I went on this as a kid and randomly pushed a bunch of buttons on a podium i thought where fake then got yelled at by an employee. To this day I always blamed my self for killing the triceratops when it closed down the next time I went to universal.
Some friends and I sneaked back into the triceratops encounter back in 2012 and got some cool pictures. Very creepy to see the tv screens in the wait line were still on and of course the broke down dinosaurs. Don't know how we didn't get caught.
OH MY GAWD I was fucking 4 when I went to see this! I wasn't crazy!! I remember seeing this triceratops but none of my friends have ever heard of this encounter. My parents lied to me and told me it was real just to get a kick out of my reaction XD
SCREAMS. i know this is old but i'm not just seeing it. i opened the park, IOA and i was a "veterinarian" actor for triceratops encounter, Cera, Topper and Chris. Aw I miss those horned fools. ANYWAY, it really did break down constantly, mostly after we pushed the urination button and water would mess up the animatronics. which apparently i was told at the time cost a million dollars each to make, some parts coming from nasa. not sure if i believed that. i remember opening the park to VIP's actors, studio heads, etc and i got to spiel for steven spielberg. IT WAS AMAZING, i mean until the triceritops broke down in front of him. awwwkward. eh, at least i got to touch them and pet them lol. it's too bad they couldn't make the attraction work. instead i was sent as an actor to the baby raptors who hatched out of the eggs. RIP Chris, Cera and Topper. you're missed.
no, sadly i don't. i pretty much left a year after IOA opened to go back to school and work my dream career, but i never regret working there and a lot of my friends still work there. what would you like to hear? during one part of the attraction, we asked for a volunteer to come up and pet the triceratops, but it had to be a child. we would fix the gate to have enough room for the child to pet the triceratops's nose and they would pet and while that was happening we had to push the button that made the triceratops sneeze water all over the child. it was kind of funny.
Aww! I thought maybe the dino sneezing would be great to watch! And I'm glad at least the kiddies got to pet them. No I happen to work at Universal now myself and I thought I could hear the story in person. But that's ok. Nowadays they have the Raptor encounter which uses a really cool velociraptor animatronic that can pose, bite, growl, call out and sounds just like in the film. They do mostly photo ops with the raptor and his 'trainer'. It's awesome to hear about the Triceratops though!
you should change the intro for abandoned, make the bright sun entertainment thing look like it was abandoned and make it rot and rust and become darker. idk but just a thought
this is crazy, i remember a question mark on the map and exploring to find it. discovering this was one of the most impressive things that has ever happened to me at a theme park and that's coming from a huge Disney fan
Will always be thankful for going to Universal when the old Jurassic Park was there. I loved all the stuff they had for Jurassic Park. I always remember playing over where they had the dilophosaurus water shooters and so much more
I totally remember going to this in 2000 when I was 10. I have memories of touching the actual animatronic but I could be mixing up memories from something else.
I actually went to the this attraction during a trip to Orlando in 2011 or 2012. I guess it was a brief revival or something. It was just cool to see a vintage attraction that had once been closed.
I love the Bill Paxton comparison. I used to watch one of those extreme engineering shows and it was always "This is ten football fields, and this is 5 Eifffel towers, and this is s a boat with 1000 canaries but only half of them are flying" and they wouldn't say the ACTUAL DISTANCE OR WEIGHT. You know that universal system (well, almost universal).
This attraction was later used in 2002 during Halloween Horror Night 12 Islands of Fear. For the (JP Extinction) scare zone and the haunted walkthrough attraction call "Project Evilution".
This attraction was very special to me. They did in fact add a portion where guests were allowed in to interact with the triceratops. When I was little, before the first closure, I was very upset as I was not tall enough to be selected to go in the pen and interact. After the show the actor held my family back, and between shows let me have a one on one with the triceratops after turning it off as to make it safe for my small stature. Being a small child I was none the wiser and had an amazing experience. So sad to see it go. This video makes the attraction seem lame but I remember it being really impressive and immersive. Of course, I was a dinosaur loving child so maybe my imagination ran wild, but I remember it being cool
Wow, so I was watching one of these Abandoned videos from a couple years ago, and came to this one. Your narrating has improved a lot. (Though I think I'm the only one who liked your non-scripted, colloquial narrations) Awesome video.
