Miami Connection (1987) Filming Locations Then & Now - Dragon Sound vs Ninja Bikers / Cult Classic
Miami Connection 1987 Filming Locations
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welcome everyone adam the woo
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here i see you over there bird i hear
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you
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today's adventure i will be embarking on
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the filming locations
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of the 1987 some could call it a classic
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of some sorts
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miami connection and even though
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one or two scenes took place and were
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filmed
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in miami florida as well as daytona
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the majority i would say 95
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of this which i got on blu-ray recently
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and have studied immensely watching it
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probably 30 40 times at least frame by
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frame
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trying to figure out where each spot
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took place
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best way to describe it is a rock band
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who have honed their taekwondo
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skills to battle
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ninjas who are also
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bikers it's a good one i encourage you
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either after or before you watch this
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to maybe check it out and that way you
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can have some reference points i've also
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printed off some screen captures as well
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i'm inviting you to join me
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i'm also wearing a drag appropriate
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dragon sound
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t-shirt i first discovered this movie
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back in 2015
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like a lot of others that did and i
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always wanted to to do this project
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and it's finally happening join me
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shall you i love this shirt too oh
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so excited about this let's go now there
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are a lot of movies
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that some would say are the worst ever
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made and i'm not saying this is
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the worst but it's pretty dang close
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it's either the worst or the best by the
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way i've arrived here at
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ucf for the first spot
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and as cheesy and campy as the acting is
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the fight scenes are pretty dang good
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it's an entertaining
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film i really like it the more i watch
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it the more i want to watch it
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there's just so so much great dialogue
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not delivered in the best fashion but
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i'm going to head over there to the
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front of this building
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now this area is already looking really
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familiar also i have
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a clipboard full of a little
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something to match match up through here
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it's always good to have a frame of
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reference to give an example
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but jeff well jeff was jane's brother
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and jane
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is explaining to john as they walk
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through here kind of giving a little
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little dialogue
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on how her brother has some issues
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some anger issues and an altercation
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with the brother right over there in
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that parking lot
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which i'll walk to momentarily but there
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is a very lengthy walking scene
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right here next to the john c hilt
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library right along this little walkway
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right here and it still looks the same
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in fact these seats here these
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concrete seats are still here after all
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these years nothing's changed
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also the spot where the entire band was
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meeting up with some friends from the
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school as well
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you can even see across the screen it
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says university of central florida they
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promoted that
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as well and that was right here
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looking across the reflecting pool for
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the
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pool of reflection down there with the
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fountain and you can see the ucf emblem
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across the way
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and these concrete seats still here as
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well
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and turn this way and this is where john
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were walking the camera was
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kind of going in this fashion walking
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backwards as they were
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delivering their dialogue towards the
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camera i don't want to trip walking
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backwards however
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they walked right out of here where the
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bike rack is you'll notice the bike
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racks over here
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on the side the bike racks are still
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here as well so this was an 87.
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still look still looks pretty similar
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there are a couple changes however
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like over here this little concrete
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embankment into like a flower garden
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that has been completely paved over but
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you'll notice
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this side of the wall over here these
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little notches
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that signifies that this this is the
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spot
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right along there where they were taking
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a stroll she is giving her
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boyfriend a big warning about her
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brother
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he is not to be messed with and it's not
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he has a
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he has some issues still not really sure
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why he is as angry
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as he was but they continue walking
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right along here
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notice these these gentlemen in the
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background
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i don't know why they're standing
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looking at that building as uh
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toward they're all just in a single file
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line four of them
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standing right over there
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then john and jane continue to walk
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along this
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in fact as they walk along this you can
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notice in the background
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there is a building with a little
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circular sign
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in the middle that can also be seen well
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i used the word sign but really it's
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just a part of the
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part of the building itself this
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circular pattern
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camera would have been on the other side
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of these concrete
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seats right over there there's that
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little circular pattern
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on that building
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next to the library a claw across from
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the little reflecting pond and if you
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follow this sidewalk around
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past the pond
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is where the altercation with jeff took
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place
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right over here next to this tree jeff
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being the rebel that he is
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pulls up in the spot where he's not
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supposed to spot park
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right here kind of car park sideways
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approaches them says hello to his sister
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and then is very angry towards john
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and mark and the rest of dragon sound
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run around the side of the tree they
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throw their books
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hastily on the ground right here
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and a little confrontation took place
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in this very spot with i believe those
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are dorms
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in the background take a look at the
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glass windows there
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on the building in the distance and
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there was a big tree between here and
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that
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that pond or the reflecting pool
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as well but notice those glass windows
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and that big tree is gone this tree is
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still here though
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grown up considerably since 1987.
