The Closed History of Gremlins Invasion - Warner Bros. Movie World | Expedition Theme Park
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- Опубліковано 8 січ 2019
- Join us once again on Expedition Weekly as we look at the closed history of the Gremlin Invasion Dark Ride otherwise known as Warner Bros Classics and The Great Gremlin Adventure. Existing both at the Australian and Germany parks featuring Beetlejuice and ALF this ride offered a unique gremlin experience before it was closed and replaced with Scooby Doo Spooky Coaster and the Van Helsing Factory.
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I worked on the Australian version for a few years until it closed - lots of fun to work on. I remember losing my voice a few times after 2 hours of running into cinemas screaming that the gremlins has escaped from the film vaults. You always knew your acting was spot on when children started crying.
@$D&A haha love it - we had so much fun working in that attraction
Lol you traumatised me as a kid
I remember a guy like yourself coming out and scaring the shit out of me when I was 8/9 think it was you, best memory I have of that trip, and went through the ride multiple times. thanks for selling it so well
Dude this fucked me up so badly as a 5 year old, like proper traumatized me
Thankyou for the years of nightmares
As an 8 year old who rode that ride, I'm pretty sure it traumatized me haha. Excellent acting though ;)
Beetlejuice and Gremlins? That's a crossover I'd pay for.
@@acidonia150 Yeah but besides them not being sold anymore it's not the same
@@acidonia150 not portal, sadly
and alf
When I was watching one of the deleted scenes on the Gremlins 2 DVD, the Beetlejuice theme was used for placeholder music.
Wow that aged like wine
A Gremlins ride featuring Alf!!? And people say infinity war is the best crossover of all time. How have I never heard of either of these rides? They looked so cool. The last clip of Alf literally had me dying 😂
😂😂😂
Alf was extremly popular here in germany, while Beetlejuice was never a really big thing. So it was a target group decision. Loved the ride, especially in the helloween edition, where the whole ride was decorated with spider webs and such.
Yeah, never would have thought that could go together, but Alf fighting off gremlins works for me. At least a lot more than Beetlejuice.
Alf really had a weirdly huge amount of popularity here. I remember in the late 80's & early 90's there was Alf everywhere, Toys, T-shirts, comics, mugs, plushies. I think if I would dig through the rest of my old toys in the attic I would find more than one version of an Alf toy.
We seem to be so hung up on him that in this year's German version of _I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!_ the guy who did Alf's German voice was among the "celebrities" sent to the jungle :D
@@almightytallestred It's only now I realize, that I'm not the only one not getting, why Alf was so popular here in Germany....
“It’s Alf. He’s back, in animatronic form.”
Love the video, wish I could’ve experienced this.
Gremlins was the best attraction by far Warner Brothers build in Germany. Loved the scenes with Gizmo and Alf together, loved the atmosphere, the preshow, it was just awesome!
And nice to know that we got another version instead of Beetlejuice. Alf seemed a bit cooler. :D
I wanna know who was like " so in the ride we get attacked by gremlins and who helps to defeat them..... Alf"
it's because Alfie was very very popular in Germany back than
The german version most likely recieved Alf instead of Beetlejuice because even at the time Alf was a way more popular character here.
After the closure of the ride in 2004 it wasn't disassembled until several years later, the entire ride System including all Show Scenes and Animatronics where left intact inside the building. The Ride was used from 2004 to 2008 (some say even in 2009) as a Halloween only Attraction. The Animatronics where covered up and instead they had several Live Actors inside the building that tried to scare the riders.
Soonjai and now there’s the Van Helsing Coaster
Ya, the German Vision was with Alf. I Loved the Attraction. The closed with the end of Season 2004. 2005 the Park Reopend under a Other Name, and the looney Tunes and Warner Product must Go 😭. To the Halloween Horror Festival the gremlins Hall was for 3 years Reopend but the gremlins, gizmos und Alfs was Cover Up.
