However, due to the surprise popularity of the park, New York Street was removed from the tour and made into a public walking space within the first few years of operation.

Just like New York Street, due to the overwhelming popularity of Disney's Hollywood Studios, former Backlot areas were opened up to guests (present day Mickey Avenue & southern Animation Courtyard).

[5] The adjacent building, an unnamed enclosed area and theater, housed for many years an attraction called "The Making of ______" (the blank filled in with the name of the next upcoming film from either Walt Disney Pictures or Touchstone Pictures).

Originally the display area of the building emptied into the theater currently occupied by Voyage of The Little Mermaid.

The addition of the stunt show caused the Backlot Tour to be re-routed to go around the large stadium.

Small portions of the former residential street were turned into areas for the tour's relocated and downsized boneyard and for the tram roadways.

The addition of the stunt show also caused NY Street to lose its arch, as the area was needed for the tour tram to turn around to arrive at the exit station.

The Special Effects Water Tank, due to guest volunteers, continued to have a live cast until the attraction closed.

[6] The ride briefly closed down in February 2010, along with the adjacent Studio Catering Company and Honey I Shrunk the Kids Movie Set Adventure.

A number of guests in each line were taken into a show area with a large water tank in front of them.

In the water tank were props reminiscent of Pearl Harbor: the deck and the engine room of a patrol boat.

The line moved guests up and down aisles of props used in different major productions, including Marvin's Room, The Santa Clause, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Honey, I Blew Up the Kid, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Rocketeer, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Great Muppet Caper, and George of the Jungle.

As guests exited the prop building they boarded onto a tram for the main part of the tour.

As the driver brought the tram through different areas, a prerecorded narration explained what was found there and tells the guests facts about it.

Props included the genuine steamroller used by Judge Doom during the climax of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, ships from the original Star Wars films, the duo motorcycles from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the escape pod from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, cars used in the Herbie the Love Bug films, bone cages from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, the Trimaxiom Drone Ship from Flight of the Navigator and boats and other vehicles used in other Disney-produced films.

After leaving the boneyard, guests were told that they would be entering a "live" movie set while the cast was on break.

After passing the plane, the tram pulls in to the exit and unloaded into the AFI Showcase room.

In order to leave the attraction, guests had to walk through an American Film Institute museum exhibit based on AFI's 50 Greatest Villains.

Many of the villains on the list were represented with life-sized figures in display cases, with drawings and pictures of them from their films.