#backlot studio tour

[disneyparksattractionstournament]

Losers from Round 1 Disney Parks Attractions Tournament Lightning round 2

Videos and propaganda under the cut!

Seven Dwarfs Mine Train: WDW Magic Kingdom, Shanghai Disneyland 

Studio Backlot Tour: WDW Hollywood Studios (1989-2014)

"I miss it so much. All those movie props and costumes I'll never be able to see in person again. The Harbor Attack special effects were fun to watch, even if neither I nor my family members ever got picked. Seeing a repurposed Catastrophe Canyon in the Disneyland Paris Cars Road Trip was like greeting an old friend."

#disney parks #disney parks attractions tournament #disney #poll #disney world #tournament poll #wdw #mgm studios #backlot tour #mine train #snow white #losers round

[oldshowbiz]

The Goldwyn Lot at 1041 Formosa is where Walter Mirisch produced Some Like it Hot, The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven, and In the Heat of the Night.

#walter mirisch #1041 Formosa #santa monica blvd #hollywood studios #backlot #billy wilder #kliph walking tour

[snapbackdad]

“Old Mexico” sets

#universal studios #universal studios hollywood #universal backlot #universal studio tour #universal city

[thenerdsofcolor]

Universal Studios Hollywood's Behind-The-Scenes Tour Attraction Celebrates a 60 Year Milestone

Universal Studios Hollywood’s Backlot Tour attraction continues to be a fan favorite for fans of movies and moviemaking. Guests would board the iconic Glamour Tram, where they would be taken across the park for a behind-the-scenes look at how some of the studio’s biggest blockbusters are made. And now, that same attraction is celebrating its 60th Year. Continue reading Untitled

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#Backlot Tour #Behind-The-Scenes Tour #Universal Studios Hollywood

[terrificallytoni]

On the Backlot of the Biggest Shows at Warner Bros Studio Tour Hollywood

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#burbank #burbank studio tour #hollywood #hollywood backlot #hollywood studio tour #movie studio tour #studio tour #tv studio tour #Warner bros #Warner bros studio tour #Warner brothers #Warner brothers studio tour

[justiceleague]

prideofgypsies: “REUNITED bruce and arthur. love u and miss u Ben WB studio tours just explored the backlot alright. busted on set all great things coming AQUAMAN 2 all my aloha j”

#ben affleck #jason momoa #baffleckedit #jmomoaedit #cast #* #by francis

[hobbinch]

Sometimes I remember the point in Covid where places like theme parks had JUST opened, and on the Universal Studios Backlot Tour they had Norman Bates running at the tram with a knife but still wearing a mask. How polite.

#video of that had me screaming laughing the concept is so funby

[smeargledshades]

Hello! I have a question for you Monet! I know you said you live in Virbank city, right? I don't know much about it (I'm from a region way up north of Unova) but I think that's close to where Pokéstar Studios is, right? That sounds like it would be cool living near such a famous company! Have you ever been to Pokéstar Studios?

Hey, friend!

I do live in Virbank City, and yep, that's right! I've got a movie studio in my backyard... lol.

I've been on the tour a couple times and I really liked it, especially the backlot tram ride- I got to go through once when they were actually filming something, though I was too little to remember what movie it was. I think it might have been a Shuppet movie- it'd explain why I love the little guys so much.

But most of the time having the studio in town's more annoying than it's worth- I'll spare you the scuttlebutt (unless you want celebrity gossip...?) and just say that having half the town cordoned off because they're filming a car chase again gets really old really fast.

It's a great tourist attraction! Not so great to share a city with! Still love it to pieces, but it's a lot less fun than it was when I was 9.

#pokemon irl #pokemon rp #pkmn irl #rotomblr

[jcs-study]

Thanks to people gifting me a ton of photos, click the link above to access a pictorial spread of the original Los Angeles cast of Jesus Christ Superstar in the summer of 1972, at the (sadly late) Universal Amphitheater on the Universal Studios backlot in California. To be clear: this is a little album of every picture we've ever been able to scrounge up from the two weeks that Ted Neeley and Carl Anderson were in the L.A. cast before they ran off to Israel to make a certain film.

If nothing else, it just goes to show that when you let Tom O'Horgan cook, to use current terminology, he comes up with something less gonzo and more down-to-earth than an avant-garde treatise on futuristic insects play-acting a version of an earlier primitive civilization's myth. (Yeah, that's what the OBC's wild designs were about. I'll explain more someday.)

