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More guardian filming location photos! Dragon Uni, the pavilion where Yezun was, the building where weilan first met again, and the alleyway where zyl "saved" sw!
Finally home and can post these!! Went to Guardian filming location in Shanghai! 🥰🥰
Umbrella Academy
I remember reading the comics years back, so I was intrigued to hear it being adapted into a series.
Moreso when I heard it was being filmed locally - Toronto and Hamilton.
But I was not expecting 3:15 into the first episode to notice "Wait, one way street sign, escarpment in the background, and there's the GO train on the overpass? That's Main East and John Street South? OH SHIT THEY LIVE IN THE GAY BAR?!"
Welcome to The Embassy Nightclub, now closed up. And. Used for exteriors in Netflix series, it seems. Good times. But I can't stop giggling every time they're outside.
Umbrella Academy, Hamilton, Part 2
Sitting on the splash screen for Episode 1 while I'm settling in on the couch and I look up.
"Oh shit, is that the train station?"
Welcome to "The Capitol West Bank at Main and 6th," also known as Liuna Station off James Street North, now a banquet hall, but formerly the train station for Hamilton.
NERD TRIVIA TIME!!!
My first gig with IATSE was the film set for the first X-Men movie back in 2000. They filmed parts around here in 1998. Including the scenes inside the train station when Cyclops is trying to find Rogue and the baddies attack. Police cars blow up outside. Good times.
That was also filmed at this location.
BoTh SEriEs aRE aBOuT sUPeRhUMan KiDS iN a SpeCiAL scHOol!!1!1
Holy shit someone get that on IMDB trivia!
Umbrella Academy, Hamilton, Part 3
Episode 3 and ten seconds in.
Guys. Come on. This means they closed King Street downtown Hamilton. During the daytime.
Imagine if your town only had one real way to get east to west. And it bottlenecks in the middle.
And then someone closed the bottleneck.
So Ellen Page could walk across the street.
Also I love that they turned the Starspark Computer Store into a Pawn Shop because there are LITERALLY five ACTUAL pawn shops within six blocks of this shot.
Yay Hamilton!
Umbrella Academy, Hamilton, Part 4
On to Episode 8, Interior, Bar scene.
I immediately pick up on the iconic Hamilton Escarpment right outside the window, and after pointing that out to Garwik, he flatly announces it to be the Corktown Tavern, having lived nearby in his youth.
Which you can actually see written on the window through the blinds.
Popular Irish Pub and band venue, between downtown and the escarpment, built in 1931.
Umbrella Academy, Hamilton, Part 5
Okay, I lied, this one is ACTUALLY Toronto!
But I figured as long as I was doing these:
Across the street from the Griddy's Doughnuts we can see a red brick building with the stone text Gladstone House. We can also tell this is Toronto because of the street car lines running above the road, and the tacky as shit glass condo on the left. But not TOO far down town, because you wouldn't be able to see the sky for all the tacky bullshit overpriced glass condos.
One search for 'Gladstone House' lands us over here:
And as you can see, South across the street from the house is a parking lot with a lonely building in the middle. May I present:
The property when Google drive by is advertised for sale as.... You guessed it! More shitty glass condo towers! At least you're consistent, Toronto.
Okay I know it's not Spooky Time anymore but
Recently I've been seeing stories about how locals in towns where movies were shot messed with the shoots and the tourists that flocked there after the release and I'm curious:
Say this happened in Letterkenny.
Who's fucking with the outsiders and how?