I was dead at the Michael Eisner part 😂😂 so weird how the tram tour is just forgotten about, I didn’t even know it existed! Great video man, learned a lot about the tour. It honestly seemed so underwhelming compared to Hollywood’s and even MGM’s
"Most people take shortcuts either take shortcuts for either economic reasons or because they're lazy. Most people take shortcuts because they don't know how to do it right." That aged well.
@@YesterworldEntertainment I never new Universal Orlando was suppose to have a Tram Tour like Universal Hollywood. I was looking up which one is better between the 2 Parks and wondered in Universal Orlando had a Tram Tour like Universal Hollywood but overall nice vid
I was a tour guide for Universal shortly after the opening of the park, and probably did somewhere in the neighborhood of about 400 tours. We not only did the tram tour of the backlot and other sections, we were also responsible for giving the Nickelodeon Studios tours, providing some production assistance on the floors of the Nickelodeon sound stages (not as glorious as it sounds, but had its perks), and VIP escorts of high-profile guests. Seeing this video and some of the information contained makes me think providing a video response of my experience at the job would be interesting. Would anyone be interested in a behind-the-scenes video of my experience, which I still consider to be one of the coolest jobs I've ever had?
As someone who lives in Cali and loves the original Universal (not as much today as I did 20+ years ago), watching this video is horrifying. From this, it is obvious they were not planning on making a real studio in Florida and definitely weren't planning on show casing it when you could just walk in the same area's as the tram willy-nilly. Now I know why KK and Jaws were separate rides (and why it was so easy for Universal to demolish them). Florida has no history to it. I hope you can do a video to change my mind cause this makes me lose respect for Universal.
I worked there for many years. I was even a part of the startup crew during the opening of Universal Studios Florida. And I assure you that studio tour was awful it went away for good reason.
Would’ve loved to have seen to this in the park, but seeing how Universal is kind of stepping away from the whole “ride the movies” thing, it wouldn’t really fit in with the park as it stands today anyways.
If I'm correct, I think we rode the tram tour ONCE at Universal when I was like 5 and I think we saw Beetlejuice walking around lol. I'm pretty sure we rode it and I totally forgot about how Universal had a big parking lot in the front of the park wow. I just know we went into Stage 22 when they had Jurassic Park:The Lost World sets and dinosaurs which was the WORST SINCE IT WAS BARELY LIT AND SCARY FOR 8 YEAR OLD ME
@@juandanielherrera7391 Yes! I have footage of a family vacation shortly after the park opened and it's so weird to see us walk up to the front that now takes us about 20 minutes to get to from the parking structure. -- K
*EDIT I need to make an important correction. In the video I attributed some of the Tram Tour footage credit to a channel named "Last Rat Standing". As it turns out, this channel downloaded the footage from the original owner/channel "jonnythecroww", and uploaded it as their own without indication of where it came from. As someone who always strives to give proper credit, I apologize to the original owner of the footage. You can check out their FULL length video here: th-cam.com/video/oZ6_x9JXbbo/w-d-xo.html A link to their channel can also be accessed here: th-cam.com/users/jonnythecrowwvideos I hope you enjoy this exploration of Universal Studio Florida’s Abandoned Studio Tour! Since learning that USF had a short-lived tram tour that few seemed to know about today, I’ve found the subject fascinating. This one took a lot, and I mean a LOT of digging around for visual evidence to help tell the story…which made it all the more fun to explore! I wanted to again thank Alicia Stella over at Theme Park Stop for sharing her memories to help tell the story of this lesser-known aspect of Universals history!
Yesterworld Entertainment So happy I was able to help out with the video by sharing my memories! I loved the short-lived production tour, (even though most of it was through guest areas lol). Thinking back to it reminds me of the park the way it was when it first opened, and how lucky I was to get to experience it back then!
I love your videos on Universal Orlando. Even though I've worked there for a while nobody talks about stuff like this so I never knew there was a tour!
When I worked at Islands of adventure, we would have to take a van from the back side of dueling dragons to toon lagoon. When the vans would brake down they would drag the tram out of storage to take us to our work locations.
Yesssss!!!!! As a UO Team Member, let me assure you that very few of us know this was a thing. Hell, I didn't even know it existed until I saw a glimpse of it in the Background of that now-famous "documentary" they made from the early 90's that everyone shows on these type of videos. Thank you mate for making a video about this. I'm surprised you beat Defunctland, Theme Park History, etc. to this topic. I can actually learn something that most employees aren't well versed in.
@@YesterworldEntertainment Hey, if you need any background info or help with any of your WDW or UO videos, I can help you out. I work at both parks and grew up in the area. I know quite a bit of their history and personally lived through it. It's just a thought, but I'd love to help if you ever need it.
I kinda wish they would open a Studio Tour Ride. A tracked tram ride through several small scenes, taking the place of Fear Factor and a little of the Backstage area. You would go through a small section of the "Are We Alone?" Exhibit referencing the people mover. Then you would pass through an old 80s styled town with a clock tower, a DeLorean drives by and disappears into a puff of smoke and lights in front of a theater. Directly after the town you come a beach front town, and it's an exact copy from Hollywood. You would then enter the British Metro and encounter a similar scene to the one in Hollywood, except it's London instead of San Francisco/ Los Angeles. The final bit takes you into a room with a globe, projected onto it and the walls are scenes from famous Universal Studios films as the Universal Theme blares and we thank you for riding, and we hope to see you again soon, on your Next visit to Universal Studios.
