Unofficial Tex Murphy

I just read that Universal Studios in Los Angeles is burning. Shame, to lose such history.

-Fred

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ieKl ... gD911DHR80

A fire at Universal Studios has destroyed a set from "Back to the Future," the King Kong exhibit and a video vault containing more than 40,000 videos and reels.

Oh man! I hope that had backups of that film-- but they probably didn't!

but there are duplicates in a different location.

Phew.

No problem; I've got them all on DVD. j/k Yeah, too bad it's buring; a lot of great history there.

If they were smart {Highly Unlikely}, all of that inventory should have been Digitized and stored in a Storage Server...

I was planning on going there next year, we are going to Universal Studios in Florida this fall... With as dry as it's been down there and all the fires Florida has had, I hope the same thing doesn't happen...

California and Florida both seem to have almost given up on fighting these fires...

Though I don't think US in California was an Accident or Act of Nature and neither do the Authorities involved... I sure hope it wasn't an Insurance Scam on US's Part, that would just be sad... Speaking of Insurance though, the size of that check to cover all those Films is likely to put an Insurance carrier on the verge of Bankruptcy...

Apparently nothing irreplaceable was lost.

But what do they mean that the King kong and Back to the future sets were destroyed? Do they mean the rides at the place or the film sets themselves?

Surely it can't mean that the Back to the future set hasn't been put to any other use for the last 20 years

Demonlawyer wrote:Apparently nothing irreplaceable was lost.

But what do they mean that the King kong and Back to the future sets were destroyed? Do they mean the rides at the place or the film sets themselves?

Surely it can't mean that the Back to the future set hasn't been put to any other use for the last 20 years

No, it was just the clocktower, which they kept for nostalgic reasons.

-Cub. =o)

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me ... ogallery?1

29 pictures of the burning studios...
I thought I had seen a Picture of the McFly House Burning on the News, it isn't in this batch of pictures though...