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the look of surprise and he's going to
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the aid of his friend
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notice the little indentation in the
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tree how it kind of
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kind of cuts inward around gem there
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still has that that same same type of
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formation as it kind of indents inward
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there
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now you have to look closely but you can
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see the buildings in the distance how
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the building kind of has a little
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indentation as well
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right here along the course the road has
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been or the sidewalk
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parking lot i should say has been
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repainted with this blue stripe now
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but there's that indentation in the
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dorms over there
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so it would have been right about here
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ah a great acted scene
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i love it so much and at another point
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later in the movie
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they were parked over here they were
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going to get pizza dragon sound was
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and they were walking out of class and
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they all had ucf shirts on
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every member of dragon cat dragon sound
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had ucf shirts on obviously promoting
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the school
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in some sort of fashion but they walked
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across this little grate here which at
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the time was just a piece of pavement
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next to this pole out of that door as
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seen here you can see that the brick
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pole over there and they walked across
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here for whatever reason they didn't
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take the sidewalk
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and there was a flower garden right here
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and the extras behind them
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acting as their classmates all shook
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their hands
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in the flower garden they walked they
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trotted across
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the foliage and the flowers for whatever
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reason i don't know why they just didn't
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take the sidewalk yep just standing
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there in the flower bed
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trotting across there could it could
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have taken the sidewalk but
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decided to walk and notice the the bulbs
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there the circular bulbs the three
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the three bulbs in the distance that
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might be kind of
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tough to see but those those bulbs are
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still
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over there the the lamps and the
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distance since then
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this might have been here in 87 there's
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this sidewalk right here
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but they didn't use it this this may
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have been created since then
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and when they jump in the back seat to
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get p or they all jump in their car to
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go get pizza
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you can prominently see this little
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these windows up top here
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as well but the angle they walked out at
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was not this way
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they walked across that grate and over
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to their car
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which would have been be right about
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here
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little did they realize that they were
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being gonna be followed over to the
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pizza place
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just giving you that frame and showing
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you as i go underneath the palm trees
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you can see those windows
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that were in that screen capture the
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distance
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so i was walking from the same spot that
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they parked also to go back just a bit
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when jeff pulls in
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with his caravan of cars they speed
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right along the side of this
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squealing tires pulling around
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and then park over in that that spot
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over there
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in that far corner i have now shifted
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parking lots
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to the kind of far end of the other side
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of the waterway there and i'm going off
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an assumption
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where they were having the training
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dragging a couple of members of
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dragoncon we're training
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over here what would serve them well a
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little bit later on
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in the movie the plot thickened
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and i'm guessing it's somewhere
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over near this building just to guess
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because it's the only if
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one of the only facade
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that has these slight inclines on the
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brickwork
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that goes along here this looks very
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familiar
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this isn't it perhaps around the corner
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over by where the lynx bust drops off
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this is it holy cow
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still looks pretty much the same wow
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this is where the training took place
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right here on this little grassy section
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yeah oh yeah and then over there there's
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that little indentation
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this is it oh my goodness
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i just got really excited there they are
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breaking boards practicing their
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taekwondo
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it's a very lengthy scene probably
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should have been edited down quite a bit
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it's a long scene
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that happened right in here look at that
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doors have been replaced with glass
