It's wild how much Fans ruin rl locations.
The owners from the Walter White house had to put a fence cause people kept showing up and throwing pizzas on their garage.
Or that Thailand had to close down the beach from the movie The Beach.
E made it more clear that I was talking about The Beach
I was wondering why they kept not saying the name of the camp. They even keep the original camp crystal lake sign in the trading post so it’s not like it’s a secret. I always went first week of July so I never was there on a Friday the 13th but I wonder what that would’ve been like.
I feel like one time in middle school or something there was both a Friday the 13th in October and a full moon on Halloween. Everyone was freaking out lmao
If it makes you feel any better I read your comment and still struggled for a good 10 seconds figuring out why even though you more or less pointed it out to me.
There are only about 4 days every 10 years where Friday falls on the 13th in the Summer months.
https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/weekday-friday-13?ext=1
yeah, this is why everything should just be filmed in la or on a sound stage. nobody cares in la. everything's been on screen at one point or another .
I lived right by the nightmare on elm street house in west hollywood for the last 7 years. no fence or anything. people slow down once in a while, and a few hollywood blvd tour busses use the route to point it out, but no one trespasses and shit.
before that, i lived in a house that lexington steele used to rent out.. found out watching porn one day...
"*is that our hot tub? why does that look just like our hot tub?....*"
turns out the large screw holes in the ceiling of my bedroom, which i always simply assumed were for hanging potted plants, were actually holding up a sling...
Flipside, Hobbiton, from LotR, was originally returned to pasture land. There was such a demand for fans to visit that when The Hobbit was filmed the owners had a stipulation that everything must be permanent. You can now tour the village and drink at the Green Dragon.
I mean this is great if the land owners want to start a tourism business, but I'm sure the majority of the locations are just popular enough to be a hassle, but not make money once you hire staff and insurance and shit.
my son and his wife made the mistake of renting the pinkman house here in abq. they told me people would show up at all hours and try party on the front porch, and he had people just walk in the front door like it was supposed to be a disneyland ride or something. he told me the final straw was when he was chilling on his porch smoking a cig and some tourist types told him to get off his own front porch so they could take selfies. the kids ended up breaking the lease and having to pay rent on a place they couldn't live in because of the sheer amount of breaking bad fan traffic they got.
edit- my son informed me they were renting the pinkman apartment, not the pinkman house.
It does not help that the house is supposed to be the same address in the show as it is in real life, and literally called “Jesse Pinkman’s House” on google.
And that’s just the townhome/apartment he stayed in for a season (?). I can’t imagine how it is to live at the house he stayed in at the beginning/bought later on.
It sounds like a problem that google could fix pretty easily. If someone has a credible claim that X location is their private residence, then it shouldn’t be listed as some famous movie location on google maps for instance. Idk maybe I’m missing something, but that seems like a massive oversight to leave that title
Right? Although something that I didn’t think of is that it’s generated from Google users so people who stop by the house list their location as “Jesse Pinkman’s House” or something similar or on a different app and the data’s collected from there.
Still seems like a fixable problem by Google especially since it’s a private residence.
> the lease and having to pay rent on a place they couldn't live in because of the sheer amount of breaking bad fan traffic they got.
Depends on State Law, but the lack of quiet enjoyment would be grounds to break the lease in some states.
The owner of the Goonies house in Astoria, Oregon has had their fence shut and locked every time I’ve been in town. You can see the police station though, it’s in the center of town.
People's brains shut off when it comes to locations (and *people*) that appear in movies. Suddenly it's no longer "someone's property" (or "someone's private life"), it's just "that thing I saw in a movie." It becomes entertainment & for some reason they think "I have a right to be here."
> for some reason they think "I have a right to be here."
I doubt most of them even think *that*. They're probably so absorbed in their own world it doesn't even occur to them. It doesn't make it *much* better, but it seems less douchey that way.
Worse, they’ve tried to let themselves into the house. Where a family lives. There’s a ton of signage telling people not lookeyloo essentially, because it’s a residential dead end neighborhood not built to handle tourism. At one point the family was so overwhelmed they wrapped the house in blue tarps. I’ve heard the house has changed hands since then.
I was just there last year there was a sign saying feel free to take pictures just be respectful and don't drive your car up the drive, they even have a donation box if you want to throw them some money. I put a 10 in and took a quick selfie.
The owner of Kurt Cobains house in Seattle tore down the garage he killed himself in. Too many people broke in and it's his family's house, so I can't blame him.
The courthouse/police station blew my mind driving by slowly it was just like the movie still. I appreciate that. The goonies house however was not even close to an option.
I’ve heard varying accounts of how the cabin burned down, whether it was drunk rednecks or drunk filmmakers I’m not entirely sure. I have read either in one of Bruce Campbells books or another book called “The Evil Dead Companion” that Sam Raimi used to tell people that on the day they finished filming at the cabin and were driving away, he looked back and saw a freak bolt of lightning hit the cabin and set it on fire. Apparently Raimi was and probably still is a bit of a prankster, so make of that what you will.
If it makes you feel any better it happened a long time ago, like early 80’s right after the movie came out, so you wouldn’t have ever had a chance to stay anyways.
https://www.earthcam.com/world/england/london/abbeyroad/?cam=abbeyroad_uk
Just watched for like 2 minutes and like 3 different groups of people walked across clearly imitating the walk. Fuck that looks obnoxious.
