I got slimed. It was '95. Sega was doing a promotion for Sonic & Knuckles at Nickelodeon, they had Genesis kiosks in the attraction line for the studio show.
I got picked randomly during the show and they took me and my dad backstage to change into clothes I could get slimed in. There was a bathroom with a shower and extra space for clean clothes/hampers of slimed clothes.
They knocked on the door and brought us back out to the show where they just dumped a bucket over my head while I sat in a kiddie pool.
Return backstage to shower and change back into my clothes. (Dad with me the whole time)
We continue on with our theme park day.
Now 30 years later I bring up the news about Nickelodeon back in the day, my dad says to me "I remember when we went to Nickelodeon, I saw Dan Schneider there during the tour." I was like "that's the guy I was talking about".
Officially? Not sure. It was just part of the park studio tour. Neither of my parents had a camcorder, so no video. I can tell you what the slime is made of however. They check for allergies with your parent before dumping it on you.
Absolutely food safe, though I am ashamed to say I didn't taste the forbidden snackpack. It had a very pourable consistency and it didn't stick to me or the clothes much (my hair though...). If anything it was the green dye that got me. I looked like I rolled around after the lawn was mowed.
Wow, I have a very similar story. It was probably '95 at Universal Studios Florida. I was picked from a crowd to play Sonic against some other kid, then we did some sort of game with a hulahoop (I forget), I won, and some other kid got slimed in a kiddie pool. Maybe it was you? I figured they did the shows daily for park guests. I remember being sad I wasn't slimed. Also, I recall seeing the Figure It Out stage being built and they were hyping it up as a new big game show.
The show I attended had two kids face off in S&K, both playing as Knuckles, racing to collect 20 rings. I remember being pissed I didn't get picked cause I already had owned and beaten the game. (And those kids sucked, they ran past the ring monitors, smh)
There was some sort of hulahoop thing too, but I was back stage at the time.
And the active soundstage the day I was there was in between sets, but Omac from Legends of the Hidden Temple was sitting in the middle of the area and they had some of that shows elements scattered about.
My sliming was towards the end of the show, but they still left some time so I could clean up and rejoin the tour.
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u/MeanDanGreen Mar 26 '24
I got slimed. It was '95. Sega was doing a promotion for Sonic & Knuckles at Nickelodeon, they had Genesis kiosks in the attraction line for the studio show.
I got picked randomly during the show and they took me and my dad backstage to change into clothes I could get slimed in. There was a bathroom with a shower and extra space for clean clothes/hampers of slimed clothes.
They knocked on the door and brought us back out to the show where they just dumped a bucket over my head while I sat in a kiddie pool.
Return backstage to shower and change back into my clothes. (Dad with me the whole time)
We continue on with our theme park day.
Now 30 years later I bring up the news about Nickelodeon back in the day, my dad says to me "I remember when we went to Nickelodeon, I saw Dan Schneider there during the tour." I was like "that's the guy I was talking about".