The Inevitable Death of the Movie Studio Theme Park

With the closure of the Studio Backlot Tour at Disney's Hollywood Studios, theme parks marked the end of an era. The Movie Studio Theme Park theme finally went away and was replaced with more immersive lands, like the Wizarding World of Harry Potter and Pandora World of Avatar. From Universal Studios to Disney-MGM Studio, to Warner Bros. Movie World, and the many others around the world, let's take a look at the history of the defunct Movie Studio Theme Park, and why the idea was ultimately doomed to fail.

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CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
1:23 The Origin of the Movie Studio Park
3:42 Disney Enters the Game
7:42 Universal Bites Back
9:36 Movie Studio Parks were Fake
15:53 Movie Studio Parks were Cheap
17:47 The Death of the Studio Park Begins
21:37 It Was All Inevitable Anyway