Where was The Umbrella Academy filmed? Hotel Obsidian, the house & all the locations
Posted by Ra Moon
The return of The Umbrella Academy in its fourth season is one of the most anticipated releases of the year.
The Netflix series is a television adaptation of the popular comic book of the same name by Gerard Way (the singer of the rock band My Chemical Romance), illustrated by Gabriel Bá.
The Netflix series is a television adaptation of the popular comic book of the same name by Gerard Way (the singer of the rock band My Chemical Romance), illustrated by Gabriel Bá.
Set in an unspecified city that is believed to be New York, The Umbrella Academy was filmed in and around Toronto and Hamilton in Ontario, Canada.
The story revolves around the seven members of a dysfunctional family of adopted super-powered kids, raised by a peculiar millionaire.
After the mysterious disappearance of their mentor, the group has to put aside their differences to resolve what happened to him.
The troupe will have to do what everybody is expecting from a squad of superheroes: saving the world from imminent destruction.
Welcome to the internet’s ultimate guide to The Umbrella Academy’s filming locations.
You'll find the locations in order of appearance, with the new season four updates below in the report.
The Umbrella Academy House
The entrance to the Umbrella Academy house, the old mansion belonging to Sir Reginald Hargreeves AKA The Monocle, is a building located at 4 King Street E in Hamilton.
In this aerial view of the block of houses where The Umbrella Academy mansion is located, we can compare the work of the CGI team with the image below extracted from Google Maps.
The courtyard shown in the funeral scene (the very first image of this report) is the Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Opera Centre in Toronto.
However, the interior of the house is a set built in the studios.
Image courtesy of Netflix and Google Maps
In season 3, the top of the Sparrow Academy house is the Gardiner Museum, a ceramics museum located within University of Toronto's St. George campus.
Image courtesy of Netflix - Map
Season 1 Locations
The bank robbery scene with the young kids from episode one was also filmed in Hamilton’s LIUNA Station (the Canadian National Railway Station) at 360 James Street.
Film crews refurbished an old cafe at 1187 Queen Street West in Toronto to film the cool, quick-service restaurant Griddy's Doughnuts. However, if you look for it in Google Maps, the building doesn't exist anymore.
Most of the series was filmed in Toronto, but the filmmakers somehow hid Ontario's capital landmarks. The city skyline in episode one, filmed in The Port Lands (Toronto Harbour-Pier 35), was CGI'd by adding new skyscrapers, but no sign of the CN Tower.
Image courtesy of Netflix and Google Maps
The Icarus Theater is an amalgam of locations. In the first and last episode, Vanya plays the violin in the Elgin Theatre at 189 Yonge Street.
The exterior in episode 4, "Man on the Moon", was filmed in Massey Hall on Victoria Street. Both locations were also featured in Guillermo del Toro's 2017 movie The Shape of Water.
The organ hall where Vanya goes to rehearsal with the orchestra is the Mazzoleni Concert Hall of The Royal Conservatory of Music.
Images Netflix and Amanda N Sherrington - Maps: Elgin Theatre / Massey Hall / Mazzoleni Hall
Vanya's apartment exterior is located on Queen Street E.
Filming notifications posted around the city informed that further filming took place in the Little Portugal area.
Image courtesy of Netflix - Map
The Meritech prosthetics building pictured below is the Lash Miller Chemical Laboratories of the University of Toronto.
Image courtesy of Netflix - Map
The Soviet swimming pool scene from the first episode, called "We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals", was filmed at the Wallace Emerson Community Centre in Toronto.
Images courtesy of Netflix - Map
The Pawn Shop featured in a couple of episodes is located on King Street E in Hamilton.
The department store scenes were filmed at the Treasure Hunt shop in Waterdown, just outside of Hamilton.
Images courtesy of Netflix - Map
The mechanic's workshop from episode two, "Run Boy Run", is located at 146 Ossington Avenue in Toronto.
Images courtesy of Netflix - Map
The Queens Mini Mart from the third episode, "Extra Ordinary", is a convenience store at 1666 Queen Street W.
Images courtesy of Netflix - Map
The Vietnam Veterans of Foreign Wars place where Klaus and Diego stop by in episode 5, "Number Five", is the Moose Lodge at 3753 Lake Shore Boulevard W.