For more background and context to the pics, hit the jump!

Background on the Location

Let's start with the venue: we find ourselves at a 3,800-ish-seat open-air Amphitheater on the Universal Studios backlot, built as a daytime arena where Studio Tour patrons could watch a western-themed stunt show and shootout. As the story goes, someone, likely a young person who'd been to concerts in unusual places, wondered aloud whether they could use it as an event space at night. As a test, they ran some old movies (Marx Brothers and so forth), passed out free popcorn and peanuts, and discovered that even without the tour, people would come, park their carcasses, and watch a show. Prime opportunity to make money -- now they just needed an event that would pull crowds.

Picking JCS was sort of an in-house deal. The parent company of Universal was MCA, which then owned a stake in the show along with the Robert Stigwood Organisation. A fully staged version had yet to play the Coast, though successful concert tours had cleaned up at the Hollywood Bowl and across the country. So they booked a month-long run and hoped for the best. Thanks to casting hi-jinks in the Broadway production (again, fodder for another post), Ted Neeley was set to play the leading role of Jesus, and Carl Anderson would co-star as Judas.

Background on the Staging and Design

My guess: O'Horgan knew by now that ALW and TR had toed the party line, but were generally not interested in what he did back in the Big Apple, so a square-one rethink was the order of the day. Moreover, the glitterati of Hollywood was likely to fill these seats at some point. He couldn't do some avant-garde-a-clue (as George Harrison would put it) theater crap in Studio City. So he went with something simpler, more... basic -- the Bible writ large for a comic book generation and an arena audience. (Perhaps this was why Tom felt the focus had to be more on Jesus, moving intermission to follow "Gethsemane" instead of "Blood Money," a choice that, to his credit, was frequently echoed thereafter in UK productions.)

The scenery was arena-level simple: the set consisted of three stone outcroppings backed by an 80-foot-tall (!) cross draped in cloth. On closer examination, the two small stone groups near the sides of the stage were gigantic hands, palm up, with fingers reaching for the sky, and the large stone structure in the middle was Jesus' face. (Per audience reports, when Judas died, he stood in stone-Jesus' mouth, which flamed bright red, and descended into hell screaming, "You have murdered me!")

Herod was wheeled onto the stage in a contraption made out of nude alabaster mannequins, whose arms raised on cue to allow the white-suited Herod his entrance (perhaps the most '70s thing ever). Pilate, almost a Goth King straight out of Conan the Barbarian or Flash Gordon, reigned from a throne of human skulls that was frantically whipped around the stage while he laughed maniacally. For the crucifixion, Jesus and his disciples climbed the uncloaked cross, and as Jesus got into position, the disciples made a halo out of their open hands surrounding his head that glowed in the spotlights. As they played "John 19:41," the cross slowly moved back from the stage until it disappeared into the darkness by the end of the song.

There was still a lot of "go big or go home" about it, in true Tom fashion. As the artist's rendering of the crucifixion on the Playbill's title page or in the mail-order ticket ad (seriously, see link) attests, when Norman Jewison quoted classic art, it was a simple Da Vinci. Tom O'Horgan, on the other hand, went for a straight-up, balls-to-the-wall, extravagant take on Gustave Doré. (Compare that rendering to "Souls of Warriors of the Faith Form a Cross.")

All things considered, it was sort of a forerunner of "pandering JCS" like the A.D. and Farewell Tours, but it had balls compared to what ALW considers an arena tour-worthy production.

Reception

Maybe because it was set up to be a crowd-pleaser instead of playing with weirdness for a supposedly sophisticated audience on someone else's dime, the L.A. production was a massive hit with both critics and audiences compared to Broadway. During the day, it was the Wild West show; at night, it was JCS, frequently filling the venue to 98% capacity. It kept extending and ultimately ran twelve weeks rather than four (of which Ted and Carl, as previously mentioned, played two before shipping off to the Holy Land) until cold weather forced its closure that September.

(Recalled Ted in an interview circa 1993, when the A.D. Tour returned to the now-enclosed Amphitheater, "We used to freeze our buns off with those Santa Anas whipping around. Especially me when I was in that loincloth, hanging up on that huge cross." Not that the image didn't have a huge effect. To quote Amphitheater treasurer Maggie Magennis, who "saw it at least four or five times a week" when it opened, "The most exciting part was at the end. Teddy was up on the cross. We were open air then, and you could see the lights of the Valley. There was something really awesome about the fact that he represented something so spiritual, and yet the temporal aspect of the lights twinkling down below was there.")

