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The $199 Bargain
(continued)
While the
weekend timing of our tour assured the workshops were closed, it also insured we
would be able to stroll around some of the backlot area. As tramfulls of regular
park visitors whizzed by, we got to disembark from our private tram and walk
around a bit.
We strolled down the main New York street, visited Back to the Future's Courthouse Square
(below)...
...and entered one of the facades so we could see how it could be used for interior filming.
We then walked
further down the avenue to Brownstone Street, where our guide explained how
exterior filming was done.
The small size
of our group insured we got personalized answers for any questions we had, which
was quite a change from sitting in a huge tram listening to a prepared script.
I was kind of hoping we would get to visit the alley used for The
Sting. Instead Xavier took great pains to show us another alley where the
infamous Monkey
Butt scene was filmed for Bruce Almighty. He even showed the clip on the tram
later.
(I was going to remind him that The Sting won an Oscar and that Bruce
Almighty had gotten overlooked in that area. But judging from how enraptured and
delighted some of my
fellow tour members were with the Monkey Butt info, I decided to remain quiet.)
We boarded our tram again to do some of the standard parts of the tour, so we
got to experience Earthquake, Jaws and the parting of the waters as on the
normal run. Kong would have also been on the list, but was down for rehab.
Now it was time for the next to last VIP Tour exclusive, seeing - "the enormous, incredible
prop warehouse." It was exactly that, and we got to visit two of the four floors
it encompasses.
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