Cheap effects or not, it was a sense of foreboding. It was darker, smoke was there, and you saw kid after kid come in looking exhausted or crying or something else terrible, and then you went in. "The stage was like coming into a nightmare. Note that when we say the stage was cheap, that doesn't mean it wasn't somewhat traumatizing.
Related: Regis Philbin Was The Most Watched Man On Television 2 Yet It Was Still Fairly Terrifying For A Kid It was all hard foam to look like rocks, and signs out of camera view saying to avoid the dry ice."
It felt like heavy compressed foam and had silver bits that flaked off. The silver monkey ( which no one ever got right ) was even cheaper than you think. on set it was this moving rubber thing that, if you were close enough, you could hear the parts inside moving. However, the tree could occasionally be possessed by the spirit of a temple guard, meaning the trees arms would wrap around you."Olmec, the giant stone head.
Reaching into the right tree's mouth would yield a key and allow access to the next room. The scariest room was The Dark Forest, where the trees had faces and arms. The kids only had three minutes to get in, grab the artifact and get out if they wanted to go to Busch Gardens or Universal Studios in Orlando (which was also where the show as filmed). If a player was dragged away, it was the second kid's turn. Temple Guards could be found hiding in the temple, and they would drag you away if you didn't give them a Pendant of Life, which you won via earlier challenges or found within the temple. Despite the fact that this puzzle only consisted of three pieces, kids sure seemed to have a lot of trouble with the cumbersome parts. For instance, in the Shrine of the Silver Monkey, the player would have to assemble a statue of a monkey. The temple itself was a massive set piece that consisted of multiple rooms, each with a unique physical or mental challenge. I can't really remember if there was a good reason for this-like maybe someone asked them to get it?-or if they were just straight-up stealing it. Here, the team that won the most challenges would be given the opportunity to try to retrieve the artifact in the temple. The best part of the game show was obviously the Temple Run. Of course, he would also conclude his instructions by saying, "The choices are yours and yours alone."
We'll also be seeing Olmec, a talking stone head that was stationed at the entrance of the eponymous hidden temple to give you tips on how to win the game.
We will see a few things from the original TV show, like the Steps of Knowledge, where contestants had to answer a series of trivia questions to make it to the bottom of the stairs and proceed to the next rounds. Instead, it will follow three siblings who have to survive a series of quests.
The Hidden Temple movie won't be a game show. The network also intends to reboot the cartoon Hey Arnold! as a TV movie as well. The movie will be live-action and made for TV, according to Variety. If the kids succeeded in looting the temple, they would win a trip to Space Camp or some other place that's super fun when you're a kid.
The game show involved sending pairs of children in way too much protective gear on an epic quest to steal artifacts out of a temple full of puzzles and extremely problematic, by today's standards, Mayan temple guards who would only leave you alone if you gave them a gold Pendant of Life. Legends of the Hidden Temple is a strange kids' game show that I watched every day that ran on Nickelodeon for three seasons in the mid-90s. Here is some very important news: there is going to be a Legends of the Hidden Temple movie.