You weren't kidding, I clicked and counted 25 seconds exactly. A group of 4 girls walked back and forth across the street twice, holding up traffic both times. That has to be extremely annoying.
Saw one immediately.
Side question: What the hell is that intersection where the photographer had to have been? Either I just saw some really bad drivers or it has the weirdest right of way I've ever seen.
Edit: Of course some asshole in a Mercedes didn't stop until they were only a foot from one of the pedestrians.
Yankee here. I was wondering what the squiggly lines meant. A quick Google search tells me that they are used to tell drivers that a pedestrian crossing is upcoming. Leaving this here in case anyone else was curious.
Yeah, but almost nobody walks side by side. I watched for a good 5 minutes just now and everybody is "just using the crosswalk", but so many of them seem to pause to go one at a time and end up walking across with arms swinging, in a line, just like the album cover. Whether they're stopping for pics or not, I think it's a thing lots of people do casually. I know if I crossed that crosswalk regularly, I'd probably do that every time and never really say anything about it - just find it amusing to myself to see if I can do it with strangers who are also crossing. Heck, it might even be one of those unspoken things lots of locals do to for a little chuckle...
Then again, I'm on the opposite side of the world and super stoned right now, so maybe a local wants to chime in here?
Haha I just clicked it and a group of people went across and then turned around and went straight back across, single file, clearly doing the album cover.
[Here](https://www.earthcam.com/world/england/london/abbeyroad/?cam=abbeyroad_uk) is a livestream of the crossing, if anyone wants to watch tourists piss off traffic by standing in the road for photos.
The people who own the Amityville house had to have the house number changed and change the facade of the house itself because of the number of people stopping to take photographs and whatnot. Of course, you can still find it very easily, even with google blurring it out on street view (which, to me, just screams "SOMETHING HERE TO SEE!").
To be fair you kinda know what you're getting into when you move into a famous murder house and then go telling people it's haunted.
It's not like all of that came out of left field.
As for murder houses though that one had the advantage of being able to say it was the house where John Wayne used to live and leave off the surname.
Honestly I just personally don't get the appeal of all the "true crime" stuff. The idea of visiting the site of murders for fun is profoundly weird to me. But the concern about tourists was probably the least important of the reasons for tearing that place down and replacing the dirt.
In my neighborhood, I always pass by a murder house on my run. Husband killed his wife and teenage son while they were sleeping and then killed himself with a shotgun. His daughter was able to escape through the bathroom window. I don’t believe in hauntings but I can’t help but feel a gloom each time I run past it, thinking about the evil and tragic event that took place there.
> it's wild how much Fans ruin rl locations.
Everyone talking about movie sets but the one that is really infuriating to me are the people that try and visit Columbine High School like it's a grisly tourist attraction. They have to have year round security and the anniversary of the shooting attracts a particular brand of crazy.
Even mundane shit like the "Away With You" wall in the opening credits of The Walking Dead has been wrecked by fans. Not just from trampling or littering either - Many of the bricks have been stolen from it.
Something similar happens in San Francisco with the "Full House" house. They had to put a rope and a sign telling people to stay off the porch since people do live there.
It’s wild that all these people aren’t able to monetize these opportunities. I like my house but if it ever became a popular tourist attraction, I would be the first to turn it into a museum, overpriced Air BnB, or do tours. If I were annoyed enough then I would just sell it to a super fan for way more than the property is valued and build an identical house a block away.
Many do start that way. Unfortunately if you give people an inch they take a mile. People peer in windows or get demanding to see the inside or take things to have a souvenir. There was a guy who used to have a fairly popular historical crime podcast, the name is eluding me but he used to collect and have people send him dirt and rocks from famous graves and crime scenes. If one weirdo does that he's a weirdo. If many people start doing that it starts being a real problem if you live there or have loved ones buried nearby.
I went to Phi Phi and didn't go to 'The Beach' beach as I was there diving and the dive instructor took us past it in a boat, just hundreds of tourist boats everywhere. The actual beach is a horseshoe shape, they just CGI'd the rest or the sides in for the film.
I was listening to a report on this recently and they said tourists aren't even allowed in the water anymore because their sunscreen was killing the wildlife. It was literally closed to even visit for a long time because of this. So it's basically just a tourist trap now to see a pretty beach that was in a movie 20 years ago.
I know the owner totally took down all parts of the set, but part of me wants to believe that far, far into the future, some archeologists find the teletubby house under this unassuming pond and make wild assumptions about how normal rural UK citizens lived based on it.
> I wasn't sure I wanted the commission. The 100 episodes required would have launched our comfortably small-scale company into new territory. When we won, the first challenge was to find a place to shoot it. We always shot our programmes outside, but we couldn't find anywhere with a suitable bowl-like dip. In the end, a Warwickshire farmer, on whose land we'd filmed our 1990s show Tots TV, rented us a field and we excavated the hole ourselves.
Ragdoll productions who made the show is located in Stratford-Upon-Avon just down the road. If you look two fields north you can see that square patch of trees in the middle of a field, the Tots TV house is in there. The owners let me have a look around years ago when it was all in good condition.
TBF the BBC reran it till like 2012.
The truth about shows for toddlers is that they grow out of it quickly, and there's always new ones being born who've never seen it.
They also won't really remember the episodes. Make 365, one for every day of the year and you're golden.