Fun fact: there is a triceratops animatronic hanging out in a massive crate at a warehouse off-property. The company is allegedly waiting for it to depreciate in value enough to scrap it someday.
That bit about Dragon Challenge is really unfortunate for Disney. It's THE reason I liked Islands of Adventure over Magic Kingdom. If it was a Disney attraction, as a coaster enthusiast I would actually go there.
@@laneyhesse8102Once the Latin America governments get their acts together and stop selling drugs, etc, I'm sure they would. But everyone knows how likely that is.
I remember going to this, MAYBE 2001. I loved it. BUT i was naughty and kept asking the attendant if it was a robot, while he tried to hush me and tell me it was real ;) BUT very fond memories of this place.
PLEASE DO MCBARGE it's a floating mc Donald's that was a abandoned I don't know if you'll find anything interesting but it would be cool love this series btw
+Delaney B You know, I posted something about that on Twitter but I found a video of two guys actually exploring it. I just think their video is better then what mine could have been
this video brought a memory from a very long time ago. In the 90s, I remember they had an area with the Flintstones houses from the live action movie, Does anyone remembers that? It'll be cool to know what happened to it.
+Elizabeth Tran (wizardkitty1) No you can still go there. My video that was also featured in this one was made after the raptor encounter was made. If you would like to know how to go back there I will gladly respond on the direction.
Before the Triceratops Encounter had been replaced by the Velociraptor Encounter, I wish they had the animatronic triceratops made to look exactly just like the realistic animatronic Triceratops that was made for the Jurassic Park movie. They should've used this piece of the film's concept art to have something to go by media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/5736/8632901_1.jpg
It's dueling dragons, not dragons challenge. I remember waiting in line and right outside the entrance they have two seats so you know what it's like on the ride.
Could you maybe talk about the original Hard Rock Cafe that was inside the Universal Studios Florida theme park? It's gone now but it was definitely abandoned for the longest time.
Ironically, before starting this video, Ybe showed me a commercial for Carmax, a company founded by Circuit City, which on its own is a company the downfall of which is covered by this channel in another video (which I actually watched an hour or so ago). They are all connected. They are watching us! ^^
I had to see the original Jurassic Park twice in a couple days because I fell asleep during the first go around. it must have been a real late night the night before.
I remember going to this attraction back in '02 when I was around 5. I was scared out of my mind! I still hate animatronics to this day lol. Pretty sure my dad has a VHS somewhere of us walking through this exhibit and me crying when we meet the dinosaur.
Awe, I LOVED Islands of Adventure, tbh. Actually, I liked it more than my time at Disney World(don't get me wrong, had a blast there too). Idk, I guess the whole Marvel island area really got me feeling like a kid again. I literally FLIPPED when I got to see the Spiderman actor(not the ACTUAL actor but the guy who dresses up as him in the park) running around in the line. Though, I also went when it was peak season at Disney World, so that probably had to do a lot with the enjoyment since some of the lines were RIDICULOUS(looking at you, 7 Dwarves and your 4hr line). Though only got to do Magic Kingdom and Hollywood Studios since those were the ones my brother and I were most excited about(Pandora wasn't opened yet when I went).
I never knew this closed!!! I'm crushed, it was my favourite bit of my entire Universal trip, it's always been near the top of my list of things to do whenever I get to go back! And it's been closed this whole time! 😭
what I always found that was funny with that attraction was that there was one building that had screaming dinosaurs in it and it said attraction coming soon so it made it seem that there would have been a velociraptor encounter but I think it's just a building that only has sound equipment it, you couldn't open the door.
i remember seeing what I thought was a building behind the velociraptor encounter when I was there and I couldn't figure out what it was since the encounter didn't seem complicated enough to require a building like that for it... now I know. Thx, i wish this was still open, it seams so cool.
I'm sad to hear this closed. Jurassic Park is quite simply a magical place. I went there twice and I hope they keep bringing new attractions together for days to come!
