Universal Studios Hollywood AFTER DARK Backlot Tram Tour Is Awesome - Night Time RideThru Movie Sets
Universal Studios Hollywood Tram Tour 2023
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today's adventure begins as a recording
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of this Thursday June 8th 2023
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there is some activity going down
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over at the Water World stage
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down at Universal Studios Hollywood it
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is in the
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kind of late afternoon the Park is open
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until the evening hours which is kind of
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rare because sometimes during the course
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of the year when I'm out here
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they're only open till six or seven but
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today they're open till 10 so I'm going
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to get a late night evening at Universal
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Studios Hollywood I'm pretty excited
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about it I'm gonna head down in a minute
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while up here I'll kind of showcase the
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valley a little bit
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with Warner Brothers off in the distance
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Griffith Park where I hiked the other
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day
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that direction and I should be able to
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get a pretty good view of the seaplane
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crash should have a flare go off
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right about here up there's one and then
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another one the other way
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off the other way
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yup my C plane okay look for the C plane
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get ready
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should be coming over that wall right
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there
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here goes
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right about now
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there it is
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yes
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oh
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awesome I apologize for the pixelation
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of how zoomed in this is but take a look
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here he's on fire here goes the fire
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dive
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look at that
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fire dive stunts
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whole place lights up this is the way to
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kick off a vlog
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it's just a start
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what a view from here
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what a freaking view welcome everyone
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Adam the woo here it is about 350 345
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almost four opted not to bring my
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sunglasses because soon the sun will be
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setting
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but now I'm thinking maybe I should have
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brought him at least for a couple hours
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nonetheless
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I'm inviting you
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to join me
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as I go
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for a little nighttime festivities a
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rare occasion summer hours if you will
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even though I think Summers is another
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week or so away late spring early summer
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hours Universal Studios Hollywood and
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the tram tour at night
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I have not done the tram tour at night
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maybe ever with the exception of hhm
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should be interesting inviting you to
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join me but remember
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do not feed
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the fish
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but I guess you probably could feed the
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turtles
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does the same thing about the turtles
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Universal City
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the walkway over also I forgot to point
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this out but I am wearing quite an
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appropriate t-shirt to ride the movie
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era Universal Studios
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one thing about getting here a little
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bit later in the afternoon you don't
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have the mad rush on the way in there's
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plenty of views of the globe from this
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direction take a look at this and the
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red carpet now the wait times are pretty
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busy in there that definitely having
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some busy times this week but yeah look
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at this there's a clear view here of the
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globe and the archway nice and just like
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that heading into water world and
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meeting up hang out with a friend today
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Daphne from the Daphne show is also here
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and we're about to get preset you said
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for Water World
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oh my gosh VIP water roll treatment all
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right that water has a tendency to
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travel this way
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back in a motivation
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I'm so sorry about that
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to work I feel like the so I feel like
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that might have been for me
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and there's a different View
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level
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getting a pretty good Overlook down here
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you can even see Hill Valley you see the
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courthouse Square down there
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kind of that direction right about
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there is the Clock Tower with a
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lightning struck with the new sound
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stages behind it which is kind of weird
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now above the mummy attraction it used
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to be the UT attraction which is on my
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shirt here so you got E.T right here but
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back in the day up until like a year ago
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before they repainted the top of the
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roof you could see where it's still a
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said ET for like one of the
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anniversaries of like a DVD or a VHS
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release but now it's been repainted when
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I was waiting for this ride to open
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Jurassic world to reopen with the new
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animatronics a few years ago I started
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Living in Hollywood I remember I was
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down here me and mondo from five fires
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were like right here and there was an
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earthquake there was an earthquake right
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here yeah you're working upstairs at
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Potter and there was a yeah so mono and
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I were like right here next to these
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rocks and uh yeah there was a quite the
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I was like it felt like I was like here
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and I could almost feel this like
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leaning forward I was like whoa that
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doesn't feel right that was working that
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day and I was upstairs I
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Wonder did you feel it yeah yeah the
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whole like all
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at one car upstairs like in front of the
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castle they all rolled down the thing
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like the display case
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so it doesn't look like we're going to
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be doing a night ride on Jurassic that'd
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be kind of fun to have a splash down
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after dark but
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doesn't look like it's going to be
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happening look how green the water is
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maybe this year for Hornets they'll do
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Jurassic world after dark for Horror
