Here we are at MGM Studios. A theme park dedicated to the making of movies. However, I believe Disney has candy coated the industry a bit. Here are some attractions that were left on the drawing board….. “30 Kilos, 20 Cigarettes and 10 Women a Day: The Charlie Sheen Experience”, “Honey, I Sued Spielberg” and “The Haunted Nightclub of Dead, Young Hollywood Stars that OD’d on Spank.”
Here’s the tried and true Indiana Jones Stunt Show! It was pretty cool. There were a lot of explosions and surprises. I believe this takes place in the “Temple of the One Who Shall Not Be Named” just before Indy is in danger of losing some serious Sanity Points. Indy comes out victorious in the end, though! Aww, crud. Did I just give away the ending?
Looming over MGM studios is the creepy Hollywood Tower Hotel where ghosts of guests that disappeared on Halloween evening roam about the halls (Well, if someone is gunna disappear; I suppose Halloween evening is better than any).
Both the inside and the outside are designed to look as creepy and dilapidated as possible. Half the ride is the atmosphere. Look at what a great job Disney Imaginers did on the Tower of Terror Lobby! It’s not the inside that will scare the beegeeses out of you; it’s the elevator drop, and drop, and drop and drop again that’ll give you coronary!
Standing guard at the Star Tours ride at MGM is an Imperial AT-AT (or Imperial Walker, if you prefer). Looks like it’s time to “dork it up” and “geek out” on some more Star Wars stuff!!
During the line (or queue) to get on the ride, Star Tours, you must pass many robots working on various technical and engineering projects. Here we see C3PO working for a telemarketing firm. Guess nobody bothered to tell him about the “No Call” list.
Nope. You get three guesses to where the Star Tours attraction drops you off when it’s over, and the first two don’t count. ….A GIFT SHOP!!!!
Here’s how not to cheese off alien bounty hunters. Don’t try and get their attention by calling them Tubby and Slappy. Don’t point out to them that one has drooling problem and that the other is wearing a Burger King outfit. Most important, don’t make any mention of animal husbandry when commenting on the big one’s pants.
MGM Studios decided to beef up their security forces upon hearing of my arrival. It seems that word got out about my plan to stalk the Castmember who portrayed Princess Leia. Here I am with a member of MGM’s new security force seconds before he had me pinned to the ground and pistol whipped me with his blaster.