Hollywood Studios or still MGM?

[disney332]

I call it a half day.

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[Gems09]

It's still mgm in my mind I just can't help it

[lovedisney]

MGM to me I can never seem to remember the new name 😳

[DISNEYLIZ]

It will always be MGM

[Tiger Lily]

I can never remember what it's proper name is - so normally a bit of both "MGM Studios" lol

[DisneyExplorer]

Funny i was thinking about that yesterday. I grew up calling it MGM Studios and i've just seemed to continue in the same vane.

[Steve.S]

Hi,we call it HS but it took a while to get used to calling it that,it was the kids who kept on correcting me and DW.

[Guest]

Originally Posted by gemms2000

It will always be MGM to me, this is the first year we've been and Mickeys hat hasn't been there - it seems really strange!

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But Mickey's hat was not the original icon.The view up Hollywood Boulevard when the Studios was first opened was as it is now. The icon was the Ear-ffel Tower on the backlot when it first opened in 1989. The hat did not come along until 2001, 12 years later. It was originally called Disney's MGM Studios because Disney wanted access to films other than their own and thus signed a contract with MGM. The contract expired in 2005 and thus the name of the park changed.
Did you know that when Disney's MGM Studios first opened it was an enormous Hidden Mickey?

[Sallyjackzero]

Depends who I'm talking to, I do forget quite often and call it MGM.

[Doonhamer08]

Originally Posted by Trueblue88

We sometimes say MGM then correct ourselves to Hollywood Studios, we still call the shopping mall at the end of international drive The BELZ

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Agreed. We still call that Belz.