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Nights yeah how they used to do Jurassic
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Park after dark we go do Jurassic world
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they did that for Horror Nights yeah
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they used to do a Jurassic Park after
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dark where everything was all shut off
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everything was like real a lot darker
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than normal all the
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lights is in front of Panda Express the
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top grossing film of 1982
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it's like a teacher you
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know I was thinking what if they change
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this to Kung Fu Panda Express let's have
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a also ordinary Ventures is here what do
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you think of do you think Stephen is
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super excited to have his plaque right
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in front of him like you can never
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remove this plaque
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we know what happens when they remove
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anything Spielberg he doesn't like that
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you want to keep this I've never noticed
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this before but you could actually see
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the Hilton my hotel from right here
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people from above Jurassic oh there's
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blue the dinosaur over there blue is
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over there looking wondering why the
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Jurassic Park rides not operational at
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the moment oh I think the sun is about
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to start going down now it's kind of
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glistening over here off of the going up
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the let's go about to go with the second
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set of the world's tallest theme park
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escalators ever so we're gonna try to
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get car four you can kind of see the sun
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setting over there a little bit of the
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Hue over there I don't think we're gonna
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get on this one try to get the back row
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all right we are going to be on number
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three this one is pulling up right now
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also these newer trams are all electric
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trams so they're very very quiet not gas
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powered good for the environment and
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less fumes and very very quiet we're
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going to have the last row on number
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three of the new electric trams
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nighttime
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Edition
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these are really really quiet
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and Road Number Eight last row all the
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way at the far end it's time
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for a little duck
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I will be your guy today since it's
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getting dark this is the only time I
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will be on camera today during the tour
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so hello it looks a little scary in the
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dark so I'm gonna turn that off
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now watch your hands and feet as the
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tram door is close if you don't yet have
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a pair of 3D glasses give us a wave and
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we'll get a pair right on over to you
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on the tram today make sure that they
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are seated
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as opposed outer edges
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now raise your hand if it is your first
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time here on the Universal Studios tour
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welcome welcome it's good to have you
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you picked the perfect day I always
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think the tour is a little bit more
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exciting at night time oh yeah and who
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is the here for the hundredth time raise
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your hand
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um
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good to see you all again
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and we are off
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the studio away from the theme park now
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mine I think there's actually a couple
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more maybe there is gonna be one more
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time
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yeah
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three to seven miles per hour through
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the back lot more training technical
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emergency or if you drop something of
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value off the side of the trail or have
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any sound or video issues reach up and
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grab the record that runs along the
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center of the ceiling of the trim and
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I'll be back to assist you
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as soon as it is safe to do so otherwise
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during the entire tour please stay
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seated and keep your arms and legs
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inside the vehicle at all times remember
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to use that red cord above your head if
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you need any assistance the studio is
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private property and if at any time
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during the tour you drop your phone or
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just can't wait to use the restroom pull
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that cord and remain seated please no
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smoking of any kind during the two
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selfie sticks while on board thank you
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so much now we are headed down our
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timeline starting back in 1914 with
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Damon and pythius Universal Pictures
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first film take a look on either side of
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the trim and keep your eyes out for your
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favorite movies now these are just a
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handful of the films made by Universal
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Studios and my little chicken one of my
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personal favorites I'm a big fan of
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westerns is High Plains Drifter in 1973
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starring Clint Eastwood
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he was one of the most famous
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gunslingers here in Hollywood he
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actually started as a contract player
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here at Universal Studios he was
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bringing in a whopping 50 dollars per
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week
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that's a real photograph of the Moon
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that is not CGI computer generated
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imagery Steven Spielberg actually hired
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a team of astronauts to scope out
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different locations and track the moon
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phases to get that perfect shot for the
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poster
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not out on the right Fire Station 51
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that is a real working fire station that
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is not a movie set now Carl Lemley when
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he opened the doors to Universal Studios
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he dreamed of building a city designed
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for movie making and that's exactly what
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we are we've got our very own fire
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station our own Sheriff's Office our own
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ZIP code and as any proper City should
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have our very own Starbucks here on the
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lot the only thing that we don't have
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our residents because this is a city
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from the path of Bel-Air themselves
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whoa It's Apollo 13. and also on the
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left you'll see NBC post now this is not
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a post office this is actually even
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though we do have a post office here on
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the back lot this is actually post as in
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post-production which is everything that
