, Disaster, Twister and those attractions have been gone for years and replaced).
Disney tried to bandaid the park for years now with shows and parades and Star Wars launch bays. They are finally giving the park a makeover (and new name) it deserves (and some competition to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter.