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FUNKO POP should invest in this, if they haven’t yet.🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

Sad. Didn’t give it a fair chance. Plus opened same time as WDW I think

Mane david Gonzalez needs to give homies the boondocks treatment and go ahead and make an animated series

I'm so sad that as a woman I will never be able to perfect a Kermit impression. They all just turn into Marge Simpson lol

He will always be Rizzo and Wembley to me

Holy shit this was like shooting up nostalgia. Thanks for this.

Homies my childhood

Rizzo Lips Sprocket and Wembley

And only 1 puppet in this exhibit was puppeteerd by barnaby dixon

these are SO cool!!!

They need to hire him back!!!

I just watched the video about the vending machine guy from New York on Vice and it lead me here. I miss having the homies.

My folks took me and my sisters thee, I was like 3-4, I have no recollection of it, I do remember very vague stuff about Disney trip when like 5, but I do remember seeing the closed park up in the center when going to Flames games w my dad

The complete collection witth the 5 limited to 500 series is wprth around 14 bucks

I thought it was a wonderful ad campaign, still do.

Like many, I was not aware the series existed - until I stumbled upon it on Tubi, over 25 years after it debuted. I'd add lack of marketing/promotion as a factor in its demise. I've enjoyed MP since the early 70s -and I'm not quite dead, yet.

No stereotypes. Homies looked like the people in the Barrios of Albuquerque, NM where I grew up in the 60s and 70s.

what in the fuck

Jim wouldn't sell the Sesame Street characters to Disney.

I have one of the zombie homies, it’s pretty cool

i got this condition, bobble head symdrome, im dead homie

they still sell a LOT of homies merch at zumiez

Criticism that disney negotations killed Jim, and Disney would try to acquire Sesame Street, even though those characters were off limits.

Didn’t they sell homies with actual low riders back then too? I could have sworn my mom got me a set of them with cars

Bobble neck syndrome 💀💀💀

I loved the copybooks and binders

I was six when this park opened. I got to see it once, from afar, as my parents and I passed through the Omni complex on our way to see an Atlanta Flames game. But I never actually got to go before it closed. 😢

And now CNN has pulled out, and it's back to Square One with the Omni complex.

Sid & Marty Kroft was at Six flags over Georgia in the contemporary theater and had a animatronic resembling HR PuffnStuf and it spoke out at the end of the I ate the whole thing liiw it was gobbling up the audience 😮

Where can I purchase them now?

I was lucky enough to go in its short life. We were visiting my aunt in Atlanta and she took us. Loved all the Kroftt shows and was thrilled to shake tentacles with Sigmund.

Great video! I'm a big fan of stop motion but had no idea of any of this backstory

You put together a great video, nice job

I had the biggest crush on Steve from E.T. back in the day!☺️❤ Loved this interview- not enough on Steve, Tyler and Greg😄

Steve & Otis sang with me on Tranquility Island. In fact, that photo of Steve & Otis, I believe I took. After the World closed, we did shows at North DeKalb Mall. It was there that a sign on the bulletin board that said they were holding auditions for the Hensons. I showed Steve the sign & told him to call. The rest is history. I moved to Nashville to continue perform. Haven’t seen Steve since then but am so proud of him

The homies figures are still active and there coming out with new figures and different style like funkos

Damn this unlocked such a deep forgotten memory. I lived in Maywood, Cali and I remember seeing these figures in the quarter machines in a labanderia mi jefa and I went to when I was a kid. I always thought how cool they looked like. This was also around the time when I saw the gangster SpongeBob or gangster loony toons printed on tee shirts getting really popular.

Great interview, Wesley!

Nice job and probably the most information I have come across on the park!

Too bad he watches CNN...lowest rated news network around. As for all they build and created...Magic!

When CNN took over the mall that finally Killed Sid & Marty Croft,and gone forever!

Great interview! I'm bummed I didn't get to see it in IMAX but I live by universal studios Hollywood so I stocked up on 40th anniversary stuff

Here, I'm noticing Steve Whitmire has a similar cadence to Jim Henson. And he respects Jim Henson's original ideas. The lineage is noticeably lost and it makes the productions slightly hard to view.

Hi Steve! 💛💙💜💚🧡❤

So good to see the place again Wesley! 💛💙💜💚🧡❤

That merchandise has to be worth a fortune now….

Acoustics are everything for the ambient mood created. Most public places like this never even consider acoustics. The afterthought of sound deadening the building brought the cost way up. Probably should have started smaller to work out the kinks of the rides etc. and farther away from Six Flags.

What about Gumby? Those Christmas specials? I remember the California Raisins. There are tons of creators who work on projects, but usually only one gets all the credit: Walt Disney, George Lucas, Gene Roddenberry, Stan Lee, Bob Kane, Jim Henson, Tim Burton, etc.

I remember going down to see it as a kid, but never got to go up. I just remember everyone's parents complaining about how expensive it was. I remember thinking the hanging boxes to muffle sound were box kites.