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happens after you wrap on a set so
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editing the film adding in Visual and
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special effects or CGI computer
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generated imagery or I'm in the score or
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soundtrack to the movie that all happens
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right there in that building
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built before they are wheeled on over to
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one of our front lot sound stages or to
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our back Lots
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and also on the left we've got our base
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camp that's where cast and crew can grab
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a coffee or a snack between takes and
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get those cameras out folks we've got
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our first celebrity sighting of the tour
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that is Ted he is on the lot today
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toasting us with the dirtiest Martini
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I've ever seen he's celebrating his
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newest show Ted coming to Peacock very
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soon executive I guess the biggest names
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in Hollywood do that right here in these
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buildings this first one on the left
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that is Dwayne The Rock Johnson's office
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seven bucks Productions they did Jungle
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Book Jumanji and the show Young Rock now
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back in the day before these were turned
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into office spaces these were actually
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dressing rooms to some of the biggest
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stars in Hollywood like Gregory Peck
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Jimmy Stewart Lucille Ball but now they
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are office spaces
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now coming up on the left you'll see a
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familiar silhouette on a bungalow 5195
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that was Alfred Hitchcock's office when
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he worked here on the universal back
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line now that office space was actually
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offered to Spielberg when he came to
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work at Universal but he politely
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declined saying that it was better
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suited to be a museum or a shrine looks
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as if we're going to be going back to
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Courthouse Square
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area over here which means it's
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distracted
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and I want to formally welcome you all
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to our bath lot sets now our front lots
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have our sound stages
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Welcome to our Metropolitan sets now
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many times when you see New York on
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television or in a movie it's not
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actually a shot in New York it's shot
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right here in Studio City on the Metro
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set back locks and I know he feels right
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at home
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has been a couple years since I've been
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back to that's because these sets are
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Courthouse Square or Hill Valley
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purposes for whatever the production it
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needs that day and so all of that would
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be brought in by our props department
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and then all of the foliage and street
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signs would it be brought in by our
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props Department in our greens
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Department to really customize the looks
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of the Metro sets if they didn't do that
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you would see a lot of the same stores
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and windows in every single television
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show in every single movie so we really
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want to customize it for the needs and
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these sets are extremely versatile they
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don't just play New York City this is
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also where they host the reality
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competition show American Ninja Warrior
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they just shot the most recent season
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here on the Metro sets earlier this year
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and they only shoot at night they set up
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the also of course going down this
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street and those high flying athletes
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will fly down these streets in the
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middle of the night but they only start
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shooting after the sun sets because they
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want all of the competitors to have have
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the same conditions they don't want one
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person going in the middle of the day
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when it's much hotter and one person
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getting to go later in the day when it's
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cooler so they want to keep things Fair
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now here on the Metro sets too we can do
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something called day to night filming
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and so if you need to shoot a night
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scene but cast and crew is only
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available during the day we can actually
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change the time of day that it is here
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on the Metro sets by covering these
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buildings with a giant tarp just another
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way that we can manipulate these sets
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and create a little bit of movie Magic
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is you can go inside and then you can
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look through the window but some of them
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aren't some of them don't have four
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walls and a ceiling and those are what
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we call facades which is French for
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false front so those buildings might
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have a front maybe a side but you can't
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really go inside with them and so any
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interior scenes when a character enters
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the building those would be
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shot over on the front lot in one of the
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sound stages
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okay but now we are headed out of the
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concrete jungle and headed to the real
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jungle more specifically we're headed up
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to Skull Island let's hear from Peter
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Jackson as we move in to make sure to
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remain seated and Hold On Tight To those
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magic wands and that giant Donuts it's
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gonna be a bit of a bumpy ride
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this old school absolute Bridge the tram
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needs to go across there but now it's
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not now they have the train that
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Hitchcock is stood in front of in those
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old commercials we talked a little bit
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earlier about how Alfred Hitchcock
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always liked to make cameos in his films
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Peter Jackson and the WETA effects team
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also enjoyed making a cameo in marriage
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films
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Studio Tour tram that gets pulled onto
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the screen on Skull Island
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it's actually Peter Jackson Peter
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Jackson's family and the wet effects
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team aboard that studio tour tram in
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their own Cameo on Skull Island
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gets pulled on we're all the way back to
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the Stone Age right here we've got Fred
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Flintstone and a Barney rubble's cars
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parked right over there to the left
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they can even take us to the Wizarding
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World of Harry Potter that is one of the
