Week in Review #18: Helping Scooby Doo

Last weekend I went to Universal Fan Fest Nights and really enjoyed it. Last year was their first attempt at this Halloween Horror Nights-sans-Halloween event, and I didn't bother going, and it sounded like I didn't miss much. This year I was really excited for it, mainly for the big event, which was a lightly-puzzle-based scavenger hunt themed to Scooby Doo and the Universal Monsters set on the Little Europe backlot set. These are the sets where a lot of the exteriors of the original Universal monster movies were shot (or more specifically, recreations of those sets from the 60s after the originals were destroyed by a fire). This set is also maybe better known in modern day as The Good Place from The Good Place. It was honestly nearly worth the price of admission to be able to wander these sets on-foot, but the extra thematic trappings made the whole thing really fun. I was there with one of my brothers and his fiancée, and we spent probably an hour or more of our six-ish-hour…