Full Map & Guide for Villains Unleashed Event

Here is the full guide to tonight's Villains Unleashed event at Disney's Hollywood Studios. You can see all of the special merchandise, food items, and where each character will be meeting:

Friday Photo Gallery: Before the Sorcerer's Hat

Here's some photos of Disney-MGM Studios in its early days, before that dreaded Sorcerer's Hat was plopped down blocking an amazing sight. You're welcome.

DHS Update: Closing Date for American Idol Experience

Photo by Brandon Glover

The American Idol Experience at Disney's Hollywood Studios will be closing on August 30th, 2014. There is no word for a replacement at the moment. American Idol will be added to a short list of extinct attractions at Disney's Hollywood Studios. We say goodbye to yet another form of live entertainment in the park.

Attractions Rankings: #17 to #11

#17 - The Legend of Captain Jack Sparrow

Do I really need to explain? This attraction is just there. It MIGHT be entertaining the first time.

#16 - Studio Backlot Tour

Now we all know what kind of shape this Backlot Tour is in. At this point we know exactly what is going to happen in every portion of this attraction. Because of the footprint alone, 

#15 - Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show

I'm going to be blunt, I haven't seen this show since 2007. So yeah.

#14 - American Idol Experience

I'm sure this attraction was never popular. By the end of the year it is expected to be officially closing.

#13 - The Magic of Disney Animation

I put the Animation tour here because it's so shallow compared to what it used to be. It could be such a great attraction because of how big animation means to the Walt Disney Company, but unfortunately they cut down everything in Disney's Hollywood Studios including this. It's still fun to jump inside once in a while when it's raining.

#12 - Honey, I Shrunk the Kids Movie Set Adventure

I have never personally been inside but it looks very well themed and a fun way for kids to burn steam.

#11 - Disney Junior - Live on Stage!

When I saw Playhouse Disney as a kid with Stanley, Bear in the Big Blue House, and Rolie Polie Olie I loved it! Any stage show with puppetry gets a big bump.

Next time, numbers 10 - 6. Also go to flickr.com/brandglover and wdwlive.com because I used some of their photos!

Favorite Star Wars Weekends Posters

My favorite part of Star Wars Weekends for someone who has never been is definitely the posters. Okay, maybe the posters are second to pieces of merchandise like the Han Solo in carbonite Vinylmation. Regardless, here are a few of my favorite Star Wars Weekend Posters from over the years. I'm not sure exactly which years they're from, but they have been on point for some time.

I love this one. Grievous with the spinny light-up R2D2s is the best.

This is my favorite. Devious R2 causing the elevator to drop.

May 2014 Photo Album: Rock 'n' Roller Coaster

Here are photos I took on my last trip of RnRC. I'm going to make monthly photo albums from DHS from this month on.

Worst Counter Service Restaurant on Walt Disney World Property

Pizza Planet. Now, when most of you think of a bad quick service restaurant, you think of Electric Umbrella. You should, it is pretty bad. But not as bad as Pizza Planet. Why? At Electric Umbrella you have a selection. Not a great selection, but you have more than three options. At Pizza Planet you have, well... pizza. And salad. And a meatball sub. 

You would think a restaurant that has "Pizza" in the name and charges $10 for each individual pizza would make the pizza edible, right? WRONG. With these pizzas, you get 1/3 sauce, cheese, and toppings, and 2/3 crust/dough. The sauce is molten lava after you receive your pizza. IT IS $10! It may fill you in one sitting, but the quality is awful. Worse than Louie's at Universal. So the quality and price of the food is one quality of being the worst quick service restaurant on property. 

Another quality is the atmosphere. Going inside of this place, all of my energy is immediately drained. Tons of arcade games with no one playing them. There are more arcade games in there than tables for people to eat at. Eating at Pizza Planet is a horrible experience, when it really shouldn't be. I remember as a kid watching Toy Story and seeing Woody walk up to Pizza Planet. This is nothing like how I would have imagined it. Maybe like the mural in the photo above, but not like this. I'll leave you with this:

#TBT

One more observation: NONE of the arcade claw machines have Disney characters in them, which is ridiculous.