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17 and a half Ford anglias used in Harry
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Potter and the Chamber of Secrets the
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half was so that the camera crew could
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get right up close to Ron and Harry for
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their close-up shots now I want you to
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take a look to your left we've got our
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first picture boat that is the crawdaddy
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from Jordan peels us
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and when you see this tank from the
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Transformers take an extra close look at
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that tank it is not made out of metal
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it's actually made out of plywood and
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that Barrel that's just a PVC pipe yes
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the exact same PVC pipe that you could
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buy at Home Depot a little bit of movie
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Magic for you right there much easier to
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bring that PVC pipe and a bunch of
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plywood to and from set every day than
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actually carrying multiple tons of metal
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by using a real tank also much easier to
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blow that one up
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now also on the right take a look you'll
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see another famous picture car that is
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one of the Jeeps from Jurassic world
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welcoming us to Jurassic Park here at
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Universal Studios Jurassic Park is one
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of our most well-known films
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internationally Jurassic world starring
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Chris Pratt is our highest grossing film
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to date
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now we like to keep some dinosaurs in
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cages for you all to see on the studio
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tour for this very reason now these
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cages just like that tank where the
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Transformers are also made out of
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plywood
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and on second thought they probably
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should have made them out of metal
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because it looks like the dinosaurs have
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escaped don't worry they're friendly
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they just want to say hi but they have
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gone out again
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Jurassic Park if it wasn't for the
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dinosaurs but we also wouldn't Jurassic
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Park if it wasn't for the weather if it
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wasn't for the hurricane that trapped
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the Jurassic Park gang onto the island
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in the first movie we wouldn't have any
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of this but it can be pretty hard to get
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weather to hit its Mark here in sunny
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Southern California so as we turn the
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corner and roll into our Old Mexico set
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so I'm going to show you just how we
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make it rain here in Hollywood because
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our favorite films wouldn't be the same
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without a little rain Ali and Noah's
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kiss in the notebook the end of
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Shawshank Redemption our Hollywood
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classic so take a look around at our Old
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Mexico set these are very versatile
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these were using Big Fat Liar Nacho
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Libre starring Jack Black also planted
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Boston from the Paramount plus showed
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Picard all filmed right here in Old
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Mexico
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now that Thunder you hear that's coming
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from speakers that are hidden among the
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trees and yeah
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you see those are strobe lights on top
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of these buildings here in Old Mexico
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and that rain that's coming from a
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sprinkler system shooting water up into
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the air and falling back down to Earth
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but no need to get those problems just
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look really cool at night just a light
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little drizzle now these raindrops are
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about two times larger than normal
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raindrops would be out in the world
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that's to make sure that they do show
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camera
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if this was a hot set if the cameras
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were rolling we probably wouldn't hear
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that Thunder that would be added in
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post-production because we wouldn't want
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that to interfere with the actors line
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delivery but we have it here on the
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studio tour today for the full effect of
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this stormy stormy night and I spoke too
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soon put those ponchos on part two
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because we have a flash flood coming in
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and you are in the Splash Zone
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our flash flood was used in the movie
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Big Fat Liar starring Paul giamani
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Amanda Bynes and Frankie Muniz foreign
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that right there folks that is his stunt
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double
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but Lady Gaga she used our flash flood
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in her music video Judas and she did all
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of her own stunts and she did them in
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heels
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and now we're passing Down Denver Street
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this is the sum of our Western sets here
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on the universal back lot many iconic
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Productions have filmed here some
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Classics like The Virginian and
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Winchester 73. now he wouldn't have
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westerns if it wasn't for some good
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stunts so take a look up at yours and
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many of our most iconic Monsters of all
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time think Frankenstein Dracula The Wolf
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Man The Mummy the Invisible Man they
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were all born right here in little
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Europe
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on your right as we round this corner
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this is where all of those iconic
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monster movies were shot and it
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definitely has kind of an ominous feel
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at night time this was also the setting
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of The Good Place starring Kristen Bell
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check it out on your screen it's reading
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that yogurt shop we're about to pass
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that set piece on your left in just a
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moment the props Department came in and
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added those chairs tables and umbrellas
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greens Department came in and out of
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those flowers but as you'll see over on
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the left folks that building structure
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looks pretty much the same as it did in
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the show
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now these sets are very versatile they
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don't just play Europe This is Egypt
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from The Mummy this is also the
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fictional country of Genovia from The
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Princess Diaries and princess diaries
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two starring Anne Hathaway and Julie
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Andrews one of my personal favorites and
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this Courtyard over on the right this is
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our court of Miracles this was
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transformed into 50
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.
