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Disney-MGM Studios Backlot Tour
Mickey Avenue
Continuous 35 minute guided tours

A tour aboard 200-passenger shuttles takes guests through the studio backlot including costuming, scenic shop, Residential Street and New York Street and Catastrophe Canyon.

At the end of Mickey Avenue, guests can board the Disney-MGM Studios Backlot Tour. The 25-minute tram tour takes guests behind the scenes of a staged movie production in Catastrophe Canyon and past vehicles, costumes and props from some of Hollywood's hottest films as well as television homes of popular sitcoms.

Within minutes, the shuttle is surrounded by the steep canyon walls, where a tractor-trailer rig has just parked on a roadbed to fill its tanks with oil. Ground tremors suddenly grip the rock formation and an earthquake builds, rattling nearby telephone poles and showering the area with hot sparks. Fires erupt, explosions echo inside the steep rock walls and flames race toward a large oil-storage tank at the mouth of the canyon.

Catastrophe Canyon
Set in the American Southwest, Catastrophe Canyon is built of 65,000 square feet of rockwork reaching 50 feet high and stretching 200 feet in length. Created to show guests how filmmakers devise movie and television disasters, the attraction is an experience never before offered Florida vacationers.

 

photos courtesy of Walt Disney World

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