Toy Story Mania is one of the newer rides in the Hollywood Studios and shrinks you down to the size of a toy as you take on several carnival games. You jump into your buggy and shoot your virtual gun toward the 3D screens, popping balloons, throwing rings onto bottle tops and several other midway games. It’s an interesting mix of reality and virtual reality as you shoot virtual darts and rings but they aren't real! The 3D is really impressive though and allows for very accurate aim. Toy Story Mania is a very immersive game that spins you around and pits you against your partner. Being one of the most unique rides you’ll ever ride, or play, Toy Story Mania is a must for anyone going to Disney World’s Hollywood Studios.
Disney’s Hollywood Studios is home to one entertaining, hilarious and full throttle show in Indiaina Jones Stunt Spectacular. The show starts off with a great preshow where extras from the “film show” are selected from the crowd. Once that part is over the real thrills begin as Indiana Jones himself bursts from the roof, dangling inches from the floor on a rope. The famous “boulder chase” is then played out with some funny segments to end. The next part of the show reintroduces us to the extras as a market scene is pulled into place. Some great stunts are once again pulled as Indy and Marion climb the buildings of the market, fight off a few ninjas and blow up a truck all in fifteen minutes. While the scene is changed the girl who plays Marion teaches an “extra” a few stunts of her own and a surprise is shown to the audience that will blow you away! The show then ends with the famous helicopter fight scene, ending with a disappearing enemy and an huge explosion! With the new movie out Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular is better then ever and is always a blast to watch!
Located in Disney’s Hollywood Studios, Lights Motors Action! Takes you on a high speed thrill through the streets of Paris as movie car stunts are performed right in front of your eyes. The show is taken from Disney Paris and takes you through a run of a hollywood stunt shoot. They teach you as well as show you how the stunts are safely performed and it’s one thrill that you will never forget and will want to see over and over again! Although the show contains mostly car stunts there are also other forms of tranportation thrown into, even the famous Herbie the Love Bug gets to take a whirl around the round, he has to split pretty fast though so don't blink!
Disney’s Pixar characters are starting to take over Hollywood Studios and you can see that first hand in the Block Party Bash parade. The bash is more like a show on the streets of the park where Pixar characters come out to party, make you dance and have a blast while doing it. Dance party songs are played that can be heard throughout the whole park and those in the parade pull park goers in to dance along. Acrobats also fill the streets, doing back flips and other jumps on mobile trampolines. The show ends with bang as several balls are shot into the air, giving a prize for all who watch.
In the Hollywood Studios there sites a run down hotel with a very spooky past. In the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror you embark in a journey into the twilight zone. The ride is a very immersed experience as you actually feel like something did happen in the very hotel you are stepping into. The story begins with a group of people on an elevator when suddenly lighting strikes the tower and the group become instant ghosts. You then are sent into the boiler room of the “hotel” and into a maintenance service elevator. You then embark in the same trip that the group took and into the twilight zone. You’ll be in for a shock as the group appears and hearkens you further when suddenly the elevator car moves forward. As you see the stars appear you know its time to drop as you plummet down then back up again several times. The ride now has a randomness to it and is a different experience each time you ride. It’s a classic ride and one not to be missed.
