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Originally posted by Valley:
Cool Facts:

There is in fact a real legend of buried treasure near Astoria.

One Eye'd Willy's real name was William B. Pordobel

Michael Jackson and family were on set much of the time to watch filming. (that should scary ya, but he an Corey were friends back then.)

During the "Truffle Shuffle" scene, Jeff Cohen was embarassed and had to have the set cleared before doing it. He was also getting over the Chicken Pocks, which he didn't tell anyone for fear of being unable to do the film.

During the Walsh house kitchen scene, they did so many takes of Jeff Cohen eating whipped cream that it made him sick.

There is no attic in the Goonie house. The attic scene was shot at Warner Brothers in Burbank, Studio #20.

During the Attic scene, Sean Astin (Mikey) told the story of One Eyed Willy unscripted. Donner took him aside, told him the story and asked him to tell the story in his own words during shooting.

The photo of "Chester Copperpot" In the newspaper article is also used in the film "Shock Treatment" from 1981.

The Fratelli's hideout (restaurant) doesn't exist but was a set. The location of the set is actually 30 miles away from Astoria, at Cannon beach.

Data's 'sister' the little girl Brand steals the pink bike from is actually Jonathan Ke Quan's niece, Lisa.

Ke Quan (Data) spells out "s-h-i-t" during the bolder dropping scene because his mother wouldn't allow him to curse.

Many of the kids actual family members had short cameos at the end of the film parents played goonie parents.

Jeff Cohen does actually have a sister Eydie and an Uncle Max. Sister Eydie can be seen at the end of the film.

During the scene with Sloth picking up Chunk in the chair many people think Chunk says "You smell like fish heads." He's actually saying "phys ed.".

Jeff Cohen became Class President when he went to UC Berkeley, his winning slogan...."Chunk for President".

They put a tiny replica of R2D2 on the Inferno ship model which was used in the last scenes of the film.

The devices used to open the Walsh family gate and to lift anchor on the Inferno were created by Rube Goldburg and actually worked provided you can always scare an egg out of a chicken.

It took John Matuszak (Sloth) 4 hours each day to get into makeup. The mishappen eye was remote controlled. They had to count in order to get both John's and the remote controlled eye to blink at the same time. 1, 2, 3 blink.
John Matuszak was a defensive lineman for the Raiders.

Data's inventions all have names, including but not limited to..."Sticky Dart, Wings of Flight, Pinchers Of Peril, Bully Blinders, Slick Shoes, Intimidator, spy eyes and bully buster.

In Italian, "Fratelli" means 'siblings', so in a sense they were the brothers brothers.

The inscription on the bottom of the chest they break through reads the same as on the map. "Ye intruders beware...".

When the Goonies was made for Spanish audiences, they made Rosalita an Italian woman. Rosalita becomes "Rosanna".

There is a song on the soundtrack entitled "8 Arms To Hold You" by a band called "The Goon Squad." This song was entirely removed from the film because it was used during the cut scene involving the octopus. However, because the filmmakers were convinced the song could be a hit, it was pressed as a 12" dance single. As it was cut out of the film, it wasn't promoted at all and thus sold miserably. It is still one of the most collectable Goonie items to date.

The name "Rube G" can be seen painted on the contraption that opens the yard gate for Chunk near the beginning of the movie. This is in reference to Rube Goldberg, the Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist who drew whimsical machines that achieved simple results in difficult ways.
Mouths father owns a plumbing business called Mad Jacks Plumbing, you can see his truck with the logo on the side during the opening chase scene scene of the film.

Brand (Josh Brolin) is supposed to be Claustrophobic. You see hints of this through the film but it's never completely explained.

Do you like reading cool stuff like that about films? I know I do!

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Originally posted by ISIS:
I watched that clip...he says that Meryl Streep is going to play Anne Ramsey's part...that would make her about 120 years old now.

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I think she is.

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Originally posted by ISIS:
I watched that clip...he says that Meryl Streep is going to play Anne Ramsey's part...that would make her about 120 years old now.

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Originally posted by Muffy Tepperman:
There is a Goonies 2 in the works and alot of the original actors are signed on....it's a sequel i actually think they will do right......has anyone seen anything? I'm gonna find this youtube clip of Josh Brolin talking about it

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

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Originally posted by EleanorJune:
I have to admit, I have never seen the Goonies. I will assume this is crime against 80's movies and I must go rent it tonight?

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But of course! Better yet, buy it. You will watch it more than once.

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