Yesterworld: The Short-Lived & Abandoned Tram Tour at Universal Studios Orlando Florida

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Exploring the little known history and fate of Universal Studio Florida’s Production Studio Tram Tour! Please see below for important credit correction
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@javigurrol4451 5 лет назад

Take a shot every time Michael Eisner is mentioned in a Yesterworld video.

@YesterworldEntertainment 5 лет назад

Quite frankly, I imagine you'd end up in the hospital with alcohol poisoning.

@adventureswithclidesrevange 5 лет назад

@Kay Kay from the RU-vid lol

@lilxamryn 5 лет назад

clide's revenge lol

@kellyweingart3692 5 лет назад

lol 🤪

@TheIvisi 5 лет назад

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?

@stephencass570 5 лет назад

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.

@edventureswithed 5 лет назад

Yep

@WeCanShowYoutheWorld 5 лет назад

That's actually a really cool thing to say you did! Do you still work for the company? -- K

@BetsyBigNose 5 лет назад

Yes I would be interested in seeing your video response please.

@adventureawakens 4 года назад

@@stephencass570 do it!

@drdremd 5 лет назад

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.

@MRLouieRS 5 лет назад

Same here! I thought it was all just a beautiful dream!

@alex0589 5 лет назад

Lol you could just google your psychotic episodes, you could sort them by real or episodes. No Mandela effect here

@rome.e.rome0000 5 лет назад

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.

@YesterworldEntertainment 5 лет назад

So glad I could contribute to the proof of your sanity :)

@drdremd 5 лет назад

Alex I did say slightly less insane than previously believed lol. But, yes, I should have.

@BenLaurence 5 лет назад

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

@YesterworldEntertainment 5 лет назад

I know right?! There's not a single "official" photo or video I could find anywhere, and it was all through random clips.

@lorddrayvon1426 2 года назад

"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.

@MarvelandStarWarsProductions Год назад

@@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

@KC-Mitch 5 лет назад

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 5 лет назад

You just made my entire week, heck, my entire month! So glad I was able to do it justice!

@KC-Mitch 5 лет назад

@@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.

@edenbru11 5 лет назад

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!

@brycevo 5 лет назад

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.

@brycevo 5 лет назад

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.

@suchomimus9460 5 лет назад

Bryce Mckenzie You would do great over on WDWMAGIC. forums.wdwmagic.com/forums/imagineer.15/

@austingilcher6687 5 лет назад

Personally I loved seeing the sets like the plane scene from War of the Worlds, whoville, and the desperate housewives neighborhood

@radioguy1667 2 года назад

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.

@LittleAlternativeGirl 5 лет назад

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 5 лет назад

Alex Z that’s so crazy how different everything was without the parking garages and city walk and IOA OMG

@THEremiXFACTOR 5 лет назад

I saw the lost world exhibit because I was there in summer 1997

@WeCanShowYoutheWorld 5 лет назад

@@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

@FootballRhodes 5 лет назад

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🤔🤔

@AttractionIdeas 5 лет назад

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.

@John-Boy-lw5hw 5 лет назад

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!!!!

@YesterworldEntertainment 5 лет назад

I was so concerned with this subject with how little information or visuals exist, so thanks for giving me a HUGE sigh of relief!

@John-Boy-lw5hw 5 лет назад

Yesterworld Entertainment you are so welcome, love your channel. It brings back memories!!!!

@chaseosborn6503 5 лет назад

The Orlando Tram Tour definitely looks far inferior than its Hollywood counterpart. I can see why it closed.

@brycevo 5 лет назад

This is a great way to pass the time while I wait. Thank you so much for an Amazing episode.

@YesterworldEntertainment 5 лет назад

Thank you for watching!

@brycevo 5 лет назад

@@YesterworldEntertainment Thank you for the amazing entertainment!

@AndrewB.. 5 лет назад

God i missed this! Thanks for making me smile with your videos!

@welcometomylives 5 лет назад

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.

@THEremiXFACTOR 5 лет назад

That music's originally from Ironside isn't it?

