Hollywood Cars

Covering an area of 110,000 square feet, this 5-set exhibition includes 40 original cars featured in recent Hollywood hits, re-enactments of popular scenes starring a cast of famous characters, and audience participation. Developed in 1993.

The 40 cars that actually appeared in the most famous movies, brought together for the first time outside the U.S.

Real action with the Hollywood heroes and characters: Batman, Ninja Turtles, Ghostbusters… robots, animatronics.

Set designs, sets, makeup demonstrations
and characterizations.

Animations, action and theatrical and
musical performances on five permanent stages.

Surprising games and entertainment options for the entire family: Micromovie 3D Simulator, Karaoke, mini-motorcycle circuit….

Enjoy an unforgettable day experiencing all the action, the adventure and the spectacle of your favorite movies.

All that…and much more is:

Hollywood Cars

COME AND EXPERIENCE IT !!

The Origins: Knight Rider

The beginning of this macro-exhibition/show dates back to 1987 when we decided to exhibit, both in Spain and South America, the car from a television series that at that time was scoring a big success in the entire world. We’re referring to: “Knight Rider” (Kitt, the fantastic car).

In that initial experience we could see that, when the car was shown only in an exhibition, it aroused the public’s curiosity but wasn’t able to excite emotions, to break the admiration barrier. So we decided to generate a small show around it in which the public could participate and interact with the car. That was one of our first projects in Spain, and its exhibition place was the Parque de Atracciones de Madrid (Madrid amusement park). The success was overwhelming, reaching the point where the long lines that formed to enter our first exhibition/show went as far as to block the entrance to the park, due to the proximity of the place where the event was held.

The Idea: The Batmobile

Later we brought the Batmobile from the Tim Burton film to Spain, and that was when we began to outline the idea of creating a major exhibition with the most important, representative cars and motorcycles in movie and television history, and we got in touch with the Hollywood majors to get the cars and the relevant exhibition licenses.

In the meantime, from here, we began to define the animations and scripts for the shows that would accompany the cars, since the idea was to bring with them, as a form of animation, the characters that appeared in their films.

The next task was to contact, in the U.S., the designers and costume designers who had made the actual wardrobes, or costumes, of the characters we wanted to give life to, live and in person, in Hollywood Cars.

A great team of set designers, mostly from Spanish television, began to work and to shape the various routes, stages and sets that would comprise the esthetic core of the proposal.

Hollywood Cars

And thus, in 1993, this project became a reality.

With the financing of the PASADE investment group, we were able to make this unique and unrivalled exhibition/show a reality.

“Hollywood Cars” opened in the old Barcelona North train station, where more than 300,000 people were able to enjoy it during the two months that the exhibition lasted. The spectacle moved on to Madrid, where it was installed in the old IFEMA fairgrounds in the Casa de Campo.

On this occasion, opening only four days a week, from Thursday through Sunday, during the months of October and November, and every day in December until the 6^th of January, more than 700,000 people came to see “Hollywood Cars”, which became the most visited exhibition in history, setting an attendance record among the events held in IFEMA during its history.

Subsequently, “Hollywood Cars” launched a tour through some South and Central American countries until, when the two-year exhibition licenses we had been granted expired, the vehicles were returned to their legitimate owners in the United States.

These were some of the countries that were able to enjoy the “Hollywood Cars” exhibition/show: Argentina (Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata), Chile, Brazil, Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico.

The Vehicles

The exhibition was composed of more than 40 vehicles, among which the following are worth highlighting:

The car that appeared in “Ghostbusters” (Columbia Pictures)

The “Mad Max” car (Kennedy Miller Productions)

The car used in “Blade Runner” (Warner Bros)

The “Robocop” car (Orion Pictures)

The Fantastic Car–KITT, the Knight Rider (Universal Studios)

The car driven by Starsky and Hutch (Spelling-Goldberg Productions)

The “Miami Vice” car (Universal TV / Michael Mann Productions)

The Batmobile driven by Batman (Tim Burton - Warner Bros Pictures)

The Penguin’s Duck Vehicle from “Batman” (Tim Burton - Warner Bros Pictures)

The Batmobile and the Batcycle from the TV series (20th Century Fox Television)

The Munsters’ car (Universal Television)

The DeLorean from “Back to the Future” (Universal Pictures)

The car from “The Pink Panther” (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM])

The car from “The Flintstones” (Hanna-Barbera Productions / Universal Pictures)

Herbie (Disney)

The car from "The Sleeper" - Woody Allen - (United Artists)

The car driven by the Dukes of Hazzard – The mad sheriff – (Warner Bros)

The car used in “Bonnie & Clyde” (Warner Bros)

The van used by the “Ninja Turtles” (New Line Cinema)

The “A-Team” van (Universal Television)

Golf carts for Elton John and Bob Hope (Fantasia)

The motorcycle from “Terminator” (Columbia TriStar)

The two “CHiPs” motorcycles (MGM Television / Rosner Television)

The world’s longest limousine (30 meters), listed in the Guinness Book of World Records (Jay Ohrberg)

The Sets

The exhibition was divided into nine Sets, in emulation of the movie studios. On each set we displayed the cars associated with the set’s theme, as well as their animations.

