![]() ![]() In this room guests would have seen- R2D2 & C3PO (Star Wars), Rhett Butler & Scarlet O'Hara (Gone with the Wind), Rock Balboa (the Rocky film series), the Ghostbusters, Mary Poppins, Indiana Jones, George C. In this version of the attraction, the finale would have been a dramatically lit room that surrounded guests with some of cinema's greatest characters. Fields, Mae West, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and Charlie Chaplin. ![]() Early on in the attraction's development there were plans for a "comedy scene" that would have featured Audio-Animatronic versions of:the Keystone Kops, W.C. Back in the 1980s the equipment that we had to work with wasn't as sophisticated as it is now, but we printed out black and white frames from a lot of movies so that we could really slow it down and look to see, for example, exactly what the Wicked Witch of the West's costumes looked like" Ĭoncept art for the unbuilt "comedy" scene that was originally designed for The Great Movie Rideĭuring the development of the attraction there were a few changes to the ride's plot. "Our team researched all those movies that we included in the ride, over and over again. When talking about their preperation for the attraction, Show Designer Eric Jacobson noted: Furthermore, since the attraction was no longer going to be housed in Epcot, Imagineers also decided that The Great Movie Ride’s plot would focus less on education, instead taking guests on a journey through various classic films. Because the Disney MGM Studios were set in the golden age of Hollywood (the 1920s-1930s), Imagineers decided to house the attraction inside one of Hollywood’s landmarks, Grumman’s Chinese Theater. Since The Great Movie Ride (as it was now called) was now going to be the focus of a new park, Disney Imagineers decided that they needed to create a new façade for the attraction. Eventually, Disney decided to create the Disney MGM Studios, with the Great Moments and the Movies attraction as the new park’s centerpiece. After seeing the Great Moments at the Movies concept, Michael Eisner decided that the attraction was strong enough to build a whole new park around. The façade was intentionally designed to look fake as a commentary on Hollywood itself. The façade for the new pavilion was to feature a movie set backdrop with a ticket booth for an entrance. The basic plot for the attraction which was to be housed within the pavilion would not only have given guest an inside look into how films were made, but it would have also allowed them to enter the films themselves. The original plans for the Great Moments at the Movies, called for the pavilion to be placed in between The Land and the Journey Into Imagination pavilions. While the Wonders of Life was green lit for inclusion in EPCOT Center, the Great Moments and the Movies attraction was set aside by Disney CEO Michael Eisner. The team came up with two ideas, the Wonders of Life pavilion and the Great Moments at the Movies pavilion. ![]() ![]() In the early 1980’s a team of Imagineers, led by Randy Bright and WDI president Marty Sklar were tasked with creating two new pavilions for Future World. The attraction that would one day be known as The Great Movie Ride actually began as an idea for EPCOT Center. ![]()
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