My Two Cents

If I had an unlimited budget, I'd give it some twists of the '92 Oz tour and bring this exact thing back. That's what tours arenas and sells tickets, not "Occupy Jerusalem." Who knows? Maybe someday someone will be crazy enough to give me that kind of free rein...

#jesus christ super star #jesus christ superstar #jcs #jcss #jesus christ super-star #history #andrew lloyd webber #tim rice #ted neeley #carl anderson #tom o'horgan #universal studios

[disneyworldshowdown]

Welcome!

This is the WDW attraction showdown, where we determine what is the best ride/show at Walt Disney World. This tournament will have both currently operating and defunct attractions represented, so your favorite attraction should be represented on here! I hope you enjoy the tournament!

Full list of attractions below:

Magic Kingdom:

Walt Disney World Railroad

Main Street Vehicles

Jungle Cruise

Pirates of the Caribbean

Swiss Family Treehouse

The Magic Carpets of Aladdin

Big Thunder Mountain Railroad

Frontierland Shooting Gallery

Country Bear Jamboree

Tom Sawyer Island

Haunted Mansion

The Hall of Presidents

Liberty Square Riverboat

"it's a small world"

Mickey's Philharmagic

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

Peter Pan's Flight

Dumbo the Flying Elephant

Seven Dwarfs Mine Train

The Barnstormer

Prince Charming Regal Carousel

Under the Sea - Journey of the Little Mermaid

Mad Tea Party

Space Mountain

TRON: Lightcycle Run

Tomorrowland Speedway

Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin

Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress

Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor

PeopleMover

Astro Orbiter

Epcot:

Spaceship Earth

Journey Into Imagination with Figment

Test Track (post-2012)

Mission: SPACE

Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind

Soarin' Around the World

Living with the Land

Awesome Planet

The Seas with Nemo & Friends

Turtle Talk with Crush

Gran Fiesta Tour

Frozen Ever After

Reflections of China

Impressions de France

The American Adventure

Remy's Ratatouille Adventure

Canada Far and Wide

Disney's Hollywood Studios:

Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway

The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

Rock 'n' Roller Coaster

Fantasmic!

Beauty and the Beast Live on Stage

Indiana Jones: Epic Stunt Spectacular

Star Tours - The Adventures Continue

Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance

Millennium Falcon: Smuggler's Run

Toy Story Mania!

Alien Swirling Saucers

Slinky Dog Dash

Muppet*Vision 3D

Disney Junior Live on Stage

Disney's Animal Kingdom:

It's Tough to be a Bug!

Avatar Flight of Passage

Na'vi River Journey

Kilimanjaro Safaris

Wildlife Express Train

Expedition Everest

Kali River Rapids

Finding Nemo: The Big Blue... Beyond!

Festival of the Lion King

DINOSAUR

Triceratop Spin

Defunct Attractions:

Test Track (pre-2012)

Soarin' (original)

Journey Into Imagination (original)

Journey Into YOUR Imagination

Maelstrom

Splash Mountain

Primeval Whirl

World of Motion

Ellen's Energy Adventure

The Great Movie Ride

Davy Crockett's Explorer Canoes

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Mr. Toad's Wild Ride

Snow White's Scary Adventures

Mickey Mouse Revue

America the Beautiful

Mission to Mars

ExtraTERRORestrial: Alien Encounter

Stitch's Great Escape!

Horizons

The Living Seas

Body Wars

Cranium Command

Captain EO

Honey, I Shrunk the Audience!

Food Rocks

Kitchen Kabaret

Innoventions

Circle of Life

El Rio del Tiempo

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire - Play It!

Sounds Dangerous!

The American Idol Experience

Studio Backlot Tour

Lights, Motors, Action!

#tournament #disney #disney world #disney parks #epcot #theme park #theme parks #magic kingdom #animal kingdom #hollywood studios

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

"The Firm would NOT lie for me when I did and said BAD things!"

When Meghan says, "but they didn't PROTECT me," she's not referring to her person, she's referring to her REPUTATION.

I would not want to be on the (Netflix) production team this weekend. How many messages & phone calls have they received all week from Meghan (& Harry) after reading and watching all the American social media criticism?

She does NOT care what ANYONE in the UK thinks or believes. Every business/philanthropic venture is designed to "repair" Meghan's reputation in America and make her wealthy.