I, too, have an emotional attachment to this attraction. I was one of the kids "lucky" enough to be "sneezed" on by the Triceratops, a memory that is a cornerstone of my childhood. It's so bittersweet watching more recent videos showcasing this now defunct area.
Rest in peace Bill Paxton.
Bright Sun Films. #dicksoutforbill
Died almost exactly one year after this video was posted.
+Essess Nine. Then how come you're here.
I was talking about Bill Paxton. I'm here because I died almost exactly 4 years ago. I'm a ghost.
+Essess Nine. Wot.
I went on this as a kid and randomly pushed a bunch of buttons on a podium i thought where fake then got yelled at by an employee. To this day I always blamed my self for killing the triceratops when it closed down the next time I went to universal.
we blame you too :(
Oof sad... I feel for ur loss by being yelled at...
All your fault
Allison Luis And islam is a religion of peace 👌🏻
Some friends and I sneaked back into the triceratops encounter back in 2012 and got some cool pictures. Very creepy to see the tv screens in the wait line were still on and of course the broke down dinosaurs. Don't know how we didn't get caught.
OH MY GAWD I was fucking 4 when I went to see this! I wasn't crazy!! I remember seeing this triceratops but none of my friends have ever heard of this encounter. My parents lied to me and told me it was real just to get a kick out of my reaction XD
Your parents are EVIL. :)
Cool Story bro.
6 people thought it was :)
+Zoey Lopez Nah I find it pretty cool. It's like when I went to the zoo for the first time and pet a Giraffe!
@@AKUNJIG How is that the same though? Giraffes are real, dinosaurs are not. :p
I got spooked when i saw the animatronic's eye missing
SCREAMS. i know this is old but i'm not just seeing it. i opened the park, IOA and i was a "veterinarian" actor for triceratops encounter, Cera, Topper and Chris. Aw I miss those horned fools. ANYWAY, it really did break down constantly, mostly after we pushed the urination button and water would mess up the animatronics. which apparently i was told at the time cost a million dollars each to make, some parts coming from nasa. not sure if i believed that. i remember opening the park to VIP's actors, studio heads, etc and i got to spiel for steven spielberg. IT WAS AMAZING, i mean until the triceritops broke down in front of him. awwwkward. eh, at least i got to touch them and pet them lol. it's too bad they couldn't make the attraction work. instead i was sent as an actor to the baby raptors who hatched out of the eggs. RIP Chris, Cera and Topper. you're missed.
Aww! That's awesome! btw do you still work at IOA? I'd love to hear more of the story!
no, sadly i don't. i pretty much left a year after IOA opened to go back to school and work my dream career, but i never regret working there and a lot of my friends still work there. what would you like to hear? during one part of the attraction, we asked for a volunteer to come up and pet the triceratops, but it had to be a child. we would fix the gate to have enough room for the child to pet the triceratops's nose and they would pet and while that was happening we had to push the button that made the triceratops sneeze water all over the child. it was kind of funny.
Aww! I thought maybe the dino sneezing would be great to watch! And I'm glad at least the kiddies got to pet them.
No I happen to work at Universal now myself and I thought I could hear the story in person. But that's ok.
Nowadays they have the Raptor encounter which uses a really cool velociraptor animatronic that can pose, bite, growl, call out and sounds just like in the film. They do mostly photo ops with the raptor and his 'trainer'. It's awesome to hear about the Triceratops though!
Which one did you get to touch and pet? The triceratops or Steven Spielberg?
Did you ride my boats at Island Skipper Tours Skipper Sam
Would you do an Abandoned video on a ride that got replaced because I would like to see one on 20,000 leagues under the Sea at WDW
He may be able to do one, considering the fact that he did Horizons, which was replaced by Mission:Space
Stephen Vathakos yes! Excellent suggestion
Stephen Vathakos "UNDER THE SEA UNDER THE SEA. *SMACK* WAIT WAIT! We don't have the license to that song"-SMG4 & Friends episode 1 part 1.
Hey he got to it 8 years later lol
you should change the intro for abandoned, make the bright sun entertainment thing look like it was abandoned and make it rot and rust and become darker. idk but just a thought
Amazing thought!
