Editing Walt Disney Studios (Burbank) (section)

=== Water Tower ===
[[File:Disneystudiowatertower.JPG|thumb|right|Walt Disney Studios Water Tower]]

Completed in 1939 at a cost of $300,000, the Water Tower was one of the first structures to emerge at the new Disney studio.<ref name="auto"/> It stands {{convert|135.6|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}} high and originally held 150,000 gallons of water.<ref name="DisneyStudiosTour">{{cite web|last1=Johnson|first1=Nancy|title=A Tour of the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, CA|url=http://disunplugged.com/2010/03/15/come-along-on-a-tour-of-the-walt-disney-studios-in-burbank-ca/|website=DIS Unplugged|date=March 15, 2010}}</ref>  Towers such as these provided an emergency water supply in case of fire and were a standard feature of major Hollywood studios of the era, examples of which can still be seen at the [[Warner Bros.]], [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]] and [[Sony Pictures Studios]] (formerly [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM]]) lots. Roy Disney, however, insisted that the Disney Studio's water tower be built with six legs instead of the usual four, claiming it was more aesthetically pleasing.<ref name="DisneyStudiosTour" />

The tower is no longer used for water storage and stands as an identifying symbol of Disney's Burbank studio. In 1984 the top portion of the holding tank was painted white and, for the first time, emblazoned with the image of [[Mickey Mouse]], the official mascot of the Walt Disney Company.<ref name="DisneyStudiosTour" /> It was the model for the [[Earffel Tower]] which stood at [[Disney's Hollywood Studios]] theme park near Orlando, Florida from 1989 to 2016, and the replica at [[Walt Disney Studios Park]] in [[Disneyland Paris]] (2002 to the present),<ref>{{cite news|first=Dewayne|last=Bevil|title=Disney: Earffel Tower removed at Hollywood Studios|work=[[Orlando Sentinel]]|date=April 29, 2016|access-date=August 18, 2016|url=http://www.orlandosentinel.com/travel/attractions/theme-park-rangers-blog/os-disney-hollywood-studios-earffel-tower-removed-20160429-story.html}}</ref> though the original has never been decorated with Mickey Mouse ears on top.