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doors and there's an angle there
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where they are watching ykkim perform
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ykk kim was the actor that played mark
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oh man after just you know watching it
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so many times
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there's a part where mark punches
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the towards the mouth does it does it
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punch the teeth or anything
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i'll just have to just show you the the
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screen capture right here it's pretty
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funny
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and you'll notice here when they're just
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sparring with each other bro when
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they're getting up to sparrow with white
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gay kim
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you'll see the boards that they later
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break over in this area
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but they are yeah has stated they are
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sitting right against there
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in this little grassy section you have
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to wonder how many students
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walk past this and have no idea that a
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1987
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classic of sorts
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some of the prominent scenes what took
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place right here in this little grass
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section probably nobody even realizes
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now i know i get excited about the
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simplest things but this is
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this is making me pretty happy
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and who could forget if if you've seen
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it
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you cannot forget when when mark throws
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the punch right here
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but does not hit his friend in the face
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he just takes his fist and puts it in
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his mouth
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right against his teeth right there this
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is this is where it was
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a genius before walking off one last
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view of
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master yk kim right there
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now i don't have a board to break but i
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do have this clipboard
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it's warm enough out here on the floor
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to heat without sparring with a
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clipboard
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holding pretty holding up pretty strong
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though the pizza place they go to
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where tom is thrown in the the back of
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the trunk
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not his best day nor would it be his
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best evening
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he had ever had it's just across from
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the campus
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and former pizza hut
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alert
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this is it what you can tell is the
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apartments across the street
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are seen for a brief moment
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looks like it's closed and abandoned now
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obviously it's been repainted but
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in the distance there are those
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apartments as i mentioned
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and the windows look at the windows have
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been changed out as well
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this is definitely it judging by what's
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and when they pull up right here you can
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see the dumpsters
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that are over there the dumpsters have
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been replaced but
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the dumpster section is still in the
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same spot as they were
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and as they pull up it starts to rain
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you'll you'll notice if you watch it
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when they pull up it starts to kind of
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downpour a little bit so they all jumped
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out
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and then the driver pulled into that
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space right there
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unbeknownst to him he was being followed
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and they threw him in the back of the
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trunk there's the look on his face
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before
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before it all took place with that
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backdrop
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and i also believe they used the
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interiors in here as well
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they would have been sitting right over
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in this section walked in this door
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took a right and then kind of sat right
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over
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in there camera being in about the same
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spot as i am now
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looking this way well shift it over that
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way a little bit
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inside behind the wall
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and this door that you're looking at
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right there would be
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the door that you're seeing over here in
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the corner that they walked out of
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a great line that was delivered as
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they're they're hauling them away
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mark's gonna get you that was his
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letting him know that revenge was going
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to be swift
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from mark now about an 11 mile commute
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over to the maitland area to the next
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it was here in this parking lot where
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they pulled through past a one hour
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photo development and pulled up to ace's
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music store which is now called
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noodles and it's the side entrance to
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this restaurant
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ace's music was a deleted scene
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that for one reason or another did not
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make it in the final cut
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which i don't know why there were any
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deleted scenes
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every deleted scene is just as good as
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the the completed product
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and they didn't even park over in the
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lot they parked over to the side
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right about here walk through these
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doors the facade has been
