History Series / LegendsofTheHiddenTemple

* SoundEffectBleep: In the reboot whenever someone cusses, they are suddenly muted with their team emblem covering their mouth.

* SequelDifficultySpike: To be expected now that the show's geared towards adults, but the 2021 reboot takes the [[NintendoHard already-difficult]] temple and kicks it up another notch, with far more physical challenge-based rooms and tougher puzzles. One standout example is the Royal Rage Room, which is basically the badass little brother to the King's Storeroom; there are more pots, said pots are a lot sturdier and tougher to break, and there are ''three'' keys to find instead of just one.

* '''The Temple Games:''' A series of three competitive physical contests, usually themed around the legend, which will net the team who wins a "[[HeartContainer Pendant of Life]]". The first two games are worth a half-pendant each and involve one player from each team, while the last game is worth a full pendant of life and involves both players from each team ([[GoldenSnitch and usually determines which team wins]]). If the teams tie in a game, they both receive that game's pendant. If there is a tie, Kirk/Olmec ask a general trivia [[SuddenDeath tiebreaking question]] (in the first season, getting the question wrong meant losing the quest immediately). Cue the second commercial break. The 2021 reboot cuts this down to two Temple Games that both players participate in, each being worth a full pendant of life with the Sudden Death round also being worth one full pendant.
* '''Olmec's Temple:''' After the announcer describes the {{Promotional Consideration}}s and Olmec [[MemeticMutation describes the rooms]], the teams get [[TimedMission three minutes]] (or 4 minutes in the 2021 reboot) to try to make it into the temple, grab the artifact, and make it out. The temple is a two-story twelve-room maze; all doors are locked initially, and most rooms have a logic puzzle that must be solved before any doors which can be unlocked will unlock. Grabbing the artifact instantly unlocks all doors and banishes any remaining Temple Guards (and nets the team a second prize); making it out of the temple before time runs out nets you the grand prize (in early seasons, a trip to Space Camp). Cue credits. The 2021 reboot awards $2,500 for the first consolation prize, $10,000 for getting to the artifact, and $25,000 for escaping the temple with the artifact.

* NonstandardGameOver: If one of the two players in the Temple Run left the Temple in an area other than the entrance, the run automatically ended in a loss. While this never happened, one contestant was so afraid of a Temple Guard that he jumped out of the Temple. It didn't matter since he only had half a pendant anyway.

* '''The Temple Games:''' A series of three competitive physical contests, usually themed around the legend, which will net the team who wins a "[[HeartContainer Pendant of Life]]". The first two games are worth a half-pendant each and involve one player from each team, while the last game is worth a full pendant of life and involves both players from each team ([[GoldenSnitch and usually determines which team wins]]). If the teams tie in a game, they both receive that game's pendant. If there is a tie, Kirk/Olmec ask a general trivia [[SuddenDeath tiebreaking question]] (in the first season, getting the question wrong meant losing the quest immediately). Cue the second commercial break. The 2021 reboot cuts this down to two Temple Games, each being worth a full pendant of life with the Sudden Death round also being worth one full pendant.

* PrecisionFStrike: Olmec often tends to lapse into this this during the legends and temple explanation during the reboot.

* PropRecycling: In the 2021 version, the lighted podiums used to signal the end of a Temple Game run/tiebreaker question are the same ones used during the original's Moat challenge.

* CouchGag: Olmec would deliver some sort of humorous CatchPhrase, often rock-related, just before the Moat round begins.

* AlliterativeName: Blue Barracudas, Purple Parrots, and Silver Snakes.

* DownerEnding: The "triple seizure", the fandom term for when every Temple Guard is encountered during the temple run with the last Temple Guard eliminating the contestant, resulting in a complete loss outside of the final round consolation prize. The 2021 reboot averts this, guaranteeing a team two full pendants to give to the Temple Guards so the only way they could lose the Run is running out of time.

** The 2021 Temple Run is four minutes (as opposed to three in the original, but just like in the original, there appears to be only one linear path to the artifact. The room objectives have gotten more elaborate and take longer to complete. And that's leaving out the Temple Guards. It's impossible for them to end the run, but they can still mess up a team depending on their placement. In the second episode, the frontrunner was railroaded into several time-wasting rooms and was taken out by the second Temple Guard ''one room away'' from the artifact, leaving only 30 seconds for the second player to retrace the path (which he didn't).

