With the grand opening of Wizarding World of Harry Potter quickly approaching, it appears that CityWalk Hollywood is getting its restaurants into gear. Pink’s Famous Hot Dogs, the self-proclaimed Hollywood Legend, has re-opened, and the much anticipated Blaze Pizza has officially made its debut. Along with many other restaurants and retail businesses on CityWalk, Pink’s closed its doors earlier this year. However, unlike its neighbors, its closing was only for a refurbishment promising “A New Pink’s!” While it still utilizes the same famous menu of chili dogs and fries, the restaurant itself has gotten the true Hollywood treatment. Now featuring…
Author: Kaley Cyrino
The CityWalk Hollywood Universal Studios Store has officially reopened to the public. With its recent expansion, there is now room to feature an all new Wizarding World of Harry Potter section, which includes souvenirs and memorabilia from the much loved franchise. News of this expansion date back as far as September of 2014, when Things From Another World announced its move to the former Game Stop location. In February of last year, it was confirmed that the Universal Studios Store located in CityWalk would be expanding into the previous Things From Another World location. After months of dealing with walls…
Production Central has reopened, Inside Universal has learned. Along with the end of Grinchmas 2015, Production Central closed its doors for an undetermined amount of time or reason. With its recent reopening, we can now see the project that was being worked on behind those closed doors. Finally rid of the unnecessary clutter, the newly refurbished Production Central now features a more open and organized store layout. Along with the reorganization of props and souvenirs, the new flooring, walls, and shelving are now consistent with the storefront. The storefront, which features dark red and off-white colors, was updated around December…
Hollywood Pizza & Gelato has closed and will be replaced by Blaze Pizza, Inside Universal has learned. Hollywood Pizza & Gelato is only one of the many iterations of quick service pizza restaurants to be in this location. Since its replacement of Antonio’s Pizza in 2013, Hollywood Pizza & Gelato has been providing guests of Universal CityWalk with delicious New York style pizza and Italian style gelatos. Conveniently located next to the AMC Universal CityWalk movie theater, this pizza shop was a favorite of many pizza eaters and movie goers. The food served at this restaurant was consistently good and…
Take a special look at Universal’s new Special Effects Show! On December 18, 2015, Universal Studios Hollywood invited its Annual Passholders to a preview of their enhanced Special Effects Show, just two months after its closure in October 2015. A large crowd was in attendance that day to get a first look at the new show. The “Warning” sign posted outside the entrance now warns guests of fire effects utilized during the show. This, along with the use of movie blood and loud noises may be too intense for children. The new show also features an…
December 20, 2015 – Welcome back to another photo update from Universal Studios Hollywood! This update focuses on the many of the construction projects, Grinchmas, and more! Let’s begin. Park Update Index » Lankershim Projects » E.T. Parking Structure » CityWalk Fountains / Universal Studio Store » Park Entrance » House of Horrors Replacement Project » Grinchmas » NBCUniversal Experience Replacement Project Lankershim Projects There has been substantial progress on the Lankershim Pedestrian Bridge since our last photo update. With the connection across the intersection complete, you can start to see how the final product might look. Conversely, the road…
November 6, 2015 – And we’re back with the next in our new series on Universal Studios Hollywood’s Halloween Horror Nights 2015. For those of you who aren’t aware, this series has been covering each of the mazes at this year’s event by giving a little movie background and our overall impression of how the maze was executed. These articles are not meant to give away every detail of the mazes but rather to serve as a guide for what to expect when you attend the event. With only a few more days left of the season, we better get…
October 28, 2015 – We are officially half way through our series on Universal Studios Hollywood’s Halloween Horror Nights 2015. For our returning readers, welcome back! And for those of you who are just joining us, here’s an overview of how these articles go. In the efforts to encourage our readers to experience the event themselves, without spoilers, I’ve chosen to forgo giving a play-by-play of each maze. Instead, these articles will give you some background on each franchise as well as my overall impression of how the maze represented these franchises. Now let’s get started! Earlier this year, it…
October 14, 2015 – Welcome back to our new series where we take a closer look at each maze from this year’s Halloween Horror Nights. As I mentioned in my previous article, these are meant to serve as an in depth look at each maze with some movie background and my overall impression of the maze. So as not to spoil any of the scares for you, I am choosing not to give a scene-by-scene review. I hope you enjoy! Because of the secrecy behind this year’s terror tram, there was a lot of speculation over what it could be.…
October 3, 2015 – Hello and welcome to a new series for the 2015 Halloween Horror Nights season. In this series, I will give you a closer look at each of this year’s mazes. My goal is not to give you a play-by-play of these mazes. Instead, I will be giving you some movie background as well as my initial impressions of how the story, design, and scare-acting were executed. To start off this new series, I wanted to discuss one of this year’s most popular and most anticipated mazes, Halloween: Michael Myers Comes Home. For this year’s ScareLA convention,…