100 Facts About Classic 1990s Attractions at Universal Studios Florida
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2024
- / themeparkstop When Universal Studios Florida opened 30 years ago, nothing worked! But soon after, the 1990s became a golden age for rides and attractions in Orlando. Here are 100 facts about 10 defunct attractions at the park, (plus a few bonus things too).
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Intro 0:00
Kongfrontation 0:34
Earthquake 2:01
JAWS 3:33
Hanna-Barbera 5:33
Nickelodeon 7:24
Ghostbusters 9:05
Back to the Future 10:56
Alfred Hitchcock 13:10
Murder She Wrote 14:47
Prod. Tour & More 16:08
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1990's Video Footage: / robfuz
Official Press Footage: • 1990 Universal Studios...
Souvenir VHS Footage: • Universal Studios Flor...
Universal Studios Florida Behind the Scenes: • Video
USF Promotional Materials: themousemuseum.com/universal-...
Additional Sources
Earthquake
Exterior Wide Shot: • Universal Orlando | Ex...
Updated 2002 Version: • Earthquake Universal S...
Disaster Footage: • Disaster! | Universal ...
JAWS
Music/Sound Only: • JAWS Ride, soundtrack ...
Original JAWS Ride: • 1990 Universal Studios...
JAWS Last Day: • Jaws Farewll Ride From...
1992 Opening Sign: / 1248273232874090497
Hanna-Barbera
Preshow: • The Funtastic World of...
Rocket Clip: • Hanna-Barbera "Rocket"...
Sullivan Bluth Studios: • sullivan Bluth Video
Life of Pi VFX: • Life of Pi VFX Breakdown
Nicktoon Blast Ride: • Jimmy Neutron's Nickto...
Nickelodeon
Opening Day: • Nickelodeon Studios Op...
Time Capsule Video: • Footage of 1992 Nickel...
Nick Hotel Commerical: • Nickelodeon Suites Res...
Time Capsule Photo: thekingdominsider.com/the-nic...
Additional Photos: / 737774281376030725
Clarissa Explains it All: • Clarissa Explains It A...
Welcome Freshmen: • Welcome Freshmen (Nick...
My Brother and Me: • Video
All That: • All That Premiered 25 ...
What Would You Do: • What Would You Do? - I...
Legends of the Hidden Temple: • The Cannonball of Gali...
Guts: • Nickelodeon Guts Intro
Ghostbusters
Movie Clips: • Who You Gonna Call: A ...
Spooktacular 2nd Version Show: • Ghost busters show Uni...
Extreme Ghostbusters Beetlejuice Show: • Extreme Ghostbusters: ...
Back to the Future
Countdown Clock: / 1249100775311036416
Concept Art: www.slashfilm.com/back-to-the...
Behind the Scenes: • The Making of Back To ...
Ride Film HD: • Video
Ride Remastered: • Back to the Future the...
Ride Rough Cut: • Back to the Future: Th...
Hitchcock
Film Portion: • Universal Studios Alfr...
Birds Footage: • Universal Studios Flor...
Behind the Scenes: www.fullecirclemagazine.com/2...
Murder She Wrote
Full Show: • Murder She Wrote Myste...
Hercules/Xena: • Hercules & Xena - WIZA...
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What was your favorite attraction at the park back then?
Back to The Future
Kongfrontation. 💯
I miss Twister 😥
Back to the future was my favorite, but looking back now as an adult, Kongfrontation was amazing. But as a little kid it was terrifying lol 😅
KONG, JAWS, BTTF, EARTHQUAKE. ALL OF IT :)
1:31 Universal was SO much cooler when they used giant animatronics instead of giant movie screens.
I feel like a mix of the two is best.
King Kong is a solid example.
That Transformers ride was hyped up so much, it's just an endless series of 1080p projectors and spinning carts, and it's boring even if you are on psychedelic drugs. (Fast and Furious sucks, but I will say it was pretty hilarious on a couple grams of shrooms)
100% agree.
