Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Where Hollywood Keeps Its Iconic Props | Movies Insider" video.

Yes, and I highly recommend anybody going to LA consider stopping by Burbank to take the tour. I had no idea just how much IP they own either completely or just in terms of the film rights. Being able to see a Bat Pod and then ride on a replica in front of a green screen was amazing. The photo opportunity to sit in a forced perspective mockup of a building from the Shire was also awesome. As banal as it may have been, getting a photo from replica sets from Friends and Big Bang Theory was kind of fun.
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@troodon1096 Possibly, but when I was at the studio a couple months ago, they had the Batmobile from Batman Forever out of the warehouse and in their museum. There's also the issue of whether the Bat Pod counts as a Batmobile for similar reasons.
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@dannnarutam TBH, taking the studio tours and visiting a taping/screening is probably a much better use of time in LA than Disney is.
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@maestanton8053 I've been meaning to do that. From what I can tell, the VIP tour is a pretty good deal in terms of what is all included.
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@hard_drive.system From what I've seen at both Universal and WBs, most of the stuff on the backlot is repurposed over and over again. The stuff that's just left to rot is mostly stuff that is of an extremely specific purpose that can't be redressed for a new movie. It'll rot just due to there not being a particular reason to clear it out between uses. That's more or less what happened to that ruined facility from one of the Jurassic Park sequels.
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If you're ever in LA, one of the TCM sponsored classic movie tour at WB Studios goes into the warehouse. You don't get to see everything, but you see a lot. Every item in the warehouse has an asset tag attached that gets scanned any time that it's moved and there are probably periodic scans of everything to ensure that they don't have things unexpectedly missing.
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@harleys5601 Keep in mind that they also have some of Batman's vehicles in the studio tour, so any time that they decide to change which one is on display, it would temporarily change the number. There may also be times when one is being removed for a cleaning or for promotional pics.
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It sounds to me like this video is of the archives, you were in the props warehouse. And I really wish when I was a kid it would have occurred to my parents to go on the other studio tours rather than just Universal. But, then again, we mostly went for Disneyland and that's clear the other end of LA from the studios.
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Take the tour, you won't necessarily see those, but you get to go through a portion of the props warehouse and there's a couple buildings worth of museums with other props. You may have noticed that the Batmobile from Batman Forever was missing, it was in the museum when I visited last summer next to the Batwing and one of the Bat Pods from the Nolan Batman movies. Also, the Mr. Freeze costume looks really impressive in person.
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@sure1376 Yes, most significant props have several versions made for various reasons including wanting ones that are scale for when the sets make use of camera tricks to make themselves larger, along with the fact that having a spare in case one breaks can be useful.
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They have an original Bat pod in the WB museum portion of the tour and a couple replicas that visitors can sit on and be green screened into Gotham City.
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@duckentity4515 You're both kind of right, these are all owned by WB, but a bunch of this stuff gets seen in non-WB productions. One of the reasons why WB is likely to remain in the long term is that they don't just make money from their own productions, they also make money from renting their props and facilities to other companies. It makes the WB studio tour so special as so much of it can pop up in any TV show or movie filmed in the US. For example, the scene in the original Jurassic Park movie of the T-Rex chasing the jeep was filmed there when a storm forced the production to leave Hawaii early.
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There's too much. If you take either of the studio tours there are a couple buildings full of props you get to see. And the classic movies tour allows you to go into their warehouse to see a bunch of the stuff that's still available for various people to checkout for use in new projects. There's a bunch of stuff including the piano from the Casablanca TV show and some of the suits that the agents wore in The Matrix. So many chandeliers and desks.
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@kyngcobra3584 I think the main issue was just the amount of stuff in their archive and their prop warehouse versus the space they have for their museum portion of the tours. The amount of stuff in the museum is a tiny, tiny fraction of what they could put in there.
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They have a museum. There's a bunch of stuff on display and I'm not really sure how much more they could put in their museum without having to expand. Given that it's in the middle of a working studio, they don't exactly have much to work with. Plus, this is just the archives. It's mostly stuff that can't be reused later on. There's an entire prop warehouse full of stuff that can be rented.
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I could be wrong, but I have a feeling that they took advantage of that time to do a full and complete audit of the facility to make sure that everything was where the system says it should be. Given how easy it is to socially distance while doing that and the drop in demand for use of the props.
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There's a difference between letting one woman touch the stuff and thousands of people a year touch them. I was surprised that they let just random people hold a real Oscar.
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The archive is special, the props warehouse can be visited by anybody willing to pay for a tour that includes that as a stop. It's well worth it IMHO.
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The more troubling question is "How would she know?"
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