Universal Studios Hollywood Construction Update - Jurassic World Progress / Whats New On The Backlot
A visit to Universal Studios Hollywood in Los Angeles California for the 1st in a continual series of monthly construction updates . Starting with City Walk into the park and onto the backlot tram tour to see what's new and under construction . This will happen every month as time goes on .
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here
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today's adventure brings us just a
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little north of Los Angeles California
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over my shoulder is Universal Studios
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Hollywood up on this Overlook just
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getting a bird's eyee perspective of
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what I will be heading down to for the
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first edition January 2019 starting a
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construction update around the middle or
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so of every month from now till heck it
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whenever I'm inviting you to join me
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shall you the 230 acre chicken ranch
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started in 1912 now known as the
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entertainment capital and you can see
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from this 1960 photo not a whole heck of
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a lot down there mounds of dirt where
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CityWalk and the theme park now resides
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it's grown up
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considerably since those days from this
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angle a few key structures are in frame
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far left a huge
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minion over to the very far part of the
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screen the castle at Wizarding World
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directly in the
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middle
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CityWalk and a couple of parking
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structures as well back in 1915 for just
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a quarter the general public was allowed
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to sit on the hillside and and watch
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movies be
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made pretty
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cool and since I showed one Overlook why
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not show another from an opposite
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angle this one you get a pretty good
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perspective of the back lot zoom in just
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a little you can see part of the
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hooville set that at the lower section
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of course of the
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castle at the top portion of the screen
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big blue screen for the lake area use
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for quite a few numerous
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films notice the psycho house directly
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in the middle War of the World set to
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the left and the Bates Motel to the
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bottom
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right seems very peaceful down there
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wonder what Norman's up to of course
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down in this section Hill Valley from
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Back to the
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Future and a lot of the horror Knight
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mazes are constructed down there as as
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well during September and October it's
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always amazing to me that they
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transported a completely full-size
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aircraft down
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there pretty impressive that's about as
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close as you can get from this angle
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anywhere past this point is the property
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line and there's a huge fence
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here None Shall Pass you'll notice this
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side of the tail wi there's a little bit
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of an open area and some trees there
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used to be a scream used very large prop
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from one of the Jurassic Park sequels
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down there but in recent months they've
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removed it and in close proximity behind
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me is a guy with a a leaf
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blower okay got parked and making my way
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towards Universal via CityWalk
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thoroughfare good to see Kong still
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holding strong looming over everyone
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next to the Fountain it appears as if
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there's going to be a new Mexican
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restaurant down here the walls are up
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and I can hear a little a little work
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being done under those tarps always
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fascinated by this demon dragon looking
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thing next to the escalators and Bubba
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Gump Shrimp
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Company just like just staring
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attentively at all the tourists that
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walk
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by see them there no word on when the
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restaurant's opening but the Carl
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Strauss Brewing Company which is up on
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the second level is still open for
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business tucked away in this little Al
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Cove next to the sock market right up
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there there is a Hidden Mickey at a
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totally different theme park see him
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right there Hidden Mickey alert I never
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noticed this before appears to be a neon
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it's not on because it's daylight hours
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of a cowboy or maybe it's a buck and
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Bronco of some sort all kind of wacky
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stuff out here including a pink Cadillac
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upside down protruding through the wall
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of the ice cream shop that iconic
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spinning globe which was once located at
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the Orlando property but it's been here
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in La for quite some time it's a
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transplant of
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Slater they record the TV show extra
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right over there so if you want to be on
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television just stand against that wall
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and wave you'll be on TV that's
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something I haven't seen in quite some
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time no holiday decorations or overlays
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up at the entrance
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back to normal for a while our first
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Glimpse above the Old School logo sign
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check that out some scaffolding a crane
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some metal work oh yeah things are
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definitely happening I'm fairly certain
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when it comes to progress Hitchcock
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would be proud now they haven't
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officially announced what this is going
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to be but safe to say it's going to be
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big basically everything from Walking
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Dead over is completely closed off this
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thare shut down this Courtyard is back
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open but not a whole lot of people
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probably realize that it's pretty empty
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back here at the moment quite a beehive
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of activity happening down there the big
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gray building you see has been repainted
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very recently the former Jurassic Park
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ride which is being converted to
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Jurassic world structure at the bottom
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left of the screen is the fire station
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here on property and all that excess
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dirt you see there off in the distance
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all the hustle and bustle is a new new
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land that is going to be opening up yes
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lots to look forward to that's for sure
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I can't go down to the lower lot I'm
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going to take the gargantuan escalator
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here in a little bit and see what's
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going on down there that is accessible
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I'm getting this shot from an Overlook
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located in the park anyone can view it
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but be warned if you are afraid of
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heights or do not like 80 foot drops you
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might want to stay clear of this one
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whatever you do don't look
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down there are some very serious rumors
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floating around about what that's going
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to be in front of Despicable Me it takes
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up a whole heck of a lot of space though
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that's for sure from this directions the
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bathrooms are still accessible you would
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walk out of this particular restroom and
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that is your view sign States pardon our
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Stardust while we enhance our universe I
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like that for real though I don't think
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anyone knows this Courtyard is back here
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there goes the tram from the escalator
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perspective you can see the scaffolding
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they have up around the building where
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they have recently repainted
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it all right time to go down the
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mountain going down the
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mountain oh yeah I seriously cannot wait
