The restaurant’s entrance

The Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater is a restaurant in Disney’s Hollywood Studios designed to resemble the movie set of a California drive-in movie theater in the 1950’s.

A view of the “cars” parked for dinner and a show. The “snack bar” at the back of the theater is actually the restaurant’s kitchen.

The dine-in’s movie screen

While dining, guests watch a 47-minute loop of vintage film trailers and clips inter-spliced with commercials and news reels of the period. Some of the films shown are from:

• Walt Disney’s Mars and Beyond (1957)
• Devil Girl from Mars (1954)
• It Conquered the World (1956)
• Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman (1958)
• The Amazing Colossal Man (1957)
• The Cat That Hated People (1948)
• The Horror of Party Beach (1964)
• The Giant Gila Monster (1959)
• Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (1965)
• Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
• Tom & Jerry’s Mouse into Space (1962)
• Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957)
• Robot Monster (1953)
• Cat Women of the Moon (1953)
• Missile to the Moon (1958)

Period appropriate music can also be heard throughout the film such as the following tracks:

• Sheb Wooley’s Purple People Eater
• Vito & The Salutations’ Unchained Melody
• Jerry Lee Lewis’ Great Balls of Fire
• The Five Blobs’ The Blog
• Perrey & Kingsley’s Barnyard In Orbit
• The Del-Vikings’ Come Go With Me

If you stick around long enough, you might catch an appearance by Uncle Walt

The “cars” that the guests sit in sport a 1955 license plate registration, a nod to Disneyland’s opening year.

The Disney branded “cars”

Official Information: WaltDisneyWorld.com