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    Today heading to my 11th and final Disney park.. the Walt Disney Studios park.
    It has very short operating hours each day.
    Approaching the park the left side of the front gate is under renovation.
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    Only a couple gates were open but they handled the crowd with now problem.
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    Found this confusing. Signage and announcements all said you need your ticket and handstamp for re-admission and park hopping. But cast members said you did not. Guess this may be used during busy times only? Or a policy change?
    Studio 1 is the Main Street of the Studios. It contains some shops and food. Interesting to note it is in a single/large building.
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    To the left the water tower and a gift shop.
    Straight ahead a construction wall around the courtyard in front of Studio 1.
    To the right the guest services and lost and found.
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    Approaching the entrance. Thought the shadow of the water tower was interesting.
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    Stepping inside Studio 1
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    The facades are made to be movie sets.. low quality movie sets at that.
    Compare this to Hollywood Blvd at the Studios in Florida..
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    Taken from about the mid point.
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    A coffee shop/snack location. Behind it a counter service restaurant.
    A car parked in front of the service station set.
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    Stepping out of Studio 1 and into the park. the Tower of Terror dominates the skyline. Notice the Partners statue and beyond it Hollywood Blvd.
    A closer look at the Partners Statue (the lighting was not very helpful)
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    Hollywood Blvd is beyond Walt and Mickey.
    Looking to the left slightly.
    Looking further left toward the Place des Stars which is mostly behind walls for renovation.
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    I turned right and entered the Toon Studio portion of the park.
    This hat marks the entrance to the Animation building.
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    A snack cart not open yet.
    To the left as you walk through Toon Studio is the Cars Attraction. The rockwork here is much smaller in scale than Cars Land.
    Across the walkway is Crushs Coaster.
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    The park had not opened yet. So a great time to get a couple pictures of the attraction with no guests.
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    Lightning and Mater overlook the area.
    The set piece for the outdoor portion of the coaster.
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    For all you trash can followers.. the Toon Studio design (I will do a full post on them at some point.)
    Photo meet and greets in the Toon Studio area.
    Mickey was out this morning.
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    Another snack cart.
    More facade on the Cars Attraction queue building.
    The entrance for the Cars attraction.
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    So is this where Quido and Luigi went on vacation to from Radiator Springs in Carsland?
    Passing Toy Story Land on my way to Ratatouille
    The queue for the Ratatouille attraction stretched almost to Toy Story Land. They had not opened it nor the queue yet.
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    This area of the part is more on par with the level of detail and immersion you expect from a Disney park and really stands above the rest of the park.
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    Opening the queue, it was a couple minutes to 10 and park opening.
    I grabbed a FastPass for later since they were turned on.
    Found my group in line.
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    Lunch today will be at Remys, in the background of this picture.
    Made it into the outdoor queue area.
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    Entering the building.
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    A very short indoor queue wraps through the roof tops of Paris.
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    A sign to indicate you need to pick up glasses
    It is a 3D attraction so glasses are required.
    Warnings...
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    Just about to board my ratmobile..it was about 20 after 10 by this time.
    I enjoyed the attraction so only snapped this one picture as we drove through the refrigerator.
    And one of the finale to see if it would come out or look really blurred.. not that good.. but not miserable either.
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    Exiting..
    As you exit you can look into the restaurant.
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    Some pictures of the area as we exited.
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    Entering Toy Story Land.
    Rex was behind a wall for renovation.
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    Slinky was closed for renovation too.
    RC was open but I did not ride. The building/set looks similar to Hong Kong but not as impressive. I think because everything felt more cramped/tighter here.
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    Since they only had walls up at the entrance/exit you could watch the crews working on the renovation. Note they did reopen during the weekend for a couple of days then closed again.
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    The third attraction in the land is the Parachute drop.
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    Back through Toon Studio
    There were quite a few of these trailer stands throughout the park.
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    The Tram Tour only had a 10 min wait so we decided to give it a try.
    A car in the queue area
    Warnings...
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    Plenty of queue space.. not used this morning.
    Did I mention it was cool this morning. Cast Members were bundled up.
    More unused queue near the load area.
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    Movie posters in the queue. Not very recent...
    Our tram approaching.
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    Onboard a screen in each car.
    Heading out.
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    Our narrators. All pre-recorded in English and French.
    Cast members in the front car but they appear to be just safety observers.
    Looking back at the station.
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    You drive for a couple of minutes through some trees.
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    then you come upon some of the boneyard. Here is a plane from Pearl Harbor
    From Armageddon
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    From a Hunchback production.
    Anyone remember this? Appears to be a Horizons sub.
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    Passing a larger set.
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    A random topiary.
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    Approaching Catastrophe Canyon
    A tram parked out back.
    Pulling in.
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    The set looks more or less the same as the now closed Orlando version.
    Except here they do not try to pass it off as a working set instead just a showcase of effects.
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    Cars shaking.
    Fire...
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    The flood is coming.
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    Pulling around back to show how it is done.
    Video plays twice.. once in French and once in English explaining the effects as we drove.
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    Drove back down the same road.
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    Entering another set, this time London from Reign of Fire.
    A large fire effect as the tram pauses. It then pulled forward and ran again for those of us in the back.
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    As we pull away more vehicles.
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    Looking back into the set.
    You drive by more of the bone yard.
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    Seems he should be in Toy Story Land
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    Pulling back into the station to unload and end this trip. It was about 15 minutes from when we pulled out till we returned.
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    Here are some video clips from most of the trip.
    Looking toward Studio 1 from the end of Hollywood Blvd where the Tram Tour is.
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    to the right is stage 2 where Cinemagique is we will visit there later.
    Statues around the Art of Animation building.
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    On the side of Studio 1 is a Monsters Inc photo spot.
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    My next stop Stage 3 and Animagique.
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    The queue area.
    They said no pictures but everyone pulled out cameras so I snapped one picture of the start of the show. Cast Members did go around asking to not take pictures.. so I only took the one. the show is a black-light show featuring Donald Duck going through various scenes. It starts off with Normal lighting and Mickey and Donald working. That is what this picture is of.
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    Stopped by the Disney Animation Gallery next
    There is a store and this interactive area.
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    An animation academy class in session.
    Learning to draw Olaf.
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    The cars were calling me... no wait and had 20 minutes till lunch.
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    Or do we go ride the carpets of Aladdin across the way.. it had a 15 minute wait so that was out.
    The coaster going by.
    The queue for Cars Quatre Roues Rallye
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    How to properly sit/distribute weight.
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    The cars are really really tight for adults.
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    Here is some video of the Cars Quatre Roues Rallye in action and from my ride.
    Making my way to lunch at Remys now.

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