This week I’ll be posting some details from my field art direction work at Universal Studios Islands of Adventure.
When I’m making dreams come true I have to pay attention to all dreamers. My bosses, and the Theodor Geisel estate, dream of a world that looks just like something Dr. Seuss would have drawn himself. The Florida building department dreams of buildings that meet the building code, including things like lightning rods.
In Seuss Landing nothing is straight, and that includes lightning rods. The silver stem coming out of the pillberry bush, on top of the Gertrude McFuzz entrance to the Emporium shops, is actually a lightning rod. We carefully researched the code and there was no requirement that lightning rods had to be straight – they only needed to be a certain distance away from the structure.
This is not the only crazy lightning rod in the area. But it might be the only one that you’ll be able to spot.
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