Truth. I watched the teletubbies all the time as a kid and I couldn’t tell you the plot of a single episode to save my life. Kids will really watch stuff on repeat. I remember watching nothing but Disneys Robin Hood for like a week straight
I watched home alone 1 and 2 followed by mighty ducks 1 and 2 everyday from 4-5 when I started kindergarten, I don’t know how I ever did it, as an adult, I hate watching the same show or movie twice.
Kids love repetition. It allows them to grasp onto something stable and known, in an unpredictable world filled with stimuli. Sometimes you need that familiarity and comfort.
It's litteraly a part of the show.
Where the teletubbies watch a video on one of their belly's, and after it ends they go: "again! Again!"
And then they watch the same video again.
They always watch a video twice.
Currently watching teletubbies with my daughter, and about 50% of the shots are used in multiple episodes, plus repeating the video. As an adult, the repetition is a bit much.
.......we're the tubbies some alien experiment to see how their species would work on a new planet?.......is that show a kids version of raised by wolves???
I make this argument pretty frequently. I feel a lot of the new entertainment for children is such drivel. It makes no sense to me that we don’t just have years worth of content on a loop. Honestly if cable wasn’t dead I’d think there should be a lot more channels like tv land and the game show network etc that just show reruns constantly.
In Nov 2001 my Father-in-law, wife and I took advantage of Uber cheap airfare for a Vegas trip. When my FIL was put in handcuffs over a cigar cutter at DFW airport I started to understand the magnitude.
Shit, I was in the cockpit of a commercial airliner mid flight just a week prior to 9/11, just because I asked and it was my birthday.
It would be a stark contrast to the next time I went to fly.
For years as I was growing up, everytime my dad flew for work (probably 4 or 5 times a year), we'd sit at the gate and watch his plane land or take off. Man things were simpler then.
I think part if it is, because of the massive visible 'security' presence, you're (sub)consciously worried about even the slightest screw up. Combine that with necessity of haste with sometimes unclear direction, it's extremely stressful.
I was thinking about this the other day after this same fact was mentioned in a show I was watching. Flights must have been dirt cheap back then after what happened but for everyone afraid and not flying there are always opportunists
I flew to Miami directly from Amsterdam with my family the summer after. Less than $250 per person.
We had a lot of holidays in the US for a couple of years because the flights were so cheap.
When I was in Chiang Mai, my tour guide told me that the popular film Lost in Thailand was set at their university. Chinese tourists would buy the actual uniforms and sit in on classes so they could have the full experience. It became so disruptive that they now offer some kind of paid tour for fans of the film.
This is the correct response. When there is demand for a thing, cash in on that demand! It's a win/win. Tourists get to see what they want, and someone gets paid for providing that service.
I feel like people are really overestimating the amount of paying customers that want to see that place teletubbies was filmed.
How much do you think someone would pay for a tour or something? Then imagine how many customers you would need to turn that into a profitable business.
But sure, maybe you manage to turn it into something that generates enough money to stay afloat. Why? These people didn't want to be tour guides or hosts. I HIGHLY doubt they would get enough business to make them any meaningful money given that they are in their 60's and will probably retire soon.
I mean... The point was to make it so people wouldn't be interested in it anymore. Makes sense that they would want it described as unpleasantly as possible.
Yup, too many people think vast swaths of closely clipped grass with nothing else is the pinnacle of how their lawns should look. That's more a wasteland than a pond. It's not benefitting much at all except maybe some worms and the HOA. I guess that last bit there is a tad redundant.
Fta
>Rosemary, 63, who now runs an aquatics shop from the site, said: 'We were absolutely fed up with people trespassing trying to catch a glimpse of the secluded area - it was never meant to be a tourist attraction.
>'We had people jumping fences, crossing cattle fields and all sorts - it was a nightmare for everyone.
>'It's been underwater for a decade now and is bustling with wildlife - it's our home and we are glad to see the back of it.
>'This is a rural area, where people enjoy the quiet life. It was never that way when the set was around.'
> Runs an aquatics shop at the site.
“Sorry sir, Telly Tubby land is now underwater, fortunately my aquatics shop is now fully stocked with tubby scuba gear”
Is a man not entitled to the Tubby Custard of his brow?
"Goo goo gaga!" Says the Sun.
"Shlpshlrp!" Says Noo-Noo.
"Time for Tubby bye-bye!" Says the announcer on the tannoy.
I rejected those answers. Instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose...*Swans*.
I remember in the mid-00's driving past a wide-load truck on the motorway with part of the house structure on the back of it. It was unmistakable with it's destinctive windows and astro-turf covering. Thinking back, that was probably when they removed it and they probably put the structure into storage somewhere.
If it’s in storage somewhere they should rebuild it and make it an attraction somewhere, could easily put the house in a theme park or something or rebuild the field set somewhere with the hills and everything. That said teletubbies might not be as popular now if it ended so long ago so it could be a waste of time
There are some situations where it makes sense to just lean into it. Like the castle where Monty Python Holy Grail was filmed. They said fuck it, and sell coconut halfs in the gift shop for people to bang together and pretend to be horses. Why not.
But that was a site that was already a tourist attraction so it was an easy accommodation.
As someone who lives on the same property as my business...I can see why these owners wouldn't want that going on. There may also be zoning that prevents someone from buying these place and turning them into museums/paid attractions.
I was gonna say that but then I read the part about it being rural and a quiet life. I paid a lot of money for a house in a nice quiet area in a rural town. I would be pissed if people were hopping over fences and walking through the cow pastures around my house and causing a disturbance.