* ObstacleExposition: The basic challenges, obviously, but the most memorable part is Olmec's description of the epic journey the contestants must face to retrieve the [=MacGuffin=] of the Week.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Don't expect your kids to get good grades if they base their knowledge on Olmec's stories.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Season one had a much brighter, cleaner, kind of orange tint than the next two seasons, as well as the set not being covered in wildlife and billowing fog. The temple structure was also quite different; the Cave of Sighs, later the Ledges could be entered and exited, and the temple gate consisted of two large columns rather than an actual gate, as well as the actual staircase leading into the temple behind Olmec's head being significantly closer to ground level. A number of rooms in the temple didn't require a task to be completed to move on; the player merely had to hit a button (or, as the show called it, an "actuator") above or next to the door. Kirk also wore khaki shorts rather than jeans, and his delivery and commentary were a lot more rough around the edges; this might have been why the next two seasons had Olmec himself deliver the instructions for how to perform each Temple Game and how to cross the moat, which were Kirk's duties in season one. Olmec was also much less of a LargeHam in the first season. Lastly, the contestants' helmets were goldenrod rather than metallic gold and instead of wearing jeans during the Temple Games/Temple Run they wore khaki shorts/goldenrod sweatpants, respectively.

* The 2021 Temple Run is now four minutes instead of three to compensate for how big the temple is and how elaborate the puzzles are.

** The temple in the 2021 reboot is massive, and despite the Temple Run being a minute longer, there appear to be many more locked doors and time-wasting puzzles to accommodate the players being adults now.

* BaldWoman: Abby of the Green Monkeys in the reboot's second episode "The Fiery Lava Rock of Pele" is bald and has tattoos on her head due to losing all of her hair when she was 16.

* {{Bowdlerize}}: The writers had to change a few legends to make them appropriate for kids. For the Grandy Nanny story, Olmec said she and her rebels threw cannonballs against her would be captors instead of [[https://www.buzzfeed.com/jaimieetkin/legends-of-the-hidden-temple-kirk-fogg-olmec what she's better known for]].

* AdaptationExpansion: Oh, so much with the 2021 CW version.

** The Moat in the original was just a simple "Get across the pool in a different way" challenge, but this one turns it into a full on obstacle course. In the pilot alone, the Moat had five different steps the players had to complete before moving on. The game is also played on an actual lake rather than a big pool.
** While there are only two Temple Games rather than three, they have been heavily expanded now. Much like the Moat, these are full on obstacle courses and include several steps the players need to complete in order to win, unlike the original where every Temple Game was essentially a FetchQuest.
** Olmec's Temple in this one is ''massive'', about the size of a theme park attraction. Each room is significantly larger than the original (obviously, due to accommodating full grown adults rather than kids) and feature more elaborate gimmicks than before. Due to this, teams now have four minutes to complete the run instead of three.

%%** With only four teams in the 2021 version, that means this happens to two of the teams from the original. In the pilot at least, the Silver Snakes and the Orange Monkeys get junked.

It also seems that my legend was made into a [[Film/LegendsOfTheHiddenTemple movie for]] [[MadeForTVMovie the small screen]] 21 years after the closure of my original tales and challenges. This one expands on my backstory of my people and I and the brave escapades of three youths who venture into my temple and brave its dangers to restore my kingdom and save it from one of my treacherous sons. It premiered on the day of Thanksgiving in the sixth year of the 2010's. A year later, Kirk Fogg and I appeared in animated form in a special crossover episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse''. 8 years after that crossover, it was announced that adults who had grown up hearing the legends would get a chance to attempt to make their way through the temple in a reboot exclusive to Quibi. After the service shut down in December 2020, Creator/TheCW took on reins for the reboot. It premiered in October 2021 with Cristela Alonzo hosting.

* AdaptedOut: While there are some rooms that perform similar functions, the Temple Run doesn't directly carry over any rooms from the original. Except, of course, for the Shrine of the Silver Monkey.

* {{Foil}}: Missy of the Blue Barracudas from "The Lucky Heart-Shaped Pillow of Annie Taylor" and Tarrah of the Purple Parrots from "The Milk Bucket of Freydis". Both of them are among the shortest players with Missy being a NervousWreck the entire time while Tarrah was a BadassAdorable with aspirations in being a cop. Missy manages to get to the Temple via winning the tiebreaker question while Tarrah and her partner sweep the Temple Games (leaving them at one and two pendants respectively). Both of them go into the Temple first with Missy needing to calm herself down while Tarrah is eager to begin...and both of them successfully go through their runs solo with Missy crying TearsOfJoy when she finishes while Tarrah bounces down the stairs with one second left (after getting hit on the ledges) to meet her partner for a victory hug.