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Even crazier, there's a company that built a fake town right in the middle of a real town! https://www.universalstudioslot.com/backlot https://www.universalstu
by chrisbrandow 3y ago
Even crazier, there's a company that built a fake town right in the middle of a real town!
https://www.universalstudioslot.com/backlot https://www.universalstudioslot.com/backlot
- w-m 3y agoStudio Babelsberg in Potsdam has four "metropolitan" (Berlin/Paris/New York/London) streets: https://www.studiobabelsberg.com/en/backlots/metropolitan-backlot/ https://www.studiobabelsberg.com/en/backlots/metropolitan-ba...
- bonestamp2 3y agoYep, there are several in LA: Warner has two. Sony has one. Paramount has one. There is one outside the city too.
- chrisbrandow 3y ago;-)
- kjkjadksj 3y agoIf you go hiking about four miles into the santa monica mountains, you can visit the M*A*S*H set and see some of the left over trucks and some historical markers.
- bonestamp2 3y agoYep, that's Paramount Ranch for those interested. There's not much left of it after the last fire that went through there though (Woolsey fire I think it was).
- kjkjadksj 3y agoParamount ranch is different, you can drive there. The mash site you park in the malibu creek recreation area and hike into it. I don’t think it was hit but even if it was the metal trucks would be fine in a grassland fire.
- crooked-v 3y agoThe Courthouse Square part of that backlot is the same courthouse from Back to the Future, with a different paint job and some aesthetic tweaks so that it can be used in other filming without being distractingly recognizable.
- hateful 3y agoI see those sets constantly and always annoy the wife commenting on them. It was in the Twilight Zone episode "Where is Everybody?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khvo6TH-DXc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khvo6TH-DXc I remember watching it more recently and when he runs down the alley I wondered if he was going to buy that almanac.