Originally Posted By brotherdave My son is now really into Goosebumps, both the books and the TV show, and I vaguely remember seeing that there was a shortlived Goosebumps attraction at Disney-MGM Studios in the mid-90s. I never saw it, but, does anyone remember it? What was in it? Thanks!
Originally Posted By smeeeko I don't know about Disney-MGM, but IOA has (or had) one caled "R.L Stine's Haunted Lighthouse" or something like that and starred Christopher Lloyd.
Originally Posted By dennis-in-ct Yes... it was an embarassment. A simple fun house stlye walk-thru of mirrors. It was nothing - literally.
Originally Posted By brotherdave Really, that was it? That really does sound like an embarrasment! Where was it located??? P.S. Smeeko, The Haunted Lighthouse movie was at Busch Gardens Tampa, not IOA. It was just 'O.K.', not great. It was replaced with the much funnier 'Pirates' movie with Leslie Nielson and Eric Idle. (Both movies played at Busch Gardens Williamsburg, too, as well as Sea World in Texas and California, also, I believe. Pirates played at the now closed Sea World Ohio during the late 90s.)
Originally Posted By magnet The Haunted Lighthouse is still playing at Sea World in California. Oh, how I hate that movie. "Why do you call it catfish surprise?" Oh, brother -- time to duck.
Originally Posted By brotherdave Yeah, I forgot about that! Haunted Lighthouse is a really gross movie now that I think back on it! I think it's still playing at Busch Gardens in Virgina, too. I know that Pirates is playing in Busch Gardens in Tampa, still. I think most of the 3-D movies at the Busch parks will be replaced by a 3-D Sesame Street movie (same one used at Universal Studios Japan, I believe!). It sounds like most of the A-B parks will be adding in Sesame Street areas to their parks.
Originally Posted By cmash95 there was a RL stein haunted attraction one halloween at the studios but it was temporary. I never had a chance to see it though.
Originally Posted By twirlnhurl I absolutely hated the Haunted Lighthouse. I used to love Christopher Lloyd, but that movie completely ruined my image of him. It was really bad. The only part of the entire show that I admired was when the kid almost throws up on the camera. That would have been interesting.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>I don't know about Disney-MGM, but IOA has (or had) one caled "R.L Stine's Haunted Lighthouse" or something like that and starred Christopher Lloyd.<< Not at Universal or Disney. It was a 3D movie at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, but has been retired. The 3D quality was bad, and they dumped so much water on the audience that after a while, the theater took a very musty smell. Last time I saw it, the smell of humidity in there was gross. A new Pirate based movie replaced it a couple of years ago.
Originally Posted By smeeeko ahh.. my bad. The attraction was horrible anyway, but I think it was on one of those trips where we did several parks in one trip so some of it must have gotten mixed up in my head. That happens a lot lately.. sigh. =P
Originally Posted By brotherdave So, where was this Goosebumps 'funhouse' located at the Studios? How long was it there?
Originally Posted By brerroadrunner I think it was located back near where Stunt show is now located. It was like a haunted house maze with mummies and people in creepy costumes scaring you. My kids enjoyed walking through it once. You couldn't touch the characters which jumped out at you and got awfully close.
Originally Posted By TarzanRocked99-06 The fun house was in Wshington Square at the end of New York Street. It then became Goofy's Prop Shop which was a meet and greet for Goofy at the Backlot Tour exit. That closed and then was re-done for the holidays as a place to meet Santa Goofy. Then that closed and nothing has ever gone in there since, you can walk through the location any time it is just now a pointless room with green steel beams and polka dots everywhere that leads to the gift shop at the tram tour exit. btw, the Goosbumps attracts was a new level of low for Disney, better attractions could be found at a local carnival.
Originally Posted By brotherdave Thanks, everyone! It sounds like we didn't miss much. Perhaps, there are some attractions that should never get greenlit into existence. This sounds like one of them!
Originally Posted By kennect I remember this bit...You could have done something just as awful at your own home for Halloween without any effort...It was bad...Really bad...
Originally Posted By bdistel Our first visit was in 1998 and the Goosebumps show was in MGM at the time. Since this was our first visit to Disney, ever, this was one of the first shows we ever saw. All I remember was some sort of stage show. If there was a walk-thru portion, we missed it. Disney was a blur to us since we had no idea what it was all about, so the Goosebumps show was not bad to see.
Originally Posted By smctopia Yeah, there was a stage show and funhouse. I have pix of it but can't post them until I get more actual info on the show, etc. Visit Walt Dated World <a href="http://waltdatedworld.bravepages.com" target="_blank">http://waltdatedworld.bravepag es.com</a>
Originally Posted By brotherdave I actually looked for it on your site, first, but was surprised it wasn't there. I guess it really WAS a minor attraction at the park!