I like it
Good one! :D
no
this is crazy, i remember a question mark on the map and exploring to find it. discovering this was one of the most impressive things that has ever happened to me at a theme park and that's coming from a huge Disney fan
I DID THIS in 2003 as a KID AND THE TRICERATOPS SNEEZED ON ME. I got COVERED in PROBABLY TOXIC GLUE and EVERYONE LAUGHED. I WAS TRAUMATIZED.
User nope, it was SEAMEN 👌🏻
I thought I was the only one who measured weight in Bill Paxtons.
uhh no?
Sarah The Terminator uhh yes?
Will always be thankful for going to Universal when the old Jurassic Park was there. I loved all the stuff they had for Jurassic Park. I always remember playing over where they had the dilophosaurus water shooters and so much more
I totally remember going to this in 2000 when I was 10. I have memories of touching the actual animatronic but I could be mixing up memories from something else.
we did chose one kid from the audience to come up and touch the triceratops, and then we had to make it sneeze on the child.
I love your abandoned videos, keep up the good work!
128 Bill Paxtons is a lot of Bill Paxton.
+Clay3613 some would say too much Bill Paxton
you can NEVER, I repeat NEVER have to much Bill Paxtons
Too many
Actually too much Bill Paxton is gonna be annoying
R.I.P Bill Paxton
I remember last summer I watched all the abandoned videos, and now I've come back to see more, and I'm definitely pleased!
I actually went to the this attraction during a trip to Orlando in 2011 or 2012. I guess it was a brief revival or something. It was just cool to see a vintage attraction that had once been closed.
Connor Brennan no I think this is the Hollywood version I think the Orlando one is still there.
@@bennettfender1546 Orlando was the only one and it closed.
I love the Bill Paxton comparison. I used to watch one of those extreme engineering shows and it was always "This is ten football fields, and this is 5 Eifffel towers, and this is s a boat with 1000 canaries but only half of them are flying" and they wouldn't say the ACTUAL DISTANCE OR WEIGHT. You know that universal system (well, almost universal).
Was at Universal Studios Hollywood two weeks ago, and they have a very nice Triceratops walking around.
I love these videos so much I rewatch them all the time
Do more abandoned malls or hotels please 😄
I went to see this attraction and loved it when i was a kid.
nobody cares
@@whatclub3934 I hope your day gets better than this.
I would but I can’t because you exist
@@whatclub3934 everything is going to work out.
Lol just because your verified doesn’t mean everybody cares
This attraction was later used in 2002 during Halloween Horror Night 12 Islands of Fear. For the (JP Extinction) scare zone and the haunted walkthrough attraction call "Project Evilution".
i remember watching a popular mechainics for kids episode on this ride. it was really neat. especially for the time. would have been cool to see
This attraction was very special to me. They did in fact add a portion where guests were allowed in to interact with the triceratops. When I was little, before the first closure, I was very upset as I was not tall enough to be selected to go in the pen and interact. After the show the actor held my family back, and between shows let me have a one on one with the triceratops after turning it off as to make it safe for my small stature. Being a small child I was none the wiser and had an amazing experience. So sad to see it go. This video makes the attraction seem lame but I remember it being really impressive and immersive. Of course, I was a dinosaur loving child so maybe my imagination ran wild, but I remember it being cool
I remember the 90's well! I was a teen of the 90's! Awesome video!:)
Wow, so I was watching one of these Abandoned videos from a couple years ago, and came to this one. Your narrating has improved a lot. (Though I think I'm the only one who liked your non-scripted, colloquial narrations) Awesome video.
please do Land of Oz!
Good idea
Caitlyn's Corner omg yes yeahs
Also the entire attraction space was demolished to make for a new attraction call the "Velocicoster" The Apex Predators of all coster🎢.
The Cartoon World would have been amazing! Ah well, better luck next time!
Fun fact: there is a triceratops animatronic hanging out in a massive crate at a warehouse off-property. The company is allegedly waiting for it to depreciate in value enough to scrap it someday.
I've now officially watched every episode of Abandoned
Legend.
That bit about Dragon Challenge is really unfortunate for Disney. It's THE reason I liked Islands of Adventure over Magic Kingdom. If it was a Disney attraction, as a coaster enthusiast I would actually go there.
