# Hollywood Snowball Fight? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 9, 2016, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-snowball-fight/759454 "2016-07-09T03:07:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2016, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-snowball-fight/759454/1 "2016-07-09T03:07:04Z")
If Hollywood uses fake snow for winter scenes, how do they stage a snowball fight with snow that can actually be compacted into snowballs and leaves snow residue when striking something. Would they really bother to truck in real snow? ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Downtown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2016, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-snowball-fight/759454/2 "2016-07-09T03:52:31Z")
Sometimes, they just shoot that day up in the Angeles National Forest, where there’s real snow much of the year. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2016, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-snowball-fight/759454/3 "2016-07-09T04:19:57Z")
I have a memory as a little kid of having a “snow day” where trucks brought in snow and dumped it in the playground. The weirdest thing? Some of the kids had sleds that they brought. Sure, you live in LA, you have a sled, just in case. Or for when you go up in the mountains, I guess, but… But at any rate. This is just to confirm that yes, snow can be brought in, in trucks, and you can make snowballs out of it. It was a little gritty, but I thought that was just how snow was. Now I live in Denver and know a lot more about it. ---
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-snowball-fight/759454/4 "2016-07-15T02:52:48Z")
Hollywood…anything for a laugh, huh? The show must go on! ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-snowball-fight/759454/5 "2016-07-15T04:29:01Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > I have a memory as a little kid of having a “snow day” where trucks brought in snow and dumped it in the playground. They did the same thing in Seattle a few years ago - filled up 27 trucks with snow from the Cascades and dumped it in a playground next to the Space Needle. They sold tickets for charity and staged a Guinness record attempt for the world’s largest snowball fight. It was fun. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-snowball-fight/759454/6 "2016-07-15T19:31:26Z")
Probably use a snow making machine. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-snowball-fight/759454/7 "2016-07-15T19:43:48Z")
You wouldn’t have to “truck” much in: you could use a mixture of real and fake snow depending on how much interaction with it you need. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2016, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-snowball-fight/759454/8 "2016-07-16T00:02:15Z")
They roll a softball in glue, then roll it in coconut shavings. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-snowball-fight/759454/9 "2016-07-17T22:18:03Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > Probably use a snow making machine. Modern snowmaking is nothing short of phenomenal. ---
**Author:** ![Clark\_Cello](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@Clark\_Cello](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clark_Cello)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-snowball-fight/759454/10 "2016-07-17T22:59:35Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > Probably use a snow making machine. Snow making machines only work at a narrow range of temperatures and conditions, most of which are not common in the Los Angeles basin. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hollywood-snowball-fight/759454/11 "2016-07-17T23:24:37Z")
When I lived in LA, sometimes I’d see a pickup truck drive down from the hills with the truck bed full of real snow with jokers in the back making snowballs and throwing them at pedestrians. In 90 degree weather. Or I used to see scenes set up for filming with fake snow all over, surrounded by movie trucks. The advantage of fake snow is it doesn’t melt.