Legends of the hidden temple full episodes
Ultimately, the true magic driving Legends Of The Hidden Temple was the fact that children will always work for cheap.Įvan V. It was like winning the lottery, only to find out the prize is a Dollar Tree gift card. So not only did we get almost nothing, we got, like, the cheapest kinds of things from it." I remember in the parking lot, another kid who went out that round brought it to their car, and it had somehow opened, so there was this multi-color sludge staining his mom's car seats and her freaking out about it.
And I don't even remember what I got - it was one of those 'rad' arts and crafts things the '90s had so much of. I technically won $50 and this arts and craft thing, but that $50 was in a savings bond, so I'm not getting that money for at least another 10 years. "I got to keep the shirt, but that was it. Holy shit, this whole thing was a masterful metaphor for adulthood all along.
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So why go through this, besides the appeal of being on TV and possibly getting PTSD? The prizes, right? Well, because of the budget, they actually set the number of grand prize winners per year (eight), stopping the rest with temple guards and the like at strategic times. Related: 6 Terrifying Experiments Parents Did on Their Own Kids 1 After All That, They Cheaped Out On The Prizes And it should be noted that some of the writers who dressed as guards really enjoyed scaring the kids. M any former contestants say they're still scared by the idea of guards popping out of nowhere (imagine one of them jumping out of your closet and whispering that the game never truly ended). Suddenly it becomes an experiment in testing how much adrenaline the body of a 12-year-old can handle. Then a bringer of doom pops up and grabs you. but imagine 1) you're a child, 2) ar e racing through a game, on edge because you don't want to lose in front of millions of people, and 3) nervous because of all the mental and physical anguish you've already been through. They may look goofy from the comfort of your position safely behind a screen. Related: I Was A Reality TV Judge: 5 Secrets I Shouldn't Tell You Those guardians fucked up at least a few kids' lives. I was in her English class, and it was a Halloween paper about the scariest thing you ever saw, and for her, it was having a temple guardian pop up. and she told us that she had honest-to-god nightmares about them. My grandpa told me what a heart attack felt like, and I think I had one when he popped out.' A girl from my school later went on and actually won.
"I took a break from the games and asked one of the group winners what the temple run was like, and he said, 'The guardians. Then you come back into the happy fun game room and your mood changed suddenly, with waiting kids asking how it went."Īnd then there were the Temple Guards, t h e crew members who dressed up in native costumes and jumped out to snatch kids, instantly ending their run if they didn't have a spare "life" to give. Cheap effects or not, it was a sense of foreboding. It was darker, smoke was there, and you saw kid after kid come in looking exhausted or crying or something else terrible, and then you went in. "The stage was like coming into a nightmare.
Note that when we say the stage was cheap, that doesn't mean it wasn't somewhat traumatizing. Related: Regis Philbin Was The Most Watched Man On Television 2 Yet It Was Still Fairly Terrifying For A Kid It was all hard foam to look like rocks, and signs out of camera view saying to avoid the dry ice." It felt like heavy compressed foam and had silver bits that flaked off.
The silver monkey ( which no one ever got right ) was even cheaper than you think. on set it was this moving rubber thing that, if you were close enough, you could hear the parts inside moving.