@@23mxktransformers really isn’t that bad. It’s not spider-man great, but it’s definitely not F&F supercharged bad.
I know right
I miss Back to The Future so much..
We all do. We all do.
For real
I crawled out on the hood and looked down only to find I was 5 stories up, I quickly got back to my seat. It was a large room with a massive screen with cars 5 stories up and 10 cars wide per story.
@@ThemeParkStopyummy
@@hulkdestroy8462yummy
Never knew jaws was redone.
And I still tear up a bit when people talk about nick studios, Such a unique part of a theme park.
Amazing video, wow the nostalgia, I'm from the UK and 1st went in 1992, then 93, 94, 97, 99 and so few more times after, I have not been for a long long time and all the rides I loved have gone :( Still cannot believe they got rid of Jaws, I loved that whole fun area as well as the ride, the heart of Universal has sure gone.
So many great attractions. I loved Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, and Jaws
This is so incredible! I remember all of those rides, and they were all such a big part of my childhood! Great video!
:)
I love 90's & early 2000's Universal Studios Florida. I have seen & researched much about Back To The Future The Ride & had no idea about the alternate ending with manure falling on Biff
I have fond memories of all these rides. King Kong was my favorite. So was the Alfred Hitchcock tour. I remember being disappointed when they changed the ghostbusters show to hardly show the ghostbusters until the end. On a side note, I was almost hit by the studio tram on two occasions. The guy yelled at me too!
Bruhhhh... tell me how at 3:25 I see my uncle in the red shirt wtf!! Small ass world & great timing
Whooaaaa!
Except for the tram tour I have done and seen all these rides. I'm glad I have lived those memories but I'm also glad the park isn't a museum and love the current attractions.
I’ve been to Jaws, and a few other OG’s attractions. I love Universal Studios but I do miss the old attractions. ❤️
I love a lot of your videos but this has to be def one of my all time favorites from you! So much nostalgic memories for me and so many others growing up with not just the park but also Nick and it’s shows that were filmed there. As a former guide, Mummy attendant, and scare actor, I got to learn so many nods and historical things about the parks that I love to share with people and this helps just add on to that! Thx again and keep up the amazing work and please, make this a more normal thing where you cover historical rides in theme parks. Not asking you to be like other RUclips channels out there already but the way you present stuff is amazing! Thx again!
Thank you so much for this reply! I’m so happy you enjoyed this style of video. I’m thinking of sprinkling in a few other closed attractions here and there in the future as well.
@@ThemeParkStop Lol, no thank you! As a creator, it takes alot of work to do what you do and to do it well is even more a challenge and you pull it off in spades! Thanks for replying and def looking forward to any and all videos you put out but of course, anything like this is a great addition to your content! ^_^
@@lightningwu Might I say thank _you_ for your role at the park! I would love to hear some memories from the other side (as in not an attendee ) . You were a part of some people's fondest memories, that has to feel pretty damn cool.
You gave me so much ideas for epic universe and I can’t wait all the ride are gonna be their thx
I think there is one fact that we all know, the classic 90’s Universal rides absolutely beat the crap out of the boring screen rides we have at Universal today.
The jaws flames were so hot it was crazy
This video was SO GOOD! My first visit to Orlando was post Hogsmeade but pre Diagon Alley, so this is so cool to see a brief history of the original park! Thanks Alicia!
This was incredible to watch, Universal has grown so much and it's wonderful to see the roots of the opening day park. Thank you for sharing all these facts with us!
Glad you liked it!
This is a BRILLIANT video! Thanks for putting this together.
I really enjoyed this. Thanks!
Thank you for all the work you do ❤️
You’re very welcome! Thanks.
This is quickly becoming my favorite theme park channel
I work at universal and what do I do on my days off . Watch your you tube on Universal . Love it
Same!
Same here. Anyone from Hollywood?
