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Universal Studios Tour
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Neighborhood: Universal City
100 Universal City Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 91608
100 Universal City Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 91608
11 reviews for Universal Studios Tour
Pretty cool. Decent balance among stuff interesting to kids and adults alike.
At the start, they were going on and on about Desperate Housewives and allot of old movies from the 30's through the 80's along with more recent flops. I was worried that most of it would just go over the kids' heads.
But after the car explosion, flood rushing through a Mexican town, Bruce the shark from Jaws and earthquake in the subway complete with trucks falling through the ceiling and buckling floor, my 8 year old son was sold.
Definitely do this during a weekday instead of Saturday after dark which is when we did it as part of a family gathering. During the day, you can peer into the sound studios and see more real production going on. It doesn't really matter that they are shows your kids have never heard of.
This place had a great tour of the studio. The part when Jaws comes swimming up to your tour cart is cool! At another point in the tour you are in this building which is huge and you are in these carts going along a trolley thing looking at a huge screen. I looked over the edge and OMG what a drop! I am soooo scared to death of heights, but it did not effect my grade on this yelp entry , it was safe. Lots of fun for everyone!
If the script gets any cheesier, the whole thing will turn into a block of cheddar. Some parts good, others a waste (ie. The Mummy).
Wow, I am first? This is for the famous Studio and Back Lot Tours, where you can see your older favorite sets, re-enactments and some current filming being done.
The World's Largest Movie Studio. Blockbuster movies and hit television shows are constantly filmed at Universal Studios.
Hundreds of blockbuster movies and television shows have been filmed here including:
War of the Worlds
Bruce Almighty
Meet the Fockers
Spider-Man 2
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Back to the Future
Psycho
The Sting
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas
When Harry Met Sally
Jurassic Park
ER
Scrubs
A Beautiful Mind
Apollo 13
The Color Purple
Cast Away
To Kill a Mockingbird
Creature From the Black Lagoon
Dirty Harry
Beverly Hills 90210
The Italian Job
Anyway, it is kinda cool. Some area's allow you to inter-act with the "Cast Members". A great place for kids of all ages!
This tour fucked my head up as a child & I never looked at movies the same. I believe the observations made here continue to make me jaded against movies, which is why I very rarely go.
I remember seeing the movie JAWS as a youngin & being afraid to sit on the toilet afterward for a long time. I worried that Jaws was going to come up from the sewer and gobble me up. I used to beg my sister to stand in the bathroom with me for weeks after that movie. (swear to god)
Then I came here and realized he was just a big mechanical, rubbery prop that was controlled by switches. My fear of peeing: Cured!
I saw the Psycho house and there went my fears for horror flicks. It was a beautiful black house on the hill, but so much smaller in person and so not scary. I'm a literal person, if you tell me something is fake, it's fake and I'll never forget it. (thus my detest for all things science fiction/fantasy)
Universal is the place to go if you have kids. I went again as an adult and with the exception of meeting that cute lil rat named Fivel & City Walk (outside of Universal), I had an average time and got super wet on one of the rides. I'd just got my hair straightened too. So anyone who surprisingly wets my hair is on my shit list.
If you have curly/frizzy hair, bring a shower cap.
If you have an issue with big corporate extravagant displays of Hollywood, you'll hate this place. But, it's a great attraction for visitors.
We took the VIP tour and I didn't see it here so I thought I would add a short review.
First of all it's expensive - $200/person. What you get is to go a few places on the studio lot no one else gets to go, a decent lunch, and the front of the line on the main attractions.
The highlight for me was the props warehouse - a four story building that houses props from thousands of movies - imagine a huge library with movie set goodies instead of books. Mummies, machine guns, the manikin they threw out the window instead of the actress, dinosaurs from Jurassic park, tableware from the Flintstones movies, stuff like that. We spent 40 minutes or so ooohing and aaahing over all this stuff.
It was the weekend, which sucked, I highly recommend a weekday - because that's when they make movies - and you will see actors and scenes being shot. As it was for us we went on the empty sound-stage set for the NBC TV cop show "Life". Pretty cool. You also see where they dub sounds, and do underwater stuff, the huge building where the 500 movie lawyers work and things like that.