@YesterworldEntertainment 5 лет назад

*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: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oZ6_x9JXbbo.html A link to their channel can also be accessed here: ru-vid.comvideos 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!

@ThemeParkStop 5 лет назад

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!

@MRLouieRS 5 лет назад

Fascinating! I knew I wasn't crazy. Subscribing now.

@dylanoh-criner8312 5 лет назад

So, when you gon do a vid on horizons

@MattBrayton 5 лет назад

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!

@chappy9724 5 лет назад

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.

@baconsoap78 5 лет назад

The Eisner clips are pure gold!

@Cre80s 5 лет назад

Man, I swear, dude, you are the best at this kind of documentary subject and presentation. Awesome stuff.

@freakfoxvevo7915 5 лет назад

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

@WraithTDK 5 лет назад

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.

@Seejay73196 5 лет назад

Yesterworld might be one of the smaller Disney Channels on RU-vid but honestly you have the best intro.

@WeCanShowYoutheWorld 5 лет назад

I love the intro also! -- K

@danthefan28 5 лет назад

1:43 Who else thinks this looks like the MCU Opening?

@jeremysewell2805 5 лет назад

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

@drewwadsworth3285 5 лет назад

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...

@TheGuitarAttic 5 лет назад

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.

@crystalgemgirl731 Год назад

That line about ending up in the bushes if you exit on the left side was kinda funny.^^

@gumdropp2264 5 лет назад

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!

@YesterworldEntertainment 5 лет назад

Thank you for the kind words :)

@MsPentek13 5 лет назад

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.

@THEremiXFACTOR 5 лет назад

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).

@striderbri1 5 лет назад

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.

@stickmtn209 5 лет назад

Tramtastic day was a bop, just saying

@County-ej8vj 5 лет назад

Brilliant video. Lived the map showing where it went....love everything Universal/Disney especially the history of closed rides. Brings back all those memories

@yesorlando05 5 лет назад

This was fantastic. We didn't start going to Universal Orlando until 2002. I never realized until I watched this that a big parking lot use to be where City Walk is now. Man, it's soooo different, lol. But it's for the better. The present day parking deck frees up a ton of space and we love City Walk. Thanks for the upload!

@feliciasingleton4849 5 лет назад

I remember the Studio Tour...I first went to USF about a month after they first opened, and I still have the park tickets, the brochures, and the first souvenir book and the 1st 8 postcards they ever sold...the postcards were unique because they were miniatures of the original billboards that advertising the place...getting back to the Studio Tour, I got slimed, chased by Frankenstein and run over by a Tour tram...good times, good times😊😊😊

@pierce324 5 лет назад

Holy cow, you must have done some really in-depth research and piecing together for this one. Great as always!

@YesterworldEntertainment 5 лет назад

You have no idea...but it was totally worth it :)

@ladew03 5 лет назад

I remember going on that when I was younger I loved it

@vintagevhstreasures4058 5 лет назад

When in Hollywood or Florida Visit Universal Studios (Ask for Babs)

@seatspud 5 лет назад

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@allenhuffman 3 года назад

Thanks for this one. I visited in the early years but never knew there was a tram tour until I ran across a reference to it earlier this year.

@FerchovRey 5 лет назад

Fantastic!!

@jacobdominguez7808 5 лет назад

Your videos are getting better & better! 👍💯

@Thunderlips420 5 лет назад

About 10 years ago I got to be apart of their Macys day parade. Got to see most of the backlot and behind the scenes, it was really cool.

@tilendynaguy4895 5 лет назад

I remember that tour several times as a kid. I always liked the bone yard and always wondered why they left all those props outside like that, it was just an empty lot filled with rocks and props and roped off. Great video 👍👍 Good memories

@AroundIndiana 5 лет назад

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.

@AroundIndiana 5 лет назад

@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.

@YesterworldEntertainment 5 лет назад

It was sadly the result of an after-thought to compete with Disney, but I don't blame them given the history.