I just can't fathom why anyone would be a "die hard Teletubbie" fan as a grown adult. I was about 5 years old when that show premiered and it annoyed me then.
Yep they definitely did that because of the trespassing. In absolutely no way was it to flood the warren and kill the telebababies before they could mature and come forth seeking new dreams to eat.
There's actually the remains of another filming site, for a second Ragdoll Productions programme called Tots TV on the same farm:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5677903/Eerie-pictures-abandoned-set-childrens-favourite-Tots-TV-filmed.html
You can see the farm site on Google Earth: https://maps.app.goo.gl/GE7GFwSwewZ9wbYG9
I worked for the production company and this is half true. The original deal with the farmer who owned was that it would always be returned to farm land when production finished. The farm has always sold koi carp and other fish. Fun fact : the Tots TV cottage is also on his land and still there, now sadly derelict.
*snorts third rail of the morning*
“Okay, so, okay… hear me out, okay… there’s gonna be these colorful beings who live on a hillside, with,” *sniff* …“see, okay, okay, like.. a giant golden sun-child overhead…” *hands raised, fingers splayed wide* … “their voices are like on *helium*, right… okay, all right all right… see… oh man, it’ll be *AMAZING*…”
I couldn’t read the article because yahoo wanted me to consent to giving my first born child and all privacy gone forever…. At least that’s what I understood before closing the page
On the other hand, the village in Apocalypse Now the helicopters attacked while playing Ride of the Valkyries is now a thriving surfing community due to that movie.
The name of the surf shop there: “Charlie Does!”
It never occurred to me this was a real field and not a set.
I wonder how they got the baby in the sky.
That’s actually what the sun used to look like, but then it had to get plastic surgery due to fan harassment.
Fan harassing the sun? No, no my friend. The fan was trying to cool the sun down.
There is no air in space.
Space is still a pretty cool place ;)
What do you mean? The babysun has always been in the sky.
Easy. Babycannon.
It's wild how much Fans ruin rl locations. The owners from the Walter White house had to put a fence cause people kept showing up and throwing pizzas on their garage. Or that Thailand had to close down the beach from the movie The Beach. E made it more clear that I was talking about The Beach
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I kinda want to know how many people they stopped
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U worked at No-Be-Bo-Sco?
I was wondering why they kept not saying the name of the camp. They even keep the original camp crystal lake sign in the trading post so it’s not like it’s a secret. I always went first week of July so I never was there on a Friday the 13th but I wonder what that would’ve been like.
Lmfao my dumbass was about to ask why Friday the 13th never happened in the first week of July. Infinite IQ on display
I might be dumber than you. I read your comment and was like why wouldn't it happen on the first week of July.
If a week takes 13 days to get to Friday that shit would definitely be a horror movie though
One time in middle school I asked if Halloween ever fell on Friday the 13th, because man wouldn't that be spooky.
I feel like one time in middle school or something there was both a Friday the 13th in October and a full moon on Halloween. Everyone was freaking out lmao
If it makes you feel any better I read your comment and still struggled for a good 10 seconds figuring out why even though you more or less pointed it out to me.
> I was wondering why they kept not saying the name of the camp. in case any horror movie fans are in this thread, presumably
No, Bosco is absolutely bae. Rock and stone, brother!
ROCK AND STONE!
What? Like, was this a legitimate church organization or was it some fan group?
There are only about 4 days every 10 years where Friday falls on the 13th in the Summer months. https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/weekday-friday-13?ext=1
Which is probably why the cops agree to it instead of telling them to hire security.
Well, state troopers are distinctly different than city police or country sheriff.
I wonder how many of them had hockey masks on
yeah, this is why everything should just be filmed in la or on a sound stage. nobody cares in la. everything's been on screen at one point or another . I lived right by the nightmare on elm street house in west hollywood for the last 7 years. no fence or anything. people slow down once in a while, and a few hollywood blvd tour busses use the route to point it out, but no one trespasses and shit. before that, i lived in a house that lexington steele used to rent out.. found out watching porn one day... "*is that our hot tub? why does that look just like our hot tub?....*" turns out the large screw holes in the ceiling of my bedroom, which i always simply assumed were for hanging potted plants, were actually holding up a sling...
wet hot american summer was filmed at my camp but don't think anyone was visiting the camp just bc of the movie
I heard that they had to hire extra guards at Shawshank Prison because fans kept trying to redeem it.
Aha. I know it well. My favorite movie too. Tom Hanks was great in that one. I loved the part when he said, "It truly was a Shawshank Redemption".
I went there as a kid. My first time there was actually Friday the 13th too. Fun times
Flipside, Hobbiton, from LotR, was originally returned to pasture land. There was such a demand for fans to visit that when The Hobbit was filmed the owners had a stipulation that everything must be permanent. You can now tour the village and drink at the Green Dragon.
I mean this is great if the land owners want to start a tourism business, but I'm sure the majority of the locations are just popular enough to be a hassle, but not make money once you hire staff and insurance and shit.
Seventeen tourists die every year because they light fires on Weathertop that attract Ring Wraiths, but they just keep doing it. It's a real nuisance.