Today is in the Hall a coaster
alf calling the cat in german topped the cake ;)
Scott Traynor Alf screaming pussy pussy pussy while making that finger movement was quite a moment.
Alf was a popular character in Germany at the time. Personally, I find that version of the ride the superior one as Alf and Gizmo actively try to stop the Gremlins. In the Aussie version, Gizmo tries on his own to stop them with a few random appearances from Beetlejuice.
Cool little fact about the Gremlins/Scooby building... at the bottom of the crazy mouse section the tracks for the Gremlins ride are still in the concrete. Used to work there and every chance I got I would follow them. I also own a few of the film reels from the Gremlins rides..
Thanks for the video it took me back to my childhood.
I’m glad to see you covering Warner Parks. They definitely deserve more love and attention. Something you didn’t mention that would have been great to is in the German version a bunch of the ALF animatronics are still there. He appears on old time directors chairs on cranes. The cranes and the animatronic were too much effort to remove so they didn’t. To this day ALF still sits in the chair above the coaster watching hope the ride will get a revival one day.
Fun fact about the Aussie version: the police car from the ride was reused in the Superman Escape coaster for the dark ride section. On the ride it is seen with the yellow taxi, crashed through the ceiling into the subway.
Actually the car in the Superman Escape ride was one of the cars from the Police Academy Stunt Show.
Another Fun fact about the German version:
The fire truck from the exit area of the German version of the Gremlins ride featuring Alf was reused in the now existing Van Helsing’s Factory. In addition they have an Alf animatronic puppet from the old attraction sitting in a crane cab.
I missed out on Gremlins but Superman Escape is still the best ride I've ever been on to this day.
This was a great surprise to see on my feed, one of my home parks just down the road from me. Road the Australian gremlins as a child and was terrified, have ridden Scooby Coaster hundreds of times is always a great time, even though the refit is a bit cheap.
I have always loved the Gremlins, if only I could have seen this. Great Episode
Thank you Bryce
@@ExpeditionThemePark no, thank you!
Bryce McKenzie we all want a gremlins 3 as much we want a half life 3
That and a critters 5
I should mention that here in Australia that any Warner Brothers movie on vhs usually had a commercial for movie world, cross premotion, I think sometimes they had competitions to win tickets sometimes too. That's probably where that commercial came from.
Some VHSs showed commercials for Dreamworld
That doesn't surprise me. Here in America in the 90's, our Disney and Universal VHS's featured ads for their respective theme parks.
I went on this back in 2000 in Australia, I had no idea going in that it was an actual ride and really thought we were being attacked by Gremlins. 7 year old me was a bit traumatised by the whole experience, but it is great to see footage of it now. I also got to go on the Scooby Doo ride back in 2012, it's interesting to see that it is still there, although with a few changes. Excellent video! Great to see some Australian parks being covered.
I went to Movie World in 2012 at the tail end of my trip to Australia. I remember watching an endless loop of the behind the scenes of Scooby Doo while waiting in line. Good times.
Would genuinely consider flying all the way to Australia just for that Scooby doo ride ngl, was the only good one I was tall enough for when we last went
Lmao the same thing happened to me but I was 6 years old, so fucking scary I was in tears begging my mum to leave.
@@marshwalker8322 I went on it when I was six too, the whole fam thought it was a kids ride, then we got to the elevator.
I saw it in 1992 in Australia, and even though I was 13, when the security burst in and told everyone to get out I still nearly crapped myself.
Here are some facts about the german version:
One Alf Animatronic is still in the Ride's building to this day... (Watch an onride and wait for the scrapyard scene and then look into the crane)
There is one gizmo animatronic in a shelf in the maintenance area. (2012)
(When lit) you still see the path where the gondolas would go on the ground
The main queueline room is one of the old preshow theatres
The other 2 theaters are (as far as i know) SBNO
The gremlin animatronics are still in the park (in poor condition) as they are being used as parts for the other animatronics around the park
I couldn't find any Van Helsing's Factory videos with a Gizmo the Mogwai animatronic in the maintenance area (before the ride).
