Disney's Hollywood Studios is a theme park at the Walt
Disney World Resort. Spanning 135 acres in size, its theme is
show business, drawing inspiration from the heyday of Hollywood
in the 1930s and 1940s. The third park built at the
resort, it opened on May 1, 1989 as Disney-MGM Studios.
In 2010, the park hosted approximately 9.6 million guests, ranking it the fifth-most visited amusement park in the United States, and eighth-most visited in the world. The park is represented by The Sorcerer's Hat, a stylized version of the magical hat from Fantasia. It replaced the Earful Tower as the park's icon in 2001.
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