History YMMV / LegendsOfTheHiddenTemple

** A similar end comes from "The Milk Bucket of Freydis", in which Purple Parrot Tarrah survives the entire ordeal with ''one second left'' and leaps three steps down to her partner for a flying hug.

** Jason, the Orange Igauna from "The Levitating Dog Leash of Nostradamus", has to obtain the rope to swing over the pit. Even with grabbing the rope for safety, he's unable to reach the swing. But now that he has the dog leash he ''uses it to lasso the rope'' to his side and swing to safety. Many fans comment that he was essentially Indiana Jones in training.

** Tarrah, the Purple Parrot who solos "The Milk Bucket of Freydis" is at the storeroom. Instead of the usual tactic of pushing the vases off the pedestals, the first one she sees has her straighten it out before ''she freaking punches it like she's punching someone's face in''. As Kirk said, "She wants to be a cop."

* AuthorsSavingThrow: [[https://www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/2021/10/legends-of-the-hidden-temple-cw-behind-the-scenes/ The 2021 reboot does away with half-pendants]], and revamps the Temple Games round in a way that teams are guaranteed two full pendants for the Temple Run. This was done because many teams in the original show missed half-pendants hidden in the temple, and the producers not liking how triple seizures ended the show with a DownerEnding.

** The Queen's Armory seems to be the reboot's version of the original Shrine of the Silver Monkey. It has an easy enough task, but it takes ''five'' actions in order to get out of the room by dressing the queen in five different items. It is apparently harder than it looks, as well as time-consuming to get every piece on as well as making sure they stay on. As the season progressed, host Cristela called it the hardest room in the temple and "the dream killer" from how many teams it stopped in their tracks.

* SurpriseDifficulty: As mentioned under ThatOneLevel, the temple ''looks'' easy, but it surprisingly isn't - especially since the kids were often exhausted from spending an entire day doing physical challenges. The Silver Monkey statue in particular was actually quite finicky - even if you assembled it correctly, the mechanism wouldn't always work and would require multiple presses. Apparently this was often the case when people tested the mechanism ou.

** [[UncannyValley Olmec]] himself was kind of creepy, too.

** The Queen's Armory in the 2021 reboot has taken the place of The Shrine of the Silver Monkey in being the "deceptively hard puzzle." This room has managed to trip up every contestant that entered it; despite it having a simple objective, you have to make sure all pieces of the Queen's wardrobe stay on (they're prone to falling off) and it takes entirely too much time to complete. Contestant Nick (who completed in both the original and reboot) stated [[https://twitter.com/NickBorey/status/1458204597764378632?s=20 that the temple run completely blows up players to the point that they're exhausted once they enter this room]], which may explain part of the difficulty.

* AccidentalNightmareFuel: The staff never intended the Temple Guards to be scary. The contestants' screams of terror proved otherwise.

* WhatAnIdiot: Has [[WhatAnIdiot/LegendsOfTheHiddenTemple its own section]].

** In Season 3, the Jester's Court could also qualify, since some kids just couldn't contort their bodies in the way required to hit all the buttons they needed at once. It also didn't help for short kids, too. Mercifully, it was one of the few rooms to have [[AntiFrustrationFeatures never housed a Temple Guard]].

** The Queen's Armory seems to be the reboot's version of the original Shrine of the Silver Monkey. It has an easy enough task, but it takes ''five'' actions in order to get out of the room by dressing the queen in five different items. It is apparently harder than it looks, as well as time-consuming to get every piece on as well as making sure they stay on.

** The Temple Run theme really made that last three minutes feel like a life-and-death struggle. The revival lives up to it with a sweeping orchestral adventure that would sound right at home in ''VideoGame/{{Uncharted}}''.

** The Temple Run theme really made that last three minutes feel like a life-and-death struggle.

* ThatOnePuzzle: It's amazing how difficult that Silver Monkey was. Apparently, assembling the Silver Monkey from three parts scattered around one tiny room is really, really hard. Think about it: you have to grab three parts around the room (large enough parts you can only take one at a time), force them into a base, and then slam the head down hard enough to set off the trigger (some players had to do this several times to get the thing to click). While you're under a rather tight time limit. And you're thirteen or less. And have to make the statue face the camera. [[FromBadToWorse And this is if a Temple Guard wasn't in the room]]. It also was the one room used in every single episode of the show.
** Even worse when the kid drops part of the Monkey. They lose time while some stagehand-er, ''temple spirit'' picks it up and tries to throw it back at them.
** The best is when the kid [[ArtisticLicenseBiology tries to put the head down before the torso]]. It happened often enough to be mentioned.
** [[AscendedMeme Acknowledged]] on Creator/TeenNick's "The '90's are All That" block, where one of the pre-commercial bumpers is a contestant trying to put together the Silver Monkey, with the message "This might take a minute."
** The TV Movie also acknowledges it when the cast attempts to assemble the Silver Monkey. They assemble it with the head on backwards, and took hours to get it right.