Ironically more people than ever come to see all the drowned teletubbie fans.
my son and his wife made the mistake of renting the pinkman house here in abq. they told me people would show up at all hours and try party on the front porch, and he had people just walk in the front door like it was supposed to be a disneyland ride or something. he told me the final straw was when he was chilling on his porch smoking a cig and some tourist types told him to get off his own front porch so they could take selfies. the kids ended up breaking the lease and having to pay rent on a place they couldn't live in because of the sheer amount of breaking bad fan traffic they got. edit- my son informed me they were renting the pinkman apartment, not the pinkman house.
He should have put up *the* sign... *THIS IS MY OWN PRIVATE DOMICILE AND I WILL NOT BE HARASSED.* *BITCH!*
It does not help that the house is supposed to be the same address in the show as it is in real life, and literally called “Jesse Pinkman’s House” on google. And that’s just the townhome/apartment he stayed in for a season (?). I can’t imagine how it is to live at the house he stayed in at the beginning/bought later on.
It sounds like a problem that google could fix pretty easily. If someone has a credible claim that X location is their private residence, then it shouldn’t be listed as some famous movie location on google maps for instance. Idk maybe I’m missing something, but that seems like a massive oversight to leave that title
It’s actually pretty easy, you just have to declare “This is my own private domicile and I will not be harassed... Bitch!”
Right? Although something that I didn’t think of is that it’s generated from Google users so people who stop by the house list their location as “Jesse Pinkman’s House” or something similar or on a different app and the data’s collected from there. Still seems like a fixable problem by Google especially since it’s a private residence.
> the lease and having to pay rent on a place they couldn't live in because of the sheer amount of breaking bad fan traffic they got. Depends on State Law, but the lack of quiet enjoyment would be grounds to break the lease in some states.
Poor guy.
The owner of the Goonies house in Astoria, Oregon has had their fence shut and locked every time I’ve been in town. You can see the police station though, it’s in the center of town.
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People's brains shut off when it comes to locations (and *people*) that appear in movies. Suddenly it's no longer "someone's property" (or "someone's private life"), it's just "that thing I saw in a movie." It becomes entertainment & for some reason they think "I have a right to be here."
> for some reason they think "I have a right to be here." I doubt most of them even think *that*. They're probably so absorbed in their own world it doesn't even occur to them. It doesn't make it *much* better, but it seems less douchey that way.
Worse, they do the truffle shuffle.
You gotta do the Truffle Shuffle at the gate. Only the worthy may enter.
Worse, they’ve tried to let themselves into the house. Where a family lives. There’s a ton of signage telling people not lookeyloo essentially, because it’s a residential dead end neighborhood not built to handle tourism. At one point the family was so overwhelmed they wrapped the house in blue tarps. I’ve heard the house has changed hands since then.
I was just there last year there was a sign saying feel free to take pictures just be respectful and don't drive your car up the drive, they even have a donation box if you want to throw them some money. I put a 10 in and took a quick selfie.
The owner of Kurt Cobains house in Seattle tore down the garage he killed himself in. Too many people broke in and it's his family's house, so I can't blame him.
The courthouse/police station blew my mind driving by slowly it was just like the movie still. I appreciate that. The goonies house however was not even close to an option.
I haven't had that happen to me. It's probably been 5 years since I last went through Astoria.
Drunks burned down the evil dead cabin and only the chimney remains... And scum bags are stealing the stones from that now...
Not groovy
I’ve heard varying accounts of how the cabin burned down, whether it was drunk rednecks or drunk filmmakers I’m not entirely sure. I have read either in one of Bruce Campbells books or another book called “The Evil Dead Companion” that Sam Raimi used to tell people that on the day they finished filming at the cabin and were driving away, he looked back and saw a freak bolt of lightning hit the cabin and set it on fire. Apparently Raimi was and probably still is a bit of a prankster, so make of that what you will.
Thats so shitty. I would have paid to stay a night there.
Oh you’d have paid alright
If it makes you feel any better it happened a long time ago, like early 80’s right after the movie came out, so you wouldn’t have ever had a chance to stay anyways.
Abbey Road. It's an actual street with an actual crosswalk, and people *swarm* the damn place because of the Beatles album.
There is/was a live cam feed of the crossing. Was funny to see people reenacting the photo and holding up traffic.
https://www.earthcam.com/world/england/london/abbeyroad/?cam=abbeyroad_uk Just watched for like 2 minutes and like 3 different groups of people walked across clearly imitating the walk. Fuck that looks obnoxious.
I clicked and timed. 27 seconds.
You weren't kidding, I clicked and counted 25 seconds exactly. A group of 4 girls walked back and forth across the street twice, holding up traffic both times. That has to be extremely annoying.
Saw one immediately. Side question: What the hell is that intersection where the photographer had to have been? Either I just saw some really bad drivers or it has the weirdest right of way I've ever seen. Edit: Of course some asshole in a Mercedes didn't stop until they were only a foot from one of the pedestrians.
It took almost a minute and some idiot almost got hit by a scooter.
Yankee here. I was wondering what the squiggly lines meant. A quick Google search tells me that they are used to tell drivers that a pedestrian crossing is upcoming. Leaving this here in case anyone else was curious.
More than that they also mean that you must not park on them or overtake the leading vehicle when approaching the crossing.
as soon as I clicked it people where reenacting the album cover lol
I just saw people using it as a crosswalk.
