Inside The Goonies Sound Stage 

My good friend's Dad was a structural engineer who was hired to help build the one-eyed Willy pirate ship set. My friend even got to visit the set as a little kid, he was probably 5 years old at the time, so he barely remembers it, but still pretty awesome!

My father was an IATSE Local 44 propmaker for over 30 years. I followed him into the business in 1995. One of my first big features was Batman and Robin on Stage 16 at WB. I spent 13 years of my life on soundstages building sets for film and TV. Everyone in the comments has this romanticized idea of these stages as fantastic places where movie magic happens. When you work there that idea wears off real quick. They are big,hot,dirty,smelly, warehouses.

Very cool

Thats was awesome! Goonies is one of my favourite childhood movies. Thank you for sharing with us!! 🥃🖖🏻🥳

My grandfather and uncle worked at Warner Bros for over 35yrs and they were part of the crew that help build the pirate ship. I have pictures of them all kneeling in front of the ship.

Golden Age in entertainment - music, movies, TV... Goonies and Back to the Future were PEAK 1980's movies.

The goonies are good enough for me!

Wow that's pretty cool, never even knew jacking up the building was even the option. But of course the history of the building is the cherry on top. Thanks for sharing.

Man, movies are just so amazing; the way they can turn empty rooms into sights and sounds that literally change lives and stay with us forever. There must've been quite an energy stepping into such a historic space of cinematic history. I've always liked the feeling in the air on film sets. Very cool stuff, dude.

Best movie ever 👌 👏 good Job

born in 81,ok i was a kid but i remebmer a lot,plus i had older brothers.but what was the best thing of the 80's...THE METAL

Love them 80s baby! Way to go!!!😲💯💫👍🤍!

That is so freakin cool!

So cool!! Thanks for sharing

Awesome video Kurt! 🤘😎🤘🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

So cool that you were able to go into soundstage 16. I did the WB tour several years and it they mentioned about SS 16 the information from the Goonies, but obviously couldn't tour because of a production occurring at the time. Thanks for sharing the adventure.

All of this is astounding. Wow so amazing.

Omg thank you for sharing this with us! I love your channel so much! ♥️

I saw it in the theater when I was a child and have the movie poster framed in my house.

What a dream. So badass.

Thank you Kurt,seeing that meant alot to me!!

Great videos. Love them

Wow! That was awesome. Thanks once again for the great work 🇮🇪

Awesome, Kurt! My fav 80's movie.

Cool👍

i love the magic of soundstages...

It’s basically a huge gymnasium for movie magic. Crazy construction with the removable floor. Such a crazy set 🐸🍺🔪🔥

Awesome 😎

Another awesome video, cheers Kurt!

OMG!! Stellar!! ❤

That’s awesome

So cool to see inside the sound stage most will never see! Thanks a million Kurt! 👻👊🏽

That's so cool, Goonies is my fav 80s movie as well, fair play Kurt

Very cool video. Love this movie!

Nice job Kurt. HUGE Goonies fan here. I’ve always been aware of this but haven’t made it to WB yet. TY for sharing.

This Sound stage would make an amazing AR experience! being able to flick through the different productions there.

So much history in these old soundstages

Great insider information.

I like to say thank for the content that you put out and this vlog that is truly awesome

This is so cool, so many great movies filmed here. And Goonies is one of my all-time favorite films. That place looks huge for sure!

Seeing this movie in the theater on the weekend it came out back in June 1985 was one of the highlights of my childhood. Definitely a "Name the Most '80s Moment of Your Life" moment. Or, does seeing Back to the Future less than a month later top it?

It's crazy to see they raised the sound stage to make it bigger in addition to removable flooring for a water tank. It would explain the flying buttress on the outside of the building which is needed to support the new height.

That is extremely cool. Major jealous. That building has seen a lot of amazing things over it's nearly 100 year life (also incredible). It is truly amazing what the VFX wizards and set construction crews can do with sound stages. Absolutely amazing.

That’s awesome man!!!

Next to some Ponch and John episodes. This is my favorite movie of my youth til Rad came out.😊

That must have been an amazing feeling being in there. Good video.

very cool. thanks curt.

How cool! So far I have only seen the outside filming locations. Extremely nice addition to the Goonies.

One of my favorite childhood movies of all time.

So cool! Great Job! 🎉🎉🎉

Amazing! Great stuff, man. I'd love to see the inside of that one someday!

Out of all the movies shot there, the pirate ship in the Goonies is the coolest scene. Nice to get a look inside #16

I wonder if the writer strikes freed it to be able to get that chance to check it out, amazing great job like always.👍

this is awesome

That's an iconic soundstage for sure!

You are killing it with the new videos. Keep it up!

Wow. I’m pretty jealous you’ve been in there, you’ve shared space with One eyed Willy. The fratellis. The Goonies. Thanks for sharing and making the 9 year old me back in 1985 come out bursting all over again!

Awesomeness.!

I used to work at Sony Pictures who own MGM studios. Their largest stage also has a plaque listing all the movies shot in it, including The Wizard of Oz. I worked on that stage many times for Stuart Little and Hollow Man. They also have a water tank stage.

