What if the UNIVERSAL Logo was REAL?

This was a fun thought experiment. I think you’d enjoy the book “Seven Eves” for many many reasons.

I legitimately want you guys to try to pitch this movie idea to Universal Studios.

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I can say with certainty that the Universal Logo that was introduced about 25 years ago or so was made of Solid Brass - about 1.25 inches thick. I made them for the design studio that was commissioned to create the new Universal opening. I used a company that had a Wire EDM machine (Electro Discharge Machining) to cut the letters into separate pieces. It was shot with a motor control camera system that "flew" the letters in one by one , with the proper offset to give the proper spacing for the letters. I would assume that the letters are now on some execs office at Universal . . they were each very heavy !

Your videos are so good that I'm prepared to watch them even when the audio is completely out of sync 😂😂

Such a niche concept, yet so _universally_ epic

Dude, you just got so many kids interested in space because of this. I've been into Scott Manley, Marcus House, Fraser Cain, Felix Schlang Joe Scott, Sabine Hossenfelder etc. for years and I'm pretty sure you may have single handedly influenced hundreds of young minds to shape out future. Rock 'n' roll, Wrenski...

The Solid Brass Logo that I fabricated for the Universal Studios Logo, was for a company I believe called Studio Effects - they had also been part of the refresh for the Paramount Studios Movie Introduction . This was shot at a facility called the Chandler Stages located in the Marina Del Rey area of LA, where they had the large Motion Control Cameras System that shot the Letters as separate elements. If there was any CGI it would have been in the very early days of Digital Compositing - but that was in post production which I had no involvement.

I would love to see a movie about the universal logo and have references to all the other movies they made

Seeing you together with Scott Manley in both of your videos really made one of the best cross over experiences for me I ever had ❤

I appreciate how you clipped the movie Another Earth in this video! It's always cool to see perhaps lesser known stuff getting some attention!

*I think Wren and Michael from Vsauce should start a channel that focuses on stuff like this. I'd watch every second.*

So cool seeing two youtube personalities that I watch separately collaberate together - love it !

Please make more of the concept/ what if/ size comparison vids!!!

Love how Wren managed to turn this insane world ending scenario into something wholesome at the end

Wren's videos are always my favorite. Science and space are my spirit animals!

You guys make some of the best videos out there, somehow flipping apocalyptic cataclysms into hopeful and optimistic sci fi. I love it and can't wait for more!

This is a question I’ve never asked, but I in fact never knew I needed the answer to. Thank you Wren for reporting only the highest of intellectual questions!

I am glad that my video has helped you in some way in your project.

Honestly that would be an awesome movie. I hope someone makes an actual movie like that

excellent stuff. would love to see more science/tech focused episodes from you guys

Hats off to Scott for making it to Corridor Crew. You are about to get famous.

Would love to see a video on the visual effects of studio film logos

Wren seems like the person who could be friends with literally anyone. Seems like a great guy

Wren is so engrained in the digital world that he pronounces equator as if it's short form for electronic quator.

I think this is one of the best vids you guys have done. That was so interesting I want more!

This is my fav series. Always wished wren did more of these. But the audio being so bad, i cant do it.

When I first saw this logo I was pretty close to the screen and I found it pretty terrifying. My friends and family made fun of me but I feel so vindicated now ❤

I know your scenario was using some magic force to keep the logo (generally) in place, but it would be fun to see it play out all the way. The logo is well within the Roche limit so it would be ripped apart and rain down on Earth, but as it did, it would also fall closer to Earth and have greater gravitational impact as the center of the letters mass descended. There would be a point where the remnants of the letters would have greater local gravitational pull than the Earth from the surface of Earth, though it would probably be VERY brief. Of course, that one's not so easy of a calculation. You might have to get Scott to take over the spreadsheet at that point.

Imagine having a friend like Wren. There'll never be dull moments.

A movie about the universal logo would be funny. Such a niche concept, yet so universally epic.

What an amazing content. And I didn’t even needed to pay for watching it. You guys are awesome

great video Wren. but i think you should do these crazy ideas videos more often.

