Stars Hollow is the centerpiece of Holidays Made Here at Warner Bros. Studios, seen here on Dec. 17, 2025, in Burbank, Calif. 

If there’s one thing that practically everyone who moved from a cold climate to live in Los Angeles has in common, it’s that we really, really love fake snow. We love it when it falls over Disneyland’s Main Street at Christmastime. We love it when it drifts down over ice skating rinks and novelty cocktail bars in 70 degree weather at over-the-top holiday mall activations. And we especially love it when, for the two coziest weeks of the year, it blankets a part of Burbank that becomes Stars Hollow, Connecticut, when Warner Bros. Studios brings the fictional town from “Gilmore Girls” to life for its seasonal Holidays Made Here event.

The studio’s annual celebration of its holiday movies includes a seasonal tour focused on festive projects filmed on the lot, but also Warner Bros. holiday movies more broadly. While there, you can see Ross’s “Holiday Armadillo” suit from “Friends” and Will Ferrell and Bob Newhart’s costumes from “Elf,” and the very shop where Rand Peltzer bought his son a mogwai in “Gremlins.” 

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But the star of the show is undoubtedly the studio’s Midwest lot, which at this time of year transforms into Stars Hollow, the idyllic New England town that’s as much the heart of “Gilmore Girls” as the fast-talking, coffee-guzzling Lorelais are. (For the uninitiated, the show starts with the free-spirited 32-year-old Lorelai and studious 16-year-old Rory, more best friends than mother-daughter, and goes through seven seasons of their unique bond, their relationship with staid matriarch Emily Gilmore, and their love of their tiny hometown, filled with lovably quirky townspeople.)

This year, at the 25th anniversary of “Gilmore Girls,” the event is bigger than it’s ever been. At other times of the year, the studio tour concludes with guests being dropped off at a building with a recreation of Central Perk from “Friends,” and exhibits that showcase costumes from classic films like “My Fair Lady” or raise the curtain on special effects like motion capture (if you ever wanted to make “Harry Potter’s” Dobby dab or floss, this is your chance). Over the holidays,........

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