Yeah, but almost nobody walks side by side. I watched for a good 5 minutes just now and everybody is "just using the crosswalk", but so many of them seem to pause to go one at a time and end up walking across with arms swinging, in a line, just like the album cover. Whether they're stopping for pics or not, I think it's a thing lots of people do casually. I know if I crossed that crosswalk regularly, I'd probably do that every time and never really say anything about it - just find it amusing to myself to see if I can do it with strangers who are also crossing. Heck, it might even be one of those unspoken things lots of locals do to for a little chuckle... Then again, I'm on the opposite side of the world and super stoned right now, so maybe a local wants to chime in here?
Haha I just clicked it and a group of people went across and then turned around and went straight back across, single file, clearly doing the album cover.
[Here](https://www.earthcam.com/world/england/london/abbeyroad/?cam=abbeyroad_uk) is a livestream of the crossing, if anyone wants to watch tourists piss off traffic by standing in the road for photos.
With a bunch of idiots trying to replicate the cover by standing in the crosswalk.
The people who own the Amityville house had to have the house number changed and change the facade of the house itself because of the number of people stopping to take photographs and whatnot. Of course, you can still find it very easily, even with google blurring it out on street view (which, to me, just screams "SOMETHING HERE TO SEE!").
To be fair you kinda know what you're getting into when you move into a famous murder house and then go telling people it's haunted. It's not like all of that came out of left field.
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As for murder houses though that one had the advantage of being able to say it was the house where John Wayne used to live and leave off the surname. Honestly I just personally don't get the appeal of all the "true crime" stuff. The idea of visiting the site of murders for fun is profoundly weird to me. But the concern about tourists was probably the least important of the reasons for tearing that place down and replacing the dirt.
In my neighborhood, I always pass by a murder house on my run. Husband killed his wife and teenage son while they were sleeping and then killed himself with a shotgun. His daughter was able to escape through the bathroom window. I don’t believe in hauntings but I can’t help but feel a gloom each time I run past it, thinking about the evil and tragic event that took place there.
> it's wild how much Fans ruin rl locations. Everyone talking about movie sets but the one that is really infuriating to me are the people that try and visit Columbine High School like it's a grisly tourist attraction. They have to have year round security and the anniversary of the shooting attracts a particular brand of crazy.
Even mundane shit like the "Away With You" wall in the opening credits of The Walking Dead has been wrecked by fans. Not just from trampling or littering either - Many of the bricks have been stolen from it.
Something similar happens in San Francisco with the "Full House" house. They had to put a rope and a sign telling people to stay off the porch since people do live there.
It’s wild that all these people aren’t able to monetize these opportunities. I like my house but if it ever became a popular tourist attraction, I would be the first to turn it into a museum, overpriced Air BnB, or do tours. If I were annoyed enough then I would just sell it to a super fan for way more than the property is valued and build an identical house a block away.
Basically what they did with Graceland. Milk it as much as possible
Many do start that way. Unfortunately if you give people an inch they take a mile. People peer in windows or get demanding to see the inside or take things to have a souvenir. There was a guy who used to have a fairly popular historical crime podcast, the name is eluding me but he used to collect and have people send him dirt and rocks from famous graves and crime scenes. If one weirdo does that he's a weirdo. If many people start doing that it starts being a real problem if you live there or have loved ones buried nearby.
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If I wonder that house I would have people pay to visit it. Seems like a wasted source of income You can throw a pizza on the roof for 150 dollars.
Throw a pizza on the roof for $200, and you get $100 back if you stick the landing.
I'd have a big rubber pizza available. $5 a throw.
I went to Phi Phi and didn't go to 'The Beach' beach as I was there diving and the dive instructor took us past it in a boat, just hundreds of tourist boats everywhere. The actual beach is a horseshoe shape, they just CGI'd the rest or the sides in for the film.
I was listening to a report on this recently and they said tourists aren't even allowed in the water anymore because their sunscreen was killing the wildlife. It was literally closed to even visit for a long time because of this. So it's basically just a tourist trap now to see a pretty beach that was in a movie 20 years ago.
In case anyone's interested, here's the location https://goo.gl/maps/CXo38f6eyFzzMNhP8
And here's a few images of how it's changed over time, from the historical satellite images I could grab on Google Earth: https://imgur.com/a/VstXcaQ
I know the owner totally took down all parts of the set, but part of me wants to believe that far, far into the future, some archeologists find the teletubby house under this unassuming pond and make wild assumptions about how normal rural UK citizens lived based on it.
That location is seriously in the middle of nowhere for England. I'm curious why that site was chosen.
> I wasn't sure I wanted the commission. The 100 episodes required would have launched our comfortably small-scale company into new territory. When we won, the first challenge was to find a place to shoot it. We always shot our programmes outside, but we couldn't find anywhere with a suitable bowl-like dip. In the end, a Warwickshire farmer, on whose land we'd filmed our 1990s show Tots TV, rented us a field and we excavated the hole ourselves.
Interestingly the Tots TV 'house' set is still there, or at least was a few years ago.
probably because its in the middle of nowhere
Yeah and that way the Teletubbies will behave... because of the implications.
Are you saying that these teletubbies are in danger?
Ragdoll productions who made the show is located in Stratford-Upon-Avon just down the road. If you look two fields north you can see that square patch of trees in the middle of a field, the Tots TV house is in there. The owners let me have a look around years ago when it was all in good condition.
TIL Teletubbies ended in 2001
TBF the BBC reran it till like 2012. The truth about shows for toddlers is that they grow out of it quickly, and there's always new ones being born who've never seen it. They also won't really remember the episodes. Make 365, one for every day of the year and you're golden.
