The complete collection witth the 5 limited to 500 series is wprth around 14 bucks

I thought it was a wonderful ad campaign, still do.

Like many, I was not aware the series existed - until I stumbled upon it on Tubi, over 25 years after it debuted. I'd add lack of marketing/promotion as a factor in its demise. I've enjoyed MP since the early 70s -and I'm not quite dead, yet.

No stereotypes. Homies looked like the people in the Barrios of Albuquerque, NM where I grew up in the 60s and 70s.

what in the fuck

Jim wouldn't sell the Sesame Street characters to Disney.

I have one of the zombie homies, it’s pretty cool

i got this condition, bobble head symdrome, im dead homie

they still sell a LOT of homies merch at zumiez

Criticism that disney negotations killed Jim, and Disney would try to acquire Sesame Street, even though those characters were off limits.

Didn’t they sell homies with actual low riders back then too? I could have sworn my mom got me a set of them with cars

Bobble neck syndrome 💀💀💀

I loved the copybooks and binders

I was six when this park opened. I got to see it once, from afar, as my parents and I passed through the Omni complex on our way to see an Atlanta Flames game. But I never actually got to go before it closed. 😢

And now CNN has pulled out, and it's back to Square One with the Omni complex.

Sid & Marty Kroft was at Six flags over Georgia in the contemporary theater and had a animatronic resembling HR PuffnStuf and it spoke out at the end of the I ate the whole thing liiw it was gobbling up the audience 😮

Where can I purchase them now?

I was lucky enough to go in its short life. We were visiting my aunt in Atlanta and she took us. Loved all the Kroftt shows and was thrilled to shake tentacles with Sigmund.

Great video! I'm a big fan of stop motion but had no idea of any of this backstory

You put together a great video, nice job

I had the biggest crush on Steve from E.T. back in the day!☺️❤ Loved this interview- not enough on Steve, Tyler and Greg😄

Steve & Otis sang with me on Tranquility Island. In fact, that photo of Steve & Otis, I believe I took. After the World closed, we did shows at North DeKalb Mall. It was there that a sign on the bulletin board that said they were holding auditions for the Hensons. I showed Steve the sign & told him to call. The rest is history. I moved to Nashville to continue perform. Haven’t seen Steve since then but am so proud of him

The homies figures are still active and there coming out with new figures and different style like funkos

Damn this unlocked such a deep forgotten memory. I lived in Maywood, Cali and I remember seeing these figures in the quarter machines in a labanderia mi jefa and I went to when I was a kid. I always thought how cool they looked like. This was also around the time when I saw the gangster SpongeBob or gangster loony toons printed on tee shirts getting really popular.

Great interview, Wesley!

Nice job and probably the most information I have come across on the park!

Too bad he watches CNN...lowest rated news network around. As for all they build and created...Magic!

When CNN took over the mall that finally Killed Sid & Marty Croft,and gone forever!

Great interview! I'm bummed I didn't get to see it in IMAX but I live by universal studios Hollywood so I stocked up on 40th anniversary stuff

Here, I'm noticing Steve Whitmire has a similar cadence to Jim Henson. And he respects Jim Henson's original ideas. The lineage is noticeably lost and it makes the productions slightly hard to view.

Hi Steve! 💛💙💜💚🧡❤

So good to see the place again Wesley! 💛💙💜💚🧡❤

That merchandise has to be worth a fortune now….

Acoustics are everything for the ambient mood created. Most public places like this never even consider acoustics. The afterthought of sound deadening the building brought the cost way up. Probably should have started smaller to work out the kinks of the rides etc. and farther away from Six Flags.

What about Gumby? Those Christmas specials? I remember the California Raisins. There are tons of creators who work on projects, but usually only one gets all the credit: Walt Disney, George Lucas, Gene Roddenberry, Stan Lee, Bob Kane, Jim Henson, Tim Burton, etc.

I remember going down to see it as a kid, but never got to go up. I just remember everyone's parents complaining about how expensive it was. I remember thinking the hanging boxes to muffle sound were box kites.

Clown TV was an integral part of my childhood and my love of clowns ❤🥹 Thank you so much for this little documentary

I still have one!. Ripped homie with the towel over his shoulder.

I was forced onto this ride as a kid

I grew up with HR pufmstuff back in1. 1969 j was4 years old then

It's really sad that a concept like this was never attempted again after 1976 for a pretty understandable reason. For a month, future Muppet puppeteer Steve Whitmire brought his puppet Otis and talked to visitors visiting the building when he was a young teenager.

someone like me that works for dollywood and have been to six flags monster mansion is still the best classic water/dark ride ever love it every time I go and visit but I also love dollywood to there both good parks with good rides.

Love this!!

I’m having my mom send me my vhs of this now.

Enjoyed the video but disagree on the graphics, at the time it was pretty amazing. A futuristic city you could run around, running at up to 1024x768 with pedestrians and shops you could enter... it was pretty epic to me at least. GTA3 was still a couple of years away at the time. The FPS sections were terrible though, even at the time. I think if you played it at the time, you'd feel the nostalgia and joy for it that many of us feel. I can accept though, that coming at it now (or even 4 years from now when you made this video), it would be a struggle. A product of the time I guess.

There was also a park called Kingdoms 3, closed down around the same time. Atlanta in the mid-70’s was just not the safest-seeming city. Given a later opening who knows these parks may have succeeded.

As a major Kroft fan back then I'm amazed I don't recall this even existing (And I'm someone who can still clearly picture the superheroes water skiing show ads in comics from then). But man would I have loved it. What a shame it was rushed into opening.

I remember going to the Sesame Street General Store when it used to be at the Livingston Mall. That's where I got giant plush toys of Elmo, Cookie Monster, Ernie, and Bert. It was one of my favorite childhood memories.😊

bro was born with a silver spoon