@@omanimoves6312 When were you there?
I have never gone to Movie Park Germany.
@@omanimoves6312 the gizmo animatronic sits in a shelf backstage. (in the little maintenance area after the first turn)
Could you please send me a link to the video where you found this information?
Would rather have Had the "Scooby Doo Spooky Coaster" to still keep the Gremlins theme. The Gremlins could sabotage the "Studio tour" vehicles Ala Ms. Deagle's Stair lift from the first movie.
The (human) cast of ALF hated the show and it's puppet. The stage floor was mostly trap doors, and the cast couldn't look down. So they had to be careful to not fall into a trapdoor that was either for the puppet, or one the puppet was going to move to. The girl that played the daughter nearly broke her leg from one.
I used to be SUPER into Gremlins, and I heard about this ride, but could only ever find footage of the German version. This is great!
I'm glad to see someone had the sense to make a Spooky Island House ride. That idea was practically gift wrapped for a theme park.
I remember going on the gremlin ride (Gold Coast version) in the 90’s with my cousins and was absolutely TERRIFIED of the animatronics. I vividly remember one or two very large gremlins that were so scary to me that I started crying (I was like 5 or 6 at the time, so....). Unfortunately, I don’t really remember Beetlejuice all that well as I was pretty young, save for the police cars at the end, which is a shame because Beetlejuice is one of my favourite movies!
But I can definitely vouch for the Scooby-Doo Coaster. It’s a great ride! Haven’t been on it since it was updated though.
ALF was the greatest. This is probably the ride I'm most disappointed I never rode.
I'd never heard of this ride before. I loved Alf, Gremlins, and Beetlejuice growing up. It's close between this Knights In White Satin at the defunct Hard Rock park, and the OG Hannah Barbara ride at Kings Island.
More movie world please?
Sure!
@@ExpeditionThemePark Please do Looney Tunes River Ride & Batman Adventure: The Ride!
@@colliric these three were my favorites and I was so disappointed with my visit to Movie World in 2017 because they were all gone. The Scooby Doo Spooky Coaster also had NONE of the SFX or lights on. A big disappointment after waiting in line for 2+ hours. That park has really gone down hill from it's 1990s heyday. The Lethal Weapon ride was my first ever roller coaster!
@@sharktooths Well in defence of the Scooby Doo one, they had to remove everything because there was a significant fire hazard, all of the SFX and lights are back, but they've add some cheesy cgi and projection which wasn't needed.
Yeah I would love to see Batman Adventure! Or the Lethal Weapon rollercoaster at Movie World here in germany only, but it was rad. It had a flying, burning car that flew over the two coaster tracks right before a heartline roll. Just awesome.
Gremlins is one of my favorite movies of all time!!! I’ve always wanted a ride(or a house at HHN) and it’s so amazing to learn about this ride! 👏
I’d love to see a video from you about Six Flags European Division and how it came to an end - or a video about the history of Warner Bros. Movie World Germany/Movie Park Germany. That park surely has an interesting history for it's young age.
Great video as always 🙂
Oh wow I remember when i was a little child, i cryed the hell out of me when i rode Gremlins. And finally a Video about my home Park (the one in Germany). You forgot that they used the Gremlins ride for two years during halloween as Dark Old Mine where the ride actually worked but was fitted with live action actors. I even went to the Opening of Van Helsings Factory
And i forgott they put Ralf in there because he was very popular in Germany and most people didnt know Beetlejuce so it was more a PR thing
Wow. I remembered this from Australia. I was so young then. They started with that blooper reel and the seats were very cushy ("are you all doing okay in those comfy seats?" said the male guide). Then the gremlins silhouettes appeared. The two guides, male and a blonde female, rushed back in and screamed at us to evacuate the theatre into the carts. It seemed so real. Their acting was very convincing.