Images courtesy of Netflix - Map
The restaurant where Vanya and Leonard have coffee in the fifth episode is the East Thirty-Six bar at 36 Wellington Street E, also in Toronto.
Images courtesy of Netflix - Map
The meeting place with the Handler on a countryside road at the end of episode five is located near Dyment's Market in Fallsview Road E in Hamilton.
Image courtesy of Netflix - Map
The Commission organization headquarters, run by The Handler, is the David Dunlap Observatory in Richmond Hill. Some rooms are sets built on stage.
Image courtesy of Netflix - Map
The Lillian H. Smith Library in Toronto doubles as the Argyle Public Library.
The park where Luther and Allison dance in episode six, "The Day That Wasn't", is located in Allan Gardens.
Images courtesy of Netflix - Library Map / Allan Gardens Map
Leonard's cabin in the woods is the same location used in Netflix's Polar movie and the Reacher series set in Margrave, Georgia, filmed somewhere outside Toronto.
The night club scenes from episode seven, "The Day That Was", were filmed at the Cube NightClub at 314 Queen Street West.
The Rain Quail Bed and Breakfast where Hazel and Agnes go in episode eight, "I Heard a Rumor", is the famous Rosebud Motel from the series Schitt's Creek, at 308351 Hockley Road in Orangeville.
Image courtesy of Netflix and Google Maps
The Victorian vintage scenes from episode ten, "The White Violin", were filmed in the Cotton Factory in Hamilton.
The buildings in the background and sections of the street were CGI'd in post-production.
This location also appeared in the third episode of the third season, "Pocket Full of Lightning," when Klaus dives into the Sparrow Academy's house.
Image Netflix - Map
The driving scene from the last episode was filmed on Bay Street, the iconic Toronto Old City Hall clock tower appears in one of the screenshots.
The bowling alley, pictured, is the Richmond Hill Pro Bowl.
Maps: Old City Hall / Bowling alley
New Season 2 Filming Locations
Most of season two is set in Dallas, Texas. However, only aerial footage of Dealey Plaza’s Grassy Knoll (where President John F. Kennedy was hit in the head) was recorded in the city.
The street where lots of scenes are taking place is located at Ottawa Street N and Britannia Avenue in Hamilton.
The film crew dressed exteriors of store windows to look like the 1960s. The Dallas skyline was added digitally to the background.
The Stadtler's Restaurant and the Ladies Beauty Parlor interiors were also filmed in Hamilton.
Elliott's store facade (Morty's Television and Radio) is a CGI creation (compare the building on the top right with the beauty salon below).
The beautiful Morty's Art Deco interiors were built in a soundstage. The movie theater Avon, the butcher shop with a cow on the roof, the alley behind Commerce and Knox... everything is there on Ottawa Street. If you switch Street View to June and August 2019 in Google Maps, you can virtually walk into the set!
The Neoclassical mansion where Klaus started a cult is the Parkwood Estate in Oshawa.
Built in 1916 by Samuel McLaughlin, founder of General Motors of Canada, this historic manor with Italian gardens and beautiful fountains boasts 15,000 square feet (1,400 m2).
The stately home has 55 rooms and is a Canadian National Historic Site. Amazon Prime series The Boys also filmed scenes here. You’ll find a wonderful article revealing all the locations where The Boys was filmed following this link.
Image courtesy of Netflix - Map
In the second episode, "The Frankel Footage", the burlesque bar where Luther works is the Germania Club of Hamilton.
Image courtesy of Netflix - Map
The Dallas Police Station that appears briefly in episode two, "The Frankel Footage", is a digitally altered stock image of the Maricopa County Courthouse, the Old Phoenix City Hall in Arizona.
Image courtesy of Netflix - Map
The Rooming House For Solitary Men exterior and Klaus bar interior from episode one is the Vienna Tavern in Hamilton.
The D.S. Umbrella Manufacturing Company is the old FW McLachlan Road-Building-Contractors on Fairbank Avenue in York (Toronto).
Image courtesy of Netflix - Maps: Vienna Tavern / D.S. Umbrella Warehouse
The warehouse from episode five, "Valhalla", is the Westinghouse Headquarters at 286 Sanford Avenue N.
Image courtesy of Netflix - Map
The diner bar where Five and Vanya have a coffee in episode 3, "The Swedish Job", is the Breezy Corners restaurant near Gage Park on Hamilton’s East Side.
