Yesterworld: The History of Disney's Honey I Shrunk The Audience 

Yeah I hated when they did the same sort of thing with cockroaches in “Its Tough to Be a Bug” as a kid.

Even though I mainly watched this on RU-vid, it was still interesting to see. But damn those mice, I can still feel it

I remember lifting my legs being so freaked out! Since I returned to see Captain EO, the device left me underwhelmed. I was literally tickled by it.

Andrew Thomas I peed my pants when the snake came out

I was only 5 when the mice thing happened and I was so scared that I kept my legs up the entire rest of the attraction because I was convinced the mice were real and were still wandering around the theater. The whole experience itself was pretty scarring thinking back on it

Samuel Chin Orozco That doesn’t sound like a bad idea.

I wanna see a 3D motion simulator themed to Ant-Man called “Ant-Man Adventure”!

Unfortunately, the technology for the ride is outdated by today's standard as people would not be as fooled as they were back then.

gissneric I guess your right.

gissneric i don’t think so, the brilliance of the show was not that the seats had a lot of movement but that the movie was perfectly synchronized with the images. Simulator ride are now abundant in theme parks but they are not this subtle and convincing. Also 4dx theaters are now commonplace in many countries. I go there regularly to watch the latest blockbusters,, but since these movies weren’t made with moving seats in mind, the “Honey I shrunk the audience” attraction still remains one of the best simulator ride experiences I had ever experience.

As a teenager I'm somewhat ashamed to admit that personally I'd pull out the "ticklers" from the seats to ensure I'd leave the theater without bruises. Hated that effect. Not literally rip them out or anything, but just pull them out so they wouldn't POP out during that scene.

Same, my sister and I both hate them. We also sit on our feet for the bug crawling part of "it's tough to be a bug" 😂

The live show Disneyland has for Bugs Life is the worst, I hate it. It features a stink bug, which released a pungent odor to the audience, the sensation of being stung on your back, if you were leaning against the seat (after my first viewing I knew when to lean forward and get up from my seat) and giant 3D Black widows coming down from the ceiling! Yikes! I didn't care much for the giant snake part in Honey I shrunk the audience show either and my little twin brothers were terrified! So much so that they cried while in line waiting for the Country Bear Jamboree (RIP CBJ) because they were too young to know the difference and thought they were going on the ride with the scary snake again lol

I did too and will always do it

Part of A HISTA CM's closing duties was to collect the ones people pulled out. I made a cat o' nine tails out of the ones I found.

Lol

;-)

That poor ant's death in the movie always got me to tear up.

That 3D show was a experience... a terrifying one but a experience non the lesser.

one of my earliest memories is on that kodak slide, i always thought it was a battery

They could have easily rethemed it to Ant Man too...

@@mattl1458 You're totally right and now I'm even more upset

robotparadise that’s UNFAIR!!!!!!

Ashley H it terrified me! I refused to even go and see normal 3D movies at the cinema for years because of it!

Me I would always run out crying at the end of the film

This ride scared the crap out of me too! By that very same 3D cat monster. It actually gave me nightmares for a while. Having grown up though, I miss that ride and would do anything for another go at it.

Snake got my 11 year old self. pretty good.

I literally thought the snake was going to bite my face- so I just closed my eyes and curled up in my seat looking back at the audience

Hey Michael Esnier is that really you again hurry be S.E.O. of the Walt Disney Company again please do it

go away, you murdered the peoplemover and replaced it with those god awful rocket rods...

💩

Michael Eisner HA

yes you did michael. disneyland paris is what killed you

We visited Hollywood Studios in Feb 2019, and at least at that time it was seriously lacking in play areas for small kids. Too much waiting in lines and not enough room for kids to run around when they need to get their energy out. Toy Story Land would have been an obvious place to add one. It's disappointing that the play area has not been replaced.

I don’t know if a peanut butter and jelly scent would be good because of peanut allergies

@@muppetspot2 you know you can simulate a smell without the real thing right?

@@ab5olut3zero95 Yes I do, however I still don’t know if it is a good ides

I LOVED it till the last dates or not!

I can't help but respect the guy. He stopped acting just to take care of his family as a widower.

Have you heard his music?

I agree

rosenrot234 yup

Loved him in Little Shop of Horrors

rasputinafreak LOL

rasputinafreak yup

It's expensive to change things.

@Haze Demolishing a whole park is hard.

@@FastForwardPlans yeah about as much time and effort goes into tearing one down as it does building one

The ride needs Microsoft or Apple as a Sponsor now. A company with unlimited money to spend restoring the attraction to it's prime and have image works be there tech demo playground.

At 9:37, What do you think would really happen to a person if their body gets stuck under a giant woman when she collapsed onto them?

Gabriel Lezama When has he ever has he ever not made amazing content?

I just couldn't live a lie anymore...

No, the person you go inside in Body Wars stole Buzzy. (I have no idea who it is, but I think it's a guy even though it could be a girl.)

Anime Withered Toy Freddy 1987 stop being everywhere

Cool.

