Inside Warner Brothers studios
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For lovers of Batman, Friends and Harry Potter - these are just a few of the sets and props that the Warner Brothers VIP Studio Tour offers. Up next, our Hollywood crew hops on a tram and goes behind the scenes in one of the world's busiest motion picture and television studios.
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For lovers of Batman, Friends and Harry Potter - these are just a few of the sets and props that the Warner Brothers VIP Studio Tour offers. |
We're going to be showing you bits and pieces of the Warner Brother's VIP studio Tour.
The Warner Bros VIP Studio Tour offers a rare and intimate glimpse into real Hollywood at work. The 2 hour and 15 minute tour via carts takes you through back lot streets, sound stages, sets and craft shops. Our tour guide, John Kourounis, drove us around the back lot, the part of the studio that the public doesn't see and where one is sure to recognize these locations from some of today's and yesterday's most popular films and television series are shot.
Now for three of seven Warner Brother's Batman films this was Gotham City; Batman Returns, Batman Forever, Batman and Robin. He's fought some of his most famous villains on this street; the Penguin, the Riddler, Mister Freeze. You've seen the bat mobile drive down this street time and time again. So, welcome to Gotham City.
As Warner Brothers is celebrating 75 years of Batman, the studio is taking full advantage of the Caped Crusader's birthday. So, from outside the back lot to inside the Bat Cave, our tour took us to the place where they store the Bat mobiles.
Right now we're in the Warner Brother's Picture Car Vault where we have eight vehicles used in all of the Warner Brothers' Batman films. The ones that are in here right now are the original ones used for production. So, these are not replicas. These are the ones built and used in the films; they're all fully functioning and what makes it so special is that this is the first time we have had all of our Batman movies on display in the same place at the same time.
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For lovers of Batman, Friends and Harry Potter - these are just a few of the sets and props that the Warner Brothers VIP Studio Tour offers. |
From Bat mobiles, Tumblers and Bat Motorcycles there's even a mode of transportation that Batman had to use when Gotham froze over.
In the back corner is the Bat Hammer from Batman and Robin. In Batman and Robin Mister Freeze freezes over all of Gotham City. You can't drive a Bat mobile - that's when you bring in the Bat Hammer. It's like Batman's snow mobile.
From "Behind-the-scenes" to "inside-the-scenes," the tour offers a stop at Central Perk, the coffee shop where the characters on Friends hung out.
They recreated it so that every tour guest that came to the studio to take the tour had the opportunity to come to Central Perk, see it for themselves and take a photo on the set. Friends is one of the most successful television shows of all time so this remains a very popular thing to tour guests.
After a quick stop at the Prop house, where over ten-million props from famous movies and TV shows are stored and rented out to productions, the tour ends in front of the Warner Brothers Museum - where one can browse a rare collection of costumes, props, sets, and scripts.
What makes it so special is that it's the first time we've ever had all these things on display in the same place at the same time and for a lot of these items, they've never been on display before period. So, the first floor is entirely Batman and the second floor is entirely Harry Potter. The big thing about Harry Potter is that it's not only the most successful film franchise in Warner Brothers history, it's the most successful film franchise in film history. So, welcome to the museum.
The Warner Brothers VIP Studio Tour is open to the public, it's not free but after this tour, one thing is for certain, this is not a theme park. It's for the true fan that wants to get inside the workings of a major Hollywood studio and experience it first hand.
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