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kind of changed up quite a bit went in
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and
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played their instruments very
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dramatically until the manager
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kicked them out this is in the parking
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lot of the copper
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rocket pub which back in the day when i
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was in a band
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played some shows out and really the
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only way to match it up is not by the
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front of the building because the
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windows and the well the doors are
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pretty much in the same spot
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but the pillars and the windows have
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been changed
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quite a bit where they parked here all
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left out of their vehicle
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but when they pull in what is now a
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street food stand over there was the one
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hour
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photo booth and the copper rocket pub is
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in the distance this was aces music
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and they did film inside here as well
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but the entire interiors have been
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completely repurposed
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and redone deleted scene alert speaking
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of deleted scenes there's another one
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where they're walking
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having a little walk and talk in
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downtown winter park
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this whole area and about the show
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taking a turn here
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driving through the downtown section
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looks completely different it was
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it was revamped and repurposed a few
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years ago
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but this is what it looked like then
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during that scene they would have been
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walking right along the sidewalk on the
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other side over there
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in fact as they're walking you can look
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up top here
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you can see these little railings on the
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balcony
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on the other side of where they're
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standing just over his shoulder there
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you can faintly see them
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once again the whole area has been
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since 1987. now this is a tough one
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but there are some what appear to be
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grain or maybe concrete
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cement elevators not elevators but yeah
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grain
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grain cylinders and there's four of them
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this is where the rescue attempt
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took place and the closest i could see
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after
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searching quite a bit
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over the past few weeks online satellite
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view
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etc is this place called argos
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and you'll notice i cannot pass this it
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says you're not allowed to pass that
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gate
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but i'll be able to zoom in on what i am
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guessing could possibly be these
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this is just a hunch and i'm probably
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way off base with this but it's about
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the closest thing i could find anywhere
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in the orlando area there are two on the
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far end which i believe you cannot see
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on camera
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well you can see in my camera you can't
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see in the 87 film
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but then there are four on the other
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side so if they had the right
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perspective
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those could possibly be them
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it's up for speculation the club they
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performed in is right here off orange
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blossom trail
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it's now called grills
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seafood spa it's a seafood place
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and where the original park aft club was
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over here in this corner
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more or less not a whole lot to match up
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this is when dragon sound is walking out
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of the front of the building
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going over to their car and the front of
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the building was
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more or less over kind of in that
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section there
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the new grills place has taken place of
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the old structure
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the old building was torn down and used
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to be right about
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in this section here more or less in
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this section is where the motorcycles
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are
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pulling in which was right about
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this very little road here
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this one confused me for a long time
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where the showdown was the big showdown
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at the train yard and ended up
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discovering
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it was because closest cross streets are
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westmoreland
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and amelia you notice this building here
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a ramsco which can be seen
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if you look closely over the shoulder of
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yk kim
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over there as well as the buildings in
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the distance
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the particular architecture with the
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slanted roofs
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still remain went around on satellite
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view and found
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well pretty much followed every train
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track
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through orlando and there are a lot of
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them
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and discovered when i was watching
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that the trains were on both sides there
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were trains here
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that they were climbing all over as well
