Yesterworld: Nickelodeon Studios Florida: The Beginning & End of an Era
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- The rise & fall of the now abandoned Nickelodeon Studios Orlando Florida, the source of 1990's nostalgia for many.
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I went to Nickelodeon Studios in Florida in 2002 and stood in line for Slime Time Live for like 3 hours just to be on the show. I was the 30th kid in line out of 30 kids they allopwed. And then lo and behold, due to technical difficulties, Slime Time Live was cancelled that day. I turn 27 tomorrow and I'm still bitter as hell.
zeldafreak701 lol
Oh that must suck.
Rip
Sorry to hear that.
Yeah Fuck Nickelodeon!!!
My sister and I grew up in Orlando (90s teens) We made friends with some of the cast of All That through doing background extra work through a talent agency. We were invited to come to a few tapings of the show and it was always so much fun watching the musical guests perform. Also, getting schooled by Keenan on street fighter in the green room was pretty awesome. RIP 90s Nick.
Nick still films a lot of shows in Orlando. My daughter used to watch "Every Witch Way," which is filmed there. Most of the cast are all from Miami (my daughter is friends with one of them). I don't know if they STILL do it now, but they did up until just a few years ago. If you watch Nick, many of the advertisements for products are also filmed in Central Florida too.
I don't really get why Nickelodeon hasn't been more successful lately... it's not that Disney XD is better, or anything... I think kids are just harder to market to since they don't all watch cable anymore.
I am so jelly, Jesse V. I always wanted to go to Orlando, but never got the chance. It's so sad how Nickelodeon ended up these days. I really miss the 90s Nick.
That is literally the coolest story I’ve ever heard. Can’t believe you got to meet Kenan. Nickelodeon Kenan and Kel, All That, and Good Burger meant so much to my childhood
Tinker Bell same
The end of the studio ended the old network we knew and love.
Now they have a new one but not with universal studios cuz they dont want to ake the fans look.....i have no words
Along with Spongebob's downfall starting that year
not true
Nickelodeon will always have a place in my heart, I don't like it at all today it's gone downhill but I'll always remember it as it was in the 90's and early 2000's
I always wonder if I were a kid today, how would I feel about Nickelodeon as it's currently presented? Like you, the 90's/early 2000's of Nick were such a huge part of my life...so did I outgrow Nick, or did Nick outgrow me?
Yesterworld Entertainment hmm... Never thought about it that way.
Personally, I absolutely loved Spongebob growing up, and still can watch the older eps and laugh out loud...the newer ones, not so much (I've tried). But I just can't tell if it's my getting older, or the quality itself. I suppose it's the chicken/egg debate.
Yesterworld Entertainment I agree! I can still watch the old ones, and I've watched some of the newer ones and unfortunately the material just isn't fresh, the jokes aren't funny and it seems like the show tries to hard to be weird or relate to modern youth. That's what I got from it...lol
Yesterworld Entertainment I loved ren and stimpy growing up even trying to protest when the crtc wanted to pull them from much music. Now save for a few spongebob I'm with you guys.
This is the first Nickelodeon history video that didn’t even mention spongebob
But I did use a quick clip ;)
May 1, 1999 (pilot episode)/July 17, 1999 (regular run) to be exact...
Failed to mention pedophile Brian Peck! A nick writer. Umm wonder why?
seth smith spongebob doesn't count. True 90s kids don't think of spongebob as a 90s show.
Yeah I noticed it!
Related story, I was the opening chef of the Nickelodeon Hotel. We had our grand opening shortly before Nick Studios closed. I got a call up from someone in their facilities department that we could have their two large industrial Hobart floor mixers that they had used to make their slime, whipped cream, etc for years. It caught us off guard because there was no relationship between the hotel and the Studios or UO (other than the resort licensing the Nick name and characters and much of the opening staff, like me, came from UO).
So, we rented a box truck, drove through the UO backlot and onto the soundstage floor. They loaded them in with forklifts (these things weigh about a half a ton each). What was weird is there were still sets up for whatever was last filmed there. However, there seemed to be a lot of work crews actively taking down lights and equipment.
It was an uncomfortable feeling, as everything seemed to be happening real fast and the Nick employees I encountered seemed understandably deflated. I was given only two days to pick up the mixers or they would have been disposed of. When I showed up with the truck to pick them up, the Facilities person I had just spoken to the day before had already been laid off. Really sad.
Anyways, we ended up not keeping the Nick Studio machines as we already had a mixer that met the resort's needs. Our F&B director traded them to a local high-end bakery for a year's worth of product.
Well at least someone came out like a bandit there!
