Psycho Set Going Away
 

It's Curtains for the Psycho Set.

Oh my frelling god.


I heard about the housing tract. But bulldozing the Psycho house for it?!? DoubleYou Tee Eff???

It says they're moving it. What are the odds that it turns up in Orlando?

...and here's an interesting page - The Psycho Set Timeline

We've already got one, though I don't know if it's still standing. It was built on a hillside near the E.T. ride (which we still have), but that area is now home to a kid zone, with Curious George, Fievel and Barney related shows and play areas. I know that the Psycho house was still there a few years ago when Curious George opened, and it was hard to see past the facades of that water-playground. I haven't been back in a while, and their website doesn't mention it, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was taken down.

From the timeline mousepod posted, the Florida version came down in 1999. Also according to that timeline, this isn't the first time it has been moved and hardly any of it is original.

Well, the Motel may not be original ... but I saw nothing on that page to indicate the much more famous portion of the set, the Psycho House, was not original. Merely that third - and later fourth - walls were added sometime after the original film was shot.

That doesn't make the 2 walls of the house seen from the proper Motel vantage point any less original to the Hitchcock classic.





(Of course, now I feel kinda cheap for being thrilled to play around the Bates Motel on our last "VIP" foray through the Studio Tour.)

My reading of this



was that the house wasn't physically moved, just rebuilt in a new spot. But I suppose it is ambiguously worded.

And not being original (by "hardly any" I was talking about the entire structure) doesn't mean it isn't a noteworthy landmark (though I don't necessarily consider it deserving of extraordinary preservation).

We will just have to agree to disagree, then. It's one of the most famous movie sets in history, and a high-point of the Uni Studios tour for over 40 years.

If the two original walls of the house still exist, then the entire original set of the house still exists.

I have no problem if they move the house (once again), but to get rid of it would be the height of movie studio tour folly. It remains one of their biggest draws. Playing at the (faux) Bates Motel was a highlight of our recent visit. When I go back again in 10 years (my average span between), I hope to find the Pyscho house still there ... somewhere.

Getting out at the Bates Motel was amazing. To move the house, the hotel, re-route the tour in the name of more [un-necessary] housing is just greed. Pure and simple greed. There is not a housing shortage in CA. There is an affordable housing shortage. The new houses aren't going to be cheap. They don't need to be built.

Then again neither do the houses they want to build where SFMM sits either.

That was cool to read. Thanks for posting that!