Image courtesy of Netflix - Map
The Glen Oaks hardware store from the same episode is a shop at 765 Barton Street E in Stipley in Hamilton.
Image courtesy of Netflix - Map
Sissy’s Cooper farmhouse interior was recreated on a stage. The exterior was built near a previously existing barn in the countryside near Claremont in Pickering.
Image courtesy of Netflix - Map
Allison and her new husband Raymond live in a house at 75 Graham Avenue S in Hamilton's Delta East neighborhood (pictured).
The Swedes' house exterior in episode 5 is located at 10 Keith Street in Hamilton.
Image courtesy of Netflix - Maps: Raymond House / Swedes House
The Mexican embassy from episode four, "The Majestic 12", is the Georgian-style mansion McLean House in the Estates of Sunnybrook (midtown Toronto).
Image courtesy of Netflix - Map
In episode six, "A Light Supper", the family reunites with his father in a building called Southland Life.
This is Hamilton's City Hall, featuring a beautiful mural created by George Franklin Arbuckle in the sixties.
However, the Tiki Lounge on the top is a studio build. Lila and the Handler play bingo at Her Majesty's Army And Navy Veterans Society, also in Hamilton.
Image courtesy of Netflix - Maps: McLean House / Bingo
In episode eight, "The Seven Stages", Luther and young Five find an elder Five at the Corktown Irish Pub on Young Street.
Image courtesy of Netflix - Map
The trio crosses the Emerald Street Footbridge over the railway line to go behind the fence near Kennedy’s motorcade.
Image courtesy of Netflix - Map
The Obsidian Hotel and Season 3 Locations
The Hotel Obsidian at 118 King Street seems a mix of John Wick's charismatic Continental Hotel and the obscure version of the Aztec Palace Hotel from The Queen's Gambit.
Like Hotel Oblivion, the interior looks like a large studio set, but Atlas of Wonders has tracked down the location of the exterior.
The Obsidian Hotel is the Royal Connaught Hotel in downtown Hamilton.
Erected in 1914, the building was converted into condominiums between 2014-2018 and renamed Residences of Royal Connaught.
The neon-light sign CGI'd on top is inspired by the one of the famous Fairmont Royal York in Toronto.
Image courtesy of Netflix - Map
In the first episode, "Meet the Family", Jayme and Alphonso fight off a couple of bullies in Shorty's Pizza, a real pizzeria at 1099 Cannon Street in Hamilton.
Image courtesy of Netflix - Map
After the fight, the Umbrellas are licking their wounds in defeat at the pond near the Turner Pavilion Teahouse at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington.
Image courtesy of Netflix - Map
Also in the first episode, Marcus and Vanya meet up at a diner filmed in the Lakeview Restaurant at 1132 Dundas Street in Toronto.
After this scene, there is a brief establishing shot with one of Fei's crows flying over the Chicago River.
The Lakeview is the same bar where Viktor and Allison have a drink in the second episode, "World's Biggest Ball of Twine".
Image courtesy of Netflix - Map
The park where Luther is jogging before being abducted by the Sparrow Academy in the second episode is the Gage Park in Hamilton.
Image courtesy of Netflix - Map
The white sand beach with a cliff where Klaus meets her mother in the fifth episode, "Kindest Cut", is the Scarborough Bluffs Park overlooking Lake Ontario in Toronto.
Image courtesy of Netflix - Map
In episode six, "Marigold", Viktor tries to take back his powers from Harlan in a drive-in movie theatre.
This is Oakville's 5 Drive-In with a vintage diner, opened in 1964.
Image courtesy of Netflix - Map
The "Wedding at the End of the World" from episode eight was filmed in the Governor’s Room at the Liberty Grand Entertainment Complex in Toronto.
Built in 1926, the Obsidian Hotel's magnificent ballroom is the largest room in the Canadian resort, featuring a picturesque courtyard.
Image courtesy of Netflix - Map
The new season 4 locations
The exterior of the Vik's bar in Nova Scotia, Canada, is some stock footage from a hotel restaurant in Novoselivka, Ukraine, called Guliay Pole.
The establishing shot of the detention center where Luther picks up Ben is from Folsom State Prison in California.
