I do not own these characters or places…..Stephenie Meyer and Walt Disney do :(
Chapter 5: Disney's Hollywood Studios
Bella's POV
We had to wake up early again, this time so we could make it to the boat on time. Disney's Hollywood Studios wasn't accessible by bus from the Boardwalk hotel. We were all up and dressed, Renesmee in her Cinderella dress, by 7:00. The elevator doors slid open on the fifth floor and we stepped in. I was talking to Nessie and Edward was wrestling with the stroller when they walked in, that's right Mike and Jessica stepped into the elevator. Great I just found out my own personal hell was staying two floors down from me, it's like finding out the high school mean girl is your roommate in college.
"Hey guys," mike said in a nervous voice.
"Hi," we replied in monotone voices.
"So, what park are you going to today?" Jessica asked as Mike waved at Renesmee.
Nessie smiled and replied, "We're going to Disney's Hollywood Studios, but first we are going to the bakery so I can have some breakfast."
Mike nodded as the elevator doors slid open once again on the first floor.
"Hey that's cool, we are also going to Disney's Hollywood Studios, maybe we'll see you there," Mike said smiling a little too excited.
Now it was our turn to smile and nod as we made our way out of the elevator toward the doors to the boardwalk.
"Just smile and wave boys," Emmett whispered, I knew I should have never let him watch The Penguins of Madagascar.
As we approached the bakery, I turned around. Mike and Jessica were about ten yards behind us, great it's going to be one of "those" days. Someone opened the bakery doors and my nose was assaulted by the hideous smells of cinnabuns, muffins, and hot chocolate. Looking back I honestly don't know how I could have eaten that stuff when I was human. Pushing the disgusting smells aside we stepped in through the door. Edward bought Nessie a muffin and an apple juice and we all but ran out of the doors. Renesmee munched happily on her muffin as Edward pushed her in her stroller towards the boat dock. Nessie was just finishing her breakfast as the boat pulled up to the dock. We climbed into the boat and made our way to the back…unfortunately our "stalkers" were also in the back. The back of the boat was not covered so we got plenty of unnecessary fresh air.
"What hotel is that one? The Ugly Fish?" Emmett laughed almost falling out of his seat.
"That's the Dolphin, clearly whoever made the sculpture has never seen a dolphin before," Edward replied rolling his eyes.
"Look that hotel has a swan on it. We should have stayed there to make Bella feel more at home," Emmett said still laughing.
"Wow Emmett, just no," I said shaking my head at him.
"What," he whined shrugging his shoulders.
About five minutes later we were pulling up to the dock at Disney's Hollywood Studios. We made our way through the front gates and headed toward The Great Movie Ride. In front of the building was Mickey's Sorcerer hat from Fantasia, the hat was huge and inside was a small gift shop where Alice purchased more disposable cameras. Looking around I noticed that we somehow managed to shake off the Newtons. Edward was impressed because the building that housed The Great Movie Ride was a full-scale reproduction of Hollywood's historic Grauman's Chinese Theatre. In the cement in front of the building were hand, and foot prints of celebrities. Emmett was running around trying to match his hand, and foot prints up with different celebrities.
We got in line and entered the building. There were display cases set up along the line. The cases displayed props, set pieces, and costumes from different movies. I've heard that they used to have Dorothy's ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz, but they weren't on display while we were there. We were ushered into a room with a big movie screen on the front wall. The screen displayed clips from some old, classic movies, and some newer movies. After watching the clips for the 30th time, we finally walked through the doors and onto the actual ride. We went through movies such as Casablanca, Mary Poppins, Singin' in the Rain, Tarzan the Ape Man, and Public Enemy. Our vehicle was "stolen" by a robber during a "bank shoot-out" and our "new driver" took us on the rest of the journey.
"Momma I'm scared," Nessie whimpered as we entered what looked to be a space ship.
I tried to sooth her as best I could but I nearly lost it when an ugly black alien came down from the ceiling causing me to scream and nearly jump into Carlisle's lap. I smiled sheepishly at him and scooted closer to Edward and Nessie who were giggling from my little outburst. We entered what looked like a cave full of snakes and an announcer told us that a cursed jewel was located at the top of the great stone pillar. Our thief of a driver suddenly perked up once he heard the word jewel. He stopped the car, jumped swiftly out, and raced up the stairs toward the jewel. As soon as he made it up the stairs a cloaked figure stepped out from behind a wall. The person tried to warn our driver about the curse on the jewel, but the driver being greedy, didn't listen to the cloaked figure. Our driver grabbed the jewel and a cloud of smoke engulfed him.
"I'll drive," Emmett said trying to get up.
"No need," the cloaked figure said.
The person pulled off the cloak and underneath was…our original driver.
"Did you miss me?" he asked charging down the stairs and leaping into the car.
