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Date Posted: 02:00:52 12/28/00 Thu
Author: Stardoe
Subject: I don't care what they do when they retire as long as they are together.
In reply to: detoured 's message, "Short lines are not a concept most So. Cals can grasp" on 18:00:17 12/27/00 Wed

There was no indication at all that Scully had a work area in the Fox office. But I noticed in Bad Blood that way back in the other area there was a desk. There was also a desk near the door. So in Bad Blood there were in fact three desks in Mulder's office. I think the person who wrote Never Again had never been to the office set. Unless Mulder had two of the desks removed before that ep. Maybe Scully was just being pedantic and wanted a desk in the actual office rather than in the other room. In the Fox office, the other room didn't exist. It tapered off into just a wall.

Fox Studios is at Randwick where the old Sydney show ground used to be. They are currently shooting StarWars the next installment, there but the set was closed which was a shame. They shot Mission Impossible Two there and a host of other movies. It is becoming very popular with movie makers as it is way cheaper than the US.

What they have done is make a tourist attraction with simulation rides, tours etc. It hasn't been very well patronized as it is a tiny bit out of the way and public transport is pretty useless in Sydney so you have to drive which we found extremely easy to do. We knew where we were going though. It was very expensive as well until recently when they halved the price. There are markets, shops and eateries which you can go to without paying but as soon as you go into one attraction then you pay for all of them. I would assume that after Christmas it will have more people go to it but when we were there it was deserted. And I mean deserted. Around lunch time a boat load....sorry, I mean bus load of asian tourists arrived. There would be lucky to be 10 caucasions in the whole place and we were 5 of them. Without the asians the place would go broke I think. So it was really great because we never had to line up. We just walked in to things. We could play on the sets and pretend to be the people on TV without strangers thinking we had lost our marbles. My daughter got made up with a fake graze on her arm. Normally she would never had been chosen for that. But there were only 5 people on that tour and two of them were my kids.
There were lots on the Titanic ride though. I think I was the only caucasion person on my life boat. A far cry from the real Titanic ethnic makeup :-D
Fox has lost alot of money on the tourist attraction side which is a shame coz it isn't a bad day out. Now that the prices have been cut it should pick up. Otherwise they'll have to rely on asia to keep them afloat. And compared to the theme parks up the Gold coast it is quite cheap now and the merchandise is also very cheap in comparison to the other parks. So I don't know what the problem is of the Sydney people. They don't know what they are missing.

Stardoe

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