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as train tracks on this side
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and you don't see many train yards that
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have a place that you could pull down
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they drove right down the middle
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of both sets of tracks you see there is
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a set of tracks there
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that these cars are sitting on as well
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as the regular tracks over on that side
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that's the way i figured it out even
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though the buildings
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the pillars that were over there have
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been removed this building is still here
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this building is still here seen in some
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of the frames
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as well as this one another example here
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as they cross the tracks in their car
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shown from that angle the interesting
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thing is
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the one prior that i just showed as they
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were heading from that direction
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going towards where i'm standing
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immediately
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the next cut they are going from this
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way little movie magic
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or movie mistake and then they turn in
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into there go all the way to the end
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and then they take a right into the back
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of this building
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where kind of a little bit of a showdown
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also when everything is
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kind of ensuing you can see those same
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buildings there
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and just across that little awning of
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the one next to it
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so that would be the buildings looking
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from a kind of a bird's eye top of the
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train perspective
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and there's the building with the awning
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which also gave me
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some clues so if you cross over the
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tracks
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that angle would have been a little bit
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past
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the blue building down there now you are
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not supposed to walk on active train
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track so i'm not going to go any farther
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than this
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but i do believe i can walk past the
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fence line and cut around through the
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unfenced area
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and possibly get a view before i head
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over there though i want to show this
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one angle as well
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where officers are pulling in you can
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see the awning
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see that little stairwell and they could
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faintly make it out but there was a
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billboard
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on the top of the building i tried
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utilizing that as a clue
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the billboard is gone and whatever was
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on there when i was searching it
22:42
couldn't find any relics of that or
22:44
anything documented from the 80s
22:46
but this is definitely it right there
22:48
even though that billboard you can still
22:50
see the brackets of the billboard
22:51
up there you know the billboard is long
22:54
gone
22:59
okay going from here gonna walk around
22:59
the back of this building
23:01
try to head the back side of this train
23:03
don't know if the chain link fence and
23:04
barbed wire is gonna obscure
23:07
me getting over there but you can see
23:08
the brick pattern and coloration on the
23:11
building
23:12
well i take that back this section
23:13
doesn't have barbed wire but there's a
23:14
chain link fence
23:16
but you see the the brick pattern is the
23:19
same
23:20
as what i just showed in that photo but
23:22
i got to go up here
23:23
to where the fence ends well connects
23:26
i'm not going to be able to get the
23:27
angle i need
23:28
can definitely get an idea though so
23:29
there's the awning i would be
23:31
standing more or less over here where
23:33
the clipboard begins
23:35
at this moment so if you're looking that
23:37
way
23:38
that is the awning right there and i
23:41
will flip the page
23:43
and show a another angle as they are
23:45
running down
23:47
this incline and there's the awning as
23:50
well so the pallets
23:51
would be on the other side of that
23:53
storage container and all the action
23:55
happened right here in this parking lot
23:57
in fact you can see this big building
23:59
over to the side
24:02
where they pulled up everyone kind of
24:04
stared at each other for a good minute
24:05
before the
24:06
action began that would be this building
24:10
once again cannot get into the
24:12
particular angle
24:13
that i need to get but when everything
24:16
is taking place and the action is really
24:17
in full swing
24:19
you can see this building which is
24:22
you know a way where i can walk up to
24:24
you can see that
24:25
in the frame very prominently with the
24:27
windows and the bars and the
24:29
the cinder blocks making up what the
24:33
heck was that
24:34
look very closely in the center of the
24:36
screen
24:38
there is a pole a power pole right in
24:40
the middle that power pole
24:42
is this here so this is where the frame
24:46
begins
24:47
right there is that awning
24:50
right there and using the power pole
24:53
that is directly in the middle of the
24:55
frame you can barely see it
24:57
shifting this way is
25:01
that vehicle there which means
25:05
that this fence line here was not there
25:08
in 87 this was all
25:09
completely open and the car that they
25:12
parked at
25:14
that dragon sound had their car was more
25:17
or less
25:17
in this area well probably more in this
25:20
area here
25:21
i would like to get over that fence and
25:23
go line up exactly
25:25
where it is but that's not going to
25:26
happen don't want to take any chances on
25:29
going into a train yard maybe wearing
25:32
the dragon count dragon
25:34
sound shirt would maybe win a security
25:38
guard over in there
25:39
even though he probably has no idea that
25:40
a movie was took place right in there on
25:42
that property
25:44
if there's even a anyone on site right
25:46
now i'll attempt to drive around the
25:47
block and see
25:48
see what i can see but this is the same
25:50
route same lane and everything that
25:52
dragon sound was pulling up here it's
25:56
about to go down
25:57
shift it around to this perspective as
26:00
this is about as close as i'm going to
26:02
get without trouncing over the tracks
26:04
as it says i'm not allowed to but you
26:06
can see the awning over there
26:08
so the angle that i am at here i will
26:11
zoom in
26:12
this is also when the officers pull in
26:14
to kind of break everything up
26:28
there's the awning there's where they
26:28
were running around having the little
26:31
little altercation obviously different
26:34
train cars
26:35
but there were train cars here
26:47
okay moving on train yard found
26:48
shown here if you look at the street
26:49
signs corner of
26:51
central boulevard and orange blossom
26:53
trail
26:54
and that same street intersection even
26:57
though the signs have been replaced
26:59
are still here obt orange blossom trail
27:01
and central boulevard
27:03
is a place by the name now of station
27:06
441
27:08
which is an a framed business
27:11
used to be a diner of some sort of
27:13
burger place and this is where uncle
27:15
song
27:16
had his restaurant and there were quite
27:18
a few
27:20
monumentous throwdowns here
27:23
in the front where this used to be
27:25
accessible to go in
27:27
to order food it is now a check cashing
27:29
place that appears to be closed
27:31
now the guy who played uncle song was
27:33
also one of the directors ykk kim
27:36
and the guy who played uncle song who
27:39
was
27:40
an actor also in the movie in this
27:43
a-frame building
27:43
and it's also unusual that there were
27:45
quite a few deleted scenes
27:47
now a lot of action did take place in
27:49
the movie itself
27:50
but there were also deleted scenes of
27:52
him him really
27:53
opening a can of you know what on some
27:56