Meghan blames Harry (and the BRF) for ruining her reputation in America because The FIRM (and Harry) failed to "protect" Meghan's carefully curated (slick) social media/instagram image--- the image nobody in America even knew existed.

In other words, the FIRM didn't lie & cover-up enough for her, thus ruining her Diana 2.0 "Star to Be" dreams. Harry is therefore destined to make amends for the rest of his life, even if it means setting the House of Windsor on fire while he watches his family burn. As one of Harry's friends said, "Harry needs the hard fall."

Harry's Reason for Breathing is to set Meghan up "to be a success in Los Angeles, my home." Revenge p95

Netflix must have anticipated the criticism because they refrained from printing any details on upcoming episodes 4-6:

We've seen the trailer clip of meghan & harry in their rented studio apartment/hotel (the emphasis is on "studio") while Kim K (ahem Meghan) stages an overwhelmingly tough day at the shared desk of their "home" office. (The office arrangement Harry said would never work for other couples (kate & william). Thank God Catherine & William have no desire to work out of a makeshift hollywood backlot.

So What's Next:

Wedding Drama?

Tour Drama?

So-called "Digital Harassment"

Couples Therapy?

Despite my vulgar behavior and square belly, I was REALLY Pregnant drama?

Colonialism & Brexit?

Crying and more crying

What's THIS? Meghan's BREXIT post on the day after her "London" date w/Harry 07-2-2016

Make THIS Make Sense:

They can vlog from home, but Teams: Garrett/Netflix, Harpo/OWN, Variety, Spotify, New Yorker are not welcomed. Pipes or that reported neighborhood smell coming off the water?🧐

One win from this disaster, Christopher Bouzy and Bot Sentinel will go down with the ship.

#revenge #tom bower #bower #lies #america #BREXIT #prince harry

[disneyparksattractionstournament]

Favorite Disney Parks Attraction Showdown: Round 1 - Group B1

Videos and propaganda under the cut!

Studio Backlot Tour: WDW Hollywood Studios (1989-2014)

"I miss it so much. All those movie props and costumes I'll never be able to see in person again. The Harbor Attack special effects were fun to watch, even if neither I nor my family members ever got picked. Seeing a repurposed Catastrophe Canyon in the Disneyland Paris Cars Road Trip was like greeting an old friend."

The Monorail: Disneyland, Disney World, Tokyo Disney

Propaganda:

"We stan overwrought public transit"

Disneyland:

Disney World:

Tokyo Disneyland:

#disney parks attractions tournament #disney parks #disney #poll #disney poll #monorail #hollywood studios #disneyland #disney world #round 1 #backlot tour #mgm studios #B1

[oldshowbiz]

The Samuel Goldwyn Studios on Santa Monica Blvd.

#hollywood studios #silent film #backlot #hollywood #kliph walking tour #santa monica blvd

[snapbackdad]

From amity island/cabot cove sets

#universal city #universal studio tour #universal backlot #universal studios hollywood #universal studios #jaws

[musings-from-an-elder-goth]

Netflix's Wednesday Filming Locations

I'm really keen to see the upcoming Netflix series, Wednesday - definitely my kind of show. One of the things I'm fairly good at is finding the real world filming locations for movies / TV shows and I've managed to figure out several for Wednesday. We'll start with Nevermore Academy, which I thought was completely CGI until I saw this frame from the latest trailer:

The way the sunlight falls upon the building behind the characters is too realistic to be CGI, so I knew at least part of it had to be real, and I was right. Had a devil of a time figuring it out, but the real world location of Nevermore is Cantacuzino Castle in Busteni, Romania. Which happens to be in southern Transylvania, btw. Bwahahahaha!

About 75% of what you see of Nevermore in the trailers is CGI. There are great street views on Google maps at the castle, so you can easily match up the location with all the shots from the trailers. A second sequence where Wednesday is doing some archery happens on the extreme right of the image above - here it is from one of the trailers:

And here is the real world location:

Buftea Studios, just outside Bucharest, is the production location where they shot interiors as well as backlot sets, one a frontier town set they repurposed to be a Pilgrim World, here from the trailer:

And here from a pic taken on the backlot some years ago:

Here's the swimming pool Wednesday releases piranha into during the trailer:

Which is actually Dinamo Swimming Pool in Bucharest:

And the greenhouse at Nevermore shown in the trailer:

Is located at the Bucharest Botanical Gardens. Not sure if they actually filmed inside this greenhouse, but it is possible.