I was wondering if they wanted to evacuate, why were the carts moving so slowly. Gremlins at every corner, with film storage racks almost falling on you. It made me flinch as it almost touches your head. My mum was wondering why the flinch. The bigger gremlins sprayed water from hoses at one another. My dad got a few drops on his left shoulder. There were some other scenes like in the video.
At the end there was an audio of a police car crash. We exited the cart to see this totalled and smoking police car with a cute mogwai at the wheel and the police officer walking away. I don't recall he was beetle juice as I didn't watch the movie that time.
It was very immersive at the time. I thought it was a real emergency.
Yeah, do did I. The Gremlins part scared the piss outta me~ This, Batman Ride and River Ride were my Trauma-Jam.
Funny how I remember this Ad for movie world as a kid.
I live in Victoria and always wanted to go to Queensland for movie world. And any kid that ended up on holiday up on the gold coast, we believed their parents were well off to go there. Lol!
Finally ended up going at 23yrs old with friends. It was a blast!
We always went to Movie Park Germany as a child and this still is my favourite darkride ever, as it brought one of my favourite films to life in a way I'd never seen before, not even in Disneyland Paris. I cried when I found out they closed it. If I had a time machine, I'd definitely relive this awesome ride.
Do time machines exist in real life?
@@omanimoves6312 I wish they did, only to relive these closed attractions again.
@@OrangeStar222 go on time riders at movie park haha
@@carlosmarx2380Which used to be Batman Adventure - The Ride. The former Batcave in there still exists.
@@carlosmarx2380 German John Cleese will help me travel through space and time!
Need to hurry, loads of rumours regarding that particular ride.
Damn, Australia had it going on.
These guy were geniuses! Beetlejuice + Gremlins or ALF + Gremlins... amazing... I wish there was more crossover stuff like that at theme parks. Makes me wonder how popular was ALF in Germany for them to have chosen him? Is it like a David Hasselhoff thing that he became a super popular singer over there? Was ALF like a big hit when it aired?
Imagine this: nearly every family sits together in the living room in front of their TV in nearly every household. The moody teenager, the hardworking husband and wife and let's not forget little Timmy. And that just for a fake Alien that wants to eat the family cat.
Even today people kinda go nuts when they see Alf merch on a yard sale. Every best of show about the best/saddest/funniest tv moments mentions Alf at least once. He's a living Legend here.
Every Child back in the 90s was obsessed with ALF in Germany 😂
There were dolls, posters, bed linen and yes even records released with songs sung by Tommi Piper, the German voice of ALF portraying the Character
Funfact to Van Helsing‘s Factory at Movie Park: Some Animatronics of the Gremlins Invasion have been hidden inside the new Theming: The Alf animatronic is now placed in a crane. And some others have been placed inside the car wreckaged at the second lifthill. But sadly, those at the lifthill have been removed.
@5:58 "From the studio that brought you Lethal Weapon, Wild Wild West, and Batman.." oof
At least they mentioned Batman and not Batman & Robin
Went to Movie World on the Gold Coast in 1992 (their 1st birthday celebrations). I was 8 when I rode this and at the time had no idea it was a ride and didn’t want to go on it because I thought it was just outtakes 😂. Boy was I pleasantly surprised when the Gremlins invaded 😂
Little info for the van helsing ride in germany:(source is a movie park info site) you are still able to find an alf animatronic(but i think hes not moving) in the scrapyard scene. (can not proof that its still up to date)
There was an Alf vs Gremlins ride?! Is this the most 80s thing to happen ever?
tanman99 I would think he would fend off the Critters because they’re both aliens
Back in my childhood i went to Movie park Germany. I thought it was a real gremlin attack. I didn’t even made it to the ride after the teather part, a worker escorted me thru a fire exit😂😂😂😂
Oooh I loved that ride over in germany. We'd go often when I was little, my father worked there, and I really liked the Gremlins ride.
Fun fact, there was one Gremlin still hanging from a lamp during the few years when the building was used simply as a halloween attraction over here. They'd throw a sheet over it but it was there, I think until they actually started building the van Helsing ride.
