“Disney Channel Rocks” is going to be a high-energy live rock concert blasting popular music from various Disney Channel hit shows. Be prepared to sing, dance, & rock your socks off when the show debuts on October 22 at both Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Walt Disney World and in California Adventure at the Disneyland Resort.

But like an aging actress who turns to Botox and plastic surgery in her twilight years, Disney-MGM has not aged gracefully. They inexplicably placed a gigantic Sorcerer's hat at the center of the park, right in front of the period-proper replica of Grauman's Chinese Theatre. (The hat would eventually replace the Earful Tower as the park's icon.) Because when you think of Hollywood, you think of a giant sorcerer's hat!

Check out this EXCELLENT Video of the Last Tour to Endor Star Wars Symphony in the Stars Fireworks that Matt Roseboom from Orlando Attractions Magazine posted. Not only is it a treat to see fireworks over the Sorcerer’s Hat at Disney Hollywood Studios, but the entire piece sucks you into the Star Wars Saga. Wish I would have been there!

When I was a child we didn’t have lightsabers with light and sound effects, instead I had a really long stick that I forced through a belt loop in my shorts. I didn’t have a Jedi robe, I had a blanket with a knot in it.

In the second part of a two-part feature on Main Street, U.S.A., we take a look at how that concept influenced other Disney theme parks, and which parks deviated from the concept completely.