Animation (behind the scene) Tour (MGM)

[MICKEY'S DREAMERS]

Is still available or was it discontinued?
In which days is held?
How much does it cost )
thanks

 

[mitros]

It's still there, but there are no animators left

It is held every day, several times a day.

There is no cost.
There is very little at the parks that you pay extra for. {outside of food, of course,} The only thing that comes to mind are the carnival games at AK.

 

[laurabelle]

What happened to the animators???

 

[Dan Murphy]

The actual behind the scenes animation tour, a several hour, extra cost tour, was discontinued about a year or so ago. The shorter, included in admisisson tour, is still there, and just recently changed a bit. And yes, all the FL animators are gone, released recently in more corporate cutbacks.

http://www.wdwmagic.com/disney.htm

 

[mitros]

Wow, we have made over a hundred visits to WDW, and don't remember a tour at MGM that they charged for. Was it one of those tours like Keys to the Kingdom, or Secrets of WS at Epcot?

 

[Rachael Q]

We were at MGM on 01/20 and went through "The Magic of Disney Animation".

It is not a working studio anymore. The first part is an presentation with a CM and Mushu (from Mulan) on how a character goes from idea to "movie star".

Then you move through to the Studio - it is still set up, but all the desks are empty. A CM does and Question and Answer session. The CM we had, talked about the movies that have been made there.

Two questions that were asked and answered....
what happened to the animators - they were all laid off last monday - 01/12th. All animation is now done out of the California Studios, and while they still have some "manual" animators, most animation is now done digitally

What will happen to the studios/will they be refurbished into a different attraction - at this time there are no plans, or none that have been made announced anyway.

There were many more but they were about the process of animation, and various movies.

The next part of the tour was a lesson in animation, you get to draw and take home a Disney Character.

It took about 40 minutes all up - 20 minutes for the tour and 20 minutes for the drawing lesson.

It is one of the attractions in MGM and does not cost extra.

 

[laurabelle]

I guess I'll take that off my itinerary.