I watch the goonies twice over this past weekend. The local theater had it for five dollars and then when the kids came back from their dads house my stepson wanted to watch it so we watched a half of it again later at night before bedtime I wear looks at me and says, are you watching this again? And I said heck yeah I am.

Nice!

Cool dude!

amazingggg

Epic , they obviously did an e trembly good job and yes a big part of80’s culture and our childhood is the Goonies

The stage looks bigger when the floor is removed. At the east end of the stage is a giant ramp that goes down into what becomes the tank.

Cool vid! Feel like for Karate Kid 2 it was the end when Chozan and Daniel fight.

This was pretty cool and coincidental. I just watched Goonies at Flix Brewhouse on Sunday.

Legendary

For whatever reason I thought the set was still going to have the Goonies stuff in it 😂

My uncle worked on The Goonies and I got to visit the set while they were filming I met the cast mr Spielberg and Richard Donner

Ty bro for this information ( The Goonies ) should get more recognition now a-days even at its time of release it wasn’t well known and people thought cheap movie but even tho the yr is 2023 it’s part of history and this movie should get the reputation it should deserve this movie even to this day basically the only movie that has boobie traps, map, items to be used to find the treasure, pirate ship with treasure we need more movies like the goonies 💯

Stage 16 =a magic stage

Wow! Thanks for sharing kurt! I'm thinking the scenes for the karate kid 2 would probably be the storm or castle scenes

Ive been in that sound stage. I worked for a security systems company that held a WB contract. It was during the perfect storm filming and I remember water being everywhere even outside the stage doors.

“Hey, 80s Life! Do the ‘Truffle Shuffle’!”

I've been in that sound stage years ago. I was on a tour and I guess nothing was shooting in there at the time. It's a popular stage for the water capabilities it has. It was a truly surreal experience being in there! Goonies never say die!

Best thing I've heard today

Thank you . i didnt know that .

Pretty cool. Hopefully I get a chance to go to WB one day. I don't have the slightest idea what a sound stage looks like in person. But it did look small. But when it comes to that I know nothing what the average size is or anything of the sort. We appreciate you sharing Kurt. Keep up the great work!!!

As for "Karate Kid " I think this is where the tournament scene in the first movie was filmed.

Damn I miss the 80’s. 😢

I work in the Medical field and I just so happen to work with Dr James Khan in Santa Barbara. He is a novelist who writes books and directs television series. He was the director for 90210. Anyways he wrote the novel for The Goonies and he told me he walked the whole set and just happens to have the original map from the goonies movie, the one that they found in the attic. I asked him Dr Khan how did you get it he said " It just feel into my pocket lol he also wrote the novel Return of the Jedi. and many more True story 100 ... look him up DR James Khan.

One of my favorite movies! Mama you've been Bad!

I worked on "Batman Returns" in that stage. It was the Gotham City set.

Wow!!!! Ghostbusters 1,2 Batman the goonies and many more classics.

My guess would be Viggo's art museum interior on Ghostbusters 2. The Hurricane scene on Karate Kid 2.

I been in there. I stole nails out of the walls. It was fantastic.

Who else thought they still had that ship up and that's the reason why they don't allow many people in it. Could you imagine how many more people would visit if that ship was still up. I bet the people that work to build those sets get a big laugh when the movies come out because they know everything that went into making it. It's just like actors that will say they have never seen a movie they have been in

We got a chance to go inside there.... its massive. Ghostbuster 1 & 2 was shot their too

gb2 the river of slime parts where filmed in a sound stage so id imagine it was that one.

My cousin worked at WB studios mid '00s and got my gf & I guests passes on the lot. We walked around the stages some were locked, some weren't. The open sets we walked into were Cold Case, ER (the main hallway way so small/narrow), & Poseidon (mentioned in this clip). I asked an employee what movie was being filmed, as there was a huge ship for the set; he stated Poseidon & that the stage next door (16) had the cap-sized model & he told us excitedly like we were familiar w/ the original film, had no clue what he was talking about lol but responded intriguing.

How cool!! I would love to see something actually being filmed but they don't make movies like that anymore! What's the biggest movie in recent years? Meg 2? Even Indiana Jones doesn't feel big like back in the 80's when everything was something truly special.

Cool you got to look inside and empty hanger.

Wow, did they say how many thousands of gallons of water it took to fill it for the Goonies? Would be interesting to see how they also rigged the water slides and water falls. Corey Feldman has said Michael Jackson also visited the set during filming.

Cool, I wonder what scenes from Disclosure were filmed in there 🤔.

The t rex from Jurassic park was tbere too. If you look up behind tbr scenes footage you can see the yellow bars in the background match up

Reclusive scavenger claims, " I have the key , to One Eye Willy " Love this stuff. Thank you brother. keep up the great work ! Would it be possible to film the location for Chopping Mall ??

I read that someone anonymously bought that pirate ship and it’s current location is unknown.

Goonies never say die!

Seems appropriately sized for the final showdown in KK2.