I remember going to see the triceratops several years ago ! It was so cool !!!!
thumbs up even though it's short cause c'mon who didn't love dinosaurs as much as Jake expresses at the end of the video.
2022 update; the entire thing was completely levelled in 2018 and replaced with the Velocicoaster. The Raptor Encounter still stands though.
Hey Jake, Im a brazilian theme park fanatic who absolutelly fell in love with this series! Keep doing this amazing work dude!
@@laneyhesse8102Once the Latin America governments get their acts together and stop selling drugs, etc, I'm sure they would. But everyone knows how likely that is.
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the resistance community
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I think you meant UNDERTALE fandom, Black OPs fandom, and dabbing.
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woah... never knew dueling dragons/dragon challenge was originally supposed to be at Disney... that would be a much needed thrill ride
I remember going to this, MAYBE 2001. I loved it. BUT i was naughty and kept asking the attendant if it was a robot, while he tried to hush me and tell me it was real ;) BUT very fond memories of this place.
I'm terrified of large animatronics and the thought of being in the same room with this pre- or post-closing paralyzes me with fear.
Same! Took a lot of guts for me to even watch the video!😂
The only animatronics I hate (or am terrified of) are the ones used for Jurassic park. I was nervous while watching the video😖
This haunts my dreams @3:33 FUCK!
FUCK UR RIGHT DAT IS THE DEMON OF ROBOTS! IF IT WAS THAT OR FREDDY THAT WINS BY ALONGSHOT
The Triceratops Encounter was demolished and replaced with the Velocicoaster.
I also remember this attraction as well when I visited in 2000. I also remember it not being much of anything.
You forgot when they opened it briefly during halloween horror nights with the heads removed and hanging in mid air with the spines dangling.
I actually went over to this place when it was abandoned back in spring break 2016.
Love this series! You should do one on the S.S. United States ocean liner!
Whoever thought this was a good idea should be fired from life
Just want to say I love Abandoned!
Ah, yes, the last Abandoned episode under the BSG banner.
Edit: the whole area is now demolished for a new jurassic coaster 😃
You should do a abandoned video about the Astrodome...
I went there about a year ago I found the abandoned triceratops encounter video on my channel there was no triceratops still there
PLEASE DO MCBARGE it's a floating mc Donald's that was a abandoned I don't know if you'll find anything interesting but it would be cool love this series btw
+Delaney B You know, I posted something about that on Twitter but I found a video of two guys actually exploring it. I just think their video is better then what mine could have been
I remember going back around 2001. Pretty bad ass as a kid.
Just looked across today! Really cool they don’t have the dinasours anymore but I took tons of pics
How much do an abandoned Chuck-E-Cheese because they have a shit ton of bad animatronics
this video brought a memory from a very long time ago. In the 90s, I remember they had an area with the Flintstones houses from the live action movie, Does anyone remembers that? It'll be cool to know what happened to it.
omg I was JUST telling my husband about how cool I thought this was not even a week ago! Being a gullible child, I thought it was real haha
do more malls and retail places
My day was made when you featured me ^°^ thank you! (':::
I’m sorry ... but that’s JOLLY’s intro music caught me off guard
Wow so you can't sneak back there to see anything anymore. I miss the triceratops encounter. My son will never know that attraction. :(
+Elizabeth Tran (wizardkitty1) No you can still go there. My video that was also featured in this one was made after the raptor encounter was made. If you would like to know how to go back there I will gladly respond on the direction.
Abandoned just like the original Jurassic Park Island.
it was dueling dragons not dragon challenge
That was damn good!
I thought that this attraction looked fairly impressive back in its day.
I was like, oh cool, I never knew universal owned marv- NOW HOLD ON A SECOND!
Before the Triceratops Encounter had been replaced by the Velociraptor Encounter, I wish they had the animatronic triceratops made to look exactly just like the realistic animatronic Triceratops that was made for the Jurassic Park movie. They should've used this piece of the film's concept art to have something to go by media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/5736/8632901_1.jpg
Jesus, so they had 3 years before the movie, and another 6 years after the movie, and the final product still sucked?? Damn, fire THAT guy.