And Now you can copy this Ride format to any Universal Park, and slightly tweak it, like rethemeing the Earthquake set, or adding small scenes like the Site B scene or Flooding scene.
If it weren’t for cost, I think this would be great. I think this could work as a really intricate Great Movie Ride style of ride. But it really does have to be done with actual sets. Basically, the Jaws bit, and all other parts have to be done mostly with practical effects (scaled back of course and in smaller rooms). I don’t think it could work as another screen ride, and a physical dark ride could be rather costly.
I liked the Kill Bill music as soon as you said Michael Eisner's name. I dunno if you were using it because of Eisner being in a meeting with Universal Studios, or just because he's Eisner, but I choose to believe that's the usual response to Eisner's name.
Universal Studios Florida has such an amazing history because of how short lived most of their early attractions didn’t last long. The tram tour’s history is really interesting great video!
Great video!!!! Worked there for over 20 years and when they did cut it the trams were in bad working order. A lot of times the trams would blow tires on the turns depending on how the driver cut it. You got most of it on target it did first load from between the sound stages and the routes changed frequently. Keep up the great videos!!!!
It's dissapointing how much of the movie related things have moved away from the two movie studio parks. Universal Studios is now Harry Potter world and MGM is Star Wars land.
Yeah. I think there used to be a lot fascination around movie making. There used to be lots of emphasis on 'movie magic'. So the behind the scenes element was quite a big deal. Unfortunately I think the advent of computers entering filmmaking kind of killed much of that interest. Just recently I was at Universal Japan, and they still have Backdraft there. That's definitely an old school 'special effects' attraction. I quite enjoyed it, though it was a bit too long.
We took the tram tour in 1992 and in 1994. We love. it. I do not remember it going down the streets of the actual park, other than back by near “Star Trek/Ghostbusters” and the fake cardboard sky scrapers. I vaguely remember looping around the back lot over to where the Bates Motel was, as well as the original Hard Rock Cafe’. If I recall, there also was a “cul-de-sac” if famous house like “Leave it to Beaver”. I need to go back through old video to see if we have any shots saved🤔🤔
I remember going on this as a kid. It wasn't very memorable. It was very watered down and didn't feel like a real studio. Besides Nickelodeon the other things you saw was very brief and mostly just props.
@Cinematic Curtain right but they played it up as if you were going to be "in the movies" before the tour as if you would be seeing movies and shows being filmed. Then when you were actually on the tour you see props. It was pretty lame.
Hey, the bit at 1:43 featuring the old Universal Studios Florida promotional video.....the music that plays during it, do you know what it's from? Was it a unique score created just for that advertisement or did it come from an actual movie or TV show? I love it so much.
Thanks a lot for this video. When I was a kid, I saw a documentary about Universal Studios Florida - it was at the beginning of the 90’s, but the documentary must have been filmed much earlier as I remember Jaws and Earthquake being the two main attractions, and that visitors were taken on a studio tram tour and shown background infos about the magic of moviemaking. For me, a Hungarian from the eastern block at the end of the communist era it was particularly amazing to watch, and an impossible dream that I could ever get there. But I did - in 2016. And I was looking for both Jaws and Earthquake (stupid me) but they were not there. There wasn’t a studio tour either. We basically paid a bunch of money for mostly rollercoasters when I was hoping to find out more about how movies are made, but the Universal theme Park today has little to do with the original concept. In this respect it was kind of a disappointment, although I’m still grateful I could see it.
That's sad. Luckily I visited this park in 1997 and 1999, back when it was in its prime. I'm from UK so I was fortunate to get to visit Florida a couple of times when I was young and enjoy this park (as well as the Disney ones).
I was there in during the summer of the opening year. I do not remember the tram tour. The day I was there the King Kong attraction was still in "technical rehearsals". After several attempts, the ride was breaking down frequently, I made it on the ride. The cable car gets to the final scene, where Kong picks up the cable car. As he "lifts" the car, the ride broke. Silence, dead Kong. Reset, Kong springs back to life growling and pounding his fist on the cable car. The Earthquake ride was also having problems that day. The train pulled into the station, waited, nothing happened, the train goes back to the loading area, reset, back to the station and the effects worked. The park received some bad press that summer because it seemed that they opened before everything was running correctly. Then there was Jaws the Ride...
I've never been to Universal Florida, but the tour is such a staple of Hollywood (which I lived near until I was 13) I always just assumed there'd be one there, as well. I'm shocked there's not.
Have a tramtastic day Have a tramtastic night Watch your step as you exit the tram And everything will be alright Why do I vividly remember this song from going on the tour when I was only around 8 at Hollywood?
Sounds more exciting than Universal Hollywood's modern tram tour. Hahaha. xD I say that and Universal Studios Hollywood is my favorite theme park and practically my second home.
