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A portrait of the real E.T.

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

A mechanical dinosaur made of electronic components with some heavy plugs hanging off one side, safely behind glass in a display case

It's the dinosaur controller from Jurassic Park! I just saw this in the excellent ILM documentary series

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

A clay maquette of Shrek. It looks mostly like the ogre we know, but his clothes are different and he has a funny shock of hair on the top of his head

What happened to this hair?

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

Prints and original illustrations mounted on the wall depicting cool abstract characters in icy blues and grays

Early concept art for The Snow Queen which became Frozen

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

A photo mounted on the wall beside text that reads, “Executives - Legendary studio mogul Louis b. mayer cofounded and ran Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) from the company’s inception in 1924 until 1951. Overseeing the production and sitribution of hundreds of movies through creative, financial, casting, and hiring decisions, his power was vast. He established MGM's reputation for big-budget films with some of the most popular stars of Hollywood’s classical era, including Judy Garland. Mayer could be very demanding of his stars, and the studio kept Garland on a destructive cycle of dieting and pills. Galrand later wrote that she was harassed by Mayer for years, though this publiciyt short casts him as a benevolent patriarch.”

Shout out to executives. Wait—

Academy Museum of Motion Pictures

A hat stand in a gift shop. Lots of Mario characters made to be oversized hats—goombas, Bowser, and Toad

Goomba hat

Universal Studios Hollywood

Hogwarts Castle at night

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter

A quiet cobblestone street. The snowy roofs of Hogsmeade are approaching in the distance.

Love this liminal space

Universal Studios Hollywood

A set from the movie NOPE—it's the collapsed Star Lasso Experience building, broken neon signs and splintered wood

It's the thing from the thing!

Universal Studios Tram Tour

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