For those that didn't get to ride it. As a 6 year old it was a truly terrifying and amazing. It was my favourite ride at movie world along with the loony tunes boat ride. Great experiences.
I miss the boat ride :(
One of my favourite rides as a kid! I'm so happy you covered this ride!
Holy crap recognition of one of my local parks from a UA-camr I love 😍
Would love to see more content on the Australian parks man!
Sydney's Wonderland might be a good dig for you in terms of Expedition Extinct! There are quite a few past attractions between Dreamworld and the Village Roadshow Theme Parks (Movie World, Sea World [which is a different company than America's but with a similar content] and Wet n Wild) that would make amazing videos!
I went to the German version as a kid.
WBMW Germany was a really cool park.
Fact: the park was not sold to star park by poor attendance. It was sold as one of the element of a bigger deal: the rétractation of six flags from all Europe ( they were in financial trouble at the time and sold all of their European parks).
I guess we can say the park has been on a series of unfortunate events.
The irony is that today it belongs to a group who has managed to have the WB licence ( for the Spanish park ). So if all the theming didn’t get removed back in the day, the park probably would still exist as Warner bros movie world today.
no it wouldnt. Parques Reunidos doesn't actually own the Warner Bros. IPs, but they share the park's ownership with Warner Bors. themselves, as far as i know. so unfortunately in the near future, its not possible to regain Warner IPs for Movie Park, since Warner doesnt co-own the park.
@@carlosmarx2380 not saying there is any chance to see Warner bros IP in the park today =) I don’t believe it either.
My point is more that if the Warner bros theme wasn’t removed in the first place, maybe parque reunidos would have find an arrangement with WB to keep the theme as is.
Obviously today, it’s too late :(
I had no idea about these! Even if they seem sort of run-of-the-mill by today's standards (or even next to comparable contemporary rides) it's awesome to see them highlighted like this. Great work as always!
This was my favorite ride as a kid and I still miss it. Warner Brothers movie world was my favorite park as a kid after Efteling and Disneyland Paris but the park is nothing like it used to be. It used to have great story driven rides that were greatly themed, now it is just an attraction park like so many others...
ALF was in it because he was extremely popular in Germany with even made for tv movies getting into cinemas there.
thats not true. movie park still tells stories in their rides and shows. Van Helsing is amazing, altho not that story driven, but amazing theming, Bermuda Triangle recently got a new story line (now Area 51), Mystery River finally got a story line and new theming (Excalibur) + an amazing new que-line. Time Riders is pure storytelling. Lost Temple is pure storytelling(altho the film itself is just okay). Their new studio tour has a story too, and even features lots of throwbacks to the gremlins ride (even actual clips from the gremlins pre-show during the halloween version of the ride)
Even the Star Trek coaster has a storyline. and dont forget Halloween Horror Festival.
I agree that its not the same as back then, but saying "its just another attraction park" is just not fair. Also, look at Movie World in Australia. THIS is just another attraction park. They got rid off all the themed rides and shows and replaced them with blanco coasters, one really really bad shooting dark ride, and the scooby doo ride, wich isnt really good either and doesnt have much theming at all. even the stunt show there sucks and its their only major show. They even replaces the Looney Tunes river ride with a lame driving school for children (wich is really cool for kids, but the parents cant do anything in terms of having fun). Movie Park on the other hand, has a driving school outside AND a themed indoor attraction in the old Looney Tunes building. Just to compare both the parks.
After informing myself on the australian version i'm glad that we have Movie Park Germany.
It's too bad the Alf version wasn't in English, considering that his style of comedy is dialogue-heavy. I probably would've still ridden on it just for the absurdity of the crossover.
Make sure to feed them before midnight!>
Anime Withered Toy Freddy 1987 oh, so that’s why I found my parents dead this morning.
I remember commenting about this on one of your previous videos so I was very excited to see this today. Thanks so much for making this video!! Truly made my day 😊
Thanks! Brings back so many childhood memories (I used to live right next to Warner Bros. in Germany and started to work there when I was old enough). Great ride, theming and concept!
