Studio Tour

[smoaT]

Wikipedia has the full list I think but here's everything at the top of my head:

Movie timeline, studio soundstages, new york street, collapsing bridge (rare), King kong 360 3D, greens depot, picture cars, fast and furious, Jurassic parks props, flash flood, Mexican village, 6 points texas, parting of red sea/skull island, props depot, court of warriors, European village, denver street, earthquake, jaws, chicken ranch, wysteria lane, Whoville, bates motel and psycho house, war of the worlds set, Jurassic Park lab set, falls lake, great outdoors cabin, mummy tunnel/whoopi dies, have a tram-frikin-tastic day, get off the tram!

Do they still have the Jurassic Park Lab?? I have not seen that in ages... like 15 years...

 

[Allen The Actor]

^ yup, still sitting there, rotting away behind the tail wing of the crashed 747

 

[William]

Wait a second, I've never seen or heard of this!! What is this?!? It sounds great!

 

[Allen The Actor]

^ heard of what?

 

[William]

The Jurassic Park Labs.

 

[Allen The Actor]

Ohhh haha before War of the Worlds took over as the primary resident, behind the rear tail wing, you can see the "rotting" cloning Laboratory from Jurassic Park 3.

 

[smoaT]

So it's not really accessible?? I remember seeing the lab loooong time ago... didn't even notice it was behind the plane

 

[William]

Wow. I'll definitely keep a lookout for it next time. What exactly happened/happens in this segment?

 

[Jerry 92602]

Can someone put up a picture please?

 

[Allen The Actor]

It's not a segment, there's no effects or anything, it was simply the set from Jurassic Park 3 tucked in the corner.

 

[William]

Agh, that's too bad. Can any signs of a distinctive JP logo or something similar be seen at all when passing it (if you look really hard)?  :blink:

 

[Allen The Actor]

No JP logo, but you can see the building and facade behind the last main tail wing of the plane

 

[William]

I'll definitely keep an eye out for it!

 

[Allen The Actor]

For anyone interested in a super quick and funny read, here's a list my 10th grade English teacher (also a drama teacher) made 10 years ago where he talks about what he was punished for in the 80s when he was a Tour Guide and worked at Universal. He's extremely eccentric in person. I've had a few teachers before who were tour guides. He's told some some great stories!


http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/things-for-which-i-was-either-reprimanded-or-outright-suspended-without-pay-when-i-was-a-teenage-universal-studios-hollywood-tour-guide-in-the-late-eighties

 

[BehindTheTheme]

Lets take a sneek peek into the Universal Studios Prop Warehouse.

Video back from when Conan O,Brien was host of the Tonight Show and it was filmed at USH.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXcUPLfcxaM

 

[Allen The Actor]

I'm curious too. I was always jealous haha.

He wasn't my favorite host, but I ADORED how much he interacted with USH and the tour. Jay has his Citywalk segments, but Conan really seemed to enjoy being on the backlot!

 

[BehindTheTheme]

Im sure they were advised of Conan Filming on the tram and if they stayed they were subject to almost anything. LOL

 

[William]

How often do they switch out the hosts?

 

[BehindTheTheme]

For late night almost never. Last change didnt stick because ratings were to low for Coco at the earlier hour and Leno also. The virtual host is changed every 10 years or so.

 

[Allen The Actor]

Unfortunately for me, Jimmy Fallon is gonna stick around for a while as video host considering he's taking over the Tonight Show....

*sigh* :/