Image courtesy of Netflix - Maps: Restaurant / Prison
The first episode, "The Unbearable Tragedy of Getting What You Want," features the Lil' Monkeys Indoor Playground in Burlington.
Image courtesy of Netflix - Map
The Sy's One-Hour Dry Cleaning service is the Mega Cleaners laundry located at 41 Laird Drive in East York.
Image courtesy of Netflix and Google Maps
New Grumpson, Maine
But where was the fictional town of New Grumpson, Maine, filmed?
We suspect that, as with other top series such as the village of Margrave in Reacher or Jericho in Wednesday, the entire location was a set built somewhere in Ontario, with the help of some CGI.
The subway station was filmed at the Bay Lower Station in Toronto, an abandoned station beneath Bay Station on the Bloor-Danforth Line.
Although closed to the public, it is maintained by the TTC and is often used as a filming location and for training exercises.
Image courtesy of Netflix - Map
The Thibedeaus' farmhouse in the third episode, "The Squid and The Girl", is the Scotsdale Heritage Farm in Georgetown.
Owned by the Ontario Heritage Trust since 1982, this picturesque 531-acre property features historic buildings and barns, rolling hayfields and the Niagara Escarpment, a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve.
Image courtesy of Netflix - Map
Daddy Hargreeves' house is a palatial mansion located at 29 High Point Road in North York, Toronto.
This is a private residence - if you are visiting, please be respectful of the owner's property.
Image courtesy of Netflix - Map
The glasshouse in the fifth episode, "Six Years, Five Months, and Two Days", is the Valley Halla Estate in the Rouge Valley.
Built in 1936, this secluded estate is owned and maintained by the nearby Toronto Zoo and is used for events and as a filming location.
Image courtesy of Netflix - Map
The Tatfords building was filmed in a vacant building at 100 Colborne Street Est in Brantford.
Image courtesy of Netflix and Google Maps
The last scene in the final episode, "End of the Beginning", was filmed at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Hamilton.
This is one of Canada's largest and most diverse botanical gardens, spanning over 2,700 acres.
Image courtesy of Netflix - Map
But where is the King Reg burger restaurant (which looks like an old Dairy Queen Grill & Chill)? And the Overpass Inn?
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The main cast is headed by Elliot Page (Juno, Inception) as The White Violin, Tom Hopper (Game of Thrones) as the strong Spaceboy, Robert Sheehan (Misfits) as the psychic drug addict The Séance, Emmy Raver-Lampman as the manipulative liar The Rumor, David Castañeda (Sicario 2) as the troublemaker The Kraken, Aidan Gallagher as the time-traveler The Boy, and Justin H. Min completes the gang as The Horror.
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I think the courtyard shown in the funeral scene (at the top of your page) is the Tanenbaum Opera Centre in Toronto
ReplyDeleteThe cabin in Ep 8 is also used in the movie Polar.
ReplyDeleteJust googled to see if anyone else had spotted it!!! 😀😀 I suppose Netflix needs to keep production costs down!! 😎
DeleteThanks guys, definitely it is the same house (it was also used in Hannibal series season 3), but we don't know its exact location.
DeleteDavid Dunlap observatory is also in Hannibal
DeleteThe Queen's Mini Mart in Episode 3 is located at 1666 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M6R 1B2
ReplyDeletehttps://maps.app.goo.gl/Tfmth
The Pawn Shop is located next door to Sparkle Northern Chinese Cuisine
ReplyDelete165 King St E, Hamilton, ON L8N 1B2
https://maps.app.goo.gl/hKahx
Thanks Agent, updated!
DeleteThe legion klaus goes to is located across from long branch GO station on lakeshore rd
ReplyDeleteMeritech is the Lash Miller building at the University of Toronto. Also many of the scenes shot during the scenes where Five is in that van are shot around University of Toronto's downtown campus
ReplyDeleteIs the interior of the house the same set used in the haunting of hill house and alterd carbon?
ReplyDeleteNo because The Haunting of Hill House was filmed in Atlanta and I Altered Carbon in Vancouver. But at first I thought the same because of the movements of the camera and the way some sequences are filmed.
DeleteThe interior shots of the offices the time people work at are in Casa Loma and one of the locations Vanya goes for her ? audition or rehearsal I can't remember, is Brookfield Plaza across from Union.