Just visited Movie Park Germany again after many years. Was a big fan of the Batman and Gremlin rides! Here is a fun tip: If you go ride the "Movie Studio Tour" Roller Coaster (fairly new, good ride too!) you can spot several props from the old rides. There is a Batman cowl on a desk in the waiting line (easy to spot). And a Gremlin animatronic (not moving) with a hat and sunglasses on during the ride on one of the moments the coaster makes a brief stop in the archives. (Didn't even spot it the first time). They probably had to disguise it because they no longer have the rights to use it!
One more fun fact: The animatronic of Wile E Coyote used in the waiting area of the Road Runner 4D movie is the same one from the Looney Tunes indoor Log Flume ride that closed on the same day as the Gremlins/Batman rides. Very cool they still had it and working after almost 20 years!
its funny they still have the animatronics, since officially they had to destroy/send back all of the WB stuff in 2004. on paper they are gone, but i've heard from several sources that many of them are still in storage at the studio area behind the park (not only the ones in the Roxy theater). I bet if they regained a Batman license, they could instanly rebuild the old ride without ordering any new stuff haha
Great Episode! It was one of my favorite darkrides! The german version operated during halloween as Terror Train and Dark Goldmine with scare actors until they replaced it with Van Helsings Factory.
Great episode, I first found out about this ride a few years ago and it fascinated me. I remember seeing the gremlins in the Warner Brother Stores when I was little and they really scared me! Though I think this is a great theme for a ride and it looks really cool! Sad I never got to ride it.
Great video, nice to see something about our parks in Australia
I had forgotten all about that ride, but I did go on it back when the park opened.
There are other rides at Movie World theme park you could cover in future video's like the Loony Toons boat ride and many more. I did enjoy a lot of the rides over the years as I did work at the studio section on different shows.
You could also cover the boat ride at Dreamworld (just up the road from Movie World ) that had a boat turn over and killed four people.
Movie World Studios may be known to some people as it is the studios where we shot some budget films like the latest "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Thor Ragnarock" and "Aquaman".
Now there is an Aquaman display in the Movie World park of sets, costumes and prop you can see up close
I was there years ago, at the backlot pur bus could see them shooting for one of the films
Nice work in this video I only knew about the one with Alf and I was a huge gremlins fan
WOW . So bummed I never got to go on that those rides :( . Great job as always Sam!
The Alf ride is a big memory for me, when I went to visit my family in Germany when I was a kid.
Ahhh, this video brings back fond memories. The Gremlins ride was really corny but you just had to ride it over and over. I remember the ‘blooper reel’ videos that played before the gremlins took over the movie theatre and guests had to escape.
I would've appreciated a little more info on the Gremlins ride itself. I look forward to your Freedomland,U.S.A. video!
Just watched Gremlins the other night and had my love for it reignited. Really wish I could’ve experienced the ride. Especially with Beetlejuice or Alf involved.
I grew up on the GC and loved the Gremlins ride! Thank you for the video
Great video and thanks for covering Australia's theme parks. I'd love to see more videos about WB Movie World's other attractions if possible.
My older brother worked as Shaggy on the parade and was brought in to do the lines for Shaggy in the updated Scooby ride. It's a strange feeling hearing his voice being featured in the video of a youtuber I binge.
Please can you tell us his name?
I visited the German Gremlins Ride back then and it was one of the coolest dark rides I have visited EVER... a bit short in length but it was the absolute highlight of that park... I am still missing it....
Love the Aussie content, it brings back my childhood. Keep up the excellent work
I think the Defunctland episode will help with that.
I visited the Aussie one multiple times and it is still my favourite attraction of anything that has ever been there.
My parents took me to Movie World on the Gold Coast as a kid, The Gremlins ride scared me and made me cry!
Facts to the Germany Version that I think have missed:
Alf is still in the Housing of the old Gremlins Building, You can see them at the Second Left on you're right driving the Crane.
