Studio Tram Tour: Behind the Magic

Studio Tram Tour: Behind the Magic
Walt Disney Studios Park
Area	Production Courtyard
Status	Removed
Opening date	March 16, 2002
Closing date	January 6, 2020
Replaced by	Cars: Road Trip (Worlds of Pixar), Adventure Way & World of Frozen
Ride statistics
Attraction type	Tram Tour
Designer	Walt Disney Imagineering
Theme	Backlot tour of a working film studio
Vehicle type	Tram
Wheelchair accessible
Assistive listening available
Closed captioning available

Studio Tram Tour: Behind the Magic was an attraction at Walt Disney Studios Park, Disneyland Paris. It premiered with the grand opening of the park on March 16, 2002.^[1] The attraction closed on 5 January 2020, to be replaced by a new Cars themed attraction and make way for the €2 billion multi-year expansion plan at Walt Disney Studios Park.^[2][3]

Disney Imagineers wanted to create a studio tour at the Walt Disney Studios Park, similar to the former Studio Backlot Tour at Disney's Hollywood Studios in Florida, where the tour was once the park's signature attraction.^{[citation needed]}

The attraction opened on March 16, 2002, being one of the park's debut attractions.^[4]

On 14 October 2019, Disneyland Paris announced that the tram tour would be replaced by a new attraction based on Pixar’s Cars franchise. This came following the announcement by Disney CEO Bob Iger of a €2 billion expansion plan for Walt Disney Studios Park in February 2018, marking a shift towards immersive franchise-based lands rather than the studio-backlot theme the park was known for.^[3][5] The attraction's last operating day was January 5, 2020; the ride then closed January 6.^[2]

While most of the former ride was dismantled, the large-scale "Catastrophe Canyon" effects sequence was retained and incorporated into Cars: Road Trip, the replacement of the Studio Tram Tour.^[5][6][7]

Guests enter the attraction via the Hollywood Boulevard section of the park, under a false façade of the Hollywood sign. The tram ride portion of the attraction features highlights such as the Catastrophe Canyon scene and a look into the set of London in ruins from the film Reign of Fire.^{[citation needed]}

The tour was guided by a bilingual video featuring Jeremy Irons and Irène Jacob. Until 2005, two other bilingual videos were occasionally used, hosted by Isabella Rossellini and Famke Janssen, and Inés Sastre and Nastassja Kinski, respectfully.^{[citation needed]}

• Studio Backlot Tour (former counterpart tram tour at Disney's Hollywood Studios, Walt Disney World)