Hollywood Land

Hollywood Pictures Backlot
The Hollywood Pictures Backlot entrance
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Attraction type	Themed Land
Theme	Hollywood backlot

Hollywood Pictures Backlot (soon to become Hollywoodland) is a themed land at Disney's California Adventure park at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. The area is based as a backlot of a Hollywood studio and has attractions themed to this concept. Hollywood Pictures Backlot opened with the park in 2001.

The towering movie studio gates that serve as the land's entrance feature intricately carved elephants atop massive columns. The gateway is a tribute to the spectacular epics made throughout Hollywood history, especially pioneering director D. W. Griffith's 1916 silent film Intolerance.

The thrill attraction The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror opened in 2004, and Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue, based on the Disney/Pixar movie Monsters, Inc., opened in 2006 as part of the resort's 50th anniversary.

The interior of the Animation Building

Attractions

• Monsters, Inc. Mike & Sulley to the Rescue!
• The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
• Disney's Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular
• Playhouse Disney: Live on Stage!
• Muppet*Vision 3D
• Disney Animation
  • Turtle Talk with Crush
  • Animation Academy
  • Character Close-Up
  • Sorcerer's Workshop
• The Hollywood Backlot Stage
• Superstar Limo
• Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? – Play It!
• The Power of BLAST!
• Disney's Steps In Time

Restaurants

• ABC Soap Opera Bistro (2001-2003, replaced by 'Playhouse Disney: Live on Stage!' attraction)
• Award Wieners
• Hollywood & Dine (2001)
• Schmoozies
• Studio Catering Service (formerly 'Between Takes')

Shopping

• ABC Soaplink (2001 - 2003)
• Off The Page
• Gone Hollywood
• Studio Store (formerly 'Rizzo's Prop & Pawn Shop')
• Tower Hotel Gifts

Expansion

Hollywood Pictures Backlot will be renamed to Hollywoodland and will represent the old Hollywood glitz and glamour that was in the 1930s. The land will house several ticketed events in the future. Disney film directors, writers and animators will occasionally be in the area to inform guests about their careers. The popular kids and family stage show "Playhouse Disney: Live on Stage" will be updated and the Red Car trolleys from Walt Disney Plaza will go through this land. The building that formerly held the Who Wants To Be A Millionaire - Play It! attraction was to have served as a temporary entrance, while the real one will be renovated, but was moved next to Soarin' Over California. Construction will begin in 2010.

Gallery

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  Exterior of the Animation Building
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  The Hollywood Tower Hotel
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  Interior of the Hollywood Tower Hotel
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  The main street of the Backlot
• The Zoetrope inside the Animation Building
  The Zoetrope inside the Animation Building
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  The queue for Muppetvision