Hey Randy! I worked at the Nickelodeon Hotel and was there for the grand opening! I worked in the Nicktoons Cafe at the character breakfast! Those were some great times! :)
Randy Chapman awesome
Imagine eating a cake that's batter was mixed by the same machine that made the iconic Nickelodeon slime.
Have either of you checked out Defunctland's video on the Nickelodeon Hotel?
I'm watching this video at my desk in the new Nick building in Burbank. Great video! I really wish I had worked at Nick during that era, in that building. The late 80s/early 90s Memphis style studios really enhanced the feeling that cartoons were being made there, by being cartoonish themselves.
Jess Iglehart that's so cool that you work at nick! I want to work there one day to make my own series
Jess Iglehart make a 90s nick marathon for everyone
I know this was 5 years ago, but if you can.. what's it like working in the building in California? Is it animated and have character? I always heard employees in Orlando say it truly felt like working in a kid's network. I just hope that environment isn't gone and replaced with contemporary/minimalist offices.
All I remember is seeing the commercials for it on TV and how much I wanted to go there. I always wanted to be put on one of their games shows. 90s Nick was the best.
Kayla Grimm
Tell me about it, being on Legends of the Hidden Temple was my dream and now it’s crushed.😢😢😞😞😞😞
WILD AND CRAZY KEEEEEEEEEEEDS
The old bumpers were the best
I went here but it must have just been the tour because it was awful, at least to 6 year old me. I wanted to be on TV or at least meet someone I saw on TV but it was a dark studio of disappointment. This was 1996. I didn't even recognize anything from all the shows I watched at the time. I remember leaving thinking this must have just been almost like a fake set just used for tours to make guests think they were at the real location they recorded at or something. I didn't understand I just went on a tour and wasn't at a live recording. I recall them calling people up to try out some gameshow stuff and I was looking around like 'this isn't how double dare works, wtf is this BS?' and the rest of the tour made me think the same.
being born in 2002, i was not around for nickelodeon’s heyday, but I was around for the aftermath of the 90s. a lot of the bright colors and specific animation styles of the 90s really resonated with me, and the whole aesthetic that nickelodeon studios had feels like a universally nostalgic thing. I wish that I could say i have memories at the studio, but I only went once in 2004, and not only was it all but completely dead at that point, i was also too young to remember it. I think back on nickelodeon studios with a fondness, though, and a longing for an era that i wasnt fortunate enough to have been able to experience in its fullest.
also, i was in the studio audience for one of the last episodes of splat. i fully intend to look through all of the episodes until i can find a little baby me in the audience.
Trust me. I was a 90's kid threw the entire decade. It was an amazing time. But at least we have youtube for those memories.
2000's for me were mostly a bust. 90's were like the second 50's. Nothing relatively terrible was going on. So much shit was targeted to kids and they really understood what we liked. Kids don't like really kiddie stuff. We wanted a little edge, but not too much, where it would go over our heads or be a bummer. That was how it was. It wasn't just kid stuff either. TV in general was good. I mean yeah, today we have some really good shows that are almost like movies and better than what we grew up with, but there are so few of them. I remember Discovery Channel having a show called Movie Magic, where they showed behind the scenes stuff and how they did effects. There were more nature shows. Movies coming on cable often had a host that added more to the experience, especially Joe Bob Briggs. I'd stay up late and sneak to watch a scary movie with him hosting and making jokes before a commercial break. So much good shit.
Then the 00's broke, and 9/11 happened. MTV was already starting to suck in the late 90's. I became 13 in 2000, which meant the end of childhood. I hated my teens. I dealt a lot with mental illness, but at least that shit went away in my late teens... but culture still sucked.
Now, finally, in the 10's, we have better access to the old stuff. We have TH-cam, which has a similar kind of variety. Even though a lot of people are complaining, there is still tons of good content on here. Also, nerd culture is acceptable now. I'm really liking this decade.
MacGuffin yup
@@MacGuffinExMachina2000’s was a great era for kids, “kids” being what this video is about, not society as a whole lol.
A 90s baby/2000’s kid EASILY had some of the best media & entertainment growing up.
Also a great balance of evolving technology & not being fully dependent on it.
I never got to go there, but being a kid in the 90's gave me the chance to see it on TV a lot. And I did get to experience Slime Time Live over the phone. They put a kid in the chair to be slimed and put the phone number on the screen to call in. I begged my grandma to call and she did. I got to answer the trivia question or whatever it was, and when I got the correct answer, the kid got slimed. So at least I can say some kid got slimed thanks to me.
Lowgean... wow, I forgot all about that bit. Thanks for bringing it back!
Lowgaen Schmidt i went for the first and only time in 2004 a year before the studio was close.