We need a update now that the park has been rebuilt for the Jurassic World theme
It's dueling dragons, not dragons challenge. I remember waiting in line and right outside the entrance they have two seats so you know what it's like on the ride.
i don't know why i find myself coming back to these videos over and over again! i just find these so interesting
I feel like they could just open the empty triceratops encounter as it is and just label it Jurassic Park 3
No way, they scrapped it. The dinosaur kept dying.
#crying laughing emoji
I saw this before it closed as well. I saw the velociraptor just yesterday. It is much cooler!
In my fictional world, this place never gets abandoned and still successful
Could you maybe talk about the original Hard Rock Cafe that was inside the Universal Studios Florida theme park? It's gone now but it was definitely abandoned for the longest time.
The new Jurassic World, (name unknown) will come out in 2018. Also, this was a very short video.
My grandparents work at Universal Studios. I'll have to see if they can let me find a way to sneak into this place
Ironically, before starting this video, Ybe showed me a commercial for Carmax, a company founded by Circuit City, which on its own is a company the downfall of which is covered by this channel in another video (which I actually watched an hour or so ago). They are all connected. They are watching us! ^^
TBH I'd rather be scared from standing in front of some guy in a raptor costume.
And if anyone is wondering, that was at Universal Studios California.
Dude thank you for putting my Twitter in your video!
I know it's not "abandoned" but I would love to learn more!
I had to see the original Jurassic Park twice in a couple days because I fell asleep during the first go around. it must have been a real late night the night before.
I remember going to the attraction at about 2012.
3:48 the freaking face on that thing is making me terrified
What freaking face?
+Studio 97 the pic before 4:38
+Osita Portillo 3:48*
lol that IG logo needs to visit Defunctland @ 4:55 ...that is an awful logo OMG
I remember going to this attraction back in '02 when I was around 5. I was scared out of my mind! I still hate animatronics to this day lol. Pretty sure my dad has a VHS somewhere of us walking through this exhibit and me crying when we meet the dinosaur.
Oh if Jake only knew what was coming...
Awe, I LOVED Islands of Adventure, tbh. Actually, I liked it more than my time at Disney World(don't get me wrong, had a blast there too). Idk, I guess the whole Marvel island area really got me feeling like a kid again. I literally FLIPPED when I got to see the Spiderman actor(not the ACTUAL actor but the guy who dresses up as him in the park) running around in the line. Though, I also went when it was peak season at Disney World, so that probably had to do a lot with the enjoyment since some of the lines were RIDICULOUS(looking at you, 7 Dwarves and your 4hr line). Though only got to do Magic Kingdom and Hollywood Studios since those were the ones my brother and I were most excited about(Pandora wasn't opened yet when I went).
Rumors state that this ride is now a rollercoaster ehhhem VelociCoaster
Can you do the second floor of the Imagination pavilion in Epcot next?
I never knew this closed!!! I'm crushed, it was my favourite bit of my entire Universal trip, it's always been near the top of my list of things to do whenever I get to go back! And it's been closed this whole time! 😭
Goddamn it, just as soon as Bill Paxton died, I watched this. :(
what I always found that was funny with that attraction was that there was one building that had screaming dinosaurs in it and it said attraction coming soon so it made it seem that there would have been a velociraptor encounter but I think it's just a building that only has sound equipment it, you couldn't open the door.
i remember seeing what I thought was a building behind the velociraptor encounter when I was there and I couldn't figure out what it was since the encounter didn't seem complicated enough to require a building like that for it... now I know. Thx, i wish this was still open, it seams so cool.
I'm sad to hear this closed. Jurassic Park is quite simply a magical place. I went there twice and I hope they keep bringing new attractions together for days to come!
I, too, have an emotional attachment to this attraction. I was one of the kids "lucky" enough to be "sneezed" on by the Triceratops, a memory that is a cornerstone of my childhood. It's so bittersweet watching more recent videos showcasing this now defunct area.
when I was in grade 4 I was OBSESSED with dinosaurs to the point where I was teaching the teacher about Dinosaurs, correcting all their mistakes XD