** The 2021 reboot brings it back, and even Olmec hates the damn thing. The players have an easier time with it due to being adults, but getting the head to hit the trigger is still harder than it looks. That being said, it can ''still'' manage to trap players in the room; the frontrunner in the fourth episode spent a little over a ''full minute'' in the room, not even realizing he had the middle part upside down.

** Due to ''[[WebVideo/MyLittlePonyTheMentallyAdvancedSeries Rainbow Dash Presents: Captain Hook The Biker Gorilla]]'' doing a parody of the series (including spoofing the notorious difficulty of the aformentioned "Silver Monkey"), it's pretty common to see youtube comments saying "THE HEAD IS BACKWARDS!".

** The Queen's Armory seems to be the reboot's version of the original Shrine of the Silver Monkey. It has an easy enough task, but it takes ''five'' actions in order to get out of the room by dressing the queen in five different items. It is apparently harder than it looks, as well as time-consuming to get every piece on as well as making sure they stay on; it has tripped up almost every player to have entered the room.

** The Queen's Armory in the reboot has an easy enough task, but it takes ''five'' actions in order to get out of the room, by dressing the queen in five different items. Some items, such as clasping the necklace together take longer than others.

* The Queen's Armory in the reboot has an easy enough task, but it takes ''five'' actions in order to get out of the room, by dressing the queen in five different items. Some items, such as clasping the necklace together take longer than others.

** The fifth episode of the reboot has original host Kirk Fogg in the middle of the Dark Forest encouraging the contestants during their Temple Run! Doubly heartwarming as that episode had two former contestants that competed in the 90's series. In another heartwarming moment, contestant Nick redeemed himself almost 30 years later after he infamously got scared out of the temple by a Temple Guard in the "Henry VIII's Great Seal" episode by clearing a long path for his friend Josh to follow and eventually retrieve the artifact.

** The 2021 reboot brings it back, and even Olmec hates the damn thing. The players have an easier time with it due to being adults, but getting the head to hit the trigger is still harder than it looks. Despite the show being for adults, it can ''still'' manage to trap players in the room; the frontrunner in the fourth episode spent a little over a ''full minute'' in the room, not even realizing he had the middle part upside down.

** In the 2021 reboot, Olmec has no love for the Shrine of the Silver Monkey, calling it "that goddamn statue."

*** The Temple Guards in the 2021 reboot are even ''worse''. They wear dark facepaint and each capture is accompanied by a close-up cam shot of them screaming into the lens for the viewers at home.

** The Throne Room was revamped in season 2 to a revolving setup where the throne spins you to the other side, as opposed to just sitting on the throne in season one. This wasted at least 5-6 seconds of valuable time, which was even worse if it's a dead-end on the other side or you're trying to make your way out of the temple with the artifact. This room was also the Laser Light Room, which had a much quicker puzzle thankfully, but just like their season 3 successor The Tomb of the Headless Kings, these rooms also seemed to very likely to house a Temple Guard.

** The 2021 reboot brings it back, and even Olmec hates the damn thing. The players have an easier time with it due to being adults, but getting the head to hit the trigger is still harder than it looks.

** In the 2021 reboot, Olmec has no love for the Shrine of the Silver Monkey.

** The announcement that the show would be [[http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/nickelodeon-legends-of-the-hidden-temple-hey-arnold-2016-tv-upfront-1201719422/ getting rebooted as a TV movie]]. Some fans were excited while others wished they'd just do a straight revival of the series instead.

** The Temple Guards? Giant (to a kid at least), savage-looking monsters that pop out of nowhere when you don't expect it, grab you and [[DraggedOffToHell take you to who knows where]]? They sometimes hid in trees and grabbed you with their branches, or hid in ''armor'' that the player was supposed to press themselves against and grab you with ''that''. Many kids screamed and backed away upon finding them during the show's run. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc2Tbg4GlUc In "Henry VIII's Great Seal]], a boy got so terrified by a Guard that he ran out of the Temple, causing him to forfeit (though it didn't matter, as he only had a half-Pendant). The frontrunner was also pretty freaked out by the first Temple Guard jump scare (you can even hear her say "Oh my GOD" afterward) and screamed in sheer terror at the second Temple Guard jump scaring her again.