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| name = Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show<br />
| park = [[Disney's Hollywood Studios]]<br />
| land = Streets of America / Backlot<br />
| type = Stunt show<br />
| opened = May 5, 2005<br />
| closed = April 2, 2016<br />
| designer = Walt Disney Imagineering<br />
| status = Closed<br />
}}<br />
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'''Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show''' was a live stunt show at [[Disney's Hollywood Studios]] at Walt Disney World in Florida, performed in a purpose-built stadium in the park's Backlot area. Professional drivers and riders staged the kind of car and motorcycle chases seen in action films — precision driving, two-wheel "skiing", jumps, near misses and pyrotechnics — while a film crew framing device explained how such sequences are shot. It opened on May 5, 2005, and closed on April 2, 2016.<ref name="wiki">Lights, Motors, Action!: Extreme Stunt Show. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights,_Motors,_Action!:_Extreme_Stunt_Show</ref><ref name="allears">Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show. AllEars.Net. https://allears.net/disney-hollywood-studios/disneys-hollywood-studios-archives-lights-motors-action-extreme-stunt-show-disneys-hollywood-studios/</ref><br />
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== History ==<br />
The show was an import. It began life as ''Moteurs... Action! Stunt Show Spectacular'' at Walt Disney Studios Park in Paris, where it opened with that park on March 16, 2002. Walt Disney World brought it to Florida as part of the Happiest Celebration on Earth, the 2005 celebration of Disneyland's 50th anniversary in which each Walt Disney World park received an attraction borrowed from another Disney resort.<ref name="lp">Extinct Attractions: Lights, Motors, Action Extreme Stunt Show. Laughing Place. https://www.laughingplace.com/w/blogs/disney-extinct-attractions/2020/01/09/extinct-attractions-lights-motors-action-extreme-stunt-show/</ref><br />
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Building it cost the park part of its backlot: the stadium and its Mediterranean-style village set replaced Residential Street, the row of television house facades long seen from the Studio Backlot Tour tram. The Florida version soft-opened in March 2005 before its official opening on May 5, 2005, and settled into a routine of several performances a day for more than a decade.<ref name="wiki" /><br />
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== Show ==<br />
The stadium seated thousands facing a village square set of facades, ramps and a canal. The premise was a film shoot: a director and crew presented a spy thriller being shot on location, breaking the action into sequences. A "hero" car was chased by black pursuer cars through the square in tightly choreographed slides, reverse spins and split-second crossings; motorcycles joined the chase, riders leapt between vehicles, and one sequence put a car up on two wheels. Between sequences, the crew reset the set, showed how a driver could be swapped for a hidden double, and played back footage so guests could see how the stunts would appear on screen. The finale added jet-ski action on the canal, a motorcycle jump through fire and a stunt performer sliding down from a rooftop amid explosions.<ref name="tp">Attraction Archaeology: Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show. TouringPlans. https://touringplans.com/blog/attraction-archaeology-lights-motors-action-extreme-stunt-show/</ref><br />
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The show changed one famous element mid-run. A comic cameo by Herbie, the Love Bug, was retired in 2011 and replaced by Lightning McQueen from Pixar's ''Cars'' films, who from July 19, 2011 drove on in a ''Cars 2''-themed sequence, directed by Mater on the stadium screen, to chase a spy car.<ref name="wdwmagic">Lightning McQueen now appearing in Lights, Motors, Action! Extreme Stunt Show. WDWMAGIC. https://www.wdwmagic.com/attractions/lights-motors-action-extreme-stunt-show/news/20jul2011-video---lightning-mcqueen-now-appearing-in-'lights,-motors,-action!-extreme-stunt-show'.htm</ref><br />
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== Closure and legacy ==<br />
On January 15, 2016, Disney announced that the show and the surrounding Streets of America area would close on April 2, 2016, to clear the way for the park's expansion.<ref name="close">Lights, Motors, Action Extreme Stunt Show to permanently close in April 2016. WDWMAGIC. https://www.wdwmagic.com/attractions/lights-motors-action-extreme-stunt-show/news/15jan2016-lights,-motors,-action-extreme-stunt-show-to-permanently-close-in-april-2016.htm</ref> The final performances played that day, after just under eleven years. The stadium was demolished, and its site was absorbed into the construction of [[Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge]] and Toy Story Land.<ref name="tp" /><br />
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Its Paris parent show outlived it, running until 2020. In Florida, Lights, Motors, Action! is remembered as the last big piece of the park's working-studio era: a show about how films are made, staged on the backlot it helped to erase.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Disney's Hollywood Studios]]<br />
* [[Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge]]<br />
* Studio Backlot Tour<br />
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== References ==<br />
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[[Category:Defunct attractions]]<br />
[[Category:Disney's Hollywood Studios]]<br />
[[Category:2005 establishments in Florida]]<br />
[[Category:2016 disestablishments in Florida]]</div>Admin