The Great Movie Ride at Disney's Hollywood Studios is one of the most classic attractions on property. It's been through some changes and some refurbishments over the years, but the classics are still classics and they'll always be classics.
The Footlight Parade scene will forever be immobile. The Alien animanatronic in the ceiling has stopped working entirely as of a month ago. And everytime we get to the Fantasia section, I remember that was supposed to be a prologue to the Wizard of Oz finale scene.
But there's one thing that has been around since the beginning, and I know will never ever change. And that's those pesky Gangsters in the underworld that are always highjacking Great Movie Ride vehicles.
What's great about these particular Gangsters that lurk around the Great Movie Ride is that they're virtually harmless (despite how many times they elude to murdering you somehow), they don't know what's going on and they're actually pretty entertaining to have around.
At the end of the day, experiencing a Gangster highjack your vehicle is pretty "Awesome" all by itself.
However, there is one way that your Great Movie Ride experience can be kicked up a notch...and you know that element is going to come into play when you glide right through the Underworld ("the scene of such Gangster films like the Public Enemy starring one of my favorite Hollywood tough guys James Cagney"), with no more of an interruption than being caught in the middle of a shoot out...but no Mugsy emerges.
All of a sudden...you're in the Old West, and that's when you know that you've reached the next level of Awesome in the Great Movie Ride.
You just scored yourself a Bandit show.
No matter how many times you've been on the Great Movie Ride, it's like a different attraction entirely when you hit this jackpot. Bandits rarely make themselves seen in these parts, but when they do, boy Howdy are you in for a treat.
Let's start with the obvious: It's always nice to get a rare treat, but let's also not forget about the Yee-haws, the Cowboy twang, and my favorite part: the bank blows up.
Yes, it truly is a nice little bonus when you score a Bandit Show. So, even if Prime Time has no open reservations, Toy Story Mania is out of Fastpasses and Fantasmic isn't playing tonight? Put your mind at ease and keep your fingers crossed, because all of that can be turned around if you're lucky enough to get your Great Movie Ride vehicle high jacked by a Bandit in the Old West.
AWESOME!
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