@Drebe73 5 лет назад

Got to experience the tour back in the early 90’s.

@jaspspiritual8966 5 лет назад

This is so cool!!

@justmeeagainn 5 лет назад

Hope everyone has a tram-tastic day.

@jakevader93 5 лет назад

Huh, this was one thing about USF I never knew about. Great video!

@DKdevilplayground 4 года назад

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!

@joeypatapas2676 5 лет назад

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).

@JeffFrmJoisey 5 лет назад

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.

@happiestplace3754 5 лет назад

That was a great video. I never made it out to Universal Florida until the late 90's, so I don't know all the details about it's early years and struggles.

@lorddrayvon1426 2 года назад

3:23 Michael Eisner summing up his entire stint with Disney.

@vintagegal7376 5 лет назад

I remember taking that tour!

@eliseallen3617 5 лет назад

I CAN'T BREATH AT 3:16

@alex0589 5 лет назад

Elise Allen ahaha same

@wesleydraves1281 3 года назад

Aww man I missed it I only went to universal once and that was in October 2020

@BungieStudios 5 лет назад

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.

@Cubanbeauty 5 лет назад

I did the backlot tour when I was 15 when universal first opened.

@Dreaklock 5 лет назад

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.

@robertarmour4922 3 года назад

Back Tours bring it back it was great.

@SHMACKYA 5 лет назад

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.

@35bam 5 лет назад

Sick intro!

@blacksun26 5 лет назад

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...

@reagan403 5 лет назад

This was a great video! Keep up the good work. If you take suggestions I recommend the rocky and bullwinkle ride and Alfred Hitchcock’s attraction since I rarely have heard of them

@THEremiXFACTOR 5 лет назад

The Alfred Hitchcock attraction was awesome. I loved it.

@bensphone3222 5 лет назад

You sound so hyped

@derekmiles1337 5 лет назад

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.

@jujucatjuca 5 лет назад

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!

@ryanhadley2685 5 лет назад

Thanks for reminding us about that tour i forgot about it lol

@patrickcowles2782 5 лет назад

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?

@karolszymczuk9603 5 лет назад

We took that tour when i was a kid. Back when they still had Nick and the Ghostbusters show. I wonder if we still have the vhs my dad recorded..

@dontdriveat88 5 лет назад

Doc Brown on an ET bike. Yes, yes yes!

@justyouraveragegeek548 5 лет назад

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

@ElricSowrd 5 лет назад

3:18- That music. 😄

@HypeFox 8 месяцев назад

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.

@metropod 5 лет назад

Ah.... seaQuest… Star Trek for people who like the water.

@seatspud 5 лет назад

It was the Stargate: Atlantis of its day. But not quite.

@THEremiXFACTOR 5 лет назад

Roy Schieder swimming with dolphins

@haileyshannon7548 5 лет назад

I heard Eddie from Frasier is going to ride the dolphin during sweeps week

@IWasaTeenageTeenWolf 4 года назад

Not gonna lie....I just had that scene of Data waving at a fish play in my head while reading this.

@YumegakaMurakumo 4 года назад

Sea Quest...A "WAS THAT REAL?" Moment

@rattyeely 5 лет назад

The studio tour in Universal Studios Hollywood rocks, it's full of thrilling special effects, two short vr rides, cool sets you can't see otherwise, and locations that are still being filmed at. It's as satisfying as going on multiple rides, but with only one line. Florida Universal Studios is missing out, even this tour that they had seemed pretty lame

@dennismiller7993 5 лет назад

I remember talking the Florida Universal Tour. Having grown up in the shadows of Universal Hollywood, the thing that stood out to me were the glaring differences between the two tours. One of course being that the tram in Florida never passed through any of the attractions such as King Kong and Jaws... those were stand alone attractions. The thing I used to joke about the most regarded the Psycho house. As with the Hollywood tour you would see the actual house used in the original Psycho, the Florida tram tour pointed out, "... and here's a replica of the Psycho house." Not quite the same impact.