ReplyDeletelast episode 10 in the series, looks like Distillery district in Toronto
ReplyDeleteCould be the Distillery District but it also looks like some pick-up work was done at The Imperial Cotton Company in Hamilton (270 Sherman Ave N.) as well. TICC has buildings of similar Victorian vintage and is very popular with location scouts because it's out of the way and less expensive to shoot at than busy Toronto places like the Distillery District.
DeleteThanks Robert, definitely it's the Cotton Factory and not the Distillery District; Both places share the same Victorian architectonic style.
DeleteI'm trying to pinpoint the restaurant in Episode 4... I could swear I've been there before!
ReplyDeleteSame here. Does anyone know which restaurant was filmed on seasn 1, E4 when allison and vanya were chatting
DeleteLast photo is Dyments Market in Hamilton
ReplyDeleteI think the motel in episode 8 is the same one from the Schitt's Creek series.
ReplyDeleteLooks like East Thirty Six on Wellington St E
ReplyDeleteThe opening pool scene looks like the Wallace Emerson community centre at Dupont and Dufferin.
ReplyDeletePretty sure the greenhouse where Allison and Luther sit in episode 6 is Allan Gardens
ReplyDeleteThanks to you all for the comments, updated!
DeleteAnd do u have some information about the interior rooms of the academy? Im rrally interested in the living room <3
ReplyDeletethe department store scenes were filmed at the former target/now treasure hunt store in waterdown, just outside of hamilton!
ReplyDeleteThe front of the house, in Hamilton used to be the Embassy nightclub for many many years. When still operating as a nightclub, the back portion caught fire and ceased to operate. Prior to that, it was a bank if I recall. The gates are portable and the concrete pylons they are attached to do not exist on the actual building. The door, exterior lights, and shrubbery were also added or changed. As of this date, some of the other storefronts are real, Red Church for example. If you drove by it now, it's very easy to pick out as the door is bright blue, as where it was wood and glass in the show and solid wood when it operated as a nightclub. It looks like there's something going on inside. There are some scenes in the show (police station interior, parts of the house interior) which look like they could be inside the same building, or at least drew inspiration from the original architecture of the building, particularly the wrap around balcony.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting, let's see if we can find out more about this!
Deletei literally live 3 min away from david dunlop observatory oh my god!
ReplyDeleteThe back alley where the dumpster diving happened is off of Leader Lane and Wellington E, right behind the East Thirty-Six that you've already mentioned.
ReplyDeleteThe small town in Polar is Orono, Ontario (near Clarington).
Note the Antique Shop here is the same one: https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.9770274,-78.6172653,3a,75y,59.31h,93.41t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sJMGkLvZX7EoXiRvUBIVQBg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
The scene where 5 is in the car with a knife to the neck of the guy from Meritech, is at the corner of Lower Church st and Esplanade, the same street Titans blew up that car on (closer to the Front St E. corner), the same corner the outside shooting location of the nightclub robin's old friend works as a bodyguard at.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.google.ca/maps/@43.6475874,-79.3734356,3a,75y,162.55h,85.65t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1stHds0TbAaB6KpZn1Mt9k9A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
I talked to people filming at Holy Cross Priory on High Park Ave. I haven't watched the show yet, so I don't know when it appears.
ReplyDeleteI think that the motel where Hazel and Cha Cha stay is the 400 Motel at 89 & 400. Same place was used in Titans.
ReplyDeleteI believe it's actually the Avenue motel in mississauga
DeleteEpisode 5 when Klaus returns from the past, the bus ride and when he he gets off and destroys the suitcase are Toronto, Junction area, Dundas West. https://goo.gl/maps/Y5rxzcsAPYq
ReplyDeleteCan confirm. You can also see the reflection of Junction Car Wash at 3196 Dundas St. W. in the bus window during one of Klaus's bus ride scenes.
DeleteThe bank robbery scene was filmed at Liuna Station (a banquet hall/convention centre), which is across the street from the new railway station
ReplyDeleteIn your list of characters, Diego was left out.
ReplyDeleteThe Kraken is Diego.
DeleteIsnt Ben the Kraken (sea monster)
DeletePretty sure the auto garage used in episode 2 and/or 3 was the old S&S Motors location on Queen St E, Toronto
ReplyDeleteI just finished watching umbrella academy and the bowling alley looks alot like Richmond Hill Pro Bowl. I bowl There all the time
ReplyDeleteWe watch Schitt's Creek, and instantly recognized the "Rosebud Motel". It's the "Rain Quail", in the Umbrella Academy. It looked like the fight scene was shot in the upstairs, judging from the shape of the room.
