Walt Disney Studio Visit!
In quite possibly the best unintentional birthday present ever, I was invited to the Walt Disney studios in Burbank on September 26th 2008.
Disney was hosting a science and technology exhibition called TechRush08 and had invited local college students to attend; I of course was quite happy to attend!
The conference was hosted in the Frank Wells building.
Which is located directly across Legends plaza from the Team Disney Building, the headquarters for the entire company.
Other notable landmarks include the famous signpoast at the corner of Mickey Avenue and Dopey Drive. The sign was created as a movie prop, but was so popular that it marks the corner to this day.
There are only seven sound stages on the Disney lot. The other studios have more, and it is common practice for the various studios to rent each other’s sound stages. And while disney has fewer sound stages, it also has the largest sound stage on the west coast, Sound stage 2 (shown below). Note the High School Musical poster on the side of the building
We didn’t get to peak inside any of the sound stages, but we did see other interesting landmarks like the Water Tower.
And they even took us inside the archives for a few minutes.
There where artifacts that really surprised me, like letterhead of Walt Disney’s backyard railroad, the Carolwood Pacific.
And even one of Walt’s buisness cards, from his days before Mickey Mouse!
And something I found personaly enjoyed, Sharpay’s hat from High School Musical 2.
It was certainly an interesting day at the Walt Disney Studios.
