I've returned from Aurora, Illinois. It was fun, despite having to work and not really getting to see the sights. I honestly didn't have many expectations about seeing all the landmarks shown in the movie, for a few reasons:
1) Stan Mikita's Donuts doesn't exist. And the large statue of the hockey player is standing on Richard Dean Anderson's driveway. (Strange coincidence: in terms of the REAL donut shop Tim Horton's, one thing I learned during my trip is that there's a franchise in Toledo, Ohio! Excellent!)
2) The big spike that's impaling the cars (a.k.a. the "Spindle") is actually in Berwyn IL. It's another suburb of Chicago, and I'm sure we passed through it at some point, but I also heard that the sculpture's been dismantled to make way for a Walgreens.
3) Most of "downtown Aurora" was filmed in Covina, California.
4) Gasworks doesn't exist in Aurora or in Toronto (anymore).
Not to mention the fact that we were mostly in Naperville, which is next to Aurora. It's a happenin' place...not!
Oh well, I still got to go to Chicago for a little bit, get wined and dined by the vendor reps, had a big hotel room all to myself, and didn't have to pay for anything. Except the tolls. The guys just didn't seem to have any change on them at any given moment.
"And the man at the back said 'Everyone attack' and it turned into a ballroom blitz"
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WHAT!?! You are telling me that the entirety of Wayne's World was not filmed in Aurora? That some of the sites weren't even real? My world is shattered. Next someone will tell me that the New York cities in the movies were actually filmed in Toronto. Or a scary ghost town was actually my home town's downtown.
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