Celebrating Disney's Hollywood Studios 30th Anniversary with MGM Studios 1989 Rides & Attractions
A visit to Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World in Orlando Florida to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the park . Opened in May 1st 1989 this entire year is full of fun looking back on three decades of history . Star Tours , Indiana Jones , The Great Movie Ride and Backlot Tour were all opened that first year .
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it is a rainy overcast day here in
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Central Florida but even in the
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inclement weather the gondola system is
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under some thorough testing look at him
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move hooray for Hollywood Disney's
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version of I certainly do love this
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place a nice air of nostalgia the glitz
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and the glamour of old Tinseltown
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welcome to you it wasn't always called
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this originally MGM studios and it's not
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just the name that has changed over the
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last 30 years allow me to embrace the
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pass for a bit join me shall you Bob
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Hope and George Burns place their hands
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here on opening day and then Kermit a
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little bit later that year May 1st 1989
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Mickey and Minnie even Roger put his big
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old rabbit feet right here in the
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concrete and goofy too he wrote the 5 he
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put the 5 backwards and Spock himself
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right there doing the Vulcan hand motion
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goodness can't forget about Donald Rick
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Moranis was here a couple days before
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opening just doing some promotional
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stuff for the park check out the date
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4:30 that's like two days before as well
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as Harry Anderson check that out that's
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a great movie right was one of the few
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first-day attractions it's now gone but
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at least the building still remains
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didn't rear its head so later that
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summer but start towards is in fact an
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opening year attraction do you remember
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those times the good old days right
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oh he's more he's more preoccupied with
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that treat I still remember the first
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time I saw this ad ad it blew my frickin
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mind be careful however don't want to
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get underneath its foot that leaves a
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heck of a prints I always like wandering
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amongst the trees and this extended very
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cool queue line seriously though one of
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the coolest freakin things ever watch
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out for the Ewoks they might be looming
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about to board this ship oh there's
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Threepio up there
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layout of the ship shows you where
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you're gonna be seating gotta grab your
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3d glad you said not be 3d back in the
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day but now you think your 3d glasses on
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blast off
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right securely fastened please watch our
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children
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please prepare for me
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thank you for flying star tourists for
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by once off the attraction and out the
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gift shop you get a little bit farther
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away view from the backside of the
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village
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standing where the New York skyline used
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to be streets of America is no more but
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at least they left that little piece
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there this little snippet you see on the
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left is all that remains void this
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brings back serious memories standing
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right here cuts off right about here in
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preparation for the future Star Wars
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land
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how you doing Miss Piggy also known as
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Miss Liberty I see the sash right there
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cross your torsa notice how the ball is
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emitting away from the paddle almost
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like it's a 3d technology in real life
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ever notice but someone's drawn a
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mustache on her right up there that's so
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impolite inside mama Melrose check out
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this photo of George Lucas Michael
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Eisner Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill I
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figured since we were talking about Star
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Tours it throw that in there for
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posterity look at the Mona Lisa up there
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we're in an isle of La button in sweet
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shades I'm in a tomato loading zone and
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up top on the water tower is a heckler
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oh heck for me please that area over
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there is now called Grand Avenue Grand
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Park named after an area of Los Angeles
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so they are definitely keeping up with
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the theming this archway still here
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different signage of course but the
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archway still remains honestly only in
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recent years have I started to get used
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to the name but it's certain to go on
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and speaking of that historic first day
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it wasn't just the great movie ride but
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also the backlight tour which is now
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watch back well let me naturally a
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stretch everywhere across the back lot
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but when you started aboard the tram you
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had to go first through this tunnel
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straight up
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however those days are long gone as all
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starwars back here now how close are you
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saying I'm the enemy
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no I know I'm not allowed to film you
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guys I have okay all right yelling I was
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just trying to reminisce those
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stormtroopers could be so dangling
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pushy they even scared Jack Jack right
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into the wall KaBlam I got to be honest
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I really miss the great movie ride a lot
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while we're on the subject of 1989 let's
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take a walk past the dinosaur to
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something special because the Indiana
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Jones stunt spectacular was also opening
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here still got a little time before the
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next show so stopped off here at the
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eatery to look at Vinny the cab or at
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least his inner workings here's a couple
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of photos to give you a frame of
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reference before and after behind the
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scenes shot of them filming at Griffith
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Park in Los Angeles now I've showed this
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in the past but I always have to stop
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off and say hello because this is
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absolutely fascinating even a bunch of
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Polaroids in here what appears to be the
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former streets of America it's hard to
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be a hundred percent certain because
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there are no names written on the bottom
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but that would be my best educated guess
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my gosh these fellas have been hanging
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around this locker area heck of a long
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time a majority of this stuff is
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screen-used I'm not sure what this cycle
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was what film that was at however it
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really does blow my mind that a lot of
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this stuff is still in here along the
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walls and
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including those pinned up photos from
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the weasels of Roger Rabbit on that
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corkboard they're not too many places
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where you could see a bust of Elvis
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Presley and Return of the Jedi
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paraphernalia all in the same
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neighborhood certainly glad this place
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still exists with all its artifacts 1989
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oh yeah I've been assured that the stunt
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show will take place in inclement
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weather we'll wait and see and for those
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wondering tower tear you see way off on
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the horizon I think show up till wait
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one thing's for sure as much as things
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that progressed hasn't slowed down the
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crowds one bit even 30 years later
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people still love ice-cream and they
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love Gertie not every day you see a dino
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eating a tasty frozen treat and across
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the waterway is another remnant of the
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past that doesn't appear to be going
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anywhere can't say the same for Roger
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though he has hightailed it through the
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window did you know that Peavy slushy
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stop used to be a newspaper stand true
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story at the corner of sunset and
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Hollywood of course Sunset Boulevard
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came way later pop up to switching stop
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to go yessiree the proportions of the
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park are not what they used to be but
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the Brown Derby it's still here as well
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even from way over here you see Indiana
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whipping that whip around that's a lot
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of whipping it's now time it's now time
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the backside of signage done
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duh
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the retainers officer with the bullets
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for the teeth alright so bitching kids
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crowd I'm going to show you it's a
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two-part photos here we go
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and a shoreline for later please don't
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forget that as well when any of the
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channels based answers onto our step I
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want to hear everybody go crazy
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so right now this is really big poisons
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are Nancy
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take a moment and explain everybody in
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your own words the danger to working for
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explosives go ahead when you work with
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explosives it's dangerous
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Thank You Diana
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is shorten the show up just a bit
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because of the weather good to see a
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good portion of it this is a little
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though the behind-the-scenes is now
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closing up at the exit there are a few
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items check out the tank tucked away
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over there in the corner I can just
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picture all the action that took place
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on top of that thing never never losing
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the Hat though got to keep the Hat on
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this is always a good place to stand and
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kind of get the cross streets and some
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of the iconic landmarks of Hollywood
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studio always nice stopping off here
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oh what a bubble just went by
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it's really hard to believe it's been
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three decades thirty years since this
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place opened
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not everything you see inside or even
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sometimes certain attractions you think
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might have been opening day were not
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hello great movie ride was the backlot
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tram tour was not this tram tour this is
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for the parking lot and then later that
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same year Indiana Jones and Star Tours
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that's it just that small handful was
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1989 everything else started to develop
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in 90 91 92 and beyond even a lot of the
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old school rides and attractions in
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there we're not 89 but of the for two of
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them no longer exists in two of them we
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