I fucking loved Body Wars.

I haven't been to Disneyland since 2014 I miss it

Henry Robles it’s best to go on a slow day during the week. Weekends are a nightmare. The holiday season (October to December) are disappointing on displays. I got my pass in 2017 because I wanted the rose cup but I got the SoCal pass which is for the weekdays only and I have to pay for parking but I go with my brother which has the parking included on his pass. But with Star Wars land opening up soon the rules for the pass will change and mine will mostly be for DCA only.

MissArtSucker dang, that all sounds like a huge pain in the ass lol. Thanks Disney.

It’s $800 for a deluxe annual pass.

Kate C yes it is, the prices went up yesterday with no warning. now if you want to have the pass that includes Disneyland and Disney World it’s around 2,000. At least Six Flags pass have more to offer you can even bring a friend for free some days and that pass is under $100 dollars.

At 9:37, What do you think would really happen to a person if their body gets stuck under a giant woman when she collapsed onto them?

bruh stitch was literally so terrifying for no reason why was that so scary lmao

I was a HISTA cast member in 1998. Now I feel old.

I remember the spiders in Shrek 4-D. When I was little, I always lifted my feet up whenever I saw the spiders onscreen so that I wouldn’t feel the spiders crawling up my legs.

Lucy Price same but the spider scared me enough to skip it every time l went to universal. Well atleast I’m not that scared now.

Sharkzilla Yeah. I remember wondering to myself when I went on it when I was a little older “what do the spiders actually feel like?” and honestly, it wasn’t as bad as I made it out to be as they basically brush past your ankles. My imagination back then made it out so that I’d feel them actually crawling up my legs and that’s why I got so freaked out by it at the time.

Lucy Price I haven’t been on it since that day but I realized the technology they had for it was just air so I’m going on it again the next time I go. Mostly cause of the memes.

Or bugs in Its Tough to be a Bug. I don't know why but that effect always creeped me the fuck out. Like it was cool they got it to work but it kinda worked TOO good

I knew this was a mistake...

Yeah so u did feel it? Not everyone does . Some guy told me it’s real I don’t wanna get into that rn bjt ya so u felt it 2? I always backed up but anyone who mentioned it says others don’t feel it or they don’t feel it all the time bjt after the first I always like backed up as far as I could i didn’t like it lol… wonder how they do that effect cuz I felt it from the front u know. Kind of hurt

The play area was fun. You wouls have enjoyed it. And I too remember the Warehouse with the props, and the bee demonstration, thinking that was the coolest thing ever. Good to know someone else remembers that. 😊

At 9:37, What do you think would really happen to a person if their body gets stuck under a giant woman when she collapsed onto them?

same! I went the same year, at Disneyland Paris and I've been traumatized too :(

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At 9:37, What do you think would really happen to a person if their body gets stuck under a giant woman when she collapsed onto them?

bigevilworldwide1 simmer down now, I never said EO should still be there (in a perfect world it would be lol) They should make a new version with a modern popular musician like Bruno Mars or something.. that be kinda cool. Anything’s better than what’s there now

@@BenLaurence That would date just as quickly if not more so. No modern musician has the kind of reach Jackson had in his pre-trial heyday, and Disney's not in as financially precarious a situation as they were when they opened EO in the first place. The opening even got its own network TV special, it was that big. Much of the stuff put there under Eisner's watch was pretty dated and not in the cool retro-future way. Some of it was downright cheap. How much of a future does, say, Toontown have in a Disney corporate environment where everything is either a sequel, a remake, or marvelstarwars?

Attmay true, just suggestions though. A lotta things Iger is doing is cheap, cheesy and will date quickly. Disney just isn’t the same anymore

@bigevilworldwide1 Michael Jackson is consistently one of the highest earning dead celebrities in the world and his Estate earns more than most modern living artists. He may have died ten years ago,but there are still many younger generations discovering his greatness.

Captain EO was better but at the same time I think it’s too scary for kids which is why it wasn’t that popular when it returned but I loved it and glad I got to experience

Mark Walton The Shrunk the Audience attraction should’ve still been at Epcot while Tomorrowland at Disneyland would still use its theater for Captain EO, Disney movie trailers, STAR WARS movie clips, and some limited time 3D attractions along with the Tomorrowland at Tokyo Disneyland, Discoveryland at Disneyland Paris, and Tomorrowland at Hong Kong Disneyland that would do the same thing and also the Tomorrowland at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom!

If they rebooted Honey, it would just be another CGI movie, nothing special. Since Disney owns Honey --- I'm sure there will be a remake, unfortunately. BTTF is a different story. Robert Zemeckis will never let that happen, and I believe him.

Honestly, VFX would have actually improved the original.

I feel like it would lessen the effects they used. Like a cop-out, blue or green screen the whole backyard. When in the original the made big objects. I feel Disney would cut corners on Honey.