I remember taking the back tour at both Universal and MGM. The Universal one was cool in the early yrs they would take to the swamp girl house and let you check it out.
My family and I were on the tram tour in 1990. I had know idea there was any controversy about its existence. That's hilarious. It doesn't feel that long ago to me. It's strange how quickly people can forget the past! Anyway, in case it's of interest or simply to add to the mystery, when we took the tour I believe the tram took off from the front parking lot but it was preceded by a brief walk through the inside of the studios. I am NOT misremembering the Nickelodeon studios tour. We purposefully did not take that tour because I hated Double Dare. I was excited by a brief glimpse of Anthony Perkins in his trailer (it was inside the studio rather than outside) during the walking part of the tour. They were filming Psycho IV: The Beginning at the time. I believe I even have a blurry photo of Perkins from that day...
After seeing the over-head picture of the Universal entrance and how different it is today made me think of how cool it would be to watch a history of City Walk and the resorts
Fascinating video! I remember many many years ago I visited Universal Studios down in Orlando, and I swear that I remember a tour (either via tram or walk through) that was basically a winding path through and around a ton of old movie memorabilia including one of the half sharks from Jaws 2 or 3, and one of the ant models from THEM! The Jaws model made me remember it. It must have been a version of the Boneyard, which, I didn't think was open in the early 2000s.
Great research and editing! As much as I value the ride as theme park history, it sounds so incredibly dull to me. I'd be part of why it wasn't that popular in the first place!
How could anyone think it´s a good idea? Seems the only thing exclusive for the tram tour were the initial bunch of studio backlots, where you could catch an active set or two if the gate was open. All the rest you could see by just walking through the park. That´s insanely boring.
I heard in 1986, a scare actor jumped at the Tram during Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Orlando. But he got crushed underneath the Tram and died on impact. After the death of this actor, they decided to move the Tram to Hollywood which was 6 years later. And named it Terror Tram.
I don’t doubt the tour existed because I took this tour. I had a huge crush on Jonathan Brandis and took this tour in 1994. I was hoping to see him as SeaQuest DSV was filming. I never saw anything and it was quite a boring tour it a then 12 year old. Disney did have a better backlot tour out of the two.
At the end of all the old school 90's kids shows like "All That", "Kenan and Kell", I would see the iconic Nickelodeon studio. I never got to go to the Universal Studios Florida but, it sucks that's it's closed now. I don't know why they couldn't keep that, it's iconic!
@9:54 Jimmy Fallon plays two notes and pretends it a song. To his credit, he can strum decently, but even an infant could learn that two cord ditty he belts out. What a sellout.
Binging! I LOVED the Universal tram tour in CA in the 90's! It was so fun & great to see those old set like the Munster's house, Bates Hotel & that tiny place they filmed Gilligan's Island! But alas, STUPID worthless CGI TRASHED it. Went in Jan last year & was SO DISAPPOINTED I could have CRIED. Took my hubby to show him all these gems to see them GONE. SHAME ON YOU UNI you deserve to be boycotted until you bring that tram tour back to the one in the 90's.
I visited Universal Studios every summer in the 90’s and the team tour was the only attraction I never got to experience. I certainly remember the trams driving through the streets, but we knew we got essentially the same experience on foot. FYI: Rocky and Bullwinkle was not an opening day attraction. Universal got the rights to them several years in. True you didn’t explicitly say it was there on opening day, but it sounded implied (yes I’m splitting hairs here).
I can definitely attest to the existence of the Tram Tour since we went on it. In a word, it was BORING. Nothing happened. You saw nothing but the backs of sound stages with props strewn here and there. They just didn't have the film history that the one in Hollywood has, which is sooooooo much better, to say the least. If you never took it, then you didn't miss anything.
3:23 You know what's ironic? What he said is relevant to today's Disney Studios and the Parks. And Disney as a whole has been taking shortcuts a lot as of late.
If someone asked what’s your dream? My dream is to go back in time and ride every single ride from back then before they shut them down like the originals cause tbh all those rides that are no longer there are nostalgic and way more exciting than cars land or fucking frozen or fricken taking out the movie ride for some Mickey Mouse bull shit for universal that tour was exciting just like jaws etc. Even the Michael Jackson one and the Journey into imagination
They should’ve just kept everything in Cali because Florida can never get it all right lmao. The back lot tour is very put together in the Cali location and has been running successfully for years even with older movies
One of the best parts of your voice is that subtitles can make out every single word and I can understand this video without sound if I have to. You’re stuff is awesome and I love the history, keep it up!
Hey how about a video concerning the Hard Rock Cafe Restaraunt that was next to what is now fiefals play area and the et ride ( I know I didn’t spell it right)
We did the tram tour in the summer of 1992. It was short and silly. We'd done the Universal Hollywood previously, so the Orlando version was sad by comparison.
Wellllll, I rode the Universal Studio Florida’s Production Studio Tram Tour. And took the Nickelodeon Studio tour. And rode the parking lot tram. Took the Tram tour then the Nick Studio tour in 1994. Took the parking lot tram in 1995 and remembered thinking, "I didn't know they had a tram!!" As you showed, the Tram tour wasn't all that exciting. It was just a way to sit and relax for a while, out of the sun and/or rain, and "learn" about USF.
