There hasn’t been any word on the temple itself, but I’m hoping for fan favorite rooms to return.
#Legends of the hidden temple application series
The reimagining of the series comes from Stone & Company, the company that produced the original series on Nickelodeon. “When we asked Dee Bradley Baker to return as the one and only Olmec – our giant talking stone head, and he said, ‘Let’s Rock,’ that was all I had to hear…Olmec lives,” executive producer Scott Stone told Deadline. (That’s good, because the original series sometimes gave out Nerds candy and Hershey’s chocolate milk mix as consolation prizes.) The team names, moat crossings, steps of knowledge, and temple run have all been confirmed to return, and Olmec returning with his original voice is just icing on the cake. The new take on the series will take the adventure outside, into a “mysterious jungle” setting with more adult-appropriate challenges and bigger prizes. There, they had three minutes to make it through the obstacle course of the temple, avoid the temple guards, and retrieve the episode’s treasure. Only one team could make it to the final temple run. They would cross a moat, answer trivia on the Steps of Knowledge, and then compete in head-to-head physical challenges that usually involved putting something in a bucket. Each episode, six pairs of kids dressed in Reebok athletic gear and bright yellow helmets would complete a series of mental and physical tests to try to earn the right to enter Olmec’s temple.
Legends of the Hidden Temple ran from 1993 to 1995 on Nickelodeon and was one of the highlights of my afternoons. It should be noted that in the years since Baker voiced Olmec, he has become one of Hollywood’s most prolific voice actors, with 627 credits and counting to his name, including voicing the entire main cast on Star Wars: The Bad Batch. He made game announcements, explained challenge rules, and asked trivia questions. Cristela Alonzo will host the reboot, replacing ’90s host Kirk Fogg. Olmec was a giant talking Mayan head that served as the series’ co-host and logo. It has been more than 20 years since the original series’ first run, but the kids who watched back then are sure to tune in to the adult version now. Let’s rock! The Legends of the Hidden Temple reboot over at The CW will bring back the original voice of Olmec, Dee Bradley Baker.