Papalia's other credits as set designer include the science fiction thriller 2010 (1984, with Gregory Pickrell and William Ladd Skinner), the horror sequel Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986), the drama Nuts (1987), the fantasy sequel Ghostbusters II (1989), the horror comedy Gremlins II: The New Batch (1990), the crime drama One Good Cop (1991, with Richard McKenzie), the romance Legends of the Fall (1994), the war drama The Patriot (2000), the crime thriller The Italian Job (2003), the fantasy comedy The Haunted Mansion (2003), the science fiction thriller Transformers (2007), and the television series Glee (2009).