of some of the
27:56
people who were giving him a hard time
27:59
next to the a-frame
28:01
i'm glad this is still here this is a
28:02
fantastic structure look at this
28:04
i think that's a lightning rod up there
28:06
at the top of that
28:08
good old uncle song he could uh could
28:10
pack a punch
28:11
and dragon sound had a front row view
28:14
when they pulled up right here the
28:16
corner of central pulled in that
28:18
direction
28:18
parked their car right there and they
28:21
just sat in the car
28:23
and watched watched it all go down
28:27
and then went over went inside and had a
28:30
little
28:31
conversation with uncle song about
28:32
taekwondo and what is now enclosed
28:35
used to be the picnic area where guests
28:37
could eat
28:38
that was all all right here
28:44
all right moving on headed down church
28:47
street now going to church street
28:49
station
28:50
right downtown orlando about a mile or
28:52
so from here
28:54
this is where more or less the whole
28:55
downtown fiasco begins
28:58
they put the camera up above me on what
29:01
is now
29:02
this overpass you can see this bridge
29:04
which is interstate 4
29:06
but it's looking down at the corner of
29:08
garland here on to church street
29:10
that is the the angle so if i was just
29:12
up having kind of a bird's eye
29:15
that is the angle you would get and
29:17
dragon sound pulls up to about the
29:19
center of church street station
29:21
and is stopped by some who have uh
29:24
have some will ill towards them kind of
29:27
about where that walkway
29:29
crosses over i'll go over there it is
29:30
amazing that so much action took place
29:33
right down here and there are probably
29:35
so many tourists and locals that come
29:36
down here
29:37
that have no idea that there was a whole
29:40
bunch of hullabaloo
29:41
happening right here in this very spot
29:43
if you notice when they get pinned in by
29:45
the car behind them
29:46
you can see the tippy top here of the
29:48
train station which is also still this
29:50
like
29:50
very kind of relic antique looking train
29:52
station here by the tracks
29:54
and it's directly below that train
29:56
station very unique train station
29:58
looking a little i guess a watch tower
30:01
or a lookout tower
30:02
is where everyone scattered dragon sound
30:05
ran off and
30:06
everyone was chasing them in both
30:07
directions that way
30:09
and that way you see a little little
30:11
porch awning area
30:13
has been added right up here yeah it was
30:16
quite a scene
30:17
right through here from this perspective
30:23
this is kind of the end i'll go over and
30:23
kind of show how it all culminated
30:25
at one point as i i'll walk back over a
30:28
little closer and line a couple
30:29
angles up as well notice the way the
30:31
building architect looks when he's
30:33
dumping the
30:34
beer on top of dragon sounds head that
30:36
is hamburger mary's over there and the
30:38
the windows and the archways still look
30:40
the same this guy has a chain
30:42
and he kind of wallops it across the
30:43
front of the
30:45
of their car hood but you can see right
30:47
there it says bumby
30:48
arcade if you look for the bumby arcade
30:51
kind of tough to see it hiding there in
30:52
the shadows but it's right there above
30:55
the the boards that have been placed in
30:57
the same way bumby
30:58
arcade the guy with the chain is
31:00
probably one of my favorite actors in
31:02
the whole movie
31:03
walloping it across the front and then
31:04
yelling you i lost my because of you
31:07
i lost my job you remember that hot shot
31:11
i don't know how they would remember it
31:12
they weren't there when it happened or
31:13
had any really anything to do with it
31:15
he was kind of confused but yeah very
31:17
easy to match up as they
31:19
as they kind of pulled up right along
31:20
here and parked
31:22
directly underneath this little walkway
31:25
walkway addition this overhang
31:27
still looks the same except obviously
31:29
there's some boards up across the way
31:31
church street i'll never look at church
31:33
street station
31:34
the same ever again up there is a train
31:37
going by right now i can well i can't
31:40
sit i mean i was gonna say i sensed it
31:42
but i don't sense it i can hear
31:43
the train
31:46
wait for it wait for it there it is
31:49
there's the train
31:50
going by perfect time
31:54
i don't know what it's perfect timing
31:55
for but it was perfect timing taking it
31:57
slow through here hopefully
31:59
hopefully nobody stops me right here
32:01
under this
32:02
pulls out a chain and puts it across the
32:05
front of my hood that would not be good
32:06
in fact the guy with the chain chases yk
32:09
kim out into the middle of the
32:10
intersection
32:11
the intersection here but this here is
32:12
the building
32:14
one west church street that you're
32:16
seeing right there i'm not going to go
32:17
out in the middle of the busy road
32:19
because it is
32:20
very busy but you get the idea how they
32:23
were just kind of going at it
32:25
guy with the chain you see the door
32:27
right over there now i'm standing in the
32:28
more
32:29
precise angle over there
32:32
it's now all walgreens used to be a bank
32:36
but it's now uh now a walgreens but the
32:37
windows
32:38
and the architecture and everything
32:40
still still looks the same this one took
32:42
a little while to figure out as well
32:44
because there was really no distinctive
32:46
anything on this where i could kind of
32:47
figure it out
32:48
over on to pine street now one block
32:50
over onto pine street where all of this
32:53
quite a bit of action right here on this
32:56
very corner
32:57
within i don't say maybe 20 30 yards all
33:00
of these places are
33:01
all in the same general vicinity pine
33:04
street
33:04
just a block or so away from church
33:06
street downtown orlando
33:09
is where you can find all of this that
33:10
took place so it started over at church
33:13
ran down church street and then over a
33:15
block to pine street
33:17
and that's where you could see pretty
33:18
much all of this happening
33:20
and dragon sound just doing their thing
33:22
taking care of business
33:24
making it happen there there were some
33:27
there were some tough guys they really
33:28
had to handle themselves that's for sure
33:31
especially ykk kim he uh
33:33
yeah has some good moves
33:37
about a mile and a half away i have
33:38
arrived at the corner of
33:40
brown avenue and robinson street and i
33:43
am
33:43
happy to say
33:47
i have pinpointed
33:51
the house that dragon sound lived in
33:54
the dragon sound house is on
33:58
this very road on brown street
34:02
right across the cobblestone it was it
34:06
took a while
34:07
took a while to find a lot of street
34:10
view going up and down every road in
34:12
orlando
34:13
and i eventually found it even though it
34:15
has been repurposed
34:17
and changed just a bit it is located
34:22
right over there
34:26
oh yes that
34:30
is something to behold the dragon sound
34:34
house the spot where they placed
34:39
right there in the front yard in the
34:40
corner of that sidewalk
34:42
and the entrance way right over there
34:45
where the sprinkler is now
34:46
it's also raining let's probably get my
34:48
umbrella is where they put the mailbox
34:50
they erected
34:51
the mailbox and the famous line
34:56
was spoke right there you don't know
34:58
what i'm referring to
35:00
just look it up you'll figure it out
35:02
right along there
35:04
this is where the mailbox was now the
35:06
house itself has
35:07
changed the front has been completely
35:11
repurposed
35:12
but look at the roof line and look at
35:15
the street
35:16
as well as also add in the fact
35:21
that the homes across from it that's how
35:23
i figured it out
35:24
the ones across still look the same
35:27
and when they pulled in right along here
35:31
pretty much exact as well when they put
35:33
him up on his shoulders
35:34
just look at the outline of the top of
35:37
the roof
35:43
there you go right there and the
35:43
neighbor's house
35:44
also still the same as shown right here
35:48
over jim's shoulder
35:57
hey that mailbox thing is something else
35:57
you can really tell how much they
35:59
repurpose it by this when gemma is
36:00
getting in the car
36:02
going with the rest of the group to meet
36:03
his dad his dad is flying in from the
36:05
airport to meet him for the first time
36:07
you can really tell how they have
36:08
repurposed the home quite a bit
36:10
another clue that kind of gave me a hint
36:12
on where this was
36:14
after researching for a while is the
36:16
very awkwardly acted scene
36:19
right here in the side yard you will
36:21
notice
36:22
behind everyone over here is this
36:25
business
36:25
of some sort with the uh you know the
36:28
building kind of like that even though
36:29
that has been redone quite a bit i was
36:31
looking for an empty parking lot
36:33
and the homes that looked like this on
36:35
either sides
36:36
as the rain starts to fall down on the
36:38
pieces of paper with the string
36:40
grabs this is where they're pulling up
36:44
as well trees have grown up considerably
36:46
since back then but
36:48
same road same cobblestone brick
36:55
and i'm fairly confident the interiors
36:57
were in there as well
36:58
all the interiors inside the house
37:01
here's that moment when he walks out to
37:03
check the mail
37:05
obviously as stated it has been
37:08
but he walked down the sidewalk and
37:10
that's where he got the letter
37:13
letting him know that his dad had been
37:14
found and he was going to meet him at
37:15
the airport
37:16
he needed to buy a new suit they all put
37:19
their money together
37:20
chipped in so he get a new suit and
37:21
there was another deleted scene
37:23
where they do put the mailbox and push
37:27
it down in the ground
37:28
the non-deleted scene is when he comes
37:29
out and checks the mail but there was
37:30
another
37:31
another one that was deleted it's on the
37:33
blue rack where right about here they
37:35
were constructing the mailbox
37:37
before that i guess the postman just
37:39
left the mail over there
37:41
in the side they'd pick it up by the the
37:42
front door kind of weird
37:44
now from here still another spot to