@snarkus63 5 лет назад

I honestly did not know this existed....and I visited during its controversial opening year,when many of its heavily publicized major attractions weren't working! Funny thing about that day...I got in with one of those free-admission second-day tickets they were giving out during that first year. While at a convenience store near my hotel,some guy sold me his for half of the regular price.

@BungieStudios 5 лет назад

Universal has been doing studio tours and behind the scenes looks since their origin.

@Monkeyfuss 5 лет назад

Wow I feel really old now because I totally remember riding the tram tour as a teen. It really was super lame!

@jessicakarnia4433 5 лет назад

I was just there in june. My mom was asking where all the rides went. I said E.T. was still there... (to put in some context: we go every 8 years or so. Normally, we rotate the theme parks when we go to Florida. )

@natalie8212 5 лет назад

3:16 I LOLed... Love your editing! Another great and informative piece, plus I always love the inclusion of Nick Studios! Quick question, what was Nickelodeon school? Maybe I heard that wrong?

@YesterworldEntertainment 5 лет назад

For actors under 18, they have to provide a "school" for education...like an on-site tutor. When I did Extra work back in the day, they always had a section for minors to study with teachers. I'm sure someone can elaborate much more though :)

@natalie8212 5 лет назад

@@YesterworldEntertainment Ah ok! I've definitely heard of this before, ( in behind the scenes footage from Clarissa, I believe) but figured it took place just backstage somewhere and never realized it was a designated spot near the studio and part of the tour. It was probably akin to home schooling i.e. not like school in any way heh. Thanks for the response!

@whitneyfluttershyelizabeth 5 лет назад

Annnnnnnd this is why Disney’s tram outlasted them. Driving through guests? That’s a big no no! So inefficient lol

@mundial0248 4 года назад

Universal studios ♥

@doctoradventure413 5 лет назад

I miss the backlot tour it was so much fun this doesn’t though

@Clay3613 5 лет назад

The MGM "tour" was definitely better. Shame the best version lasted even less than this tour.

@eddiepascale6047 3 года назад

Imagine visiting Orlando in the early 90s and coming to this park and Disney-MGM. You’d actually feel like you were in “Hollywood East”

@diegodadog1435 5 лет назад

The man making the jokes in the tour is the goat

@victortorres3776 4 года назад

I’ve ridden this in 91 or 92 it was better than Disney’s backlot tours

@danthefan28 5 лет назад

1:07 the crossover I never knew I wanted.

@jonathanbishopmusic 5 лет назад

It would've been interesting to see Universal Studios Florida built with a tram tour in mind from the start, and to have an all-new, true backlot on the same scale as the one in Hollywood. Probably could've been successful as a second film studio for Universal and as a studio tour attraction for the park, but I guess it's in the past now. Weirdly, I think SeaWorld Orlando somehow acquired at least one of those trams and was still using it in the parking lot as of 2018. I always wondered why they randomly had one tram that was way older than the rest.

@victortorres3776 4 года назад

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)

@dannybones22 5 лет назад

When I was on it we went past the space ship out of flight of the navigator I lost my mind 😂 I still tell people I see it there to this day 😂

@lauracaskey7730 5 лет назад

Basically all I knew about Universal Studios in the 90s prior to these videos came from episodes of "What Would You Do" on Nickelodeon. I feel like the featured they tram tour a good bit.

@johnwindham4991 5 лет назад

I live in florida and I wish I could go there

@ao9688 5 лет назад

Country bear jamboree next please!

@Beautyprettypixie092 5 лет назад

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.

@waspinator5361 5 лет назад

Can anyone tell me what movie the set at 8:58 is from? It looks very cool.

@CocoHutzpah 5 лет назад

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.

@SovietWalrus1 5 лет назад

Follow the $$$

@THEremiXFACTOR 5 лет назад

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.

@whitneyfluttershyelizabeth 5 лет назад

Star Wars hasn’t opened yet. It’s Toy Story Land right now.

@shoddyworkmanship4934 5 лет назад

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.

@Comedy4cast 5 лет назад

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.