10 Extinct Disney World Attractions You Need To Know About

2. Backlot Studio Tour

When Disney's Hollywood Studios opened in 1989, the Backlot Studio Tour was its main attraction.

Originally the ride was a 2 hour tour through the working sound stages of Disney. Split into both a tram ride and a walking tour, guests would be treated to seeing behind the scenes of how movies were made.

Visitors would be taken down the streets of America where there would also encounter Residential Street (home to the house from Ernest Saves Christmas and the Golden Girls) and would see the costume departments, be able to peer behind sound-proof glass of tapings and head into the movies at Catastrophe Canyon.

It was in the canyon that guests would find themselves in the middle of a working set and experience an earthquake, a truck explosion and a flood.

Over time the tour was gradually scaled back. Streets of America became an area accessible outside of the tour and Residential Street shut to make way for Lights, Motor, Action. By the time of the last tour it was a mere 40 minutes in length.

In 2014, the Backlot Studio Tour stopped running to make way for what will be Star Wars Land and Toy Story Land.