I can imagine a clone of Kongfrontation but with a Godzilla theme that takes guests on a bullet train roller coaster ride through Tokyo, Japan where they’ll come face to face with the greatest movie monster of all time and the King of the Monsters himself, Godzilla!
A great nostalgic trip. Thanks this was awesome!
When Universal was an actual studio!
Awesome video, very interesting and informative! 😁🔥🔥
Great video! I went to Universal a lot in the 90s and early 2000s! Brought back a lot of memories 😊👍🏻
What a great video! Nice work getting all the facts and footage together. I recently did a video on Nickelodeon so I especially enjoyed that bit. Funtastic World was my first Universal ride and I loved it. 💖
Good video! I especially love the thumbnail. I was obsessed with Clarissa Explains it All back in the day.
Theme Park Stop thank you so much! Clarissa is definitely an icon.
@@LaurensTravels She totally inspired me to get into coding. She made making your own computer game seem so much fun!
I love this so much! So many good memories!
Another TPS video! Keep them coming! Proud to be a patron!
Awesome! Thank you so much!
This video brings me so much joy!! We never made it there when I was a kid and I vowed to go as often as I could when I could afford it as an adult. Have been going every year since 2010! So fun to see what was there before 🌟
Great Video! Very Interesting! Take Care & Have An Awesome Week!
Excellent video! The nostalgia hits hard whenever Nick Studios comes up. I was lucky enough to have been the right age at the right time, and raised in Florida. The Back to the Future ride was AMAZINGLY cool, I had NO idea it was all tangible ! The craftsmanship was so well done. E.T was really cool too, you got to ride a "flying" bike through that one and visit E.T's home planet! I never got to go on Jaws because it was broke down literally every time we went. And the one time I went on King Kong, it broke down and we had to exit the ride vehicles and walk out an exit door. I remember looking up at the _massive_ king kong animatronic and being pretty freaked out lol
But Nick Studios was the highlight. Even though in retrospect, they could have made it WAY cooler for a kid (there was alot of production talk and technical stuff for some reason) It was still the place where Nickelodeon *came* *from* and that was fascinating and awesome .
Take me back!!!! Man i miss it. Some really good memories going to Universal studios in the 90s as a kid
RobFuz is awesome! My favorites on this list are Nick Studios and Jaws. Nick Studios was a one of a kind place and it's a shame it closed. Theme Park Stop was recorded in front of a live studio audience in Nickelodeon Studios at Universal Studios Florida
Thanks Pal! :) You Rock!!!!
I felt so sad because I recently got my Nephew into GUTS and he's like "Auntie, when can we go there so I can try out?" And I tried to explain to him that it's not there anymore :( He didn't really get it, and I'm not going to bring it up again.
Awesome video, interesting and informative, plus fantastic narration too 😊
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. 😊
@@ThemeParkStop And to answer your pinned question - Back to the Future The Ride was THE reason why I decided, having been denied the opportunity to visit USF on a school trip when I was 14 (parents couldn't afford it), to knuckle down, study hard, and get the exam grades I needed to do an engineering apprenticeship when I left school in 1993 so that I could earn enough momey to take myself there one day...it took until 2004 to realise that dream but I went on the ride over and over during that holiday and it didn't disappoint. So yeah, you could say that Back to the Future The Ride made me the man, and engineering manager, I am today so it will always have a special place in my heart ♥️
I remember all of these attractions! I also remember being able to drive right up to the front gate before City Walk and Islands of Adventure.
Thank you so much for this video! I learned so much! Some of these facts I didn’t even know!
Awesome, that’s what I was hoping to hear!
90s Universal Studios will always be the best.
Loved this!
Universal bring back that night show, holy crap!!!!
I know, right!?
Great job, Alicia!