I really liked the plot idea at the end. Great video!

you are a very underrated youtuber ill be watching your videos alot more, i didnt even know you existed but thanks for making this its very entertaining!

A movie about the universal logo would be funny
Edit: does this mean I'm famous now? Maybe my dad will finally come back with the milk now

Love scott, such an enjoyable guy

@CorridorCrew I think it’s great that you chose platinum as the main material of the letters for aesthetic purposes, but can solid platinum hold its density without collapsing into a black hole? The heaviest element a star fuses before it collapses into itself is iron, and platinum is way heavier than iron, so I was just wondering if the letters might all spontaneously become black holes.

Very idea of the logo coming into real life scenario was just brilliantly awesome, and the process steps trying to figure out the mass n gravity is mind bending, very inspiring 😊 love u guys the entire corridor crew 👏👏👏👏

This was the smartest and funny science experiment on the internet
Love your efforts

never in my 23 years of life i imagined the universal logo to be real in a disaster movie way, Wren never lose your imagination, you just made me happier with it in the first 20 seconds of this video

Wren is genuinely the greatest asset Corridor has. Seems like he constantly has ideas for interesting videos and they all convey his vision and the points of the videos perfectly.

This video is so U N I V E R S A L !!! 🌍🌎🌏 From analyzing, math and what ifs, so aesthetically great job done! 🤩👏 Hands down to the Corridor Crew! New fan from the Philippines! 🇵🇭❤️

Oh gosh I've imagined and wondered this for decades, a incredibly entertaining watch

I love how curious and passionate Wren is 😊

I never would've thought i would want to see a movie about the universal logo so much 😂

This episode is definitely a testament to why science fiction is so damn compelling as a genre

Bro that would be so dope if they did this, like a panoramic view down to the surface of Earth at all the people looking up at these giant letters that appeared outta nowhere, that would be incredibly meta and I would absolutely watch it

Great video! Just a thought: wouldn’t the vector-math-cancellation of opposite forces only work if the letters on both side are of equal mass? For example, the ‘i’ in universal would probably have less mass than ‘s’ on the opposite side. So there maybe some more chaos! Haven’t watched Scott’s video yet, so maybe it’s addressed there.

That would be such a good movie. I'd pay a hundred dollars to see it, maybe more

I love seeing them making other videos during this video because it’s so weird without context

Wren and Scott Manley; the crossover I didn't know I needed. Thanks guys!

Cool video! The book Seveneves has a similar plot to this. It’s well worth a read.

Gotta love Wren explaining, in detail, complicated subject matter and yet can't read the sign "DO NOT GO ONTO ROOF UNLESS ITS EMERGENCY"

Hi, all of these visual effects are awesome! I'm only eleven but I think it would be really cool if I started doing stuff like this. I just don't know what software you use and how to even do anything. great video! I just wish I was able to make stuff like this. What software do you use to create and render stuff like this?

Wren is a very creative presenter I'm sure he would be a great teacher.

Even after like 20 years or so. I still always feel like the earth will turn into a rim every single time the intro is featured in a movie. (2F2F if you don’t know)

I love how everyone is coordinating to turn on the lights every time the letters cast a shadow

Wow! This video is so much better than I even expected. I really appriciate the science.

It went from fun to terrifying really fast.

What a genius concept. 💀 I’m so sad I didn’t think of this.

Surprisingly great video!!! I thought it was gonna be silly but the terror and science and math involved got me hooked

Such a cool idea to use two shots one shaded and the other one in the sun to make this effect in 7:51. Thats some creative filmmaking if i ever seen one.

Wren just freely gave a multi-million dollar idea for any movie company that are serious enough to actually make this into a movie

I'm wondering if Universe Sandbox would have helped to calculate and theorize what would happen in these cases...

This would totally make sense for a Universal Studio Movie

Now i'm curious to see what the TCS logo would look like in real life

I would like to see a movie where life evolved on two planets that were so close together.