If there is a particular outdoor set you want to see you they will drive you there, if you want to ask dumb questions they will tell you all the trivia you can't find on IMDB.
The lunch was catered cold boxed lunches at a private restaurant; I had a huge piece of salmon on some Asian noodles and a spinach salad. It was decent but nothing to get excited about.
When you go to the shows like Waterworld or the trained animal show you walk right in and get great seats (not the wet ones at Waterworld - so maybe not that great) and then they keep you afterwards when the crowd clears and you get the VIP meet and greet with the actors and animals.
On the Jurassic Park water ride you get the free ponchos and all that jazz. The Simpson ride was the best ride. It was so good it made some poor kid puke, but that wasn't intended to be part of the VIP tour. Guess the ride was a tad too realistic.
If you pay the $99 instead for the front of the line pass you get the VIP seats and after-show stuff, but not the inside the studio and lunch. Probably the $99 is a better value - but you be the judge.
Four stars for the cool back room stuff, but they loose one for the ridiculous price. Plus, expect a few high maintenance people on the tour - we had a jerk and a jerk's kid who thankfully bailed halfway through the day after my wife nearly took them out. Damn Americans have no class.
HOW HAS THIS NOT BEEN JUMPED ON?!?!? This is one of the top 50 most iconic things in the United States isn't it?
I couldn't possibly rank it, but I will say kudos to the studio for having such a novel little experience in their pseudo theme park.
JAWS? How can you not giggle excitedly in anticipation?
Or the earthquake? Or King Kong?
Or that special moment where you realize where you are....
Hmm.. this looks familiar... AWww... PSYCHO HOUSE!
This is a special little tour. It isn't that big a deal, it isn't the most special experience in the US or LA... but it is *the* movie tour. I know they have exploited the hell out of that place and made a walk and strip mall, etc...
but boy oh boy. The day I saw the ghostbusters ambulance next to the Back to the Future Car I lost my mind.
This is a great tour. It feels like your going to a world of Universal.
This review in particular is for the Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights.
I highly recommend the "front of the line" tickets. We basically walked pass hours of lines and went in to all attractions nearly instantly. there was no wait. However if you got regular tickets, you had a 2 hour wait for the Chainsaw massacre maze, so weigh the value of your time wisely.
Off the chart... if you're comparing this to Knott's Scarry farm, this is the place.
While Knott's is great and I'll definitely go again, its not as well organized and planned out as Horror Nights. While Knott's Scarry farm is family oriented and geared for all to have a great time, Universal Haunted Horror Nights is ADULTS ONLY. You have real adult moments here from the scantily clad Freddie Kruger girls up front to the gratuitous sex jokes from Chucky. Seriously, if you bring your ten year old, WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?
You have Freddie, Jason and Michael Meyers. Knott's has none of these. There are 8 mazes to go through at UHHN, all of which are based on one of the aforementioned characters movies. There are a lot of goulies and gobblins and dead things at every corner. My fav moment of the night was the Bill and Ted's most excellent adventure. The show was topical and full of sex drugs and one hell of a loud sound system.
Who knew Sarah Palin could crunk???
This year they've added an additional level of fear to the experience. They added a tram ride that drops you in front of whoville, where you can take a small hike around through Bates Hotel, Bates Manor, a bunch of murder scenes in between, then finally the War of the worlds scene. I tell ya, to see Bates Manor up and personal was worth the tickets all alone.
One down side and it was a bit just too ironic, my GF got hit with some debris from one of the squibs over at SlaughterWorld 3. I doubt something like that will ever happen again, but we figure if it wasn't her getting hit, you'd have heard about it on the news and some drama queen would be suing the hell out of Universal.... but wheres the fun in that????
In the Western set we came across a VIP trolley on the other side of a stunt demo. Our tour guide told bad jokes. The Bates Motel has an actor playing Norman who stepped towards the trams with a knife. Trams have monitors to show video clips. We went the weekend before Halloween so the War of the Worlds set was decorated with a zombie theme.
taking a sneak peek at Universal was an amazing experience, definitely a must when visiting this theme park!