I worked at Jaws when the park opened, drove the first Jaws boat. This is pretty spot-on, we had problems for about a year until the ride shut down for good. The bit about Spielberg stuck on the ride is false, tho. I actually took Spielberg on the ride in 92, so he could check it out and see what he wanted to change - prep for the reversion of the ride with all the fire and the Jaws 2 finish. The original ride was by far the best....when it worked. Had the time of my life there, worked from 90 - 93. After Jaws shut down for rebuilding, I worked at all the other rides, then Kong for about a year. Kong rocked, so much better than the current version. The look on people's faces when it dropped the first time was awesome.
Just Subscribed To Your Channel By The Way! U Convinced Me!
Miss a lot of these attractions! I love old Universal Studios Florida
Awesome Job! Thank You So Much For Including My Footage!
Thank you so much for allowing me to include your awesome footage! And for being a filmmaker on your vacations in the early ‘90s!
@@ThemeParkStopHAHA Your Welcome :). I was an inspiring film maker! :)
@@RobFuz Awesome job Rob!
That’s actually extremely brilliant how they made the BTTF ride. Never thought it was all stop motion and real sets 😱
I miss back to the future, Kongfrantation, and jaws. Earthquake was good too. Thanks for the video. 👍🏾✌🏾
I know this is HHN, but I think they should take the Ghostbusters house from 2019, and make that a permanent attraction. Like they had a permanent Walking Dead maze in Hollywood (Idk if its still there)
These were the best rides there! I miss them so much
I'm just glad that King Kong returned to Universal Orlando even if it was in a new form 🦍
I’m too young to have experienced this but now I sure wish I had! 😭
I still love universal studios today though 💙
So many memories... these were truly great experiences, even if half of them scared the hell outta me as a kid.
I’ll be honest, part of me was relieved that JAWS was already closed when I went in 1990. I was so scared to ride that one! Luckily I was braver by the time it finally opened again in 93.
Holy shit! At 7:57, my mom and step dad are standing in front of the Nickelodeon geyser! Wow, what are the odds?
Whoooaaa! That’s pretty crazy
Amazing as a tean member for many years i love these facts
I was scared as hell from king Kong as a kid LoL
I can still smell his breath 🤣
When I went on JAWS in 1990, the shark bit the boat's back left corner and shook the boat.
1997 and 2001
I love the first few years of USF. Great Memories.
Wow 90s universal studios was amazing. I wish I would have got to go
Nick and Disney were my shows back in the days. ❤
Just glad we got Quake in there!
Don Messick will always be Scooby Doo to me. Frank Welker is Fred!
I know I know, but “Fred Jones” doesn’t have the same ring to it as Scooby Doo. He has been playing Scoob for like 18 years now after all... Shoulda said Nibbler instead now that I think about it!
THIS VIDEO RULES !!! 👍
I actually miss the Earthquake/Disaster and ride. Twister too! They looked slightly dated, but the concepts were pretty cool. Very innovative of Universal!
Aww i wish the Back to the Future ride was still there. I only got to ride it once when i was 8 and i had my eyes closed half the time cause i was scared 😭🤣
With the way they do with 3d now, imagine how great Back To The Future would look
Like learning about stuff like this ❤
#DisneyDiva ❤
The Diagon Alley section of the Wizarding World Of Harry Potter was replaced by the Jaws ride.
Please do a video about the scrapped and unbuilt rides and attractions for Universal Studios Florida!
Thanks Alicia Stella my favorite ride when I was up is Kong jaws and earthquake and i,remember all the old tv show really good times
Late 90s early 2000s Universal was the absolute best
Does anyone know the name of the brass band that was shown at starting 16:17?
old universul attraction look way batter then nowadays miss non screen original attraction😥
I'm from LA and never went to Orlando in the 90s..only Hollywood looks pretty cool 😎 we didn't have Hanna Barbera ride .or Ghostbusters..that jaws ride looks awesome
“Didja spot the Murderer? Because chances are..he SAW YOU!”