And imagine if somehow this video was preserved for the humanity billions of years later to see...

Depending on how fast the logo would rotate, people could more efficiently tell the time by looking up into the sky and seeing where the logo is located and what letters are visible.

I'd love to see a Corridor Short of these events unfolding!

NGL the Science in this video is even more interesting than anything the VFX could produce. Pure awesome

That is sooooo cool there should definitely be a movie about it

I *HIGHLY* recommend the book Seveneves by Neal Stephenson. Much of this conceptualization aligns with his theories on what would happen if the moon were to suddenly explode. During the book, he goes from the hard sci-fi of the physics of such a cataclysm, to increasingly speculative forms as the story travels deeper and deeper into the future. @wren, maybe a collab episode exploring those ideas with him?

could you imagine if universal had enough courage in creativity to make an actual blockbuster disaster movie with this as the premise

Since Universal is a movie company, I think the letters should be made as if they are props. My assumption is they would be wood with the minimal amount of internal structure. Gathering enough wood to make that would cause its own set of massive ecological issues.

The last bit about the two planets remind me of the 2012 movie Upside Down, except the planets there are of equal size and the laws of physics is just weird. It’s a mix of romance and sci-fi and I found it to be very fascinating.

I liked without even watching because i loved the concept so much. Make more videos like these. Cheers.

I was skeptical clicking this but you nailed it! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Would be a great movie for sure!

Might be neat to see the amount of food and drink the average person (or even including the not-average person) goes through in a lifetime. I think there's a good bit to explore in this idea.

I love this thought experiment! It would fit so well into Randall Munroe's "What if?"-Series, which I highly recommend!

I would love a movie where it starts with the universal disaster and then goes directly into some random story of the 2 world's

As many commenters wrote, this was a fun experiment.
And while thinking the letters as solid platinum, I'd have thought them hollow (weirdly shaped, I admit) spaceships, therefore hollow, which would completely change the calculations.

So kind of Scott Manley to give a hand up for a small channel like Corridor Crew

I work at Universal, and enjoyed this little experiment!

I am starting to wonder how loud the trumpets would be if they could be that loud from space….

I love how unnecessarily specific the details are on these videos!

About a year and a half ago I remade a "simulation" of how the Universal logo animation would look like if the earth was a plane dish: "Flatversal". It wasn't as scientifically sophisticated as this thought experiment - I was struggling enough just getting the whole thing to work and look sorta nice (and then butchered everything in post) - but should I revisit the project a second time, I'll definitely try including the letter's gravity in the simulation :D
This video was a lot of fun to watch!

Thanks for bringing in Scott Manley, he's brilliant 👏 😀 👌 🙌

As an physics and astronomy student, this was funny to watch

Such a great job an entertaining video and movie Idea. I got hooked with the VFX artists reacts and Stuntperson but Wren is why I stay ❤️

Hey Wren, I just saw a Short about a kid leaving the door open and his dad tells him “are you trying to cool down the whole world?” The kid ends global warming by telling everyone to leave their doors open with the AC on.
Could this be possible? 😅

It would be nice to know how things would have turned out, if the logo was assumed to be hollow (which would be more realistic, if it were actually build).

I don't know if you have the same experience as me, but if I watch this video at 1440p HD (automatically chosend by ESclips) some 10 seconds of the video are missing and the audio becomes unsynchronized (it doesn't show the Universal letters /sequence when Wren hears the music and points at the horizon)

There was a movie about two planets that were connected at a single point but I can’t remember what it was called. I’m curious why you didn’t touch on the orbital speed the logo had to have to keep from colliding into the earth. Great video though, very in depth!

They actually need to make a massive universal sign as big as the earth or not it still needs to be a thing

This was the theme I wanted to see the most for a long time from you guys, and it finally happened. That was fun :D

The excitement I got when he said imagine looking up and seeing a world. That would be so awesome. And isn't there a movie a little like that called upside down.

No way Scott Manley!? I used to watch his Kerbal Space Program videos because of how cool and educational it was, also I liked his voice.