Also at Buftea Studios, they built a backlot set for the small town located near Nevermore - this town square set has the church, graveyard, coffee shop, etc:

This set can been seen on Google maps satellite overview, but that's the best image I can find of it - no nearby streets give a clear view:

The streets are kinda shaped like a stick figure person, with the church/town square under stick man's legs - so the image from the trailer is facing south, if that helps your orientation.

So there you go - if you ever find yourself in Bucharest, you can visit the real world locations for Nevermore Academy, the swimming pool, and Nevermore's greenhouse, but I don't think Buftea Studios has public tours.

creaturesfromelsewhere 11/10/2022

#netflix wednesday #the addams family #filming locations #buftea studios #cantacuzino castle #dinamo swimming pool #bucharest #romania #transylvania

[ionasadventures]

LA Adventure- Day 2! (Part 2)

We got to briefly stop and see around a real live sound stage! We weren’t allowed to take any photos of the inside as the show was still filming (they’d stopped for lunch!) but it was so fascinating seeing how they make these 3 camera sitcoms. The set was made up for “Bob <3 Abishola” (spelt with a heart symbol I’m not just being lazy haha) which is a typical sitcom like Big Bang Theory or Young Sheldon or Friends. They’re called 3 camera sitcoms because typically they only use 3 camera angles! One on the character speaking, one on whomever they’re speaking to, and then one for the wide shots with everything in it. The sound stage is laid out in a grid fashion, with 4 sets on each side of a narrow passageway. This passageway is referred to as camera alley because this is where the cameras will be! As with before, the sets don’t have ceilings on them to allow for lighting and the cameras are in a fixed position so as to not see the lights. It takes about 5 days to film one episode, and the sets are left as they are throughout the whole filming season as most of that time is dedicated to set up! After this the tour of the backlot continued, we drove past a few more famous locations! They have a massive jungle area with real plants from the jungle (as the climate will allow for it!). This was ESPECIALLY of interest to me as this was the area where they filmed the iconic T-Rex chase scene from Jurassic Park!! Warner Bros. let’s other studios use their facilities too, which is why some of the locations seem above are used in things like Breaking Bad, Jurassic Park and Spider-Man. They also have a big pit which can be filled with water to create a lagoon, or with dirt to create a graveyard. Versatile! After the outside lots - which were MASSIVE - we navigated to a warehouse area of the tour which had costumes and props on display. It was very cool to see! Costumes from Interview with the Vampire, Batman, Crazy Rich Asians, Space Jam, and of course a whole host of DC superheroes. They even had some from Game of Thrones/House of the Dragon. The costumers were intricately made, the detail was outstanding! For example on Aquaman’s suit there’s tiny iridescent scales all over. The props were cool too as they were primarily the Batmobile and other Bat-items from across the Batman movies. They had this cool area from The Hobbit which showed how they did the forced perspective trickery to make the Hobbits look small and Gandalf look big! The studio tour really made a point to showcase every aspect of the filmmaking process, detailing how costumes and props and sets were made. The amount of afford put in to each and every part of filmmaking is insane, no wonder it takes so long to make because so much detail is included, things you may not even see or notice unless you’re looking really close! Sam Warner (one of the Warner Brothers) advocated for the use of Vitaphone, the process of using sound in cinema, and it was fascinating to see how they would make the sounds for shows. For example, in the Spider-Man kiss scene, to prevent the fake rainwater from going up Tobey McGuire’s nose, they used a combination of cotton wool and Vaseline to plug up his nose! However this meant that he couldn’t speak properly, so he re-recorded his lines using the sound system to make himself sound clearer over the rain. If you go back and watch the film, you’ll notice that Kirsten Dunst as Mary-Jane only lifts the mask up to below Spider-Man’s nose, to prevent the cameras from picking up on the cotton wool! They also had things such as wooden boards and fake shoes to amplify the sound of actors walking on set, as typically the sets would have plastic floors to prevent the actors’ footsteps from drowning out their lines. Thus by dubbing over the footsteps, the sound department can control how loud they are and change the volume depending on the scene. Such cool stuff!! From storyboards to green screens to motion capture to physical makeup, it was incredibly to see behind the scenes and had given me an even greater appreciation for all those involved!

#ionasadventures #day2 #la 2023 #warner bros studio tour #los angeles