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==History==
===Creation and DevelopmentConception=== Like most things in Walt Disney World, Disney's Hollywood Studios can trace it's origins back to Walt Disney himself. In the 1960s, Walt wanted to build a theme park that would show guests the movie making process. At the time Universal Studios had a popular backstage tram tour and Walt wanted to do something similar on the back lot Disney Studious. Due to land coasts and potential traffic problems this idea never came to fruition. Although the Disney Studios back lot tour was never built, the idea would resurface later. The genies for a theme park based on movie making really begins in the mid 1980s. Imageneer's led by Marty Skylar and Randy Bright were given the task of creating two new pavilions for [[Future World]] in [[Epcot]]. One of the pavilions they created was to be called the Great Movie Ride pavilion. The attraction would have taken guests through various movies and was very similar to the attraction that would eventually open at Disney's MGM Studious. Michael Eisner, then the CEO of the Disney Company decided that the idea for the pavilion was strong enough to warrant it's on theme park and told his Imageneers to begin working on it. Another factor that played a crucial role in the creation of Disney's MGM Studios,was that Universal Studios was planning on building an East Coast theme park. In 1982 Universal began to plan its new park which would also be located in Orlando. Universal was looking for a partner in the venture and approached Michael Eisner who was then the head of Paramount Studios. Eisner declined the proposal and the plans for a Universal East were tabled.
Disney's Hollywood Studios began with Michael Eisner, who became CEO of the Disney Company in 1984. Prior to his tenure with Disney, Eisner had been Senior Vice President at Paramount. It was there Eisner learned MCA, Universal Studios's parent company, was looking for a partner for a Florida Universal Studios theme park. When he became CEO of Disney, Eisner began planning a Disney park based on film. However, it was not until Universal made an official announcement of their park that Eisner began serious work on his. In 1985 Disney signed a deal with MGM that allowed them to use MGM's name and logo in their park for a relatively modest fee. Disney was able to open their park, now called Disney's MGM Studios, a full year before Universal opened theirs. However, while fans were generally positive about the park they also considered it to be incomplete. At opening, the park had four rides - [[The Great Movie Ride]], [[Magic of Disney Animation]], [[The Backlot Tour]], and [[The Monster Sound Show]]. The park did expand in its first years, including it's first firework show, "Sorcery in the Sky." The most significant addition was in 1994, when Sunset Boulevard opened along with the [[Twilight Zone Tour of Terror]].