37:46
attend so
37:47
a lot more to see at the next spot a lot
37:50
more to say
37:51
i really can't imagine those interiors
37:53
taking place in there
37:55
it looks like the same layout with the
37:57
the front room and everything where
37:59
they have the couch set up and makeshift
38:02
beds and all that
38:05
also the breakfast scene they walk out
38:07
to check the mail
38:08
now the next spot is only about a third
38:10
of a mile away from here
38:12
heading over there now corner of
38:13
washington street
38:15
and rose garden
38:23
when they're driving up up to the bridge
38:23
and they see everyone on the motorcycles
38:26
and he looks across this very bridge
38:30
and makes that statement oh
38:33
ninjas
38:40
unmistakable this is the bridge they
38:40
would not let them pass so
38:42
a little bit a bit of a ruckus ensued
38:45
they jumped out of the car
38:47
and i believe over this ledge
38:51
and down to that tree is where
38:54
gem spoiler alert may or may not
38:57
depending on what version you watch
38:59
while the ending was changed i'll just
39:01
take that right down there near that
39:03
tree i believe is where jim
39:05
met his demise if you will this shows
39:09
how they leap down
39:11
i got to walk down these stairs very
39:12
cautiously though but want to show how
39:14
they leap down
39:15
from the top of that down to ground
39:17
level from the bridge
39:19
retracing the steps as he jumps down is
39:22
being chased through here
39:24
turns goes through this section around
39:28
the tree that way and then pops out over
39:32
and you can see kicks one of the ninjas
39:36
but that is the tree there's a kind of a
39:40
secondary well not a secondary there is
39:43
not a walkway that's like a
39:44
little creek down there where a lot of
39:46
the water was
39:48
kind of stationed down in there
39:51
and loops around here lets out the
39:54
scream right in here
39:56
very vivid scream wow
40:01
that's so cool the look of shock on his
40:03
face when he knew his friend was injured
40:06
these bridges through here have been
40:08
redone and trans
40:09
transplanted with some wooden bridges
40:12
and no longer has the the metal railings
40:16
but he runs over kind of goes up the
40:19
side of the hill
40:21
i have to hand it to the actors from
40:22
getting down there and that
40:24
all that water down you see a lot of
40:25
spider webs but they were laying right
40:28
and notice the tree i pointed out right
40:32
that is it's that very tree right there
40:35
grown up a lot since then but
40:37
that's the tree and this is the tunnel
40:43
the miami connection tunnel used on more
40:44
than one occasion
40:46
you see there he comes kind of bolting
40:47
through as well through the tunnel
40:49
and he pulls him through this murky
40:51
water
40:52
right along here and appears as if
40:57
these ferns have kind of overgrown it
40:58
but right there where the
41:00
the side of the little embankment is
41:03
and the rock work is where where he uh
41:06
kind of lays them
41:07
as well it is really overgrown than how
41:10
it was back in 87 but you can see the
41:12
water down there
41:13
this whole area is really not that large
41:15
i mean it's in the middle of a housing
41:17
development
41:17
there are houses over there are houses
41:21
there's even a house right there and
41:24
pretty intense the the ending but you'll
41:28
that there's a couple mistakes you could
41:30
see one of the crew members over here
41:31
that wasn't supposed to be on camera
41:33
appearing there so oops they didn't
41:36
catch that now where mark kind of runs
41:38
up the side of the embankment
41:40
and meets these meets these two guys
41:45
most likely right here on this little
41:46
kind of open patch
41:48
because you can see well it's it's
41:51
obscured by the
41:53
by the foliage but there was some rock
41:55
work there in the distance
41:57
and there's a home just out of the
42:00
camera's view that you can see
42:02
on a couple different occasions when
42:04
he's like hiding down
42:06
in the water among the foliage
42:09
which could have been down somewhere in
42:12
this area the water's
42:14
really not too deep right now it's
42:15
really dried up you can see a little bit
42:17
of water down there
42:18
this is the area here so you see the
42:21
bench in the distance in this little
42:23
kind of very small staircase
42:27
so here is a bench and the very
42:31
small staircase which you can see right
42:33
over there very very small
42:35
staircase which means yeah he was down
42:38
in here
42:40
down in this murkiness camera across the
42:43
way there
42:54
you gotta love that insane wow yeah
42:54
definitely a home behind when he's like
42:56
running up the hill this embankment
42:58
and he takes a step up you can see it's
43:00
like a hard step
43:01
up that would be this step up out of the
43:06
and there is that house kind of hidden
43:08
in the foliage
43:09
behind there right in there so this is
43:13
this is the area they were just kind of
43:14
hiding in the water
43:16
as the other others approached and then
43:19
they left out at them
43:21
right there just walking through here
43:23
really feels like i'm
43:25
feels like i'm in the miami connection
43:28
it has that vibe
43:48
one thing's for sure it is incredibly
43:48
hot and humid just look how much i'm
43:49
sweating
43:50
my my sweat seeping through my shirt on
43:53
both sides
43:55
florida humidity am i right
43:59
at least there's a bug over in the town
44:01
of enterprise there is a biker bar
44:04
which has as far as i can tell has been
44:06
torn down
44:07
it's over near the downtown area of
44:08
enterprise
44:10
did not make it over to there looked
44:12
looked and looked and looked and looked
44:13
and looked
44:14
from what i can tell this building no
44:16
longer exists but i believe that's where
44:17
the biker scene took place
44:18
and there was one or two angles at the
44:20
daytona beach pier
44:22
didn't really feel like driving an hour
44:24
and a half over there on a weekend as a
44:25
recording of this it is
44:27
a sunday and it would be
44:30
it would take a while so just opted not
44:32
to do that considering none of these
44:34
have ever been documented before
44:37
i'm granting myself not going over to
44:39
get one little frame at the daytona
44:41
beach pier
44:43
but down the road if anyone else would
44:44
like to to tackle
44:46
this project and find anything i did not
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see
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it's a cool movie
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best i could tell no one has really
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covered these spots before so i figured
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heck it miami connection needed to be
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done plus plus i love the film
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it's great if you walk up the steps you
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get an angle here
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when they were driving across and they
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saw the the ninja bikers
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there's a an angle that kind of goes
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through the trees like this
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as well one more spot at the end
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remember how i said there's two endings
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to the movie
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they previewed the movie no one liked
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the ending so they changed it
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so i'm gonna go to where the original
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ending took place
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right after the scene
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in this area as the car pulls in behind
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me
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i parked over at the down the street
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just a bit
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this is very interesting this looks very
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similar
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to where they have the ninja training
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all through here this is a different
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park about a block away
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but let me show this is what it was
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back then now they've changed
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the wooden platforms through here but
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also where the original ending scene
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which still remains in the movie they
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just extended it just a little bit
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when the guy kind of crawls up to his to
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the leader to the boss
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and lets him know that everything was
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not going well i don't want to give it
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away
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this looks like where it would have been
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they've just replaced it
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i don't want to give too many spoilers
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yeah just watch the other hysterical
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left it's in the trailer
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that's awesome but i believe it was
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right here because all this looks like
