

Playhouse Disney – Live on Stage! opened next to Stitch Live! and is presented in French, English and Spanish. In 2009, new entertainment opened at Walt Disney Studios to run alongside Mickey's Magical Party, which began in April 2009. Stitch Live!, imported from Hong Kong Disneyland, replaced the Disney Channel Studio Tour. On 22 December 2007, The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror soft-opened with the new Hollywood Boulevard on Production Courtyard. A similar ride is found in Mermaid Lagoon at Tokyo DisneySea. In this expansion phase are Crush's Coaster, a custom-designed Maurer Söhne SC 2000 indoor spinning roller coaster, and Cars Quatre Roues Rallye themed after the 2006 Disney/Pixar film Cars, with the ride taking the form of an enhanced teacups ride. The concept has been created exclusively for Walt Disney Studios Park and features two rides not seen in any other Disney theme park, along with small merchandising locations and many character meet-and-greets. It is themed as a "toon backlot", representing the film studio workplace of animated characters, where they produce their animated films. In June 2007, a new "studio lot" opened in the Animation Courtyard area of the park, named Toon Studio. The guests, they just want, you know,' and it's like talking yourself in at the highest levels of, the guests… the guests would just buy this stuff.

It's supposed to be like a studio.' But again, it was this notion of, 'Ah, the people… the guests will buy it. No kidding, for the first ten minutes, I'm walking through, and I was like 'When are we gonna be in the park?' And he turned to me and he goes, 'You're in the park.' And I'm like 'I'm on stage?' He goes, 'You're on stage.' Like, 'This looks backstage.' It's a bunch of gray warehouses. The first time I went to Paris second gate, it was after hours.
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In the 2019 documentary series The Imagineering Story, Bruce Vaughn, Chief Creative Executive (2007–2016) of Walt Disney Imagineering, described his reaction when he visited the park when it first opened: Walt Disney Studios Park opened on 16 March 2002. Construction would officially begin a year later in 2000. The park was announced on 29 September 1999. After the resort began to make a profit, these plans were revived on a much smaller scale. Initial plans for a second theme park, named Disney-MGM Studios Europe or Disney-MGM Studios Paris, were scheduled to open in 1995, though these plans were canceled around mid-1992 due to the resort's financial issues at the time.