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starring Lon Chaney which is celebrating
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its 100th animal history this year and
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get those cameras out it looks like we
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have another celebrity here in little
23:12
Europe it's kind of late for the
23:14
Invisible Man to be out and walking
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around the back lot
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they got me because I definitely do he's
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right there the Invisible Man now
23:25
Monsters of us here at Universal let's
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hear what some of our iconic directors
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have to say about the importance of the
23:33
monster now the monster movies
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Frankenstein and Dracula The Originals
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both came out in 1931 during the height
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of the greatest surprise for a million
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dollars at the box office
23:47
you would have not been able to see
23:47
Frankenstein in theaters it was banned
23:50
in the state for being too terrifying
23:54
now I do want to let you all know that
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we're approximately at the halfway mark
23:59
of our tour and so please do remain
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seated during the entire tour the studio
24:04
is private property and if you drop your
24:06
phone or just can't wait to use the
24:07
restroom pull that red cord to get my
24:09
attention but do remain seated and I'll
24:11
be back to assist you as soon as it is
24:13
safe to do so
24:24
all right we have an E chord pull
24:24
would you please pull the cord again if
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this is a medical emergency
24:32
would you pull the cord again if this is
24:32
bathroom
24:39
all right we will call and get someone
24:39
headed over in just a moment and then we
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will be on our way and we'll get you
24:44
never had the tram stop somebody's got
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to use the facilities
24:55
today right here and a board on it now
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that's not a barn for animals that's
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actually where our NBC News team stores
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their equipment when they are not on
25:02
location
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now as we take a look and we're parked
25:07
here in our Western set area let's take
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a look at some iconic western films that
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were shot here at Universal now our
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Universal Western sets more movies have
25:16
been shot right here than anywhere else
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in the entire world yes because back in
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the day there were six distinct streets
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that went off our main Western street
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called six points and each Street was
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complete with its very own bank it's a
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very own Sheriff's Office and of course
25:32
its very own Saloon and so back in the
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day of silent film they could actually
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film not one not two but six westerns
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all at the same time over there and Six
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Points Texas and so anytime you have to
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run a bad guy out of town he just had to
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turn the corner and he was in the next
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town sound it didn't matter if people
25:51
were yelling on set and it really kind
25:53
of jazzed up the performers as well now
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we can't do that anymore really on the
25:57
western sets because movies have sound
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now but they still do have live studio
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audiences here at Universal Studios for
26:05
example the voice is filmed right over
26:07
there on soundstage 30. has a live
26:08
studio audience for every single episode
26:10
so take a look up on your screen you'll
26:12
see some of our famous Western Stars on
26:15
our Western sets
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but now we are taking a plane ride
26:33
across the country we're headed out of
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the old west and all the way over to New
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England more specifically to Amity
26:41
Island the quiet little New England town
26:44
which was the setting for Steven
26:46
Spielberg's 19 and 75 Club you got to
26:49
use the restroom just pull the cord it's
26:51
a point little it will take you in a
26:53
truck but I hear they do have a little
26:55
bit of a shark good it looks like
26:57
they've already caught the shark tonight
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so just enjoy the peace and quiet put