ReplyDeleteWe are fans of both shows.
For what it's worth, the sykscraper in the background of exterior shot of the autobody place was photoshopped in-- it's the Ally Detroit Center in downtown Detroit...
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ally_Detroit_Center
The entire skyline in that shot is Detroit, not just the Ally building. 150 W Jefferson, One Woodward, and the Penobscot are all clearly visible.
DeleteKlaus gets his shave from Reginald at Nite Owl barbers, 1695 Dundas West
ReplyDeleteThe shots of Number 5 walking/cycling along the road with Deloros over the years at the start of episode 5 are shot on the Indian Line rail crossing in Claireville.
ReplyDeletehttps://torontoist.com/2008/05/old_indian_line/
The bookstore where Vanya reads from her autobiography is located at 914 Queen St. East in Leslieville. https://maps.app.goo.gl/b5grm
ReplyDeleteLeonard's Imperial Woodwares antique shop is actually 1698 Queen Antiques located at . . . you guessed it 1698 Queen St. West. https://maps.app.goo.gl/xyA1Q
ReplyDeleteAren't Polar & Ubrella Academy both from Dark Horse Comics? Well Polars graphic Novel any way.
ReplyDeleteThe bowling alley is Richmond HIll Pro Bowl located at 0593 Yonge St, Richmond Hill, ON L4C 3C5
ReplyDeleteCha-Cha gets run down by Hazel on Simcoe Street in Toronto just north from Elephant and Castle at King Street West.
ReplyDeleteUmbrella Academy season 1, episode 10 was filmed at Richmond Hill Pro Bowl
ReplyDeleteI think the scene of walking the perambulators is shot outside the east side of the old post office bldg at 45 King St E, Hamilto. They're walking north along John St.
ReplyDeleteThe downtown Dallas Skyline is extremely accurate. All of the buildings in the shots were what you would’ve seen from Commerce Street in the 60’s. Many of those particular buildings are now blocked by much larger buildings today but the they managed to do the downtown extremely well.
ReplyDeleteHamilton seems to be the go-to place for productions needing the look of early 60's Dallas -- 11.22.63 also made great use of Hamilton's plethora of post-WWII brick houses and business facades that still resemble what they originally looked like back in the day. Case in point, they didn't have to do a lot of set dressing to that stretch of Ottawa Street to give it an early 60's flavor. The less CGI you can get away with the better in some instances.
DeleteTired up to HERE with Canada standing in for US locations. It shows that Umbrella Academy is fully funded by Canadian money. All I can say is this. When I landed at Toronto Airport - Revenue Canada asked why my job couldn't be done by Canadians. So I have the same question. Why can a comic book series, created by a Milwaukie, Oregon based US company not survive without Canadian locations? Dallas has perfectly adequate mansions, Texas has great small towns that could have stood in. But the almight DO-LLAR supersedes all sense of fairness. If I see one more Canadian movie or series with the FBI located in downtown Toronto I'm going to scream!
ReplyDeleteBecause film production companies follow the money. Tax credits and transferable rebates are a big part of production funding, and co productions in Canada allow companies to take full advantage of these, which can be as high as 40 percent of the budget. Most states in America do not offer these deals. So, if you were a film business, where would you go? An American city where you have to pay everything out of pocket, or a Canadian city where they will pay you to come film there? Its just business, and it just makes sense.
DeleteAvailability of location(s), cost and tax breaks. You also have to remember that the Canadian Dollar is worth less than the American Dollar, so it's an even bigger cost break ...
DeleteThe Tiki Lounge in season 2 is a studio build, not the Shameful Tiki Room in Parkdale.
ReplyDeleteThanks but, how do you know that? The furniture and the lamps are the same.
DeleteI'm attached to the production. Regardless of that, the architecture is completely different.
