Universal Studio on fire

[HereKittyKittyKitty]

Stupid question of the day: I know that Universal Studios is a theme park there, but are there also working set locations at the same site? (Did that make sense?) In other words, is movie/TV filming also going on within the same compound as the theme park, or are they just replicas that are used for tours and the like?

[LaoTzuMindFu]

Originally Posted by HereKittyKittyKitty

Stupid question of the day: I know that Universal Studios is a theme park there, but are there also working set locations at the same site? (Did that make sense?) In other words, is movie/TV filming also going on within the same compound as the theme park, or are they just replicas that are used for tours and the like?

It is an active movie lot with filming going on daily. Commercials, TV shows, movies, etc are all filmed on the lot.

[HereKittyKittyKitty]

Thanks!

[LASam]

Originally Posted by DaBeez

Studio wants to replace the outdated King Kong exhibit with something more current and hip - i.e., "Cloverfield" and wanted the insurance company to help pay for it so they started the fire. Just kidding. But you can be sure that something bigger and better will take the place of the King Kong/earthquake exhibit - Cloverfield sounds about right to me.

The smoke was really noticable in North Hollywood, Toluca Lake and the southern parts of Glendalea and Burbank.

Ha! You may be right...

[PecanPie]

I've heard talk that Universal was thinking about getting rid of the active studio portion -- the backlot -- (keeping City Walk/the public attraction) to sell off the land for condos.

Hopefully this wasn't on purpose as a precursor to that -- or if not on purpose, then used as an excuse to go ahead with plans for a sell-off.

Well they have rebuilt the backlot before, we'll cross our fingers they do again.