Being more an 80's kid, I think the only cared to see the earlier stuff done at the studios like Clarissa Explains It All or Guts.
Christopher Sobieniak my mom was a 80's kid
raiden stark Glad to know!
My entire childhood was obsessing over Nickelodeon. I got to visit and take the tour in 2000. A dream come true. It's sad to just see the building sit there today.
I was actually there to see Foster The People at Hard Rock Cafe and after the show I went to the bathroom in the building near the back of the Hard Rock Cafe and there's still a green slime logo on the bathroom tile! Fun little easter egg.
michaelthebishop pumped up kicks
It would cost.too much to D's file the floor to remove the slime files so they kept it as a puddle of green liquid is not trademarked and it still fits with the show currently there.
michaelthebishop what was there before
I remember a time when a commercial said, “Doug! The ONLY Nicktoon that doesn’t begin with the letter R!”
lol, never thought of that.
Real Monsters starts with an Aaahh!!! though ;-)
JK that was after Rugrats, Ren $ Stimpy and Rocko... the wonder years of Nick!
Technically, Ren and Stimpy is called "The Ren and Stimpy Show" which starts with a T...
"The" is skipped for alphabetization purposes, it starts with an R.
Ren and Stimpy Show, The
Um, Spongebob and Invader Zim?
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The last tour given was April 30th, not April 20th.
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I went to the studio in 1995 and 2000. I took the tour and got to play in the game lab. I didn’t get pick to get slimed due to being 16 and in 11 grade. I now live in LA and going to school for entertainment business management and hop to get an internship next year and become a full time employee.
It's okay. I was in middle school when I went and it seemed like they would always pick elementary age kids. I was so disappointed.
Yunaton F Langhirt they should have let all ages get slimed
Yunaton F Langhirt probably one of their biggest mistakes was not including all ages in all activities
I think it should be everyone under 18 to be slimed
Which is weird to me considering that they seemingly used a lot of kids in the age group of 12-14 (Junior High) for their game shows.
Both my parents worked there and it’s where they both met I️ have grown up on the sound stage and saw some cool sets,, very sad to se it go
Captain Underpants you were really lucky.
Captain Underpants Damn you must have great memories. To be honest kind of jealous. Lol
😱
U lucky lucky! You are really a"Nick Baby"!
Wish I could've seen or visited this place back in the day
ThisIsNotHarvey i did for my birthday it was fun
ThisIsNotHarvey
Tell me about it this seems so sad to me that the place is pretty much abandoned.😞😞😞😞
It was an awesome place, it's too bad you missed out on it.
dracofirex
Yeah, I may have never went there myself but they had awesome shows on then, it couldn’t get any better than that.
dracofirex I live In Georgia so I could could have made it to Nick studios in like 2 hours, but I was pretty young during is last years😢
Great video. But thatd not the full story. Nick Studios could've been saved. It was never on the decline at all, until Nick moved away all their shows. The main reason Nick Studios closed was bc Herb Scannell hated Florida. Nick Studios could've been saved. But Herb hated the weather in Florida, and hated always having to constantly travel there from LA. So he moved all his shows from there, and brouggt them to California. And he didn't renew the contract with Universal Orlando. There was opposition through. Marc Summers fought with the executives to keep Nick Studios open, and bring Double Dare back there. And that's when Marc Summers left Nickelodeon for good. So he probably got fired. Marc has even said that he tried to get a new reboot of Double Dare made just a few years ago, but the people at nickelodeon "hate him," and "want nothing to do with him." Marc also said that when he was producing Double Dare 2000, it was a nightmare, bc there were a bunch of execs who "had no clue what they were doing," and were meddling with the format in every way possible. Like he wanted to go back to original format of 2 kids per team, but they wanted to do a reboot of Family Double Dare. And a bunch of other stuff that made it an unpleasant experience.
I WANT MY SLAW!! Hate Marc summers? He seems like the nicest guy on earth
Didn’t Marc do the double dare reunion special last year?
Amy Capen right?!! Lol
Amy, if you think Mark is a straight up nice guy - you should see this clip of him insulting Burt Reynolds WIFE - TO HIS FACE. th-cam.com/video/8X-L8z52v4M/w-d-xo.html
I WANT MY SLAW!! Good to know. But for some reason most of my friends and I never liked that show. We missed can’t do that on tv and are you afraid of the dark. As well as the cartoons.
When Nickelodeon had more than 3 cartoons.
mfchimichanga and when they had live-action shows that were actually good.
And when spongebob wasn't the only show that aired
Abby Collins I never get spongebob
GamingKoalaFabian wat
They started with 3, ironically...
