Disney Hollywood Studios is themed to resemble Hollywood in the 1930's, even down to the Hollywood Towers Hotel, which towers more than 190 feet above the park.

The Disney Hollywood Studios isn't as large as The Magic Kingdom or EPCOT, and like the Disney's Animal Kingdom, it can't be reached by the Disney Monorail but it's still worth allocating a full day to see the park's many attractions, which includes musical productions such as The Voyage of the Little Mermaid, and the Beauty and the Beast at the Theatre of the Stars.

Jim Henson's Muppet Vision 4d is a 25 minute show, which starts harmlessly enough, but is full of traditional muppet antics, with a grand finale in which the theatre is destroyed!

The Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular (another 30min show) takes you behind the scenes to see how some of the classic Hollywood stunts are performed, while in the 22-min Great Movie Ride the whole theatre breaks up into a large-scale gentle ride through the golden age of Hollywood.

The Backlot tour takes 35-mins to complete, and takes you through some of the original sets and props used in many classic Disney productions, culminating with a trip through Catastrophe Canyon.

The Animation tour takes you through a real working animation studio, where Disney animators can be seen putting finishing touches to a forthcoming Disney animated feature.

From late November to early January the Residential Street part of the backlot is used to display the Osborne Family Spectacle of Lights. Enhanced and added to by Disney there are now more than three million fairy lights in the display. Originally bought by Jennings Osborne of Little Rock in Arkansas over a period of years to make his child's Christmas wish come true, it was bought by Disney and moved to the Disney Hollywood Studios when Jennings Osborne received too many complaints from his neighbors about the volume of visitors to see his local Christmas light show.

As with the Magic Kingdom, many of the well known Disney characters are on hand throughout the day signing autographs and posing for family photographs.

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