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your feet up enjoy the beauty of Amity
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Island at night time yeah love this at
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night it's true this is like twice as
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good at night as they're in the dark to
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be honest my goodness there's a shark
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over there in the water over here there
27:19
is another shark in the water oh good
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though
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he is on it so we have nothing to fear
27:27
folks he sure has guts to be out there
27:29
in these shark infested waters tonight
27:32
oh no and there they are poor George
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you got it
27:52
real and so he experimented with a lot
27:54
of different materials and mechanisms to
27:56
get the shark to work
27:58
some of them work better than others and
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to this day one of Spielberg sharks is
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still somewhere on the bottom of the
28:05
Atlantic Ocean
28:11
problems cause significant delays in the
28:12
product
28:13
it's also supposed to hit theaters it
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didn't really come out in these
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summertime and so they really had no
28:19
choice with this one though because it
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wasn't ready until the summer and so
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they just let it out and it was a teeth
28:25
smashing success and so every summer
28:28
blocked us or after Jaws jaws was the
28:31
Trailblazer we wouldn't have the summer
28:33
Blockbusters that we know and love today
28:34
if it wasn't for all of those issues on
28:37
set so talk about a silver lining or
28:39
maybe just maybe a great white lining
28:42
chicken ranch isn't lit up here on the
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right that is our chicken ranch that is
28:46
a practical scent meaning that you can
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film both on the inside and the outside
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it was built inside our soundstage 12
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for the 1982 musical comedy The Best
28:55
Little Whorehouse in Texas starring
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Dolly Parton subsequently it has been
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used in countless other Productions take
29:02
a look at just a handful of them up on
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your screen
29:14
Colonial Street this yellow house up on
29:14
the left that is Davey's house from the
29:16
Netflix show never have I ever from
29:18
Mindy Kaling starring my tree
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ramakrishnan in her breakout role now if
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we've got any team Paxton people on the
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tram tonight I am right there with you
29:28
now take a look around many of our
29:30
guests still recognize this street as
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Wisteria Lane from The Desperate
29:34
Housewives this is one of our most
29:37
heavily used areas of the back lot
29:39
countless commercials television shows
29:42
and of course movies have been shot
29:44
right here on Colonial Street take a
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look up at your screen this is just the
29:48
tip of the iceberg of what has been shot
29:50
right here where we are driving now
29:53
there are many advantages to filming
29:55
here on Colonial Street rather than in a
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real neighborhood
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you probably wouldn't love it if there
30:03
was a hair and makeup trailer blocking
30:06
your driveway when you're trying to get
30:07
out of the house in the morning here on
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Colonial street we have access to all of
30:12
Universal Studios amenities
30:14
also many of these houses they are
30:16
practical steps and you kind of see
30:18
through the windows in the dark right
30:19
now which means that you can yes you can
30:22
film on the inside and the outside of
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the house I'm not sure exactly where the
30:27
name practical set came from but it's
30:29
easy to remember because it is practical
30:31
if it's a facade you have to drive all
30:34
the way from the back lots of the front
30:35
lock to shoot interior seams but if it's
30:38
a practical set you don't have to go
30:39
anywhere so it's very practical very
30:41
convenient
30:45
we are approximately 15 minutes from the
30:48
end of our tour and we'll be returning
30:51
to the theme park shortly remember to
30:53
pull that emergency cord if you need
30:54
assistance but please remain seated at
30:56
all times thank you
30:59
now we're driving down Wilderness Road
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look to your left look to your right
31:03
you'll see a whole lot of nothing but
31:05
this can be very convenient for more
31:07
Productions that want to film really
31:08
right Outdoors this is where Bird Box
31:10
starring Sandra Bullock was shot also an
31:12
episode of 911 where they flip a
31:14
limousine off of an Old Country Road
31:17
that happened right here on this
31:19
intersection coming up on your right we
31:20
have even more Universal picture cars
31:24
starting with Mr Bean's adorable green
31:27