It's almost blurry... all I remember is the Jimmy Neutron ride as a kid. I can remember the pre-show and getting in my ship for the ride. How I miss that ride. Hell, I just miss being at that park. My family hasn't been able to afford a vacation like that since I was a little boy.
ZTVProductions Hah, Jimmy Neutron. Before that it was originally The Funtastic World of Hannah Barbara. Same type of ride, but the animation and humor were top notch.
I miss the jimmy neutron ride, that was my first ride I ever rode at universal
Now is the minions
Rip
I also recall Jimmy Neutron ride, My fav!
I was there in the audience for a taping of Slime Time Live in 2003 I think. My sister actually participated in one of the games. I remember that they were they had a lot of skits about "what if"s, so if anyone has clips with those types of jokes, I might be in the background somewhere.
Very Cool! Even in it's later days, I would have loved to see Nick studios FL in person.
I have pictures when I went as a child. Sure miss the live taping.
Fuck, this is depressing.
90's and early 2000's were the best years of Nickelodeon 😭😭😭😭😪
I was able to visit there summer of 1997. I remember it fondly. Met kenan and kel. I was 11 years old. RIP 90s nick.
What I don't understand is why they didn't just create another Nickelodeon Studios in Universal California to avoid all of Florida's operations being relocated to a studio. They could've done the same exact thing that they did in Florida in California.
I've wondered the same thing.
Right that's how I feel. It was like a complete sell out. I feel that if they wanted a place out in California so bad, then they needed to start from the ground up just like Florida. Make your own shows and tapings. What a very sad down fall. Almost as bad as blockbuster.
I don't know why they moved to Cali in the first place. They were doing just fine in Florida.
zeldafreak701 Heard that some of the actors wanted to stay in Cali instead of FL.
It's odd they simply didn't want to run it the same way as before. It's like the network's gotten a little too high on the horse and simply couldn't get off.
Man, coming back to all this really brings back precious memories, this was where all the amazing stuff was and it made so many dreams for me but now it's gone and my dreams of visiting are crushed, I was so devastated when I first found out about this, it's so sad I wish Nickelodeon Studios was still here, it'll be in my heart...always.😞😞😞😞😞
"it's Jake Lloyd from star wars the phantom menace!!"
I hope he enjoyed it while it lasted
I was part of a group of kids picked to be in the G.A.S games and sports shorts that where played between episodes on Nickelodeon. It was a winter themed show, they had us playing hockey and build a snowman competition. The host was a guy named Matty I think. I remember it being so fun, but it literally took all day and we didn't end up doing anything in universal studios that day. My parents still have a VHS tape of the episode at their house!
God I watched that channel on repeat during my summers as a kid.
I visited the studio, starting in the mid-late '90s right up until it's closure as a kid. The description that visitor gave about the tour was exactly how I as a kid felt about it, having been a huge fan of the live action shows/game shows that were filmed there. I was too young at the time to realize I could have been a part of them, so when I heard the studio was shutting down production on the few shows they still filmed there in 2003 I made it my mission to at least get into the audience of slime time live. I stood in line all day with my dad, and was able to get in to see the show. Not only that, but I was picked from the audience to be in the show. I was on one of the final episodes of the series, wherein I threw a ball at a target and on my final throw I dunked Drake Bell into slime winning the game. It was one the best moments of my life, being part of a show I loved and getting to meet an actor I really liked. I miss the studio immensely. This video was a fun reminder of it, thanks for doing it!
Inuranchan you got lucky! I also waited on line to get in during one of the last episodes and we couldn't get in. My 9 year old self was beyond pissed lol
Oh dang...I was visiting for about...one or two weeks and I got in that line multiple times and didn't get into the show either so I totally understand. That line was huge lol.
I only got picked to play in the game because of my dad too. They had decorations all over the set for the summer, and they were covering the entrance that was being used by the cast and crew. People would have to duck each time they went through it so my father started holding it up for them as they passed and they would each thank him for it softly as they went underneath it. One time after they passed, they doubled back and asked him if I was his kid. He said yes and they asked me if I wanted to be on the show. He later told me he did that on purpose because he was hoping they would pick me if he did lol.
Another great video. Love watching your content.
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed this one!
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I remember being terrified of the slime machine and that it might get slime on me
Shoulderpads-mcgee lol
Shoulderpads-mcgee SLIME TIME
What a pussy
Well I mean, what else would it do?
Shoulderpads-mcgee heh I was afraid of it too but for a different reason, I though if I opened my mouth I would swallow it and turn green XD i was so stupid
End of the Nickelodeon Studios 90's Era
Wow blast from the past loved it back in the mid 90’s wish I could travel back 🙃
Same :) Simpler times.
