Skyscrapers and skylines in popular culture (Cite your sources)

From Episode 1 of Penguin, Gotham city skyline looks quite familiar :thinking: (sorry for bad quality, HBO has screenshot protection in browser)

They tried to disguise Hudson Yards with a bunch of CGI spires and a twin spire on the ESB, but the midtown skyscrapers are too recognizable. Judging from the progress on 270 Park, this backdrop was from ~June 2024, from North Williamsburg.


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Also, at the end of the episode they use another NYC skyline shot, this time of downtown Manhattan, where the double/quad-spired tower has teleported from the ESB location to 50 West Street. 1 WTC has been painted out but Jersey City is clearly visibly including even the under construction One Journal Square.


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Wall Street, 1987

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Spiderman teaser from 2001. The whole robbery scene on this teaser was only shot for the teaser. Never intended to be in the movie, unfortunately. Plus you can tell the rooftop shot is in a different city lol

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https://us.propstoreauction.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/48/lot/12032/index.html#

Delta City model from Robocop 2. The tower with the sharp top is directly inspired by the Bank of the Southwest Tower

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London skyline it the tv-series The day of the Jakal

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Idiocracy ‘the movie’
Perhaps the inspiration for the Copper Building? :rofl:
… just kidding “The Copper Building” rocks.


https://www.instagram.com/p/CE21hfFsoyF/

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From the new Fantastic Four trailer

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Billionaires Row, Hudson Yards, and One WTC, 270 Park and One Vanderbilt’s crown is erased from that aerial shot. Yet you can see 53W53, 262 Fifth Ave and 520 Fifth Ave

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270 Park has its top floors cut out and One Vanderbilt is replaced with a different building

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Coruscant. Andor S02E11


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love the casual red brick midrise on coruscant lol

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Someone has a taste for the classics

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Revenge of the Sith



Grace Building, NYC (Top of the Rock perspective)


One Liberty Place, Philadelphia (just stretched up with a fat base)

I just found One Liberty in ROTS today, and I SWEAR while watching in theaters for the 20th Anniversary I saw Two Prudential Plaza in one of the night backgrounds of Coruscant. It was lit up light blue, and the crown was noticeable

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yesss share all the coruscant stills pls





















The Phantom Menace

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Attack of the Clones

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I spy the Millennium Falcon






























































Revenge of the Sith






Return of the Jedi

Credits to Lucasfilm, Industrial Light and Magic, and George Lucas and his team

Source: https://starwarsscreencaps.com/

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Nilo Rodis-Jamero




Coruscant art from Revenge of the Jedi, originally called Had Abaddon. Art made back in 1981 by Ralph McQuarrie

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these were great thank you :folded_hands: