The Great Movie Ride is a Hollywood Studios original, an opening day attraction dating back to May 1st, 1989. Its history can be directly linked to the development of the entire park, but that’s a story for another video and blog.
In 2014, Disney and Turner Classic Movies signed an agreement that included sponsorship of the Great Movie Ride; this sponsorship included some refurbishments including a new pre-show, new post-show, and new onboard ride narration.
The signage around the attraction has changed slightly, and the queue now features animated movie posters and a much longer pre-show loop. I have always been personally fond of the post-show video montage, a short video at the end of the attraction that takes riders on a nostalgic look at the movies. With the addition of the new Turner Classic Movies sponsorship comes an updated post-show montage. While everyone will have an opinion, one of the best parts of the update is the move to all-digital projection. While the video has been updated many times
since opening – adding Pirates, Nemo, and many other recent productions – the TCM update is a complete redo – while lots of the scenes are the same, the net result is many more clips and movies represented.
I took the opportunity to create a video with both the 2014 and 2015 versions of the post-show. The video featured in this blog has the full pre-refurb ending montage and the complete post-refurb montage. Hope you enjoy it.
You might also like the recent updates to Test Track over at Epcot, I like to call it Test Track 2.0
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