The 4 Cinemas that were use in Gremlins still Exists with Projectors but without Seats and Color. Only one has been Change to the Pre Show Scene in the Auto repair shop.
The Electric execution still exsits in the ride and would be "Full Functional" if you turn it on
Before Van Helsing was build, Gremlins Invasion was used to be The Dark Gold Mine in 2009, The ride was in Complete Dark and Actors were Scaring People while riding the ride.
Great Video ! :) Keep it on mate
The grimlins ride in the Gold coast Australia attraction was amazing it's a shame they shut it down I loved it
Another great video. The Gremlins theme at the end is going on my playlist now.
It is sooo good! haha
Thnx for this video, this brings back so much nostalgia, movie park Germany (back then wb movie world) was one of my homeparks and had so many amazing rides which they unfortunately had to change due to copyright. The Neverending story rapids, lethal weapon coaster and gremlins invasion are my favorite defunct attractions!
neverending story is still open as "excalibur". the story has changed, but it almost looks and feels the same.
I went on this as a kid. Started off all fine and dandy then suddenly the gremlins attacked and I remember being moved to the dark ride section and just totally freaking out as the cast member yelled and the gremlins laughed in the background. In the end I started to cry and my grandmother offered to take me off the ride, so we were escorted to a side exit. In my defence I'd seen the movie and that freaked me out too. But wish I had got to return as an adult but it was gone by the next visit. Thanks for covering Australian parks, never clicked so fast!!
SO, I am not a big rollercoaster/theme park fan but I just want too point out that due to your knowledge clearly from the research you have done you have gained a sub. I am binge watching now. Thanks for awesome content.
I'm curious to see what that Alf preshow was like without the German voice dub.
Also, I hate to admit it, but I laughed at 8:51.
How can it be a dub when the only version that exists is german?
@@miatoon It would be much easier to just use a Alf puppet or animatronic for the new recording. Because at this time the series ended for years already and there is no family Tanner. But not many people will know how it really happened :-).
Same tbh
Wait ... Are you telling me ... Wow this is the first time i have seen any theme park channel give us Aussies some love!
and a little update:
The ride path for the Vehicles at MoviePark still exist.
one theatre were changed to be a part of the queue, and the other one still has the old screen in it but is changed a little bit to be a "Show" scene in the queue.
The scene were alf "Shocked" the gremlins, still exist, but without animatronics and is hidden behind a new wall, so the riders cant see it.
(and one shelf, were the movie tapes were inside, wasnt removed, but painted black)
The german version of this ride remained SBNO for 7 years because the animatronics were still technically owned by Warner Bros. Corporation and star parks literally weren't allowed to remove them from the ride. Warner Bros. corp wouldn't "pick them up" and demanded an undisclosed amount of money to sell them instead, wich star parks did not want to pay. During halloween season the ride would open briefly as a a horror themed darkride with live actors. It was called "Terror Train" and in later years "The dark goldmine". The gremlins animatronics were just covered by plastic bags as star parks had no license to display them but also weren't allowed to remove them as I said before.
During the first few halloween seasons after 2004, (when the ride was called "terror train"), the animatronics' eyes were still lit up by red leds for a "spooky" effect of you being watched by "something" in the dark.
After parques reunidos bought the park, they were able to strike a deal with warner bros. and remove the gremlin animatronics from the building. A few were raffled out to park fans during special events but most remain in the parks' posession in some on-site warehouse to this day. One animatronic of Alf can still be seen on the new Van Helsing's Factory coaster sitting inside a bulldozer cabin. One Animatronics of Gizmo is located inside the rides maintenance area. It used to sit underneath the Hood of one of the cars in the "scrapyard" section of the coaster, but was removed from there shortly after the coasters' opening. (possibly because Warner Bros. again took issue with it being able to be seen by the parks visitors without any license paid by P.R.)