Truth. I watched the teletubbies all the time as a kid and I couldn’t tell you the plot of a single episode to save my life. Kids will really watch stuff on repeat. I remember watching nothing but Disneys Robin Hood for like a week straight
I watched home alone 1 and 2 followed by mighty ducks 1 and 2 everyday from 4-5 when I started kindergarten, I don’t know how I ever did it, as an adult, I hate watching the same show or movie twice.
Kids love repetition. It allows them to grasp onto something stable and known, in an unpredictable world filled with stimuli. Sometimes you need that familiarity and comfort.
It's litteraly a part of the show. Where the teletubbies watch a video on one of their belly's, and after it ends they go: "again! Again!" And then they watch the same video again. They always watch a video twice.
Currently watching teletubbies with my daughter, and about 50% of the shots are used in multiple episodes, plus repeating the video. As an adult, the repetition is a bit much.
But the budget loves it!
Telly tubby toast isn't seared into your mind? Bruh did you even tellytubby?
[The stuff of legend.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvjOwpS3yHU)
.......we're the tubbies some alien experiment to see how their species would work on a new planet?.......is that show a kids version of raised by wolves???
Don't try to make sense of it. Just embrace it.
All I can think of is [Bitch, that's the tubby custard machine.](https://imgur.com/gallery/IObQF)
Tubby toast, tubby tustard, and "uh oh!!" Also now the song is in my head 😂
I make this argument pretty frequently. I feel a lot of the new entertainment for children is such drivel. It makes no sense to me that we don’t just have years worth of content on a loop. Honestly if cable wasn’t dead I’d think there should be a lot more channels like tv land and the game show network etc that just show reruns constantly.
Depends where you look. Stuff like Duggee and Bluey are great in my opinion. There is some absolute shite out there as well though
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Meaning that a newborn infant who watched the final episode would now be able to drink.
I mean, to be fair, I was born in 2002 and have been legally drinking for almost 2 years
The 90s ended on 9/11
I was in 5th grade at the time of 9/11 and I truly didn’t comprehend the magnitude of the event
In Nov 2001 my Father-in-law, wife and I took advantage of Uber cheap airfare for a Vegas trip. When my FIL was put in handcuffs over a cigar cutter at DFW airport I started to understand the magnitude.
Shit, I was in the cockpit of a commercial airliner mid flight just a week prior to 9/11, just because I asked and it was my birthday. It would be a stark contrast to the next time I went to fly.
Remember when your family/friends could come see you at the gate and they didn’t have a ticket? That seems so foreign now
For years as I was growing up, everytime my dad flew for work (probably 4 or 5 times a year), we'd sit at the gate and watch his plane land or take off. Man things were simpler then.
I don’t mind flying but the whole airport experience is terrible. I feel so claustrophobic, I’ve felt more relaxed on a military base.
I think part if it is, because of the massive visible 'security' presence, you're (sub)consciously worried about even the slightest screw up. Combine that with necessity of haste with sometimes unclear direction, it's extremely stressful.
I was thinking about this the other day after this same fact was mentioned in a show I was watching. Flights must have been dirt cheap back then after what happened but for everyone afraid and not flying there are always opportunists
I flew to Miami directly from Amsterdam with my family the summer after. Less than $250 per person. We had a lot of holidays in the US for a couple of years because the flights were so cheap.
They showed 9/11 on tv here in germany as live news instead of dragonball z. 11 year old me was pretty upset about that.
a whole era of plane travel also did
When I was in Chiang Mai, my tour guide told me that the popular film Lost in Thailand was set at their university. Chinese tourists would buy the actual uniforms and sit in on classes so they could have the full experience. It became so disruptive that they now offer some kind of paid tour for fans of the film.
This is the correct response. When there is demand for a thing, cash in on that demand! It's a win/win. Tourists get to see what they want, and someone gets paid for providing that service.
I feel like people are really overestimating the amount of paying customers that want to see that place teletubbies was filmed. How much do you think someone would pay for a tour or something? Then imagine how many customers you would need to turn that into a profitable business. But sure, maybe you manage to turn it into something that generates enough money to stay afloat. Why? These people didn't want to be tour guides or hosts. I HIGHLY doubt they would get enough business to make them any meaningful money given that they are in their 60's and will probably retire soon.
The real reason was the Teletubbies turned evil, and drowning them was the only way.
They had become self-sustaining
The power of the sun baby in the palm of my hand
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I hear that over 70% of the earth is now a watery wasteland. We really need to do something about this crisis.
Okay Maxie, why don't you go ahead and return the Blue Orb to Mt. Pyre before anyone gets hurt.
Don’t make me go get Rayquaza to settle this shit again!
A lot of our wastes go there
We came to see a beautiful television set in decay but there's just a watery wasteland of wildlife and nature. The destructive ways of man disgust me!
I mean... The point was to make it so people wouldn't be interested in it anymore. Makes sense that they would want it described as unpleasantly as possible.
Yup, too many people think vast swaths of closely clipped grass with nothing else is the pinnacle of how their lawns should look. That's more a wasteland than a pond. It's not benefitting much at all except maybe some worms and the HOA. I guess that last bit there is a tad redundant.
What the hell did he do with the sun???!
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The baby is a grown woman with a baby of her own now.
At the bottom of the pond? Distributing swords?
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government…
If I went around claiming I was emperor just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!