Mini Cooper that yellow car parked in
31:30
front of it that is Bumblebee from the
31:32
Transformers and this old-timey car with
31:35
a wagon in the back that's from one of
31:37
my personal favorites that's from Oh
31:38
Brother Where Art Thou the Coen Brothers
31:40
movie starring George Clooney it's kind
31:42
of like the Western adaptation of
31:44
Homer's Odyssey now many of these cars
31:47
have raced down the freeway at Lightning
31:50
Fast speeds but right now we're taking a
31:53
turn off a main road
31:55
to a quiet little motel with 12 rooms
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and a 12 vacancies welcome to the Bates
32:03
Motel from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho now
32:07
we have another famous picture car
32:08
parked out front that white Ford Sedan
32:11
1957 that was Marion Crane's car in
32:14
Psycho but that exact same car that was
32:17
the family car in the show Leave it to
32:20
Beaver which was shot in the same year
32:23
now Leave it to Beaver and psycho have
32:25
another interesting connection now
32:26
psycho was the first movie to show a
32:30
flushing toilet on screen Leave it to
32:32
Beaver well that was the first TV show
32:35
up on the left too this is the psycho
32:37
house this is the original home used in
32:40
Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 Thriller psycho
32:43
now when they built this they only have
32:45
this side that we're looking at now and
32:47
the front constructed but we have added
32:49
the other two sides to our permanent
32:52
installation here on the back block
32:55
again this guide is like the best
32:57
items but now we're driving away from
32:59
one of our oldest sets we're headed into
33:02
one of our largest welcome to Steven
33:05
Spielberg's War of the Worlds
33:08
wow it's Mother's in there a million
33:11
dollars he got this one for sixty
33:13
thousand but it did cost him about 200
33:16
Grand to ship it here to Universal and
33:19
so they always get you with that
33:20
shipping and handling what can I say
33:22
they had to chop the plane into four
33:25
pieces to transport it here to make sure
33:27
that it fit under those Highway
33:29
overpasses
33:31
and now coming up on your right take a
33:34
look we are passing by Jupiter's claim
33:37
these are the original sets from Jordan
33:40
Peel's most recent feature film nope
33:43
which were shot up in Santa Clarita but
33:46
we transported all of these sets down
33:49
here to the universal lot to be a
33:51
permanent installation
33:54
now we've spent the past hour learning
33:56
all about how movies are made
33:58
and I think you all are pretty much
34:00
experts at this point and so in just a
34:02
few moments we're going to put you all
34:04
front and center inside of your very own
34:07
movie more specifically Fast and Furious
34:10
supercharged now if you haven't seen it
34:12
yet the next Fast and Furious film fast
34:15
X is now in theaters
34:18
so definitely check that one out
34:33
headed back to the theme park here at
34:33
Universal Studios we have been making
34:35
audiences laugh cry and sit at the edge
34:37
of their seat for over a hundred years
34:40
and there are thousands of people here
34:42
in Hollywood who work day and night to
34:44
bring our favorites again and again and
34:47
again and make sure you have the
34:49
Universal Studios Hollywood app download
34:50
it on your phone to get wait times for
34:52
rides and additional details on how you
34:55
can visit Super Nintendo World and if
34:58
you'd like to purchase or view any of
34:59
the films that we saw on the tour today
35:01
visit
35:07
www.uphe.com or visit any of our retail
35:07
stores here at Universal Studios
35:15
once again thank you so much for joining
35:15
us here on the evening Tour on the world
35:18
famous Universal Studios Hollywood tour
35:20
and as we say in Hollywood that is a rap
35:25
folks come again soon
35:31
all right over at the Overlook now
35:31
and looking into Super Nintendo World
35:34
off in the distance there's a little
35:36
go-kart going by and I go cart but a
35:37
golf cart going by down there the valley
35:40
all illuminated
35:42
and I think I gotta call it an eve that
35:45
was a really good Tram Tour I did a lot
35:47
of tram tours in my day at Universal
35:49
probably been on the tram tour 100 times
35:52
that was probably one of my all-time
35:54
favorite regular not a VIP just a
35:57
regular guest experience Tram Tour yeah
35:59
that was really good it was awesome we
36:02
got to see so much granted there was no
36:04
filming going on back there so we were
36:05
we went back to Colonial went to Hill
36:07
Valley Courthouse Square the city
36:09
streets and all that so that had a lot
36:11
to do with it as well but the guide was
36:13
great yeah Erica was amazing she was so
36:16
good she's a really good guy a lot of
36:18
little facts and figures that a lot of
36:20
the other guys say but she added in kind
36:22
of her own things even a couple times I
36:23
was like I never even knew that so that
36:25
was that was cool because I've done it
36:26
so many times sometimes you just get to
36:28
use to the same Spiel just to change it
36:30
up quite a bit Yeah weather was great
36:32
and it was cool seeing some of the sets
36:34
under the shroud of Nightfall and the
36:37
Ambiance was definitely a lot more thick
36:39
I would highly recommend
36:41
when the tram runs late that late to do
36:43
the late night Ram tour highly recommend
36:45
it it does yeah so like it closed it
36:47
said last train was at 8 15 and we got
36:49
in right before eight so it seemed to
36:51
work out perfect yeah it was nice and
36:53
dark by the end pretty awesome all right
36:55
that's gonna do it for today check out
36:56
the Daphne show she's also going to film
36:58
up she also filmed a video she'll have
37:00
on her Channel
37:01
and I'll see you in the next video the
37:02
Vlog
37:03
it's over