Legends Of The Hidden Temple returning to Nickelodeon

Talk about a through back. Anyone else here grow up in Houston with Prime Cable and watching Nickelodeon on channel 31?

 

This show was dope.

 

it was a great show growing up

 

Purple parrots. Silver snakes. Man that show was awesome.

 

Red Monkeys and Blue Barracudas. Man that show was awesome.

 

Used to watch this and GUTS all the time.

 

I always wanted to punch that moving mouth

 

This show was so great because its was damn near impossible to win. This was American Ninja Warrior for kids. Temple guard were expert assholes. You and your partner had to have a relationship bordering on symbiosis to get through the Temple.

This show coming back as a movie is weak as hell.

 

Teams only won %25 of the time and a few of those were because of production mistakes.

This is an awesome breakdown of all of the temple configurations.
http://nickelodeon.wikia.com/wiki/Olmec's_Temple#Temple_Layouts

Cool Trivia in the spoiler tag:

Spoiler

Behind the Scenes
The show was taped in Soundstage 18 of Nickelodeon Studios at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida. This soundstage is immediately stage-right of the classic "Nickelodeon" building shown at the conclusion of each episode.
The hours of taping each day ranged from around 7:00 a.m. to midnight, although those times altered between taping days.
Some of the show's Temple Runs in Season 3 were taped without an audience. This was because usually six episodes were taped a day, and all segments were done at once. That is, all moat rounds were taped, then all Steps of Knowledge rounds, then all Temple Games, then all Temple Runs. Players usually waited two hours between taping a round for their episode. The reason for no audiences, however, was because the Universal Theme Park (where the show was taped) had closed, and the audience members had been sent home.
Other than in Season 3, other Legends episodes have been recorded without an audience. Two known episodes that had a Temple Run without an audience are "The Milk Bucket of Freydís" and "Galileo's Cannonball."
Dee Bradley Baker, voice of Olmec, was also the announcer for the show.
Teams
The Green Monkeys and the Silver Snakes share the record for most temple completions over the show's three seasons, both managing eight. Yet, out of the number of times going into the Temple, the Green Monkeys had a slightly better percentage (24-21). However, the Silver Snakes had the fastest contestants on the show.
In a points system orchestrated by a fan, an entrance to the temple was worth one point, and a temple victory was worth three points. The Green Monkeys were first with 48 points; the Silver Snakes were second with 45 points; the Orange Iguanas were third with 37 points; the Blue Barracudas were fourth with 34 points; the Red Jaguars were fifth with 32 points. Last place belongs to the Purple Parrots with 20 points.
In Season One, the contestants wore colored t-shirts tucked into khaki shorts for all rounds except the Temple Run, where they changed into t-shirts tucked into yellow sweatpants. In Seasons Two and Three, the contestants wore colored t-shirts with khaki shorts for the moat crossing and Steps of Knowledge but changed into blue jeans for the Temple Games and Temple Run. Also, the helmet color changed from yellow to gold.
Temple Rooms
The first season's temple featured nine different layouts, as rooms changed almost each day of taping; the second season's temple featured five different layouts. Only Season Three's temple never changed layouts.
The only room in the temple that was featured in all 120 episodes was the Shrine of the Silver Monkey.
There were over 45 different rooms that were featured across the show's 120-episode span.
Not all actuators in the temple, when hit, would open doors. As temple layouts changed, many were removed from the temple or made completely inactive. This is made obvious with the corner doors between the Swamp area and the Ancient Warriors area (the areas directly right of the Shrine of the Silver Monkey and Tomb of the Ancient Kings/Dark Forest); despite their actuators being completely inactive for most of the series (and left with no way to traverse through them, besides), they were still opened with the other doors after a team grabbed the day's artifact.
The only two episodes where the stone wall connecting the two southwesternmost rooms could not be broken were "The Keys to the Alhambra" (Episode 8) and "The Imperial Purple Robe of Empress Theodora" (Episode 49).
One room, The King's Storeroom, was featured at two different locations in the series. In Season Two, it was located above the Swamp/Jester's Court. In Season Three, it was moved to the Observatory.
Temple Runs
Three seasons of the show aired, and 120 episodes were produced. Of those 120 episodes, only 32 episodes featured teams successfully getting out of the temple with the artifact. Seventeen episodes featured a player grabbing the artifact with time remaining but running out of time before he or she could actually bring the artifact out of the Temple, making for a total of 49 episodes in which the artifact was actually snatched up.