Why do I get the feeling that, as the case with the reboot of Freaky Friday, we're just going to get a cheap telefilm on the Disney Channel targeted specifically for 9-12 year old girls? I'm not someone that inherently cares about movie studios making inferior reboots of movies that wouldn't translate the same in a modern era. If you don't get a reboot of something, you wind up with a knockoff because there are only so many stories to tell. But frankly, Rick Moranis made the film. He made the third one tolerable, and I'll say the TV show was pretty decent with Peter Scolari (the not Tom Hanks guy from Bosom Buddies), but only because the show managed to be its own thing instead of just shrinking them every week. I don't see the point, even financially of another modern update of a raucous family comedy that was made in the decade perfect for it on all counts. Father of the Bride and Parent Trap, sure. Parent Trap was remade, including once as an awful ripoff film with the Olsen Twins, and that sort of thing can work. Father of the Bride seems like just that kind of story they'd remake as any film intentionally or not. Honey is just going to come off desperate, not getting a new audience who doesn't care for that kind of family movie, nor attracting any fanbase that's nostalgic of the original. Again, unless it's a cheap, disposable Disney Channel teen pop flick to squeeze a little popularity out of some throwaway pop star they're promoting. At least there'd be a soundtrack of forgettable teenybopper music that a hip mom would buy for their kids to listen in the car like twice.

I once read something (though I can't find it anymore) in 2017 about the Honey I Shrunk the Kids reboot. It said that the main reason it hasn't already happened is because every time they found someone to direct/write it, they kept making it into a full-on horror flick. Every script had at least one of the kids getting killed and one writer even went so far as to actually kill all of them in each draft of the script (one draft had a kid die from each obstacle; the mower would grind one to a pulp, the bee would impale another, the scorpion sliced one in half, and the last kid was only found after being crushed by the dad's teeth and was put out of his misery with the rest of the cheerios with the movie ending on the dad lying to the mom saying that they should move before anyone finds out.) As a result, the project is on hold until they find someone who can do it without going that far. Again, this was something I read in 2017 (maybe late 2016; these last couple years are a bit of a blur when your list of reasons to end it all keeps growing on a seemingly weekly basis) and I can't find it again for the life of me. If anyone can find it, please let me know. Personally, I didn't really like the original because I already don't like bees, scorpions are terrifying, and the idea of getting eaten is horrific. Those rejected scripts, though... Seriously, as much as the original scared me as a kid and still kinda does, I feel like those pitched reboots would've been straight-up nightmare fuel to the point where children would never want to go outside or eat cheerios out of sheer terror after their parents figured it wouldn't be so bad to show them the new version. It could be rated R for the amount of death and (most likely) gore, but I guarantee a lot of parents would say "It's just a remake of that cheesy 80's movie" and take their toddler who would then leave the theater with screams of fear with only months of nightmares to look forward to.

I agree. I think when they originally came out, they were cool for their time. But I sadly find them pretty lame now....

WayWardWanderer me too. But the mice did it for me.

The mice right off the line was enough for me. That 4D show scared me to near death. Did it later in life knowing what would happen, but the effects weren’t as powerful. But my god as a little kid it was terrifying.

@@KWCline91 The mice felt SO GOOD.

SuperSonicHero10 in Orlando, you can find this display in the queue for Journey Into Your Imagination (is that what they call that abomination now?)

@@djsmartyp close- its Journey Into Imagination With Figment.

Hey! We worked together, then! I was there from 1998-99.

Cursed Dream Disneyland Paris

@@svhwdwnut same thing....

At 9:37, What do you think would really happen to a person if their body gets stuck under a giant woman when she collapsed onto them?

Sarah McMann what’s there now

Tiff Prendergast Star Wars land

At 9:37, What do you think would really happen to a person if their body gets stuck under a giant woman when she collapsed onto them?

ashleyofoz Why not check out other 3D shows at Walt Disney World like the Philharmagic show at Magic Kingdom, Muppet-Vision 3D at Hollywood Studios, and the Disney and Pixar Film Festival at Epcot!

Why156 Why156 is cool

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RedBlazingSky Quit spamming that comment, tard

At 9:37, What do you think would really happen to a person if their body gets stuck under a giant woman when she collapsed onto them?

Indeed.

Lexi I did love it 2003/4/5/7 :-)

Who are these weirdos who DIDN'T like the show?? Aside from kids who were scared of mice/snakes dragged along and traumatized by their idiot parents (or adults who still didn't like the mice effect, but kept coming back to the show anyway??)? I thought it was terrific - the effect when the entire theater appears to be moving, accomplished by giant bellows/air cushions under all the seats, amazed me and never got old for me. A great movie is a great movie, no matter how old it is (I'm looking at you, Universal Studios/Back to the Future the Ride!), and I'd argue it made an even better attraction - Disneyland has quite a few attractions based on movies more than 20 years old, that rightfully are still there (knock on wood!). And the adults that I knew who brought their kids to the playground (with a similar area for A Bug's Life in Disneyland) said their kids loved it (you don't go in the middle of summer, duh!) - I was sad when both areas went away. I mark this as a fail for Disney, whether anyone else agrees or not.

I actually really enjoyed it too! ☀️

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