These SETS, their shows and their contact animations were:

Studio 1 (Black and white):

Charles Chaplin
The Marx Brothers
Laurel and Hardy

Studio 2 (Future):

Robocop
R2D2 and C3PO
Mad Max
Terminator

Studio 3 (FX):

Kitt
Make-Up FX
Radio FX sound effects
N5 Robot
3D Simulator

Studio 4 (Police):

Miami Vice
The CHiPs
Bonnie & Clyde

Studio 5 (Batcave):

Batman
The Joker
Penguin
Catwoman

Studio 6 (Terror):

The Addams Family
Beetlejuice
The Wolf Man
Frankenstein and his Bride
Dracula
The Phantom of the Opera

Studio 7 (Children’s Shows):

The Pink Panther
The Flintstones

Studio 8 (Adventures):

The Ghostbusters
The Ninja Turtles

Studio 9 (Food Service):

Karaoke
Cooking Show Gag

Studio 10 (Theater):

Hollywood Cars Ballet
The World of Musicals
The Ghostbusters Show
The Ninja Turtles Show
The Laurel and Hardy Show
The Charlie Chaplin Show
The Batman Show
The Beetlejuice and the Munsters Show

Studio 11 (Merchandising):

Gift Shops
Hollywood Cars Souvenirs
Photo Stand

Studio 12 (Competition):

Mini-motorcycle Circuit
Sports game machines
Recreational cars (Replicas)

Robots

To complement some of the sets and set designs, we aroused as much expectancy as the vehicles themselves by displaying some of the most famous Robots, such as:

R2D2 of Star Wars fame
Robot Number 5 from the movie “Short Circuit”
Dino from “The Flintstones”
An animatronic replica of Terminator
An animatronic replica of Dr. Emmett Brown of “Back to the Future”.

What was Hollywood Cars?

Today we still don’t know how to define what Hollywood Cars was. To call it an animated exhibition would fall short. It was an unrivalled experience where the entire family could spend the day playing with their fantasies and interacting with the characters from their favorite movies. They could take a picture of themselves beside their favorite car, and even get a shot of themselves inside it. The surprises followed one after the other, at any time and at any point along the route, and the shows left one and all, as is often said, with their mouths open.

Perhaps the “Hollywood Cars” experience could be defined simply with two forms of the same verb: “excited, exciting”.

To sum up, we offer this comment that one of our visitors posted on the internet many years after he had lived his experience:

“It was the month of November 1993, and my passion for television series like “The Fantastic Car” and “The A-Team”, or movies like “Batman” and “The Ghostbusters” was already present in my mind at age four. I can still remember the route we took to get to “Hollywood Cars” on the Casa de Campo fairground in Madrid, with my mother and some friends, and the thrill I felt inside when I walked in and found myself face to face with Batman.

You could have your picture taken inside some of the vehicles, and I had one taken inside KITT. And as a souvenir, my mother bought me a Batman doll with suction cups. To me it was, and still remains today, unforgettable.”

J. M. T.(Internet)

Locations

Barcelona North Train Station, ‘Recinto Ferial de la Casa de Campo’ (Madrid), ‘Soc. Rural Ferial de Muestras’ of Buenos Aires (Argentina), Presidente Hotel (Buenos Aires, Argentina), ‘Recinto Ferial’ of Guatemala, ‘Feria de Muestras’ of Santiago de Chile, Internacional Fair of San Salvador, Brazil, Mexico…

Covering an area of 110,000 square feet, this 5-set exhibition includes 40 original cars featured in recent Hollywood hits, re-enactments of popular scenes starring a cast of famous characters, and audience participation. Developed in 1993.

All that…and much more is:

Hollywood Cars

COME AND EXPERIENCE IT !!

The Origins: Knight Rider

The Idea: The Batmobile

Hollywood Cars

The Vehicles

The Sets

Robots

What was Hollywood Cars?

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