DeleteThanks a lot! Were the Morty's store Art Deco interiors also built in a set? Please let us know if you have any more locations :)
DeleteMorty's interior and exterior were on a soundstage. Sissy's INT. was on a stage and the EXT. was a location build. The barn existed. Klaus' bar INT. was the Vienna Tavern in Hamilton with the EXT. in a different location. The Commission was again at The David Dunlap Observatory, with some elements built on stage. Last one I'll give is DS Umbrella. This is the old FW Mclachlan Construction Building on Fairbank Ave. in Toronto. NASA was also in the same location. Over and out.
DeleteJust to be clear, the Tiki Lounge wasn't inspired by any Toronto location. If there are similarities, they are coincidental.
DeleteAwesome, update coming soon. It seems that the only relevant locations missing are the barn, the mexican embassy, the rooming house exteriors, the Dallas Police facade (episode 2), the abandoned warehouse in episode 5 and the walking bridge over the railway line in episode 9.
DeleteCame to say the same. While the decor shares similarities (most tiki bars do!) there is absolutely no way it was shot inside Shameful Tiki Toronto. Having spent countless evenings in that bar I can tell you it's an architectural impossibly, like most Toronto storefront spaces Shameful Tiki can't be more than 20 feet wide, if that, and looks nothing like the space in the show.
Delete@RA Moon no one has mentioned where their impromptu HQ is in season 2 either. Still racking brain. It looks like it is the GO train station in Hamilton but the railings are off when you look from above.
DeleteThe house in S2:E5 was in the movie Four Brothers. 10 keith st hamilton ontario canada
ReplyDelete~GFlax
Mexican Embassy was McLean House + studio for the hallway fight scene. I'm going to have to start charging for this lol.
ReplyDeleteAwesome, thanks. Updated!
DeleteThe Dallas police station where Ray and Klause were is the original Phoenix Az City Hall on Washington Street. The street that runs in front of it was closed down and is now a park. I am not sure if it can be seen from Google maps but it has the Phoenix police museum on the south end and the old jail on the top floor. The jail in the movie looks similar to the jail seen but I'm not sure if its the same one
ReplyDeleteThat was used as an establishing shot but the interior police station was in Hamilton ON. The jail was a studio build in Etobicoke ON.
DeleteThe tailors where Chestnut and Allison try on suits was in a totally transformed Revolving Closet, 208-A Ottawa Street, Hamilton.
DeleteStadtler's Restaurant is the former location of Southern Smoke BBQ (the business vacated the storefornt a few months before the production started filming S2 exteriors on Ottawa Street in Sept. 2019. The storefront currently (Aug 2020) has a 'coming soon' sign for a Burger Lab location. The Avon theater is right next door -- but hasn't been an actual theater for at least 20 years. A church seen in some shots down the street is at the corner of Ottawa and Cannon streets. When I visited the location shoot they were using the church as a place for the period costume extras to congregate between takes and likely to suit up and apply makeup.
ReplyDeleteSomeone pointed out that in season 2 there is a box of Clever Crisp cereal, which is one of the things Reginald Hargreaves is famous for inventing in the comics. I just noticed that in the picture of Klaus running out of the convenience store there is an advertisement for Clever Crisp on the side of the building!
ReplyDeleteThe bowling alley in s1e10 is filmed Richmond Hill Pro Bowl - 10593 Yonge St, Richmond Hill, ON
ReplyDeleteS2E05 Luther goes to visit his father. As the bus pulls in there is a shot looking NW from the distinctive fountain in Gore Park (Hamilton). A couple of modern buildings are removed, and a Money Mart sign is altered to look like something more 1960s. If you are standing at this spot in the real world and turn 180 degrees you will be in front of the actual building whose facade doubled as the Academy in Season 1. Luther actually gets off the bus in front of of the 'real' Academy. A nice little bit of real world 360 degree scene continuity you don't see all that often in these days of 'everything CGI'.
ReplyDeleteYou may find this CBC article helpful.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/umbrella-academy-1.5676372
Thanks all, ^_^ updated!
DeleteHere are few harder to find ones:
ReplyDeleteLuther and Allison at the 1st BBQ restaurant: https://goo.gl/maps/SVzzvLHsgh8ww5Pv5
Luther boards the Greyhound Bus: https://goo.gl/maps/NgbDEy8qt8R2ueFK8
LUTHER Eats at the 2nd BBQ restaurant: https://goo.gl/maps/NcKS2VwhEBH9ky7p8
The restaurant was set up in the parking lot where the cars are.