I did the studio tour, and the guide pointed out a Christmas set for the next Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. The set turned out to be for Jingle All the Way. I guess this was in CA.
I believe Anthony Perkins was interested in playing the villain in the Swamp Thing series that filmed here but it conflicted w Psycho IV. Joseph Stefano, who wrote the scripts for Psycho & Psycho IV worked on Swamp Thing as did Cynthia Garris, wife of Psycho IV's director Mick Garris. W so much connectivity here, one would think there would be more to commemorate the productions done here....
you need to credit the right person on many of your clips in this vid (ie me),,, there are many clips from my video used without my permission and consent ,, you have credited someone who has pinched my footage (who i have reported) and was very surprised to see it on here (i do appreciate that you did credit someone - just not the owner of the footage)
I did this tour and it also included walking inside the sound stages. We actually walked over cables on the floor. I was there the 2nd day the park opened to the public.
Love the video! I will say you can go backstage quite a bit if you know when they're filming. They do film quite often at Universal although it's usually just commercials for TV. I went to the Tonight Show when the ride first opened. Deal Or No Deal now films permanently from Universal Studios Florida. TNA Wrestling also films there and a few other shows you just gotta know. Also Grinchmas is usually in Soundstage 23.
I have been on universal Hollywood tram tour it is amazing, and last year was on Disney Paris tram tour such a let down. Some parks are meant for these tours some are not
Maybe Eisner "copied" the tram tour because it was iconic in the *Hollywood* Universal Studios?? The tram tour was a bit hokey, but it was a fun way for this kid to see practical effects -- and watch these sets "reset" themselves as the tram left. The live shows, at the time, were okay, but pretty much every theme park had one at the time, and the live shows were what you *skipped* at Disneyland. With practical effects going away, I dunno what would replace them, but I'll miss that tacky ol' tram!
Take a shot every time Michael Eisner is mentioned in a Yesterworld video.
Quite frankly, I imagine you'd end up in the hospital with alcohol poisoning.
@Kay Kay from the TH-cam lol
clide's revenge lol
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I was dead at the Michael Eisner part 😂😂 so weird how the tram tour is just forgotten about, I didn’t even know it existed! Great video man, learned a lot about the tour. It honestly seemed so underwhelming compared to Hollywood’s and even MGM’s
I know right?! There's not a single "official" photo or video I could find anywhere, and it was all through random clips.
"Most people take shortcuts either take shortcuts for either economic reasons or because they're lazy. Most people take shortcuts because they don't know how to do it right."
That aged well.
@@YesterworldEntertainment I never new Universal Orlando was suppose to have a Tram Tour like Universal Hollywood. I was looking up which one is better between the 2 Parks and wondered in Universal Orlando had a Tram Tour like Universal Hollywood but overall nice vid
I was a tour guide for Universal shortly after the opening of the park, and probably did somewhere in the neighborhood of about 400 tours. We not only did the tram tour of the backlot and other sections, we were also responsible for giving the Nickelodeon Studios tours, providing some production assistance on the floors of the Nickelodeon sound stages (not as glorious as it sounds, but had its perks), and VIP escorts of high-profile guests. Seeing this video and some of the information contained makes me think providing a video response of my experience at the job would be interesting. Would anyone be interested in a behind-the-scenes video of my experience, which I still consider to be one of the coolest jobs I've ever had?
As someone who lives in Cali and loves the original Universal (not as much today as I did 20+ years ago), watching this video is horrifying. From this, it is obvious they were not planning on making a real studio in Florida and definitely weren't planning on show casing it when you could just walk in the same area's as the tram willy-nilly. Now I know why KK and Jaws were separate rides (and why it was so easy for Universal to demolish them). Florida has no history to it. I hope you can do a video to change my mind cause this makes me lose respect for Universal.
Yep
That's actually a really cool thing to say you did! Do you still work for the company? -- K
Yes I would be interested in seeing your video response please.
@@stephencass570 do it!
WOW! So, I'm slightly less insane than I previously thought! I remember this as a kid and have been told that I imagined it.
Same here! I thought it was all just a beautiful dream!
Lol you could just google your psychotic episodes, you could sort them by real or episodes.
No Mandela effect here
I worked there for many years. I was even a part of the startup crew during the opening of Universal Studios Florida. And I assure you that studio tour was awful it went away for good reason.
So glad I could contribute to the proof of your sanity :)
Alex I did say slightly less insane than previously believed lol. But, yes, I should have.
Would’ve loved to have seen to this in the park, but seeing how Universal is kind of stepping away from the whole “ride the movies” thing, it wouldn’t really fit in with the park as it stands today anyways.