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for this to open life is about to find a
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way wow the studio store down here has
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been temporarily closed off and they
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have rerouted the restrooms around the
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building even giving us a new map here
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on the side of this wall okay I stand
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corrected the studio store is open kind
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of confusing though but you have to kind
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of come around the corner to see the
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door check it out you have to look very
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attentively but they have removed the
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lettering but you can still faintly see
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parts of it right up there making way
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for this big
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guy okay okay take it
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easy CM Blue hey
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backr hold it all right good that was
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close she was kind of eyeballing me
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as you can see she bites very swiftly
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folks if you are wearing the color red I
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repeat if you are wearing the color red
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you are probably going to get a
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t it still aggravates her no they have M
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the rter encounter over to the opposite
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side of this little area normally it's a
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few feet in the opposite direction but
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now it's stacked up team will ask you to
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they believe home
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no for your safety thank you she's never
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met a breed like yourself what GRE are
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you we Triceratops what's going on here
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okay this is interesting next to
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Transformers there is a walkway upward
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and an eating section where you can
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Overlook the new land to come but also
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loop
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around and peek into Panda Express and
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into this little area got a little head
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of myself at first I thought it was
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going to route me back out Behind these
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particular walls but it didn't so the
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reality of the situation is everything
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past that blue wall is completely being
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renovated and changed all the way up to
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the new Jurassic World
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ride hopefully opening in a couple to 3
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months ini stand C and follow all
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handles the girl come on Clos ladies and
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gentlemen as we our e can stay exactly
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where you
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are looks as if they've added some
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additional concrete as well and look
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like they're peeling off something over
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here not sure exactly what that is but
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this was and probably will continue to
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be the drop into the Splash
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Zone does that say cave is there going
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to be a cave on site of some sort not a
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lot of construction going on in The
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Wizarding World but I did show this from
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The Overlook way up high so now I wanted
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to get a perspective from down low there
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is however still snow on the rooftops
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something going on over here next to the
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Kung Fu Panda Adventure Two signs saying
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pardon our Stardust and some fake Hedges
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set up for the Lunar New Year
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celebration that will be taking place in
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this Center Point area up man I had I
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wanted to come say hello you want to
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come say hello yeah hello your camera's
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got Dunkey ears is that Dunkey ears on
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your camera it's just a little wind muff
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oh it looks like dkey ears does look
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like let call it dkey ears we're going
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to say they're dkey ears from now I'm
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going to call it donkey ear there we go
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get little dkey ears on the camera I'm
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going to patent that yeah you're going
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to patent it wait a minute hold on a
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second I got to get like 10% of that I'm
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going to give you I'm going to send you
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a royalty check royalty I want royalty I
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want 10% royalty not cash though it's
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going to be it's going to be waffles
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it's got to be waffles what wait I
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already have waffles I don't need any
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more waffles all right as far as you
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know I'll be back with some cash okay
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cool okay hold you to that man all right
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see you donkey all Adam love you me it
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something going on in front of The
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Simpsons Ride stanion off air in front
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of Crusty's mouth what's going on with
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that and yes they do in fact have a bort
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name tag available for purchase inside
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the Quicky Mark okay heading down to the
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back lot via the tram leaving the theme
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park we're going into the movie studio
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on your left and on your right are
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posters from some of the greatest movies
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ever made by Universal little history
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for you we were founded all the way back
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in 1912 by an amazing man named Carl
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lley founded the studio in New York City
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uh but then they learned New York has
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this thing called weather so in 1914 uh
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production moved out here to the
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Universal City Studios uh and in fact we
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are fully working City that's our
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Firehouse over on the right hand side
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that we passed uh we we are fully
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working fully functioning City we got a
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fire station Sheriff's Department we got
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a coffee bean a gym basically everything
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you would need in a real life City
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and now my friends we are coming into my
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favorite part of the entire tour we call
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this Courthouse Square ladies and
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gentlemen but you know it as Hill Valley
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from Back to the Future yes that's right
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welcome one and all to Hill Valley the
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city hall building on the left hand side
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that was the famous Clock Tower in the
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back of the future Phil now here's
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something really really cool I've just
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gotten to see this my first tour was
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earlier today uh this is only my second
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time seeing it with this beautiful mural
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going up uh as we turn it'll be on the
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left hand side celebrating all those
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classic Universal monsters we made
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famous mummy pregn Dracula Wolf Man uh
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so it is such a treat uh to
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have who is actually putting this all
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together it's a really really beautiful
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we really really great stuff and he's
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doing all of that with spray pains how
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cool is that uh so yeah we're proud of
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that here on the Backlot you guys
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speaking of the universal monsters a
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little
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Miracles once the water me doesn't break
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we're going to be
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just I smoke too
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soon I want you guys
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yourself there okay use that earthquake
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simulation that same
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episode the sign with waterfall near the
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ride shair drop off area is a good
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position to get a good view of the that
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new building new ride SL attraction that
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will be coming soon how
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soon not 100% sure hasn't fully been
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announced
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yet something to look forward to
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definitely that's some looking forward
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to
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music I wonder what that could be they
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never did build anything here to the
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left see the archway
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at the entrance but to the left there
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are these hedges in a big open area
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where they tore a building down months
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back and never put anything in this
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place wonder why that's going to do it
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