February 2019 - Los Angeles
We spent a day in LA before driving out to Joshua Tree. I was most interested in doing some studio tours, and we were able to tour Warner Bros and Universal Studios. We also stopped by Harry Potter land at Universal Studios theme park, which was a bit smaller than I'd expected - I guess the one in Florida is the big one. Both studio tours were pretty interesting. We finished up the day with a visit to the Griffith observatory, which was experience misty rain at the time.
We spent a day in LA before driving out to Joshua Tree. I was most interested in doing some studio tours, and we were able to tour Warner Bros and Universal Studios. We also stopped by Harry Potter land at Universal Studios theme park, which was a bit smaller than I'd expected - I guess the one in Florida is the big one. Both studio tours were pretty interesting. We finished up the day with a visit to the Griffith observatory, which was experience misty rain at the time.
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| The Griffith observatory, in a cold, rainy, fog | Out back | |
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| Overlooking LA on a rainy evening | To-scale planets inside the observatory | |
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| WB studios! | New York City on the backlot | |
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| All a facade... | ||
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| The sound stages where many TV shows are filmed | A peak inside a sound stage | |
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| A TV house | A whole room full of batmobiles | A classic |
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| Me and the Batman | They're comic books, not drama books | |
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| A more modern look | ||
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| Harry Potter props | ||
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| The Cheers couch | ||
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| Holdin an Oscar. It was for best animated film, some movie that I'm sure noone has ever heard of. | Universal Studios and, behind it, Warner Bros Studios | Hogwarts, high up on the mountain (from this point of view). |
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| Hogsmeade. Fairly small, but cute and fun to check out. | ||
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| Sound stages at Universal | ||
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| The backlot | ||
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| A filming ghost town | Just another facade... | The highlight of the Universal studio tour: Back to the Future town! |
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| Another familiar sight | A brief look at the town of Amity | |
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| A super sweet plain crash set | ||
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| A whole bunch of movie cars | An on-demand flash flood. I thought it was pretty cool. | |
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| And just like that we're in Mexico | And just like that we're in the old West | |
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| A subway station | Suburbia the set | |