We all nodded in amazement, trying to figure out how he got to this place before us. The ride was coming to an end and we soon found ourselves in a familiar land. There were little houses and a long winding yellow brick road. The Munchkins came out to greet us and sing to us in their insanely high pitched voices. We passed Dorothy's house where we could clearly see the black and white stockings and ruby slippers on the Wicked Witch of the East's legs and feet. There was a large stone well at the end of the path. After a while smoke began to pour out of the top and the Wicked Witch of the West appeared. She threatened us and pointed at us with her ugly brown broomstick.
"You better get out of here before someone drops a house on you," our driver threatened the anamatronic witch.
She looked to the sky, ducked, and disappeared again in another thick cloud of smoke. We began to move again and found Dorothy, Toto, the Tin man, the Cowardly Lion, and the Scarecrow walking down the yellow brick road towards the Emerald city. After moving into another room to watch more movie clips, the ride was over and we exited the building and headed towards the Streets of America.
We decided to go on rides first and then watch the shows and play on the playground Emmett and Nessie spotted a while back. The next ride we came to was the Studio Backlot Tour. The line moved on to what looked like a movie set. The announcer said that we were going to discover how battles and storms at sea are created with the help of water tanks and pyrotechnics. He then announced his special guests, now if I wasn't too preoccupied in giving Nessie a juice box then I would have noticed that half of my family had been missing.
"And what are your name's?" the announcer questioned.
"I'm Emmett, this is Alice, and this is Jasper," Emmett proudly announced.
"Ok Emmett you will be sitting here," he said pointing to a small chair in the middle of a little booth.
"And you two will be coming and standing here," he told Alice and Jasper leading them toward a small boat.
Emmett's job was to answer the phone and pretend to yell commands at the non-existent person on the other end. Then after he hung up the phone a large bucket filled with water was poured in through the tiny window, it looked like the water would drown him but once the water cleared the only thing visible was Emmett's huge goofy grin.
"Let's hear it for Emmett," the announcer said clapping and walking towards the boat.
"Ok now it's your turn," he said pointing at Alice, Jasper, and the two other random people.
Their job was to pretend to be cleaning the boat. Once they started cleaning helicopters could be heard overhead. They started to shoot and bomb the boat, causing the water to shoot up and sprinkle the people standing in the front row. Then the people on the boat had to pretend to freak out and run around to try to get away from the attack.
Once they were finished and took their bows, we got to watch all of the scenes together. They put Emmett's phone call and "drowning" together with Alice and Jasper's boat attack to make a mini movie. It was pretty awesome and hilarious. After they returned to our group we moved on with the line through a prop warehouse. We saw the giant stuffed bunny from Honey, I Blew-Up the Kid. After our brief walk through the warehouse, we boarded an open-air tram to embark on a tour of the backlot. There were lifelike sets, production bungalows, and vehicles used in Disney movies. We took a bunch of pictures of the different props. After coming out of the costume building, we pass right by the Earffel tower, which is a 13-story water tower with giant Mickey ears weighing in at 2.5 tons.
Our relaxing tour was about to come to an end. We approached a place called Catastrophe Canyon. We were on a long bridge and it started moving like it was falling apart. Around us there was an earthquake which caused a truck to fall over and explode. I could actually feel the heat on my ice-cold skin. After the fire was burning for a while a flash flood came and tons of water poured down from somewhere behind the canyon. The water was rushing by so fast and there was so much of it that the people sitting on the left side of the tram got a little wet.
"That was AWESOME!!" Emmett yelled as we pulled away from the bridge.
Our entire tram car was laughing at his thunderous outburst. We pulled up to another building called The American Film Institute Showcase. We walked through the automatic doors and saw that the entire room was filled with costumes, props, and sets from recent and classic movies and television shows.
The theme of the exhibits was entitled "Villains: Movie Characters You Love to Hate". There were actual costumes, props, and other memorabilia from 50 unforgettable evil-doers. We saw a Stormtrooper costume and The White Witch's costume and chariot from The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
"Luke, I am your father," Emmett said breathing like a horse. He was standing behind Darth Vader's costume so it looked like he was wearing it.
"Look momma, there's that mean lady who wanted to hurt the puppies," Renesmee said sticking her tongue out at Cruella De Vil's costume.
I laughed and ruffled her hair. She giggled and settled back into her stroller.
"Hey Rosie, would you still love me if I looked like this?" Emmett asked pointing to Barbosa's costume from the Pirates of the Caribbean film series.
"No, but I would love you more if you looked like Captain Jack Sparrow," Rose teased.
"Can we go play on the playground now Mommy?" Nessie asked sweetly.
"Yeah can we, can we, can we??" Emmett yelled bouncing up and down like he was on a pogo stick.
"Sure we can, let's go," I said as I began to push Nessie towards the playground.