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===Conception===
Like most things in Walt Disney World, Disney's Hollywood Studios can trace its 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 that time Universal Studios had a popular backstage tram tour and Walt wanted to do something similar on the backlot of the Disney Studios. Due to land coasts and potential traffic problems however, this idea never came to fruition. Although the Disney Studios backlot tour was never built, the idea would later resurface.
The genesis for what would eventually become Disney's Hollywood Studios begins in the mid 1980s. Imagineers led by Marty Skylar and Randy Bright were given the task of creating two new pavilions for [[Epcot#Current_Future_World_Pavilions_Pavilions|Future World]] in [[Epcot]]. One of the pavilions they created was to be called the Great Movie Ride pavilion. The main attraction of the pavilion would have taken guests through various movie scenes and was very similar to the [[The Great Movie Ride|attraction of the same name]] that would eventually open at Disney-MGM Studios. Michael Eisner, then the CEO of the Disney Company, decided that the idea for the pavilion was strong enough to warrant its own theme park and told his Imagineers to begin working on it.
At the same time that the new Epcot pavilions were being designed, Disney decided that it needed a new production studio. The studio was needed due to the fact that the Disney production schedule had increased dramatically in the 1980s. Instead of spending a lot of money on land, it was decided that the studio would be built on the property they already owned in Florida. The need for a new production studio was one of the driving forces behind the inclusion of a studio tour in the new Disney theme park.