Yeah I wish I had a time machine to go back to that decade and be young again. :(
R.I.P Nickelodeon Studios Florida (1988-2005), that passed away at the age of 17... Forever love you...
I truly love all your videos. i was delighted to see nickelodeon ,florida featured as i had opportunity to cut my teeth in set design and scenic carpentry working in 2000 - 2002 building the sets and challenges for "Slime Time Live" and some other Game Labs showcases. I have rebuilt and repaired a few times over a Practical effect in the Gak Kitchen {something we called the slime tube...Yes, i know the recipe for slime. doesn't taste good but doesn't taste bad} and on one occasion I Have drained the Slime Geyser for service at 330am. Getting to build and engineer the gameshow features for the park was so cool, having grown up on You cant do that on Television" The couple of fellows i worked for back then had been the original set and scenic designers from the parks original Nickelodeon Studios attraction, and the I know that moving Features to CA definitely robbed a big part of development budget from FL, i met these folks after the "Good Days".. Your program brought back a lot of fond memories of my early career .Thanks,and keep up the great show!
Also, alot of the shows got ported over to the Games and Sports network "GAS",some are still in syndication today.
John, I always noticed a difference in the slime from "You Can't DO That..." and what was used in later iterations (like Double Dare). The older stuff looked chunkier and didn't seem to stay together as much. Can you comment on that?
Being a show done up in Canada, I wouldn't be surprised it was some other ingredients they whipped up just for that show.
Green Slime certainly became Nick's trademark thanks to YCDTOTV. Not sure how long they kept it going for though, but certainly into the last decade.
I got to go back in 1999, when they were still putting together the set for what would be Double Dare 2000, and we got to see it from the floor above. I remember getting to try some of the slime, since it's meant to be edible. I think the batch we got was banana flavor.
You lucky dog!
TheSilverVixen edible slime?! Sounds both cool and disgusting lol did it taste good?!
It tasted like vanilla to me. I wonder if they used different flavors from batch to batch.
I had no idea it was made to be edible too.
TheSilverVixen lucky! I always wanted to go and get slimed!
I did the tour several times during my childhood. I got to have my picture taken with Olmec, back when they would let you on the actual studio floor where they filmed Legends of the Hidden Temple. I got to eat slime in front of everyone in my tour group. It tasted like tapioca pudding. I also remember at one point our guide even told us about some strange sister channel they were going to launch soon called GAS. "Do you have GAS?" Games And Sports, which didn't survive long.
I remember returning as an adult and walking right over where the slime geyser was, not realizing it. When I finally realized that this massive contraption was missing and fresh asphalt in its place, I instantly freaked. "Where's the time capsule?!?" It took me a while to discover its new location at the hotel, and even had to email the hotel to confirm its whereabouts as there were only rumors, not a single picture of actual proof. In 2009, I finally visited the hotel, just to make sure it was in fact there. I took pics, and while the one in the video technically isn't it, it seemed like everyone on the internet linked to it or used it. You even linked to one of the sites, which was kind enough to credit me. So all this time, my photo was the only proof. I wonder when that picture in your video was taken though.
Thanks for sharing your memories! I think a lot of time all it takes is one person to say, "hey here is where X is" and then everyone just goes nuts and claims they are the first to discover it, or fail to give credit to the person/persons who actually did.
Yesterworld Entertainment I really hope someone would take pics of it’s new location in Burbank, it’s third home. For FL, my husband rented a car during the first two days of our Orlando trip. It was only a little out of the way, so I asked, and he agreed to take me. Security had to let us into the parking lot. Since we told him that I just wanted to see that one thing, we didn’t do anything else. So I never actually went inside the lobby. The green middle was actually animated! It made it seem like there was actual green slime bubbling in there. I want to say there was even audio, but I might’ve added a false memory, but it was definitely animated. A few months later, I would get my first iPhone. Taking video with whatever I had was not an option I guess. And sadly, I don’t think anyone else took video either. At least there’s a second picture floating around out there.
As for the failing hotel, I was surprised that there even was a security guard as it really did feel like it was in the middle of no where, surrounded by undeveloped nature. Even then, I felt that the nick hotel was doomed as the network itself has started to decline in viewers, and the entire point of it, I thought, was its connection with Universal, which I think, still had a Jimmy Neutron ride, but not for long
At one point, practically every show on Nick felt like was “filmed in front of a live studio audience in Nickelodeon Studios at Universal Studios in Orlando Florida.” That’s what was said at the end of the credits of many shows. They would show a semi animated shot of the front of the studio with the slime geyser going off, followed by the Universal globe spinning, which was the version they had in front of the park before they got rid of the parking lot and added City Walk.
