I would imagine the price increase is due to the tours only happening once a week with it being a working set. It probably wouldn’t be worth it for the events company if they charged less, as they’re never going to get the same volume of customers as on Quay Street. Limited availability always brings higher costs.
Shocking. Almost as if it were a business and they hope to *dun dun duuuun* make some money from it.
The increased security and Public Liability Insurance will surely take a large chunk from that entrance fee, together with administration for sales and advertising.
Didn't they used to have a separate 'Rovers set" solely for the use of the tours, which was much larger than the actual set? That allowed for the visitors to take pictures etc.
It does seem disappointing that they're not allowing access to the actual interior sets, but I'm sure it's still an enjoyable experience. I'll have to do a day trip 'Oop North' to have a look.
Disapointing, but I guess with them filming so much these days there's no time to let people see the interior sets.
There were a few sets I seem to remember at the old Granada Studios tour, I remember seeing Jim's Cafe, the bookies and the Duckworth's at least (well, it would have been the Mallet's at the time). Admittedly not 100% sure now if they were the real sets or recreations, it was a long time ago.
Disapointing, but I guess with them filming so much these days there's no time to let people see the interior sets.
There were a few sets I seem to remember at the old Granada Studios tour, I remember seeing Jim's Cafe, the bookies and the Duckworth's at least (well, it would have been the Mallet's at the time). Admittedly not 100% sure now if they were the real sets or recreations, it was a long time ago.
They were replica sets at the old Granada Studios tour. The tour took place in the bonded warehouse and I believe the real sets were in the main Granada building until 1990 and then studio 1 the other side of the outside set from 1990 onwards. I think the sets I saw when I did the tour in 1994 and 1996 were the bookies, café and number 13 (Webster family living there at the time)
I agree the new Corrie tour seems overpriced. I will do it once, just to go on the new set and compare it with the 1982 set. Shame there is no inside tour either. I think the Emmerdale village tour was £30 when I did it in 2016 but that included a coach from Weetwood Hall to the village set which would have had a cost attached to it.
Didn't they used to have a separate 'Rovers set" solely for the use of the tours, which was much larger than the actual set? That allowed for the visitors to take pictures etc.
The Granada Studios Tours had an actual pub which was larger than the set. In fact it was so huge it barely resembled it on the inside. They used to use it sometimes when the likes of GMTV would interview a Corrie star down the line, and it was hired out for corporate events. I've got a vague memory of there being a Woolpack built on as an extension at some point, but I may be wrong.
The Tours also had a mini studio where you could take part in a scene using very dodgy green screen.
And at one stage you could walk into the Rovers on the actual lot and buy (I think!) photo keyrings and such like. They had a counter inside fashioned in the style of the bar, but obviously a lot smaller. I think this made an appearance briefly in the 40th Anniversary live show.
When I went, the scene you filmed yourself in against a green screen had changed, by then it was set in the Cafe, with Gail, Curly and I think someone else.
And when I went the gift shop was in the former Graffiti Club/future medical centre building. Funny that during the episodes itself at the time it was boarded up and covered in graffiti, but during non-filming days it looked pristine.
I went on the tour post-closure in 2015 too. Quite interesting how small the sets were- especially the Rovers (though during filming they would have taken bits of it away to fit cameras and crew in). I think the new sets at MediaCity are larger, which may be why we had 4-walled sets for a while once they first moved there. Interesting as well that most of the monitors in the gallery were still 4:3 CRTs, even though they'd been making the show in HD for the best part of the last 4 years they were there.
One thing they showed us on the tour was clips from the show's history as well, and quite interestingly it had been updated since the tour opened, as it had clips of Tina being killed, Dierdre throwing the trifle against the wall and the minibus falling over the cliff, which had all happened since the move to MediaCity and the tour opening.
I went on the tour twice, once as a child and I remember them having a fake Granada reports set and I'm sure you went into the medical centre and they had a video wall with a turntable that moved you around to see different clips of Corrie?
Also I think the Sooty and Co shop was in Granada then too, I use to hate the other rovers as it looked nothing like the real one.
I went just after Corrie moved too and it was good, but I'm not sure if I would pay £35 to go now.
There is loads of Product Placement going on in Classic Corrie every afternoon. Trebor, Walls ice-cream, Maltesers and Mighty White bread feature prominently in the background in Alf's Corner Shop and The Kabin. I assume this advertising is now being provided free of charge as these are 30 year old episodes?