Sissy's Ranch before the work began. You can see the barn through the trees.
ReplyDeletehttps://goo.gl/maps/gZST9W1HXTZpjsxM6
1585 Concession Rd 7, Pickering ON L1Y1A2
The scene where Leonard gets beat up causing Vanya to use her powers (and Allison visits the location later), was filmed in front a of restaurant on Hwy 9 near Palgrave, Ontario (north of Bolton). I actually saw it being filmed coincidentally... didn't know at the time until I saw it last night lol!
ReplyDeleteSeason 1.. Vanya gets on and off the bus at Duncan Street and Pearl Street. Cha cha and Hazel are watching her on Pearl
ReplyDeleteCurious to the tie in with the Argyle Public Library. Is the reference to Argyle, Texas where I grew up?
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure that some of the hallway scenes in season one (sorry, that's a bit vague) were filmed in the old part of Central Tech High School, at Bathurst and Bloor, in Toronto. I've seen those yellow brick halls appear in a few movies and tv shows. Beautiful old building.
ReplyDeleteLeonard's home is at 147 high park avenue.
ReplyDeleteThe diner where Vanya meets with Stan in S03E01 and Viktor talks to Allison in S03E02 is The Lakeview Lunch at 1132 Dundas St W in Toronto.
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of comments here to read them all right now, so not sure if it was already mentioned that in season 3, the park where Luther is jogging before being abducted by the Sparrow Academy is Gage Park in Hamilton.
ReplyDeletePlease update cast info at the end of the article with Elliot Page's name. Dead naming is a common mistake but is still transphobic and harmful to all who go through the challenges and stigmatization associated with living as their authentic selves. Considering how well The Umbrella Academy has represented transitioning, this would bring your post in line with the show's portrayal, honoring who Elliot and Viktor are. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteThe pizzeria where they fight at the beginning of S3E01 is Shorty’s Pizza on Cannon Street in Hamilton.
ReplyDeleteThe drive-in is actually the Starlite Drive-In, located in Hamilton, Ontario. Right by my house!
I was going to say it's the Starlite as well because it's one of the only "old-school" drive-ins left in Southern Ontario and it's in proximity to the Devil's Punchbowl area of the Stoney Creek/Hamilton mountain which is another very popular area with location scouts. These areas of Hamilton represent a good value for budget-conscious productions as you literally get a two-fer (or even a three-fer) for varied locations without having to relocate.
DeleteSorry guys, but it's not Starlite, is 5 Drive-In. Just compare the screenshots with Google Maps.
DeleteThe scene where Allison and Luther dance is in Gore Park in Hamilton. I watched them film it from my apartment window!
ReplyDeleteMy daughter picked up on the interior of Hotel Oblivion being the same as the one on season 5 of American Horror Story. Can anyone confirm?
ReplyDeleteit isn't because it was built just for season three on the stage in west end Toronto. As a matter of fact , it was built using the same studio where Morty's TV Shop was built. The designer of the hotel utilized the upstairs platform of the TV shop ( the apartment) to create the mezzanine of the hotel.
DeleteAre the interior shots of the house the same house as in Doctor strange?
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know the bar where Pogo is tattooing? I recognize it from another movie / show but can’t pin point it!
ReplyDeleteOverpass inn is 100 Colborne st & queen in Brantford Ontario
ReplyDeleteNope. It's nothing like that. See https://maps.app.goo.gl/Cg4wM5Y3WhDfd2N18, "4PQM+9J Brantford, Ontario, Canada" in Google Maps.
DeleteTatfords is a bit of a puzzler, I don't think that's a real location and everything including the street corner and streets into the horizon are CGI. At the lower right of the shot is 'Doz Yaggey & Lee', a real law firm but their one and only location is at the corner of 124th and 104 in Edmonton, AB (I checked on Google Maps, and the corner is nothing like the Tatfords corner).
ReplyDeleteHere's my theory: Season 4 had a hugely reduced budget -- only six episodes and there was very little location filming that I heard of (in Hamilton, during Season 1-2 filming you actually had to try hard NOT to encounter an outside shoot for UA, especially when they were shooting Season 2 on Ottawa Street. They were everywhere!). I suspect they outsourced the S4 location footage from a 3rd party who goes to abandoned/dangerous places and films exteriors rather than send crews/actors (a huge production savings).
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