The fastest completion of the Temple Run was in "The Mask of Shaka Zulu" (Episode 28). The player completed the temple in 1:46, without the help of his partner. However, this was arguably the easiest temple design; the player encountered no locked doors. This was due to a production error—the door leading from The Holes of Python to the Tomb of the Ancient Kings (where the artifact was located) was supposed to be locked. If you exclude that run the fastest completion was in "The Ivory Hunting Horn of Roland" (Episode 101) completed in 1:49.
The quickest loss happened just 1:32 into the run in "Elizabeth I's Golden Ship" (Episode 5). The concentration of temple guards in the three rooms the team entered prevented them from going further.
Four temple runs were completed with a single second left on the clock.
The closest failed acquisition of an artifact was in "The Dragon Lady and the Blue Pearl" (Episode 33). Secondrunner, Jennifer, in this run entered the artifact's room, The Holes of Python, with 10 seconds left, and scurried past the obstacles, only to fall a finger's length short of the Pearl.
The closest wins were in "Galileo's Cannonball", "The Applewood Amulet of Emiliano Zapata." and the Milk Bucket of Fredyis" all three had one second left
Three temple runs involved the player who entered the temple grabbing the artifact without encountering a single temple guard. These runs were from "The Enormous Iron Nose Ring of Babe the Ox" from Season Two, and "The Much-Heralded Helmet of Sir Gawain" and "The Broken Trident of Poseidon," both from Season Three. However, only "The Enormous Iron Nose Ring" and "Much-Heralded Helmet" episodes ended with the player successfully getting out of the temple with the artifact. In the "Broken Trident" episode, the player, Kimberly, was startled by the noise of all the locked doors opening upon her grabbing the trident in the Shrine of the Silver Monkey, so she forgot she needed to get out of the temple carrying the object. Upon entering the Room of the Ancient Warriors, she put down the trident, and attempted to run out of the temple without it. Fogg then yelled for her to go back and get it. She went back to get it but went down into the Tomb of the Headless Kings through the Chamber of the Sacred Markers. Time ran out just as she entered the Ledges.
The first solo run completion occurred in "The Star of Sultan Saladin" (Episode 7). Leah went from The Room of the Three Gargoyles to The Observatory and got out with 27 seconds left. Also, what is most widely noted is the Temple Guard in The Cave of Sighs that is spotted on the floor. Because she was on her way out of the Temple with the Star in hand, the Guard was rendered out of play. Many fans humorously commented on the Guard failing to disappear (literally).
The record for the fastest time by an individual took place in Season Three's "The Secret Map of the Bandit Queen" episode. It was set by Zac Turney, whose episode became one of the most circulated on Nick GAS. His partner, Miriam, was taken out of the Temple in the Dark Forest with 1:17 left. He got out with 9 seconds left, a split time of 1:08, easily beating the "Mask of Shaka Zulu" episode. Turney is now an actor. In 2004, he was selected by TBS to be one of the two Gilligans on their new reality show, The Real Gilligan's Island.
In the Temple Run of "Henry VIII's Great Seal" (Episode 14), one of the contestants, (the team's follow-up runner), was so startled by a temple guard's appearance that he literally ran out of the temple's cross-sectioned boundaries and onto the main studio floor. As many speculated that he was disqualified, the speculation was irrelevant considering he only possessed half of a Pendant upon encountering the Guard and was to be ejected from the temple, ending the run.
In "The Pendant of Kamehameha" (Episode 10), the temple guard missed his cue in the Dungeon, allowing the second contestant to plow through the wall into the Tomb of the Ancient Kings, forcing the temple guard to follow the contestant into the Tomb to capture her.
In Season One, the hidden half-pendant is often visible at the silver monkey's base in the Shrine of the Silver Monkey, but one notable episode where it is visibly hidden elsewhere (and the only episode where Kirk announced that the player picks it up in that season) is "The Treasure of Anne Bonny" (Episode 40).
In only twelve episodes, the team ended up caught (and consequently have the run end) by the three Temple Guards.
Despite being armed with only one pendant, six teams managed to get past the Temple Guards for the win.
In both the "Golden Cricket Cage of Khan" (Episode 4) and "Elizabeth I's Golden Ship" (Episode 5), the teams had traversed only four rooms. Time expired in the "Golden Cricket Cage of Khan," and the team was caught by the three Temple Guards in "Elizabeth I's Golden Ship."
In three episodes did a player enter all twelve rooms of that particular layout. Of these, the two wins were in "The Diary of Doctor Livingstone" and "The Metal Beard of the Egyptian Queen" (Episode 109).