If I'm correct, I think we rode the tram tour ONCE at Universal when I was like 5 and I think we saw Beetlejuice walking around lol. I'm pretty sure we rode it and I totally forgot about how Universal had a big parking lot in the front of the park wow. I just know we went into Stage 22 when they had Jurassic Park:The Lost World sets and dinosaurs which was the WORST SINCE IT WAS BARELY LIT AND SCARY FOR 8 YEAR OLD ME
Alex Z that’s so crazy how different everything was without the parking garages and city walk and IOA OMG
I saw the lost world exhibit because I was there in summer 1997
@@juandanielherrera7391 Yes! I have footage of a family vacation shortly after the park opened and it's so weird to see us walk up to the front that now takes us about 20 minutes to get to from the parking structure. -- K
The Orlando Tram Tour definitely looks far inferior than its Hollywood counterpart. I can see why it closed.
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I need to make an important correction. In the video I attributed some of the Tram Tour footage credit to a channel named "Last Rat Standing". As it turns out, this channel downloaded the footage from the original owner/channel "jonnythecroww", and uploaded it as their own without indication of where it came from. As someone who always strives to give proper credit, I apologize to the original owner of the footage. You can check out their FULL length video here: th-cam.com/video/oZ6_x9JXbbo/w-d-xo.html
A link to their channel can also be accessed here: th-cam.com/users/jonnythecrowwvideos
I hope you enjoy this exploration of Universal Studio Florida’s Abandoned Studio Tour! Since learning that USF had a short-lived tram tour that few seemed to know about today, I’ve found the subject fascinating. This one took a lot, and I mean a LOT of digging around for visual evidence to help tell the story…which made it all the more fun to explore! I wanted to again thank Alicia Stella over at Theme Park Stop for sharing her memories to help tell the story of this lesser-known aspect of Universals history!
Yesterworld Entertainment So happy I was able to help out with the video by sharing my memories! I loved the short-lived production tour, (even though most of it was through guest areas lol). Thinking back to it reminds me of the park the way it was when it first opened, and how lucky I was to get to experience it back then!
Fascinating! I knew I wasn't crazy. Subscribing now.
So, when you gon do a vid on horizons
I love your videos on Universal Orlando. Even though I've worked there for a while nobody talks about stuff like this so I never knew there was a tour!
When I worked at Islands of adventure, we would have to take a van from the back side of dueling dragons to toon lagoon. When the vans would brake down they would drag the tram out of storage to take us to our work locations.
Yesssss!!!!! As a UO Team Member, let me assure you that very few of us know this was a thing. Hell, I didn't even know it existed until I saw a glimpse of it in the Background of that now-famous "documentary" they made from the early 90's that everyone shows on these type of videos.
Thank you mate for making a video about this. I'm surprised you beat Defunctland, Theme Park History, etc. to this topic. I can actually learn something that most employees aren't well versed in.
You just made my entire week, heck, my entire month! So glad I was able to do it justice!
@@YesterworldEntertainment Hey, if you need any background info or help with any of your WDW or UO videos, I can help you out. I work at both parks and grew up in the area. I know quite a bit of their history and personally lived through it. It's just a thought, but I'd love to help if you ever need it.
I kinda wish they would open a Studio Tour Ride. A tracked tram ride through several small scenes, taking the place of Fear Factor and a little of the Backstage area.
You would go through a small section of the "Are We Alone?" Exhibit referencing the people mover. Then you would pass through an old 80s styled town with a clock tower, a DeLorean drives by and disappears into a puff of smoke and lights in front of a theater. Directly after the town you come a beach front town, and it's an exact copy from Hollywood. You would then enter the British Metro and encounter a similar scene to the one in Hollywood, except it's London instead of San Francisco/ Los Angeles. The final bit takes you into a room with a globe, projected onto it and the walls are scenes from famous Universal Studios films as the Universal Theme blares and we thank you for riding, and we hope to see you again soon, on your Next visit to Universal Studios.
And Now you can copy this Ride format to any Universal Park, and slightly tweak it, like rethemeing the Earthquake set, or adding small scenes like the Site B scene or Flooding scene.
Bryce Mckenzie You would do great over on WDWMAGIC. forums.wdwmagic.com/forums/imagineer.15/
Personally I loved seeing the sets like the plane scene from War of the Worlds, whoville, and the desperate housewives neighborhood
If it weren’t for cost, I think this would be great. I think this could work as a really intricate Great Movie Ride style of ride. But it really does have to be done with actual sets. Basically, the Jaws bit, and all other parts have to be done mostly with practical effects (scaled back of course and in smaller rooms). I don’t think it could work as another screen ride, and a physical dark ride could be rather costly.
1:43 Who else thinks this looks like the MCU Opening?
Can you do Disney's tram tour next. That was my favorite part of Hollywood studios (before i saw Fantasmic) and i'm so sad it's gone
I liked the Kill Bill music as soon as you said Michael Eisner's name.
I dunno if you were using it because of Eisner being in a meeting with Universal Studios, or just because he's Eisner, but I choose to believe that's the usual response to Eisner's name.
That music's originally from Ironside isn't it?
Tramtastic day was a bop, just saying
Universal Studios Florida has such an amazing history because of how short lived most of their early attractions didn’t last long. The tram tour’s history is really interesting great video!
