Time was passing on, so I thought it best to guide the flock to Avebury Boulevard. Embarrassingly, we were ALREADY at Avebury Boulevard, and *sigh*, I made everyone walk a meaningless additional mile.

Most of the journey was spent with Steve1977 and myself monopolising the conversation in DV versus film/post-modernism = Art-is-dead-type over-lapping yakking, while Martin El recalled the immediate differences between the wig Reeve wore in Superman III versus that of Superman IV. So much for the 'meeting people over the internet ends in regret' myth, the only regret was that of the resident Miltonians who were victim to our frequent enquiries- everyone from the MK museum attendants to the newspaper vendor received our wide-eyed "excuse me!"s. Did John Graysmark KNOW this was going to happen?

Things did get a bit too much though when it became apparent that every building featured the same lightweight metal and glass design. The ubiquitous Milton Keynes architecture could genuinely convince even Graysmark himself that Superman IV was largely filmed in any Milton Keynes building.

Once back at *cough* the exact location we had departed from, we walked through an adjacent doorway only to be hit in the face by a misplaced tropical heat-wave. Walking through another doorway through which you could see foliage and leaves, the next stop was the winter gardens AKA The Metropolis Museum of Modern Art!

The construction looked familiar, the sterile white surfacing more so. On entry, what immediately caught us off guard was the humid heat of the gardens and the sound of running water. To contrast this with the drizzle that had followed us throughout the rest of the day it seemed, well, almost tropical. In a strictly Miltonian way of course.

It was also quite amazing how the production managed to move Derek Howarth's mammoth Superman sculpture through to the recreational grounds. One would imagine that the piece would have been brought in as separate sections and erected bit by bit. Again, the most striking feature of this location was it's size. Hats off to John Graysmark, this location doubling was VERY successful, not just a modern cantilevered delight, but a functional looking recreational area that could fool even the most American of eyes.

It was here that Lex Luthor and his 'heavily-anachronistic/insulting-stereotype-even-for-1986-teenage' nephew Lenny raided the Man-Of-Steel's hair exhibit. To contrast this with the over the top, clearly soundstage bound museum interiors of Joel Schumachers 'Batman & Robin', it really is a tribute to that old cliché, "sometimes the most effective ideas are the simplest". Graysmark's creation is hardly his own, but his resourceful eye for structurally interesting, criteria-meeting scenery makes the Metropolis Museum of Modern Art a masterpiece of inventive illusion. At the bottom of the Gardens steps was the entrance to the gym where Clark and Lacey Warfield enjoyed an aerobics session- unfortunately, this was the site of an elite, private health clinic.

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