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08/29/2006 Entry: "VIP Universal Tour"

Kai Jones, as part of a series of posts about her Worldcon trip, gives details on why buying VIP passes (extra bucks) to a Universal Studios Tour was really worthwhile. (Universal site) "We did the backstage tram tour first--but not the standard one, VIP tours get their own special, smaller buses that go places the standard tram tour doesn't, including inside sound stages. [...] We also went into the sound building and into a couple of different sound rooms full of equipment, including a mixing room where there are three levels of seating (desks, sound equipment, and comfy chairs) and a hundred or more speakers, each of which adds one kind of sound. There's also a basketball hoop and a pingpong table. We asked what they were for and Mark explained as follows: The highest desks are for the producers. The middle set, with the actual equipment, are for the sound engineers. The comfy chairs are for the director (and whoever the director brings). While the producers and the director argue about the sound track (which can take hours) the engineers run down and play basketball or ping pong. [...] I really recommend spending the extra money for the VIP tour at Universal; we saved at least 3 hours of waiting-in-line. At rides we went to a special gate and got in next instead of at the end of the line, and at the shows we had reserved waiting areas close to the doors so we could get in the best seats. The tour pass (on a lanyard) also acts as a front-of-the-line pass for the rest of the day, once your tour is over."

(tags: Snippy, KaiJones, UniversalTours)

Posted by Kai Jones @ 08/31/2006 06:49 AM PST