Journey into Narnia: Creating The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
Journey into Narnia: Creating the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was a theme park show that operated at Disney's Hollywood Studios from December 9, 2005, to January 1, 2008. It was a stand and watch attraction, with a live appearance by the White Witch character and several costumes from the film about the exit.
Visitors to the Journey into Narnia were led into an antechamber with a Wardrobe prop "entrance". The audience was then led through the wardrobe doors into a large room adorned with flocked pine trees, a lamppost, a large tree illuminated with fiber optics, and a large (150") projection television screen. The screen displayed a greatly abridged version of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the 2005 feature film co-produced by Disney and Walden Media.
At a key point in the abridged film, the White Witch appeared on a terrace above the crowd and read a few lines from the film. The abridged film then continued on-screen, followed by a short preview of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, the second Narnia feature film, which was to be released in 2008. None of the material shown on-screen was exclusive — all could be found in the DVD edition of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe or in online previews of Prince Caspian.
After standing and watching for approximately 10 to 15 minutes, the audience exited through a hallway that was decorated with several costumes from the film.
Update
This attraction closed permanently on January 2, 2008 so it could be converted into the new attraction, "Journey into Narnia: Prince Caspian", which officially opened on June 27, 2008. It is scheduled to remain until the third film in the series, "Journey into Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader", is released in May 2010. It has since been replaced by "The Legend of Jack Sparrow".
History
In 2003, this area was used to house The Making of The Haunted Mansion Movie attraction. Before that, the building (Soundstage 4) housed set from the live-action version of 101 Dalmatians from 1996 - 2002.