History Main / RebuiltSet

* They had to recreate the miniatures from ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' for ''Film/TwoThousandTenTheYearWeMakeContact'' because the originals were destroyed after filming ''2001'' to make sure they wouldn't be [[PropRecycling reused in other movies]]. (Ironically, the rebuilt ''2010'' versions did get reused - the Pod turned up as an EasterEgg in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', and the spacesuits in ''Series/BabylonFive''.)
** On a related problem, they had tremendous difficulty recreating the 'old man' makeup for the old man version of Dave, as the only surviving images of the makeup were the ones in the original film. Success was confirmed when a passerby on the lot recognized the makeup.

* Scenes originally shot on location during the first ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' film were recreated on studio sets for the sequels, including the Lyon Estates Bilboard in 1955 in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' and the interior of Doc's mansion in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII''. They also had to rebuild the 1955 Courthouse Square sets for ''Part II'', although only one side of the Square was needed for the sequel.

* For ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2016'', all of the returning levels were rebuilt from scratch directly on top of the models from [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002]], which is why their layouts are ''exactly'' the same. This was made possible thanks to the work Idol Studios did for the [=PS3=] HD Remasters, as Insomniac didn't archive the source files.

** The scene for Ach-To, the planet where Rey finds Luke in ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', was originally filmed on location on an island called Skellig Michael. However, due to filming being harmful for local, rare wildlife, sets built to look like the island were used for ''Film/TheLastJedi'' instead.

** Some places originally shot on location were later reproduced as sets at Leavesden Studios. For example, Privet Drive was a real street in [[Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone the first movie]], but a backlot reproduction was used from the second movie onwards. The hospital wing was Oxford Divinity School in the first movie, but it became a set in the second film. Amusingly, Oxford Divinity School later appeared as a different room in [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire the fourth movie]]. In a weird example, Snape's classroom was filmed in the Lacock Abbey sacristy in the first film, but later his classroom became a set which did not even remotely look like the same room. It appears they took the Snape's office set from the second movie and revamped it into his classroom for [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix the fifth movie]] (the classroom does not appear onscreen between the first and fifth movies).

** The ''Chamber of Secrets'' set was not saved after the filming of ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets''. When the Chamber had to reappear in ''Hallows: Part 2'', they filmed the actors in front of a green screen and recreated the Chamber as a CGI set rather than rebuilding it for real. This makes a certain amount of sense, seeing how the Chamber was a ''very'' large set and the scene featuring it in ''Hallows'' was pretty brief.

* ''Series/AllInTheFamily'': They decided to end the series, so they donated Archie's chair to the Smithsonian; when they decided to continue they had to recreate the chair. The chair originally cost $2 from the Salvation Army, and the recreation cost thousands.

* For the AllJustADream ending to the last episode of ''Series/{{Newhart}}'', the bedroom set from ''Series/TheBobNewhartShow'' was rebuilt.
** The show's producers made a point of keeping the set hidden from the studio audience until the last possible moment while filming the episode, so as not to ruin the impact of TheReveal.

*** The iconic original Peter Brachacki design from "An Unearthly Child" (with the famous white roundelled walls) remained more or less the same (with some simplifications and replacements) for most of the original 1963-89 series. An attempt to replace it in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster The Time Monster]]" was so unpopular with the cast and crew that the old one was brought back in the next story.

** And then, some one though it be a good idea to set fire to the Falcon set, after filming ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', so they had to rebuild it again for ''Film/TheForceAwakens''.

Common to film sequels, as well as when productions enter reshoots. In the case of sets that have been changed, sometimes the producers choose to TrashTheSet to explain why they've been changed. This is also a horribly common problem in VideoGameRemakes that adhere closely to the original, since source files are so poorly archived.

** And then, some one though it be a good idea to set fire to the Falcon set, after filming ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', so they have to rebuild again, for ''Film/TheForceAwakens''.

Common to film sequels, as well as when productions enter reshoots, but also a horribly common problem in video games, since source files are so poorly archived. In the case of sets that have been changed, sometimes the producers choose to TrashTheSet to explain why they've been changed.

* The original bunkroom set from the first series of ''Series/RedDwarf'' in 1988 was recreated twice: first for "Back in the Red" in 1999, because the conceit of that series was that the original ship had been reconstructed by nanobots, and again in 2017 for "Skipper", a SeriesFauxnale which heavily leant on nostalgia and recreated several other sets and costumes from the first series.

* ''Serenity'' was rebuilt for [[Film/{{Serenity}} the movie of the same name]].
** A side effect was that no floor plans for the original set were known to still exist. The production team on the movie laboriously recreated the ship by eye, from rewatching the television episodes over and over.

* ''Series/AllInTheFamily'': They decided to end the series, so they donated Archie's chair to the Smithsonian; when they decided to continue they had to recreate the chair. The chair originally cost like $2 from the Salvation Army, and the recreation cost thousands.

** Some ''Next Generation'' sets were rebuilt for the ''Enterprise'' finale [[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS04E22TheseAreTheVoyages "These Are the Voyages..."]] Only a small part of Ten Forward was rebuilt with StockFootage being used for an EstablishingShot of the room. The only set which did not have to be rebuilt from scratch was the observation lounge, which had since been modified to become the observation lounge of the ''Enterprise''-E, so they just had to modify it back.

*** The much more detailed version of the original TARDIS console room created, as mentioned above, for ''Film/AnAdventureInSpaceAndTime'', was then used in the series itself for the console room of [[spoiler:Ashildr's and Clara's]] TARDIS in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent Hell Bent]]", and for the [[=TARDISes=]] used [[spoiler: by the fam to return home and the Doctor to get back to her own TARDIS]] at the end of "The Timeless Children".

*** The much more detailed version of the original TARDIS console room created, as mentioned above, for ''Film/AnAdventureInSpaceAndTime'', was then used in the series itself for the console room of [[spoiler:Ashildr's and Clara's]] TARDIS in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent Hell Bent]]".

** A variation in the fourth season episode "[[{{Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E11Doomed}} Doomed]]", the gang revisit the ruins of the original Sunnydale High, and although they are shown in a state of disrepair, the floor plan is recognisably the same as that from seasons 1 to 3. So, the set needed to be [[RebuiltSet rebuilt...]] [[TrashTheSet but in a trashed state]].

* ''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse'': The playhouse set was rebuilt when the show moved from New York to Los Angeles. It was the same set, but ''subtly'' different in many ways. The show acknowledged the changes in the beginning of Series 3 with a specially-filmed opening: Pee-Wee bursts through the door as normal, but finds everything draped in plastic sheets! [[PaintingTheFourthWall The theme tune starts and immediately winds down]], and he says, "I completely forgot! We're redecorating the playhouse!"

* In ''Film/TheDarkKnightSaga'', Wayne Manor was burnt to the ground by Ra's al Ghul in ''Film/BatmanBegins''. Wayne Manor did not appear in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' due to only a year passing between ''Begins'' and ''The Dark Knight'' in-universe, but Wayne Manor was rebuilt for ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' (which takes place nine years later from ''Begins'').

* After a fire at their warehouse, almost every Creator/AardmanAnimations model was destroyed, forcing them to remake pretty much every character and set used in ''Franchise/WallaceAndGromit'' before making ''WesternAnimation/AMatterOfLoafAndDeath''.