UmmYeahOk "This show was taped or filmed in Nickelodeon Studios at Universal Studios, Orlando Florida." Basically what I remember from my childhood. :) So many memories. Sad to see Nick a shell of it's former self today. All they care about now is girl shows and talking down to kids. They don't even treat kids like adults now like they use too. Disney is the same way. In the 90's as a kid Nick was very popular and a Phenomenon actually. Every Saturday Night Snick was high ratings.
*OH MY GOSH! IT'S JAKE LLOYD FROM STARWARS PHANTOM MENACE!* The only person who ever got excited about that
Great video as always! I miss Nickelodeon Studios so much.
2042 if Nickalodeon stays alive!
Someone throwing eggs at the building and says "I WANT MY CHILDHOOD BACK!"
i went there when i was a kid. i remember being chosen as a guest to come down and do some challenge against someone else but it wasn't on tv or anything. i remember i lost. also i remember when i went there seeing that building i was so excited on that day of the vacation. now, i went back to universal as an adult in 2017 and saw the blue man group building and didn't even know it was the same building. if i would have thought about it i would have recognized those stairs but it didn't cross my mind.
We took our kids there in the late 90’s. We really enjoyed ourselves. Loved the green slime geyser. My youngest son got to participate in one of the shows. So sad to see it gone. ☹️
I went on this, they were filming Keenan and Kel AAAHHHH the good old days! WHO LOVES ORANGE SODA ?
Me2. We are lucky to have that as a memory.
Huh. Kind of expected a correspondence with the studio's downfall and the network itself going to shit after about 2005-2006.
Maybe there is a correlation, but more subtle: no more live studio and tours means significantly less interaction with actual viewers, and that could have led to a loss of perspective.
Bryce Bitetti
Everything imo started to suck around 2005/2006
Bryce Bitetti That's not true, what about iCarly for example?
Poofiemus technically they only filmed the live action content there and did the tour attraction with the game lab in Florida the management staff was at MTV networks in New York. What killed the Orlando studio was Nick switching to more closed set and animated shows from open set tv series. The animation division was always in California and they acquired a historic Studio there where they didn't have to pay rent to universal to film in.
OfeKool yup
Imagine being 29 and watching this. I grew up in that era off of that infamous show line up. Watching this brought back so many memories, and I do remember sometime right before it's closing walking by the Nickelodeon Studio in Florida while in Disney. It looked so dead, as if it wasnt NS, lol. I was in high school by then but the colors were still very vibrant, somewhere around 2005. But that clip of the kids all lined up outside screaming is such a time capsule of the 90s. Nickelodeon was ALWAYS good, they raised us (Doug, Rugrats, Ren n Stempy, oh my gosh the list could go on from there. So you just never think you'll see a place like that go down. They really set a platform for kids in those days. It's sad to see how many changes Disney World has made since those days as well.
33 years old and finally made it to orlando today with my kids. Wish I could have seen atleast the building
2005 was when Nickelodeon officially died.
The only supporting Nick now is freaking Spongebob. They already axed off all the other great cartoons...
Nickelodeon died long before 2005 unfortunately
Nickelodeon did return to Universal Studios Florida and filmed My Family's Got Guts in Soundstage 19 in 2008.
I can't even explain how happy I was when I saw the Roundhouse logo on the screen.
You Can't Do That on Television was one of my all time favorite shows. We all know what happened to Alannis Morsette. But I'd LOVE to know what happened to the rest of the cast. 💜
Thank you for acknowledging the slime bathroom tiles. Practically no one knows they exist, and is the last publicly facing evidence of what once was.
I’ve a feeling this one’s gonna go viral.
I went in 1996, I was 9 years old and got to do the wonderful extensive tour. I was chosen to play in one of then”test” games as well. I loved watching the geyser erupt and the hot sets being filmed on. I hate this is gone.. my daughter loves Nick but it’s sad she can’t go see a live studio like we kids of the 90s did.
I remember going to universal as a child, and seeing the nick building with nobody outside and to this day I thought it was really strange, so I must’ve been there right after it closed since it still had all the signage and the fountain. Thanks man you made that part my childhood make sense
What I wouldn't give to see the old shows and channels like they used to be. Nick at Nite, Nickelodeon, pretty much everything Hannah-Barbera.....Hell, I think I'm one of few who remembers the channel Noggin, with shows like Cro and Ghostwriter.
Nick was my childhood. I wish my kids were able to experience something so awesome. Nickelodeon is a joke nowadays.
No Stick Stickly?!?
