So if you've heard this Sunday, there was a fire on the Universal Studios backlot in Los Angeles. It took over 400 firefighters to stop the blaze. Large portions of the lot were destroyed, including the New York Street facade, the King Kong attraction, and Courthouse Square. Also, a vault of 50,000 high quality film copies were destroyed. Fortunately, no original or irreplaceable reels were lost. It has been determined in the last couple of days that the fire was due to a blow torch that was used on a set. Another issue was that the firefighters did not feel that there was proper water pressure to extinguish the fire faster. Here's a link that lists a few movies filmed in the damaged area.Seems like everything from Back to the Future is being destroyed at Universal Studios. First they shut down one of their coolest rides, Back to the Future: The Ride, to replace it with a Simpsons ride last year and now this. I don't know why anyone would want to shut down a theme park attraction where you ride a flying time machine built out of a DeLorean. I've been to Universal Studios maybe 2 or 3 times in my life and that ride was always the thing I was looking forward to. If you've never been, this is what you missed out on:
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They shut down Back to the Future? My family went to Universal Studios once, and I think we went on the ride 5-6 times. Because it was the ONLY good ride there.
Yeah Dave it's true. Some good things in life just don't last.
Booo!!! I'ver never been.. I can only recount Captain EO in Disneyland.. Now, that was awesome..
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