Great video!!!! Worked there for over 20 years and when they did cut it the trams were in bad working order. A lot of times the trams would blow tires on the turns depending on how the driver cut it. You got most of it on target it did first load from between the sound stages and the routes changed frequently. Keep up the great videos!!!!
I was so concerned with this subject with how little information or visuals exist, so thanks for giving me a HUGE sigh of relief!
Yesterworld Entertainment you are so welcome, love your channel. It brings back memories!!!!
God i missed this! Thanks for making me smile with your videos!
It's dissapointing how much of the movie related things have moved away from the two movie studio parks. Universal Studios is now Harry Potter world and MGM is Star Wars land.
Follow the $$$
Yeah. I think there used to be a lot fascination around movie making. There used to be lots of emphasis on 'movie magic'. So the behind the scenes element was quite a big deal. Unfortunately I think the advent of computers entering filmmaking kind of killed much of that interest.
Just recently I was at Universal Japan, and they still have Backdraft there. That's definitely an old school 'special effects' attraction. I quite enjoyed it, though it was a bit too long.
Star Wars hasn’t opened yet. It’s Toy Story Land right now.
This is a great way to pass the time while I wait. Thank you so much for an Amazing episode.
Thank you for watching!
@@YesterworldEntertainment
Thank you for the amazing entertainment!
Ah.... seaQuest… Star Trek for people who like the water.
It was the Stargate: Atlantis of its day. But not quite.
Roy Schieder swimming with dolphins
I heard Eddie from Frasier is going to ride the dolphin during sweeps week
Not gonna lie....I just had that scene of Data waving at a fish play in my head while reading this.
Sea Quest...A "WAS THAT REAL?" Moment
We took the tram tour in 1992 and in 1994. We love. it. I do not remember it going down the streets of the actual park, other than back by near “Star Trek/Ghostbusters” and the fake cardboard sky scrapers. I vaguely remember looping around the back lot over to where the Bates Motel was, as well as the original Hard Rock Cafe’. If I recall, there also was a “cul-de-sac” if famous house like “Leave it to Beaver”. I need to go back through old video to see if we have any shots saved🤔🤔
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I remember going on this as a kid. It wasn't very memorable. It was very watered down and didn't feel like a real studio. Besides Nickelodeon the other things you saw was very brief and mostly just props.
@Cinematic Curtain right but they played it up as if you were going to be "in the movies" before the tour as if you would be seeing movies and shows being filmed. Then when you were actually on the tour you see props. It was pretty lame.
It was sadly the result of an after-thought to compete with Disney, but I don't blame them given the history.
Hey, the bit at 1:43 featuring the old Universal Studios Florida promotional video.....the music that plays during it, do you know what it's from? Was it a unique score created just for that advertisement or did it come from an actual movie or TV show? I love it so much.
Annnnnnnd this is why Disney’s tram outlasted them. Driving through guests? That’s a big no no! So inefficient lol
Man, I swear, dude, you are the best at this kind of documentary subject and presentation. Awesome stuff.
Thanks a lot for this video. When I was a kid, I saw a documentary about Universal Studios Florida - it was at the beginning of the 90’s, but the documentary must have been filmed much earlier as I remember Jaws and Earthquake being the two main attractions, and that visitors were taken on a studio tram tour and shown background infos about the magic of moviemaking. For me, a Hungarian from the eastern block at the end of the communist era it was particularly amazing to watch, and an impossible dream that I could ever get there. But I did - in 2016. And I was looking for both Jaws and Earthquake (stupid me) but they were not there. There wasn’t a studio tour either. We basically paid a bunch of money for mostly rollercoasters when I was hoping to find out more about how movies are made, but the Universal theme Park today has little to do with the original concept. In this respect it was kind of a disappointment, although I’m still grateful I could see it.
That's sad. Luckily I visited this park in 1997 and 1999, back when it was in its prime. I'm from UK so I was fortunate to get to visit Florida a couple of times when I was young and enjoy this park (as well as the Disney ones).
The MGM "tour" was definitely better. Shame the best version lasted even less than this tour.
I was there in during the summer of the opening year. I do not remember the tram tour. The day I was there the King Kong attraction was still in "technical rehearsals". After several attempts, the ride was breaking down frequently, I made it on the ride. The cable car gets to the final scene, where Kong picks up the cable car. As he "lifts" the car, the ride broke. Silence, dead Kong. Reset, Kong springs back to life growling and pounding his fist on the cable car. The Earthquake ride was also having problems that day. The train pulled into the station, waited, nothing happened, the train goes back to the loading area, reset, back to the station and the effects worked. The park received some bad press that summer because it seemed that they opened before everything was running correctly. Then there was Jaws the Ride...
I've never been to Universal Florida, but the tour is such a staple of Hollywood (which I lived near until I was 13) I always just assumed there'd be one there, as well. I'm shocked there's not.
Have a tramtastic day
Have a tramtastic night
Watch your step as you exit the tram
And everything will be alright
Why do I vividly remember this song from going on the tour when I was only around 8 at Hollywood?
This was a terrible tram tour...only got to go on it once in early 1991 and it was gone the next time I was there...it was slow and VERY DULL!