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the same area
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the same type of wooden platforms
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they've just replaced all this when they
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were doing the the training the ninja
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training when they were
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all running through here glad i saw this
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as i was driving by i nearly forgot
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yes so cool
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okay going going outside the airport for
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the very last thing
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oh this is good this is
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real good where they were doing the
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training
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possibly over here in this little grassy
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area but notice
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this bridge has a very unique shape
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to it while going across there is that
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unique shape right there
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and i believe there was a a moment when
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they were running across this very
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bridge and kind of you know they're very
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they're
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very heavy-footed oh yeah this is it
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this is it right here they were going
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across this the camera was probably set
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up over on this side
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yes this is this is it
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the ninja training ground
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awesome
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it was from the other angle from
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over there in fact that kind of unique
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looking tree on the other side of the
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bridge
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is that tree because there is one it did
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not get a screen capture of it
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but there's another time during it that
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it pans out and you can see a building
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over behind where i'm standing that
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building still exists
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it is well there's the
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there's the boardwalks there that are
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walking around with that building that
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you can see
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is that building right there behind it
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so
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the camera would have been set up on the
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opposite side of that bridge but that's
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the spot
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100 this is where the very end of the
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movie took place
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the plane flew right overhead here
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off mccoy road the orlando international
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airport
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they no longer use this for arrival so
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the planes do not land here anymore
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in fact you could see a plane over there
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about to take off
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so this runway at least at this
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particular moment
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as i'm standing here there will not be a
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plane
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going overhead as it did at the end as
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stated
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original ending
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and then they previewed it they did not
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like the original ending of jim
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meeting his demise they wanted him to
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live so they extended it
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but the way it ended is they were right
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watching the plane land
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he was in the back seat of the car they
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said
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oh no jim's dad is on that plane
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jim's father's on that plane
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i don't know how they knew exactly which
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which flight it's on the deleted scene
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if you have the blu-ray
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you can see it and the plane goes it
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lands right there
49:27
you get to look faintly but you can see
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the control tower off in the distance
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and the control tower is
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there from this angle off mccoy road off
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in the distance
49:37
they would have had their car parked
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right up against that fence line
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this could have been repaved over the
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years but you'll notice
49:45
there's a little body of water here the
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plane flies over
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the body of water just to the side
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directly
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overhead there goes a plane taken off
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straight ahead this is the spot the very
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ending
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of miami connection and that's going to
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do it for today
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if you have not seen this i encourage
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you if you like
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kind of corny kind of cheesy badly acted
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action-packed films from the 80s
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this is one of the best slash worst
50:20
there are you can get it on blu-ray dvd
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it's kind of hard to find on blu-ray
50:24
however
50:26
it's it's it's not inexpensive but you
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can't find it online if you want the
50:30
blu-ray
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crystal clear with commentary
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from some of the actors and as well as
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some deleted scenes original ending
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and a bunch of other additional items as
50:42
well or
50:42
you can also find it on a number of
50:44
platforms online
50:46
and just watch it for free so you don't
50:48
know usually when i am researching
50:50
filming locations i like to have a
50:51
blu-ray so i can pause it go freight by
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frame by frame
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i can kind of look very closely and
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match up
50:57
street signs gives me clues on where
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things are so that's just my personal
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opinion but
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if you're more into streaming doing it
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that way and not really analyzing frame
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by frame by frame
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you can find it online in a lot of
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different places
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for free thanks for watching this was a
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lot of fun i hope you enjoyed it
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i'll see you in the next video the vlog
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is over