This Tweet made me feel very old. Who else remembers the wonders/horrors of the Millennium Dome?

by Brilliant-Disguise

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  3. “We Only Came for DeBeers”

    Still the greatest headline, and greatest story to ever involve the Millenium Dome.

  4. my school won in the raffle to go on a school trip there. definitely one of the more notable trips

  5. This was my first trip to the UK, and as a 12 year old I thought it was freaking sweet.

  7. Now I’m thinking about it yeah it was weird. You walked into like some big ass human, I think you might even have entered through the vagina but I can’t remember as it was so long ago and I was like 6 or 7. I seem to remember having a good time though. 

  8. The fact that someone is so astonished that is wasn’t always an arena is making me feel like a care home is imminent 🙁

    In retrospect yes, it was pretty crazy but no odder than things in video games etc (or skibbidi toilet…). So this grown adult thinks we over 40’s lived in actual history, like the Edwardians and shit.

  9. Hey, those are the HaaHoos from In The Night Garden.

    Very surreal show for toddlers.

  10. I did a project for this in school and they took everyone involved to London to see it, was a bunch of stuff about our town put up on 20 odd screens. Because I was not involved in a performance, I got to walk around seeing everything for 2 days – was really cool! Highlight was you could get a 3d capture of yourself done at one of the booths

  12. In the Night Garden first aired in 2007 and a live version called ‘In the Night Garden Showdome’ ran from 2010 to 2014 at the O2 arena.

    The 4th image used in the Tweet above would’ve been taken at some point between 2010-14.

  13. Didn’t you have to go in to a woman via her fanny and then up a lift to some movie about humans from a pair of aliens ?

    I mostly remember lining up for stuff

    The acrobatic bit in the middle

    And obviously the Blackadder movie, in the cinema there still uses the same giant screen?

  14. Didn’t go to it – end up managing (long story short – consultant I was with needed a mug at an affordable rate and I ticked the box) a Traffic Management plan for an event (I was only supposed to be verifying signage to what had been agreed) about 3 years later. Was very weird. Most of the exhibits were still inside in a slightly rundown rate and they’d been kind of moved out the way or a concert stage had been thrown in and it was someone wtf!? had been playing like Public Enemy. Weird day. Should have been over and done in 90 mins. 13 hours later with sunstroke I wasn’t amused.

  15. We bought our flat in New Cross Gate in 1996. Three miles as the crow flies. I think the closest I’ve ever got to the Dome is a couple of trips to the drive-through covid test centre in the carpark!

  16. The body zone was as creepy as you would imagine

  18. The show they did was pretty cool. People on stilts, doing backflips and shit. They were all dressed like those teenagers from that show The Tribe that used to show on a Sunday morning on channel 5

    Other than that I remember:
    – the room with 1 million pounds encased in acrylic that you could walk through
    – a bridge with recordings of two children from birth to aged 5? that showed how their babbles evolved into language (English on one side and Japanese on the other)
    – the toilets flushed with rainwater collected from th3 roof
    – Blackadder Back and Forth time travel film
    – machine that turned a Styrofoam coffee cup into a pencil

    I went with my dad right towards the end of the year and a lot of stuff was looking tired/worn. We bought a tin of shortbread with the dome pattern on the top.

  19. A teenager told me that they were going to North Greenwich the other day. “The Dome?” I replied. I got a very blank look in return. Once I said “the O2?” They knew what I was on about.

  20. I remember it opening as a kid but I never went, this looks like some AI generated nightmare fuel lol

  21. I do and don’t. I went when I was about 16-17 and heavily into drugs. I think at one point they were pretty much giving tickets away and a bunch of us went, smoked a lot of weed and spent most of day sitting inside that giant egg/chill out zone with the continuous ambient music. I remember very little else. Oh, there was a giant hamster

  23. Damn. I went to a concert here, I swear to god I did. Like, a whole day or two festival, skate punk stuff, sum41 played? Kelly Osbourne?

    Ha ha ha memories if it was this place

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