We Need Another Park...

Born from a design by Marty Sklar and Randy Bright for an attraction at EPCOT Center we have the first park built under then CEO Michael Eisner (please don't shoot me for saying that name). Disney MGM Studios evolved from an idea for an EPCOT pavilion dedicated to the movies. A decision was made to build an entire park rather than just a single pavilion, and of course we also got another license plate to go along with it.


This plate was available both to the public and to the press prior to the opening of Disney MGM Studios. Of course, it also had to be a variant plate. This license plate was released with both a bare aluminum back and a white back.

Over the years there have been numerous other license plates issued for the park, some bearing the Disney MGM name and logo, and others labeled "The Walt Disney Studios." My suspicion on this is that the Disney MGM plates refer to the park in its entirety while the Walt Disney Studios plates refer only to the parts of the park that were specific Disney entities. This is only speculation on my part, but I can't really think of or find any other information that gives a clear cut reason for the difference.


In our next installment we meet a whole new species of theme park!