I know there's just too many great references/memories to put all of them into a video. Thank you for reminding me of some shows I totally forgot about, and thanks for all the great videos!
I was actually one of the last people in Nickelodeon studios in March 2005 before it closed, little did i know it would be gone for good a month later...
Great video as always, Mark. I didn't even know about Pinwheel! Keep them coming! 😃
Got hit in the face with a flashback of when i was 8 😂. I remember going to Nick on a vacation trip and getting slimmed lol. Also remember there used to be another Universal Globe where they shot the kennan and kel opening intro
I was slimed in 1994 as part of the 45 minute tour. It was warm and smelled like applesauce. I felt like the "star" of the show, which for 10-year-old me was enthralling.
Then I was given this "I was slimed" certificate and I got to go backstage to take a shower. I walked around Universal Studios with wet hair for most of the day afterwards.
Oh damn! Cool!
I was selected to be slimed in 1990 during the tour. And we played the big pants game you showed in the video. It was green applesauce by the way. And I got an awesome orange Nickelodeon shirt (and a shower) after the show. Best memory ever!
I never got to go :(
Gracie M same here i always wanted to go but never got the chance
Same here
Same i was only 2 years old when they closed (2005)
Same here
I was 8 when they closed but parents were broke mofos
Seriously my favorite old attraction TH-camr 🙌 Keep it up!
Thank you so much!! I really appreciate your taking the time to comment!
I went to Nickelodeon Studios with my family while we were on a week's vacation down in Orlando during Spring Break of 2004, as we visited both Disney World and Universal Studios. It was so awesome getting to see the Slime Geyser shoot out that famous green stuff as well as tour inside and play the interactive audience games that they had in the Game Lab, i really enjoyed being there although it wasn't nearly the same as the earlier years. Needless to say that being at the place i had only ever seen on TV at the end of the old Nick game and sitcom shows for so long was quite an awesome experience to my ten year old self. My personal favorite part aside from the Slime Geyser was being in the Gak Kitchen and seeing for myself how they made the slime recipes. It was very fortunate that we got to visit the studios when we did, because i had literally no idea at the time that it would soon be shut down for good about a year after we were there.
I also have a long shot photo somewhere that my mom took of me standing with my little brother in front of the main building with that big ol' Nickelodeon sign looming behind us in the background. However, i don't know at this time where exactly it is among all of our many photos. Here's hoping that i do eventually find it one of these days.
I went to Orlando in May 2005 and read about this attraction in a theme park guidebook, I was so pumped and excited to see it but then found out it had closed just 3 days prior to when I went... 😭😭
No, I never visited Nickelodeon Studios, although it was something I always wanted to do as a kid. I can still remember seeing the iconic slime fountain, hearing those iconic words "filmed live at Nickelodeon Studios, at Universal Studios Florida" and the tales my friends told me about their trips to Orlando. I always asked my parents if they'd ever take me like they did my sister, but for my mother, the answer was always "no" as she didn't fly and didn't like car trips.
I eventually would make it to Florida on a cruise ship and had a single day to explore Universal. However by that time a lot had changed and some of the items on my bucket list were now impossible. Doc Brown had sold out to Krusty, Kongfrontation had been replaced and as for Nickelodeon Studios? The slime geyser had finally run dry, the colorful exterior, now a depressing blue and the only remnant was the Jimmy Neutron ride, which on the queue was where I heard other 90's kids like me remembering all things Nickelodeon including the now defunct studio.
Yes! A new video! I love watching your vids. Keep up the great work man!
Thank you so much!!
Yesterworld Entertainment of course man!
I'm one of the lucky ones who got to go to Nick Studios. I was in the audience while they tested new game show stunts.
I took my daughter here in 1998. We were in the audience for the show figure it out. I had such a blast that day. I miss those days. Lol
I went there a couple of times when I was younger. It was a paradise for kids. Sat through one of the game shows they did for the tour, saw an episode of Clarissa Explains it All get taped (the UFO episode), and just had a fun time. Sad when it closed. Kids these days will just never know what old school Nick was like
I got to visit it in 1999 as part of my senior marching band trip. We saw stages where they were filming GAS and Gullah Gullah Island. Did the game lab and a friend said they were looking for audience members for Figure it Out. Sad that it’s gone then again Nick is a different thing now than it was in the 90s. It’s all terrible sitcoms, Spongebob and Ninja Turtles now.