Sounds more exciting than Universal Hollywood's modern tram tour. Hahaha. xD
I say that and Universal Studios Hollywood is my favorite theme park and practically my second home.
This was a really great video. Keep it up. Ok so can i suggest a ride. I wanna suggest the history of tower of terror. Thanks.
I remember taking the back tour at both Universal and MGM. The Universal one was cool in the early yrs they would take to the swamp girl house and let you check it out.
My family and I were on the tram tour in 1990. I had know idea there was any controversy about its existence. That's hilarious. It doesn't feel that long ago to me. It's strange how quickly people can forget the past! Anyway, in case it's of interest or simply to add to the mystery, when we took the tour I believe the tram took off from the front parking lot but it was preceded by a brief walk through the inside of the studios. I am NOT misremembering the Nickelodeon studios tour. We purposefully did not take that tour because I hated Double Dare. I was excited by a brief glimpse of Anthony Perkins in his trailer (it was inside the studio rather than outside) during the walking part of the tour. They were filming Psycho IV: The Beginning at the time. I believe I even have a blurry photo of Perkins from that day...
After seeing the over-head picture of the Universal entrance and how different it is today made me think of how cool it would be to watch a history of City Walk and the resorts
Fascinating video! I remember many many years ago I visited Universal Studios down in Orlando, and I swear that I remember a tour (either via tram or walk through) that was basically a winding path through and around a ton of old movie memorabilia including one of the half sharks from Jaws 2 or 3, and one of the ant models from THEM! The Jaws model made me remember it. It must have been a version of the Boneyard, which, I didn't think was open in the early 2000s.
Great research and editing! As much as I value the ride as theme park history, it sounds so incredibly dull to me. I'd be part of why it wasn't that popular in the first place!
How could anyone think it´s a good idea? Seems the only thing exclusive for the tram tour were the initial bunch of studio backlots, where you could catch an active set or two if the gate was open. All the rest you could see by just walking through the park. That´s insanely boring.
I heard in 1986, a scare actor jumped at the Tram during Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Orlando. But he got crushed underneath the Tram and died on impact. After the death of this actor, they decided to move the Tram to Hollywood which was 6 years later. And named it Terror Tram.
Hope everyone has a tram-tastic day.
I don’t doubt the tour existed because I took this tour. I had a huge crush on Jonathan Brandis and took this tour in 1994. I was hoping to see him as SeaQuest DSV was filming. I never saw anything and it was quite a boring tour it a then 12 year old. Disney did have a better backlot tour out of the two.
At the end of all the old school 90's kids shows like "All That", "Kenan and Kell", I would see the iconic Nickelodeon studio. I never got to go to the Universal Studios Florida but, it sucks that's it's closed now. I don't know why they couldn't keep that, it's iconic!
I CAN'T BREATH AT 3:16
Elise Allen ahaha same
@9:54 Jimmy Fallon plays two notes and pretends it a song. To his credit, he can strum decently, but even an infant could learn that two cord ditty he belts out. What a sellout.
Holy cow, you must have done some really in-depth research and piecing together for this one. Great as always!
You have no idea...but it was totally worth it :)
I actually was at universal before the nickoldeon studio was retheme to the blue man group and I actually saw no joke some tram park right in front
Well this so-called studio tour experience ended up becoming pointless for the Orlando park.
Binging! I LOVED the Universal tram tour in CA in the 90's! It was so fun & great to see those old set like the Munster's house, Bates Hotel & that tiny place they filmed Gilligan's Island! But alas, STUPID worthless CGI TRASHED it. Went in Jan last year & was SO DISAPPOINTED I could have CRIED. Took my hubby to show him all these gems to see them GONE. SHAME ON YOU UNI you deserve to be boycotted until you bring that tram tour back to the one in the 90's.
The Eisner clips are pure gold!
Universal has been doing studio tours and behind the scenes looks since their origin.
I did the backlot tour when I was 15 when universal first opened.
I took the tour. It was boring compared to Hollywood's tour. the only thing cool that we got to see was the Addams Family House.
I visited Universal Studios every summer in the 90’s and the team tour was the only attraction I never got to experience. I certainly remember the trams driving through the streets, but we knew we got essentially the same experience on foot.
FYI: Rocky and Bullwinkle was not an opening day attraction. Universal got the rights to them several years in. True you didn’t explicitly say it was there on opening day, but it sounded implied (yes I’m splitting hairs here).
They made 2 movies only at Universal "Studios" Florida... Psycho IV and Problem Child 2 LOL
I can definitely attest to the existence of the Tram Tour since we went on it. In a word, it was BORING. Nothing happened. You saw nothing but the backs of sound stages with props strewn here and there. They just didn't have the film history that the one in Hollywood has, which is sooooooo much better, to say the least. If you never took it, then you didn't miss anything.
What is SeaQuest?
3:23 You know what's ironic? What he said is relevant to today's Disney Studios and the Parks. And Disney as a whole has been taking shortcuts a lot as of late.