I was there a lot as a kid, me and my brother rode this “ride” or attraction, and I have no idea what it is called, I have been searching for years. You sat in seats and watched an animatronic old man talk about history of what I don’t remember, but he would talk about a year of certain history and then the ride would rotate and there would be another same old man, talking about other stuff in history. This was insane, cause we went back the next day, and the ride was no where to be found. Idk if it was a glitch in the matrix or it actually existed. I have been searching for years.
Note - the full shark (and tow fin & yellow sub vehicle is from Jaws 4 - The Revenge. - There is no shark from Jaws 3-D in the boneyard - 17:05 (the posted sign is incorrect)
Jaws 1.0 ...what a time!
What were they thinking with the guts explosion and the boat biting!?!
I want to go on the twister ride at Walt Disney world in Orlando Florida.
Ah man I wish I had a privileged childhood and got to ride these rides. Would have loved the Hannah barbera tour with the Flintstones
Bruh I’m 15 and I wish there was a time machine to go back to 1990
Hahaha 😂
It was so much better
That laurel & hardy lookalike duo is blowing my mind
1:15 Weird that the buildings were modeled after the Lower East Side considering that the Roosevelt Island Tram is In MidTown Manhattan at 67th Street, I believe...the neighborhood is mostly tall office buildings
Weirdly they seem to have modeled most of the sets after 1970s representations, like from the remake maybe? At least the bridge is there. But not much else makes too much sense.
Back when the rides were actually unique, different, and interesting. I wish I was old enough back then to experience this. Now all they have is basically the same rides with a different look.
Where did you get your logo from?
Re Kongfrontation. Apparently, for what’s worth, Universal Orlando were the largest user of artificial banana scent in the US.
I believe it!
I miss the rides Jaws and jussica park
I think the puppets made for the ghostbusters show were made by the chiodo brothers they directed killer clowns from outer spacer
That explains why they're so awesome!!!
I hope they never close ET! Still crying over the BTTF ride closure :(
In to know when did universal introduce rugrats and Spongebob characters to the USF family of characters
I wonder if ET has some kind of contract to keep it running forever? Lol only time I get on it at the park is when it’s raining and it’s a short wait time which is usually is
There is a rumor that Steven Spielberg has some say over the Orlando park and won't let them get rid of the ride
It does. Spielberg threw a fit when the Hollywood version closed and threatened to never make another movie for Universal again if ET was taken out in Florida. He basically has a gun to their heads.
My fav old attraction at the park is nickelodeon studios
Where e.t? I know it was a only opening still here today but it should be here
This video only has defunct attractions, but ET has its own video! ruclips.net/video/tWNheJX_qEM/видео.htmlsi=GqDaZl0oPh9H0gUC
Why did you only mention the ET Adventure at the end, It deserved its own segment! Also, you entirely omitted the Wild, Wild West Stunt Show and the Horror Makeup Show!!!
This video was only talking about closed attractions, so since ET and Horror Make Up are still open, they weren’t included. BUT, there is a whole 10 Facts about ET video on the channel, check it out! Also, I’m saving Wild, Wild, Wild West Stunt Show for a future video!
@@ThemeParkStop Oh, I thought you were listing the Uni attns that were there on Opening Day in 1990.
Earthquake
I was there on opening day, we ended up getting a refund because none of the attractions were working. We did see stars there like Bill Cosby, Craig T Nelson, Jerry Van Dyke, and even Steven Spielberg said hello to us. It's amazing how much the park is nothing like it was that day.
Can we get a 10 Facts about Big Thunder Mountain Railroad?
Oooooh, I like that idea!
Me and my buddy just went to Universal Florida just yesterday and now every ride you sot in some dumb cart and watch a screen w 3d glasses, every ride. It's ao lame. I tried to explain how bad ass this place use to be and we watched you tube videos at night and I showed him all these classic attractions. He was like wtf that looks awesome. Make Universal Studios great again!
I was a year late for jaws :(