As a 90's kid, a piece of my heart will always belong to Nickelodeon. As a kid, I remember seeing nickelodeon studios commercials and I wish I could have gone. I always carried around a Video Now player which, of course, always had a Nickelodeon disk in it. I had disks of the Amanda Show, the Rugrats, SpongeBob, and lots of others. It is sad to see such a large part of my childhood just quietly fade away like that, but I guess every generation has to go through something like this too. Amazing video, thank you for the nostalgic trip
Oh man, I wanted to visit that place so bad as a kid... just to see the green slime!
I wanted to go on Double Dare with my brothers and parents so badly. 😜
Hey yesterworld can you do a video about body wars and the story of the wonders of life?
Disney Boy they did
I visited in 1995 for my 10th birthday. It was my Mecca. My favorite memory was sitting in the off limit Big Orange Couch. I waited for the rest of the group to walk ahead of me and then I ducked under the ropes and sat on the couch.
I was really young when “you can’t do that on Television”, they and “Mr.Wizard” were the earliest shows I recall. Those and of course the game shows like Double Dare. Man what a perfect age to grow up as a kid...the decade of Nickelodeon.
Now that the Blue Man Group is retiring, maybe Nick will get their old studio back?
I have never lived in America growing up so theme parks like that and Disney world just weren't a thing to me.
I love Woo, he’s not afraid to venture
Yes, Double Dare was what put children's game shows as we know them on the map, but was not the first game show with only kids as contestants as you claim it is. The first American children's game shows go as far back as black and white television, and plenty of kids weeks or full kids series of established shows (Junior Pyramid, Storybook Squares, etc..) came along before Double Dare. In fact, just a few months before Double Dare hit the airwaves, the Bob Eubanks run of Card Sharks had a kids week.
Wait! Loony Tunes used to be on Nickelodeon!?
0:20 I feel bad for Jake Lloyd, he’s always brought back to his bad acting in the phantom menace, he was made fun of in school for that too. Now he’s in jail. I feel bad for him.
I remember visiting in the 90s with my family. I could not wait. I remember getting an All That shirt and purple Gak. I had to get the gak. I watched Nick everyday, all day especially in the summer. Snick was my favorite programming, Clarissa, All That, Are You Afraid of the Dark, Pete & Pete and Roundhouse. Yes!
I went to this studio with my magic from my summer camp to here.
Its sad they turned Nick Studios into an interpretive art dance concert hall...what kids are going to be into that?? It's one of those "mom and dad wants to be in the A/C and sick of waiting in long lines in the heat" attractions. Kids don't want to see the Blueman Group they want to see wacky shows,their favorite TV characters,and of course slime!!
I would say adults don't want to see the Blueman Group, but apparently some do.
Isn’t the outside supposed to be Drake and Josh’s high school?
Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando was absolutely gorgeous. I was so fortunate to be able to go there before it closed down.
I went there as a kid!!!!!Took a tour for the whole area and the sets they had were huuuuuugggeee!
Now all they show is Spongebob, and Spongebob, and Spongebob.
Wreck-It Rolfe and some live action sitcoms that are basically all the same. I can barely tell the differences!
Spongebob ruined nickeloden
Michael Petersen no it didn't the executives did
Can we acknowledge the fact that the last tour closed in 4/20
I visited Nick Studios in '96 and man that was the highlight of Universal for me. We learned how the slime was made, we saw some sets, and got to do some double dare games in the game lab. I remember them showing up a special preview of the premier of Kenan and Kel. Aw man!
Being A 90's kid Nickelodeon shows is most of what I watched growing up. I loved Ren and Stimpy, Rugrats, and Rocco's Modern Life. I liked the game shows like Double Dare and Legends Of The Hidden Temple. The nostalgia of the early 90's shows like Salute Your Shorts, Clarissa Explains It All, and Kenan And Kel. Growing up as a teen I loved All That and Are You Afraid Of The Dark? Those were simpler times.... :)
WHAT YEAR IS IT?!!
Sadly it's goddamn 2017.
But Legends of the Hidden Temple got a TV movie, "Football Head" Arnold's back (The Jungle Movie), Rugrats are back (in comic form), Rocko's getting a reboot, Ren & Stimpy are getting a short ahead of the newest Spongebob movie, etc.
Say perhaps to drugs
It's a shame.
I actually visited Nick Studios in the summers of 1994 and 2000 and really enjoyed it! In 2000 I even got picked to be the kid who got slimed and it was awesome. I remember doing a head flip like I'd seen Danny Tamberelli perform on Figure It Out after he'd get slimed and got it all over the host lmao. I also remember during the studio tour being told about all these new shows that were being filmed (the ones that you mentioned mostly being canceled within a year). I had a great time and it was a great memory to have as a kid.
I was actually kind of part of one of the shows. I never participated, but one of the hosts went up and talked to me and some girl next to me.