- EPCOT: World Showcase-International Gateway
- A second park entrance, called International Gateway, was opened in 1990
between France and the United Kingdom. It was built to service the new Epcot
resorts. Both a walkway and a canal with shuttle watercraft provide a link
between the park and the resorts.
- Studios: Star Tours
- Rockets it's first
guest into Outer Space.
- Studios: Commissary Restaurant
- Built
in the new backlot annex area in record time (seven months) to meet the needs
of overflowing park vistors, this new fast-food restaurant opened in 1990.
- Studios: Soundstage Restaurant
- The
original decor of this restaurant was changed in 1990 from the original (based
on the movie Big Business) to one based on Beauty and the Beast.
- Studios: Sorcery in the Sky Fireworks
- It wouldn't be a Disney park without fireworks, and the Disney-MGM Studios
version premiered in 1990. The Sorcery in the Sky Fireworks appear behind
the Chinese Theater and are best viewed from the end of Hollywood Boulevard,
in the vicinity of the Hollywood Brown Derby restaurant. The pyrotechnics
are themed to music from Fantasia and the finale features a huge Sorcerer
Mickey who appears on top of the Chinese Theater.
- Studios: Honey I Shrunk the Audience Movie Set Adventure
- Essentially a playground for children, this attraction opened December 17,
1990 in the new backlot annex area. Visitors walk through a small patch of
Dr. Wayne Zelinski's backyard, which has been made to look like you have been
shrunk down to the size of an ant.
- Resorts: Yacht Club & Beach Club
- The
Yacht Club & Beach Club Resorts both opened in the Epcot resort area on November
5, 1990. These sister resorts, although sharing a common recreation area,
represent two distinct variations on a new England seaside theme. The Yacht
Club is a more formal representation of a Martha's Vineyard summer resort
of yesteryear, while the Beach Club presents the more informal type of summer
getaway that might have been found on the Nantucket of the same era.
- Studios: Here Come the Muppets
- A live action and puppet stage show based on the Muppets opened on
May 25, 1990 in the theater that formerly ran previews of upcoming Disney
movies at the end of the Studio Walking Tour. (This attraction was replaced
by the Voyage of the Little Mermaid in 1992.)
- Resorts: Walt Disney World Dolphin-
This EPCOT area hotel is operated independently, much the same as in the Hotel
Plaza. The Dolphin by Sheraton Hotels. A huge pair of namesake creatures,
visible miles away tops each.
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