If someone asked what’s your dream? My dream is to go back in time and ride every single ride from back then before they shut them down like the originals cause tbh all those rides that are no longer there are nostalgic and way more exciting than cars land or fucking frozen or fricken taking out the movie ride for some Mickey Mouse bull shit for universal that tour was exciting just like jaws etc. Even the Michael Jackson one and the Journey into imagination
They should’ve just kept everything in Cali because Florida can never get it all right lmao. The back lot tour is very put together in the Cali location and has been running successfully for years even with older movies
Too funny I remember going on this as a kid and then walking the whole park again in those same spots. Disney’s MGM backlot tour was much better.
One of the best parts of your voice is that subtitles can make out every single word and I can understand this video without sound if I have to. You’re stuff is awesome and I love the history, keep it up!
Thank you for the kind words :)
Hey how about a video concerning the Hard Rock Cafe Restaraunt that was next to what is now fiefals play area and the et ride ( I know I didn’t spell it right)
We did the tram tour in the summer of 1992. It was short and silly. We'd done the Universal Hollywood previously, so the Orlando version was sad by comparison.
Road the Orlando tour in 1992. Having been on the Hollywood on. I thought "What a waste of time"
How can you question the existence of the studio tour. Universal studios Hollywood does exist & the studio tour is very popular there.
3:13 - "And take a guess at just who so happened to be at that very meeting:"
Me: Bette Midler?..
Pretty sure Nickelodeon was open with the park, but the Slime Geyser came a bit later.
Why Why blue man group you have to take away nickelodeon studios u take our memerious
this is very similar to defunctland...... Yesterworld?
I’ve ridden this in 91 or 92 it was better than Disney’s backlot tours
Aww man I missed it I only went to universal once and that was in October 2020
disnet dave uploaded universal vhs from 1995 that has the tram tour on it in orlando
What is the footprint of yesterworld, by now?
That line about ending up in the bushes if you exit on the left side was kinda funny.^^
why is it that univesal Hollywood is still a working studio but florida is not the one in Hollywood has rides too.
When I was young Studio 20 home of Nick. When I was order Studio 20 home of TNA Wrestling.
3:23 That should be put on a shirt. 😂
It’s a shame that this tram tour didn’t feature The Lottery starring Bette Midler
I would kill to be able to see nickoloden studios in its prime and go to a game show 💔
The Tram Tour also looks uninteresting
Wellllll, I rode the Universal Studio Florida’s Production Studio Tram Tour. And took the Nickelodeon Studio tour. And rode the parking lot tram. Took the Tram tour then the Nick Studio tour in 1994. Took the parking lot tram in 1995 and remembered thinking, "I didn't know they had a tram!!" As you showed, the Tram tour wasn't all that exciting. It was just a way to sit and relax for a while, out of the sun and/or rain, and "learn" about USF.
The tour in Hollywood was great. This one looked boring
3:23 Michael Eisner summing up his entire stint with Disney.
Universal Studios Hollywood still owns it’s own tram
This video just makes me think of... “wATCH tHE tRAIN (or tram idk) cAR pLEASEEEE”
lol whys the immigrant sign used in the thumbnail?
Can anyone tell me what movie the set at 8:58 is from? It looks very cool.
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Can you do terminator 3d and beetlejuice in the same video
I did the studio tour, and the guide pointed out a Christmas set for the next Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. The set turned out to be for Jingle All the Way. I guess this was in CA.
I have very vague memories of the tram tour. Maybe I went on it maybe i didn’t. Don’t remember exactly.
Did this tram tour in 1990. Yes, it did indeed exist.
I believe Anthony Perkins was interested in playing the villain in the Swamp Thing series that filmed here but it conflicted w Psycho IV. Joseph Stefano, who wrote the scripts for Psycho & Psycho IV worked on Swamp Thing as did Cynthia Garris, wife of Psycho IV's director Mick Garris.
W so much connectivity here, one would think there would be more to commemorate the productions done here....
you need to credit the right person on many of your clips in this vid (ie me),,, there are many clips from my video used without my permission and consent ,, you have credited someone who has pinched my footage (who i have reported) and was very surprised to see it on here (i do appreciate that you did credit someone - just not the owner of the footage)
I did this tour and it also included walking inside the sound stages. We actually walked over cables on the floor. I was there the 2nd day the park opened to the public.
Love the video! I will say you can go backstage quite a bit if you know when they're filming. They do film quite often at Universal although it's usually just commercials for TV. I went to the Tonight Show when the ride first opened. Deal Or No Deal now films permanently from Universal Studios Florida. TNA Wrestling also films there and a few other shows you just gotta know. Also Grinchmas is usually in Soundstage 23.
I have been on universal Hollywood tram tour it is amazing, and last year was on Disney Paris tram tour such a let down. Some parks are meant for these tours some are not
Maybe Eisner "copied" the tram tour because it was iconic in the *Hollywood* Universal Studios?? The tram tour was a bit hokey, but it was a fun way for this kid to see practical effects -- and watch these sets "reset" themselves as the tram left. The live shows, at the time, were okay, but pretty much every theme park had one at the time, and the live shows were what you *skipped* at Disneyland. With practical effects going away, I dunno what would replace them, but I'll miss that tacky ol' tram!