Every Disney park evolves — not just in its mixture of attractions, but its whole layout. Here we trace the very first steps of the Studios, as its lots and walkways are sketched out and ultimately, built.

The classic Disneyland Railroad station, the Pan-Pacific Auditorium… The magic of a Disney theme park begins right at the turnstiles. Let’s take a look at how the entrance to Walt Disney Studios Park moved from sketch to reality…

Step onto a Main Street that isn’t Main Street, a Hollywood that never was that was always meant to be. From the very first plans, an indoor Hollywood Boulevard was intended to open the park. Does the finished reality match the early vision?

In animation, you can’t just grab a movie camera and start shooting. Everything – down to the tiniest detail – has to be designed, created and drawn from scratch. The same goes for a Disney theme park…

One chilly night long ago… thousands of people stepped through the gate of a Studio and into a nightmare. Now, at last, we’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. Tower of Terror is finally becoming a reality…

Step inside the second gate that never was! Disney-MGM Studios Europe, a theme park almost as legendary as the century-old movies which inspired it, was the original vision for Walt Disney Studios Park, due to open Summer of ’95!

When Disney again started planning a second gate in Paris following the cancellation of Disney-MGM Studios Europe, Disney Studios Paris was born. And so were another studio full of dreams and ideas that never made it off the page…