Fire at US California

[LilMommyBug]

So what exactly was the Kong exhibit that was destroyed?

 

[donaldduck352]

They had Kong Ride like Orlando!

 

[RAPstar]

They had Kong Ride like Orlando!

Not a ride. Kong is part of the backlot tour. But adding him to the tour inspired them to do the orlando ride!

 

[Bugdozer]

Hi,

We were at the Studios a month ago while on vacationing at Disneyland. Sad to think that we were on that ride and now some of it is gone. They say King Kong is completely destroyed as well as NY Street. There are 2 Video Vaults. The arrow points to the one that burned. Here are 2 pictures I took while heading down the escalator to the Back Lot Tour:

Bug

 

[RAPstar]

that sucks majorly. Hope they can recoop from this....which they prolly will.

 

[donaldduck352]

Not a ride. Kong is part of the backlot tour. But adding him to the tour inspired them to do the orlando ride!

My bad!!never been there,thought it was a ride!!

 

[RAPstar]

My bad!!never been there,thought it was a ride!!

no biggie. I personally thought it was a ride too, found out when I was researching (almost went to CA instead of Orlando this year since I've never been).

 

[Planogirl]

DS told me that he heard that the Back to the Future set was burned down. Has anyone heard that?

New York Street is bad enough if it's anything like the Orlando version. Great theming.

But I am so glad that the film vault is OK and that no one has been badly hurt. Wow!

 

[donaldduck352]

DS told me that he heard that the Back to the Future set was burned down. Has anyone heard that?

New York Street is bad enough if it's anything like the Orlando version. Great theming.

But I am so glad that the film vault is OK and that no one has been badly hurt. Wow!

Yes unfortanntly Thats were they filmed the clocktower scene

 

[Planogirl]

Yes unfortanntly Thats were they filmed the clocktower scene

That's the first thing I thought of, the clocktower.

 

[ChrisFL]

Well they can rebuild the NY sets, that's not a huge problem, and maybe they'll bring back King Kong better than ever...but it's too early to think about those things really, first they need to make sure everyone stays safe...its going to hurt business though

 

[Timmy Boy]

Disney Mom: This would never happen at Disney!

Yea it is a loss. Hope they end up containing it.

 

[ky07]

All the sets can be rebuilt but I was worried about the film vault until they said that the masters was not stored there and what was destroyed they could redo.
That was great news and while it does hurt buisness the crazy thing about it all was people wanting to be in the park while the fire was going on in the backlot.
How crazy is that and hear it now honey lets take jr into the toxic smoke to see what it does

 

[keishashadow]

DS told me that he heard that the Back to the Future set was burned down. Has anyone heard that?

New York Street is bad enough if it's anything like the Orlando version. Great theming.

But I am so glad that the film vault is OK and that no one has been badly hurt. Wow!

nope, mostly it's fine check out this link

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24916515/

go thru to 3 min plus mark, al roker talking, it was still standing off in distance on today show this am...they removed the clock tower for a movie they're filming - bit of a break!

here's a link to the thread on DL board

http://disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1843014

 

[Planogirl]

I'm so glad that the clock tower is apparently safe. I'm still not clear on the courthouse though.

Poor Kong.

 

[mickeymoo]

Very sad...as a kid loved both DL and US. May they recover quickly!

 

[ChrisFL]

Just thinking about Kong for a minute....I wonder what Universal did with the Orlando version of Kong? I mean if they have it in storage somewhere, they could possibly put that back together there...

 

[Noctuenza]

Does anyone have an update as to how the fire started?

 

[ChrisFL]

Does anyone have an update as to how the fire started?

I read something about a worker using a blowtorch and accidentally started the fire

 

[ohiojoy]

Yeah a bunch of movie sets were burned including things in production. That's too bad...