Fun fact about Movie Park Germany...... the Alf animatronic still there and he is now sitting in a crane in the Van Helsing‘s Factory coaster!
The German voiced alf or Alfred, as they said, was the scariest thing ever ! LMAO
I like how you added cartoon Beetlejuice on the thumbnail, Beetlejuice is now a staple for me on Halloween!
I always thought gremlins would be a PERFECT ride for Universal. Glad to see it got to come to fruition somewhere, even if its not my neck of the woods
I experienced this ride when I was 5/6 years old, traumatized me. It was literally the scariest thing I'd ever witnessed at that age.
Great video, hope to see more of the Aussie parks. I never got to ride the gremlins ride, looks like it was a gooden. But the Alf version?! Poor Alf doesn’t get enough love 😍
Lol I would pay for a fully themed Alf ride
Two things! One great vid, and two I really want an Expedition Theme Park hoodie lol!
You should get one and tweet me a picture in it!
@@ExpeditionThemePark I definitely will! probably at Epcot!
That would be amazing.
I never knew such a ride was made. Thanks for the video
I like the little touch of you using the music from the Gremlins 2 NES game for the ending of the video. :)
i remember that ride well. I think i visited movie world 9 times as a child. I was obsessed.
Great vid! Wasn't old enough to see the Gremlins in QLD, but the Spooky Coaster is still popular.
I miss this ride and all the old rides and back lot rides etc sooooo much!!!! I been to this park so many time and first visit only months after I opened. In fact going there in week's time 😁
4:19 This Music Is Funky. Thanks Mate. X
I didn't know this was a thing! Thanks for covering!
I remember as a child I entered the ride not knowing it was a ride...I just thought it was about watching the movie..when shit broke loose I was genuinly suprised and excited and I loved it so much that I didn´t know that would be happening. :D
Hey fantastic vid always love em. But yo that song at the end was top tier.
I was partially on the Gremlins ride in Germany back when i was around 6 or 7. I didnt know about the ride back then but my parents were happy to go on this with me. After the takeover of the Cinema of the Gremlins i was so scared, i couldnt go on the ride :D. Thank you for this Video, i never knew how it looked on the inside :D What a shame i was so scared :(
My family and I used to LOVE Movie World. We started going back in 1991 (when it first opened). My two sisters and I would always ask (beg) our parents to take us there whenever we went to the Gold Coast. We loved the Looney Tunes River Ride (my personal favourite), this ride (The Great Gremlins Adventure Ride), the Studio Backlot Tour (a shuttle bus tour where you got to visit movie sets, hear how they added sound effects to the movies etc.). All of that is gone now. Last time I was there (a few years ago), all there really was to do was ride on rollercoasters [which none of my family (myself included) have ever really cared for]. They should just call it "Warner Bros. Coaster World" now, as that is basically what it is. Compared to what the park used to be, there is not much variety at all anymore. If you don't care much for coasters, you are out of luck. We miss these awesome dark rides the most. Sad to say this (since we loved the park so much as kids) but none of us have any interest in ever returning to the park ever again.
Enjoyed this one and hearing Alf talk in German.
Thank you exposition theme park for doing a history or documentary of one of my favorite rides at Warner brothers world called Gremlins invasion. I liked this ride is because they have Alf. And i also like this ride is because this reminds me of universal studios.
As always great Video.
Very interesting video on two rides I didn't know about.
Loved that ride and the WB park in Germany!
..Unfortunately it isn’t owned by WB anymore and the classic rides like Gremlins Invasion, Neverending Story, Lethal Weapon and so on are gone! Those were the days!
you can still ride neverending story, it has a different name but totally feels the same and almost all of the sections still look the same. the que-line got redone in 2018, but looks way better than before, so thats not a problem for me.
@@carlosmarx2380 It’s Called Excalibur and has Knights of the Round Table Theming now.
I was there in October after over 20 years.
Although they’ve put a lot of Afford into the retheming with screens and everything I still miss the Original Theming with Falcor, the giant slug and the Childlike Empress.