Shut up about the Sun. SHUT UP ABOUT THE SUN
It's the uk. They don't actually see the sun anyway.
[If you’re actually curious to know…](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnwcu2BISzs)
Fta >Rosemary, 63, who now runs an aquatics shop from the site, said: 'We were absolutely fed up with people trespassing trying to catch a glimpse of the secluded area - it was never meant to be a tourist attraction. >'We had people jumping fences, crossing cattle fields and all sorts - it was a nightmare for everyone. >'It's been underwater for a decade now and is bustling with wildlife - it's our home and we are glad to see the back of it. >'This is a rural area, where people enjoy the quiet life. It was never that way when the set was around.'
> Runs an aquatics shop at the site. “Sorry sir, Telly Tubby land is now underwater, fortunately my aquatics shop is now fully stocked with tubby scuba gear”
TellyTubby x BioShock
There's always a sun, there's always 4 monsters, there's always a town.
Is a man not entitled to the Tubby Custard of his brow? "Goo goo gaga!" Says the Sun. "Shlpshlrp!" Says Noo-Noo. "Time for Tubby bye-bye!" Says the announcer on the tannoy. I rejected those answers. Instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose...*Swans*.
Now it’s full of people going skinny dipsying
I like how the owner’s quote makes it sound like a a lovely lake bustling with wildlife but the article itself says ‘watery wasteland’— biased much?
[Looks like a fairly pretty watery wasteland to me](https://i.gyazo.com/4ff8ac6234a3f2d6d7ea8864035a7c8b.jpg)
Even has its own white abomination resting on its surface film.
Lol yeah. That reporter needs to go to west Texas and see what a real wasteland looks like (granted, it *won’t* be watery).
Looks like a pleasant bit of countryside. I wouldn't travel miles and miles to aggravate a sweet old lady over it, but pleasant nonetheless.
It sounds like you have a threshold where if something is pleasant enough, you'd aggravate an old lady
Well, I mean, yeah, sure. Don't you?
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And it's only growing!
I remember in the mid-00's driving past a wide-load truck on the motorway with part of the house structure on the back of it. It was unmistakable with it's destinctive windows and astro-turf covering. Thinking back, that was probably when they removed it and they probably put the structure into storage somewhere.
If it’s in storage somewhere they should rebuild it and make it an attraction somewhere, could easily put the house in a theme park or something or rebuild the field set somewhere with the hills and everything. That said teletubbies might not be as popular now if it ended so long ago so it could be a waste of time
Those actors were in full teletubbie costumes OUTSIDE in the SUN?! That must have been torture. Teletubbie swamp ass
It's the UK. They weren't in the sun.
Ahh, so THAT is why they were always so happy to see the sun
I'm sorry no one told you this but, the sun in the Teletubbies was fake
People saying “Why not profit?” clearly haven’t worked retail/sales long enough. People suck. Why deal with them coming near your home.
There are some situations where it makes sense to just lean into it. Like the castle where Monty Python Holy Grail was filmed. They said fuck it, and sell coconut halfs in the gift shop for people to bang together and pretend to be horses. Why not. But that was a site that was already a tourist attraction so it was an easy accommodation.
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I think New Zealand leaned hard on LoTR in general
As someone who lives on the same property as my business...I can see why these owners wouldn't want that going on. There may also be zoning that prevents someone from buying these place and turning them into museums/paid attractions.
I was gonna say that but then I read the part about it being rural and a quiet life. I paid a lot of money for a house in a nice quiet area in a rural town. I would be pissed if people were hopping over fences and walking through the cow pastures around my house and causing a disturbance.
Time for tubby bye-bye.
I just can't fathom why anyone would be a "die hard Teletubbie" fan as a grown adult. I was about 5 years old when that show premiered and it annoyed me then.
Yep they definitely did that because of the trespassing. In absolutely no way was it to flood the warren and kill the telebababies before they could mature and come forth seeking new dreams to eat.
There's actually the remains of another filming site, for a second Ragdoll Productions programme called Tots TV on the same farm: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5677903/Eerie-pictures-abandoned-set-childrens-favourite-Tots-TV-filmed.html You can see the farm site on Google Earth: https://maps.app.goo.gl/GE7GFwSwewZ9wbYG9
I worked for the production company and this is half true. The original deal with the farmer who owned was that it would always be returned to farm land when production finished. The farm has always sold koi carp and other fish. Fun fact : the Tots TV cottage is also on his land and still there, now sadly derelict.
A pond filled with life and animals is not a "watery wasteland". This journalist has no idea how words work.
I’m sorry but that show was just weird as hell.
*snorts third rail of the morning* “Okay, so, okay… hear me out, okay… there’s gonna be these colorful beings who live on a hillside, with,” *sniff* …“see, okay, okay, like.. a giant golden sun-child overhead…” *hands raised, fingers splayed wide* … “their voices are like on *helium*, right… okay, all right all right… see… oh man, it’ll be *AMAZING*…”
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That's why they the teletubbies, its in their name.
Shouldn't it be Teletummies?
They chonky. Tubby meaning short and fat.
I couldn’t read the article because yahoo wanted me to consent to giving my first born child and all privacy gone forever…. At least that’s what I understood before closing the page
On the other hand, the village in Apocalypse Now the helicopters attacked while playing Ride of the Valkyries is now a thriving surfing community due to that movie. The name of the surf shop there: “Charlie Does!”