In all three seasons, not one artifact had ever been taken out of the temple in the bottom room of the center shaft.
In "The Jeweled Necklace of Montezuma" (Episode 62), Kelly dropped the middle part of the Silver Monkey over the railing and onto the studio floor. A Temple Guard spirit (really a cameraman) threw it back up to her, but she wasn't able to complete the statue in time. This occurred again in "The Upside-Down Compass of Henry Hudson" (Episode 90). However, unlike the Jewled Necklace episode, when Derek dropped the middle piece over the railing, time expired just as it started falling.
In "The War Fan of the 47 Ronin" (Episode 83) the door from the Pit of the Pendulum to the Tomb of the Headless Kings was accidentally smacked shut by the frontrunner, Jeremy. This prevented the secondrunner, Elise from entering the room for about 30 seconds. As compensation, the producers gave the team the second prize because they otherwise would have made it to the artifact.
The closest failed escape run was the "Broken Wing of Icarus" (Episode 78). Jason grabbed the wing with less than a minute. However, instead of swinging across in The Pit, he jumped down and went to The Ledges. Time expired when Jason was behind Olmec.
In Season Three, three episodes had an instance where the player got into the artifact room, but failed to grab the artifact itself in time. Those are "The Red Sash of Tokugawa Ieyasu" and "The Pearl Necklace of Gwalior" and "The Dried Ear Corn of Soujourner Truth."
The Jester's Court did not turn off the lights in two episodes. These are "The Golden Pepperoni of Catherine de Medici" (Episode 73) and "The Enormous Feather of Me Linh" (Episode 104).
In The Lucky Pot-Bellied Pig of Amelia Earhart, Kristin was taking out of the temple by a temple guard in The Swamp with 3 seconds left leaving no time for partner Scott McCaskell. Time expired as Scott was about to enter the temple.
In Season Two, the player progressed in the temple despite having a half-pendant, namely "The Missing Eye of David" (Season 2, Episode 16) and "The Golden Pepperoni of Catherine de Medici."
In two episodes of Season Two (Season 2, Episode 33), Kirk referred the Room of the Mandarin Hand as Medusa's Lair. These are "The Golden Pepperoni of Catherine de Medici" and "The Levitating Dog Leash of Nostradamus."
"The Golden Pepperoni of Catherine de Medici" is the only episode where the player passes up the artifact.
The longest Temple Run ended due to Triple Seizure was "The Lost Taj Mahal Turban of Aurangzeb." The player was caught in the Quicksand Bog with 0:11 left.
"The Lost Love Letter of Captain John Smith" was the only episode where the player ended the run in The Shrine of the Silver Monkey due to Triple Seizure (in "The Silver Cannonball of Grandy Nanny," the team had two pendants. Amber had a full pendant upon capture (see below))
The only episode where the player ran out of time and captured by a Temple Guard at the same time was "The Silver Cannonball of Grandy Nanny." However, Amber had a full Pendant upon the encounter, and was escorted out due to time expired.
"The Crown of Queen Nzinga" was the only episode where the Temple run ended due to Triple Seizure in the Dark Forest, making that the only time a Temple Guard spirit in the right tree ended the run. It was one of the two episodes where the three Temple Guards (including the tree in the Dark Forest) protected three straight rooms, which were the Laser Light Room, the Swamp, and the Dark Forest
In the episode "The Mummified Hand of the Egyptian King", Maggie was taken out of the Temple by the first guard because she lost possession of her Pendant in the Pit of the Pendulum, marking the only time that happened. Josh found the Pendant in the Pit, but ironically failed to find the other half to his own Pendant (located in the Chamber of the Sacred Markers on top of the left side of the markers). The run ended by Triple Seizure when he was caught in the Room of the Secret Password.
The Sacred Ring of Sultan Suleiman is the only episode where the Purple Parrots lost due to triple seizure. The Run ended in Medusa's Lair with 0:45 left.

Full page here: http://nickelodeon.wikia.com/wiki/Legends_of_the_Hidden_Temple

Fastest elimination: https://youtu.be/8gwhv5pHH4E?t=20m53s 20 minutes and 50 seconds in

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Kids these days are going to be terrible at it. They can barely walk without having an asthma attack. They will probably sue when they get scared by the guys in the temple. How are they going to beat it?

 

Those damn random temple guards always got em. Even 7 year old me wanted to see whether the contestants were actually good enough instead of some random crap deciding the game.

Did love that show. Guts, Legends of the Hidden Temple, Salute Your Shorts, Snick. Those were the days.

 

I remembered watching this when I was young.

I did some DIY maze with my siblings at my house after watching this show.

Awesome show, I wish it was the original format.

 

The changes they made are cute. They'll be good for a younger audience, but um...way to ruin my childhood again, Hollywood! :grin: