Universal Studios

i love universal studios. i think it's so fun to see the movie sets and props and hang out and see the techniques they use for different aspects of film. it's amazing what they can do and what they actually pull off. i was blown away when i heard that universal studios was on fire. i know that a couple of the things lost were the 'back to the future' set as well as the city facade from spiderman and transformers. anyway. it's pretty amazing how quickly it went up in flames. at one point they said the fire was two city blocks wide. incredible.
this is the picture of the fire


this is the same area, pre fire, a couple years ago. the big blue screen is actually pretty amazing. in the fire picture, you can see that the cement area in front of it looks like a lake/pond, it's actually HUGE and typically empty unless they are using it to film or aparently put out fires. paramount has something similar but it's actually a parking lot that they can flood. the one at universal, in this picture, is big enough that they can have speed boat chases and float rather large boats in it. the blue behind it allows them to put other images in, like the weather guys do. anyway, pretty amazing. hopefully i'll get to see itwhile i'm out there in july.

back to the future courthouse... that no longer exists.