In the early afternoon today, I got a message from a friend of mine, telling me that the TV series Fringe was being filmed on location on Granville Street near Smithe. So I decided to head on over there to check it out.

When I got there at around 2:00 pm, I got to see quite an interesting set in the middle of Granville Street. The set was made up of a number of cars that had the appearance of being wrecked in some kind of an explosion. They probably just got them from a junk yard or something, but their set designers and effects specialists fixed them up really well to make it all look realistic enough for a prime time sci-fi drama.

Here are some of the pictures I was able to take while at the scene:

I've been seeing these signs quite a lot lately, including in Stanley Park where they were filming just 2 weeks ago

A wide shot of the explosion scene

Lots of scrap metal scattered around

They really went into a lot of detail

They really went into a lot of detail

They are apparently going to have fire coming out of the hood, judging by those propane tanks set up in front

I wish I could have seen how they turned this on its side

Pretending to be a victim of the explosion

This was made to look like an entrance to a New York subway

I’m not sure which episode this set was for, but I’ll know soon enough. There are just a few episodes left this season, and this episode will be coming up soon. It should be cool to see how this scene looks in the finished product.

Fringe is an hour-long sci-fi drama that airs every Thursday at 9:00 pm on Fox. For more information about the series and the storylines, check out the Fox website.

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