Studio Backlot Tour: Ride Review

The Studio Backlot Tour is located in Hollywood Studios. If you keep walking through Pixar Place, you will see the entrance. The entrance is a crashed tour bus, that sometimes spits water at you.

You first queue up to go to the pre-show area. The pre-show is a special effects demonstration with some park quests to participate as actors. Its a pretty good show if you have never seen it before. If you are like me and have seen it over 5 times, then its just kind of routine.

After the show, you get to walk through the prop house to get to the ride. It is really cool and the props are sometimes cycled through when new movies come out. This time there were a lot of Prince of Persia and Sorcerer's Apprentice things out.

The Prop Warehouse (Sorcerer's Apprentice)

The first part of the tour takes you through the outside bone yard. This is where all of the vehicles are from your favorite movies. They are not changed out often enough, so if you have seen it before then nothing with surprise you. Next, you go through some of the buildings. These are really cool because a lot of the times you get to see things that are actually being worked on.  During my last trip there was work being done in the prop/construction area. It looked like a purple dinosaur almost.

The Earful Tower

The next thing you see is Catastrophe Canyon, this is probably the main attraction of the whole ride. This one is still cool even if you have seen it before. The idea is that you are taking participating in a special effects scene. There is fire and flooding and rain, its just really cool.

Catastrophe Canyon

Catastrophe Canyon

Catastrophe Canyon

You see a few more things after the canyon. Before Light, Motors, Action came to town, you could see all of the houses from different movies. I really miss the old tour, but I do like the stunt show. The tour is over after you round the corner to the exit station. There is a cool exhibit inside the exit building. It is called Villains in Vogue. It has a lot of costumes from all sorts of villains. You really must check it out. I won't ruin all of what is in there.

Villains in Vogue

I do love this tour, but unless they change it up soon, I'm not sure how often I will continue to ride it. It was refurbished two weeks before I came this April and the only thing they changed was the addition of 2 props. I would say that this ride is a one time thing. Its not worth it to go on twice or even wait hours for.

It really needs to be longer or at least have more variety. I liked the old one much better. 

I would give this ride a 5 out 10, mostly because I have been on it a million times and nothing ever changes. It is just one of those rides that you ride because it is a classic.