Still, revealing the secrets of the filmmaking process would inform much, if not all, of the park’s various attractions and experiences, and this was nowhere clearer than in Production Central, the first “land” that patrons would visit as they began their tour of USF. Universal Studios Florida as it appeared in 1990
Universal knew it couldn’t be the studio-park hanger-on in the Mouse’s own backyard of Orlando, so it opted to flip the original script – from here on out, Universal Studios Florida would be a theme park first and foremost, with the production aspect being the after-thought.
Disney learned of its new competitor’s plans and coopted them, creating what is today known as Hollywood Studios in record time and managing to open it a year before Universal Studios Florida would finally materialize in 1990 on that first day of operation, approximately half of the park was off-limits to guests, as it housed working soundstages and animation studios that were only accessible to visitors via production tours. Such an approach, however, was not meant to be. When Universal originally decided to establish a presence in Orlando, Florida in the early 1980s, the company settled on essentially duplicating its Universal Studios Hollywood formula: a working film lot as the foundation, with a production tram tour as the main themed element.
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