Changes

Although only opening with five attractions, Disney's MGM Studios was quite popular and quickly expanded. Later in 1989, the Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular opened on Lakeside Circle. The stunt show recreated stunts from the popular Indiana Jones seriesmovie Raiders of the Lost Ark. Later in 1989 Star Tours opened. Star Tours is a motion simulator that transports guests the world of the George Lucas ' film series Star Wars. In 1990 New York Street was opened for pedestrians and the 3D show Muppets 3D was added to it. Also added to New York Street was the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids Playground. The large playground for kids was based on the 1989 Disney movie Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. In 1991, two shows: Beauty and The Beast and the Voyage of The Little Mermaid were added to the park.

In 1994 Sunset Boulevard was added to the StudiousStudios. The popular attraction the Twilight Zone Tower Terror was opened along with Boulevard. On the Tower of Terror guests are transported in Alfred Hitchcock's The Twilight Zone where the they board a haunted elevator. The elevator drops guests 15 stories before raising them back up and dropping them again! In 1997 the Monster Sound Show was replaced with the ABC Sound Studio One Saturday Morning. The new show was used to feature cartoons airing on the now Disney owned ABC. In 1998, the night nighttime spectacular Fantasmic! was added to Disney's MGM Studios. The new firework show was a battle of good vs evil staring Mickey Mouse. Fantasmic! was added to try and keep guests in the park all day. In 1999 Sunset Boulevard got another thrill ride with the addition of the Rock N' Roller Coaster Staring Aerosmith. The new attraction took guests on a high speed tour of Hollywood and was set to Aerosmith music.

With the turn of the 21st century, Disney's MGM Studios began to change. Walt Disney's One Man Dream opened in 2001 featuring both a museum of Disney artifacts and a short biographical film. In 2003, the animation studio located at the park closed. This closure also ended the Animation Tour that had been a staple of the park since opening day. In 2004, New York Street was expanded to include architecture found in San Francisco and renamed The Streets of America. The section of the Studio Tour that resided behind the Streets of America (Residential Street) was bulldozed in 2004 in order to make room for a new stunt show, Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show, which opened in 2005.

Reflected in the name change was the fact that over time the theme of the park had changed. Originally the park was set in the Golden Age of Hollywood, but by 2007 the theme had clearly shifted to a more modern view of film making. By 2008 the park had been renamed Disney's Hollywood Studios, however it took more time to change all the affect affected signs.