#theme park design

[disneyllect]

[a-land-of-shadow-and-substance]

I really wish it was more of a thing for theme park rides to have credits, the way films and TV do. Like I know if a ride is popular enough/gets big enough promo there will be documentaries that interview the major creatives, and of course a lot of rides have Easter Eggs relating to the people who worked on them. But I kind of wish there were like, a plaque at the end or maybe a card you could get that listed the whole visual development department, the lighting department, etc. So much artistic effort goes into these things and I would like it if everyone involved could get their proper due.

Plus it would make some of my research so much easier.

[miamaimania]

"House of Tomorrow" (1957, Monsanto Pavilion) ⟲ 1950s blueprinting 1986

[nonsensology]

Sometimes I like to daydream about my ideal Disneyland, which would feature a Mysteryland that includes a Gravity Falls area, an attraction based on Great Mouse Detective, and a 1920s murder mystery version of Haunted Mansion. More details about Mysteryland (and links to the rest of my ideal Disneyland) can be found here.

Mood Music: "Grim Grinning Ghosts" (Dance Party version) and "Are You Brave Enough (for Halloween)?"

[fairydraws04]

hey moshi monsters fans, if there was a moshi monsters theme park ride, which would you rather it be?

a motion sim about finding buster bumblechops missing moshlings

a super moshis vs clonc rollercoaster

Voting ended onMar 1

I'll be making a design of the poll winner, but im also posting this poll on other sites so whatever wins overall. Ive also written treatments for both rides, so if you want to see those dm me!

Disclaimer i wont actually be designing the full ride, actually I'll be designing everything except for the ride. The vehicle, queue, employee costumes, preshow room, etc, but not the actual ride scenes!

[hauntedbrowser]

Behind the Screams: Unmasking the Horror Tour for this year are secured.

One of the biggest reasons I’m drawn to Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights is the artistry behind the fear. The way each haunted house is meticulously crafted with story, scenic design, lighting, sound, and atmosphere. These aren’t just walkthroughs. They’re living nightmares built from the ground up by creatives who obsess over every detail.

Getting to experience the houses with the lights on during the Behind the Screams tour is one of my favorite things. You get to see the layers: the hidden gags, the textures, the clever storytelling baked into every corner.

Tour tickets are secured, and I seriously can’t wait to take it all in. Fingers crossed that the Fallout house is part of the lineup. I really want to see how they translated that world into a physical, terrifying space.

[s10127470]

DisneySea: (Part 5) Mythical Marina

For our fifth stop, we've come to Mythical Marina!

Here, guests find themselves flung back in time to Ancient Greece, when the country was still split into city-states and the mighty gods of Mount Olympus were still worshipped.

Making up the port of call is a seaside city-state on the coast of The Mediterranean Sea (drawing heavy inspiration from real-life city-states like Athens, Corinth and Sparta)

Travel along stone-paved pathways accompanied by olive and cypress trees, marble statues, and classic architecture of the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders.

The centerpiece of this land is The Temple of Poseidon, a slightly-sized down replica of the real-life temple of the same name found in Cape Sounion.

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This land offers two attractions for guests to experience, both of which based off the expansive lore of Greek mythology.

The first one is The Odyssey.

On this Audio-Animatronic ride, guests get the chance to experience the legendary poem by Homer.

Just like in the poem, the story sees the war hero Odysseus embarking on a voyage just after The Trojan War to his home Ithaca, where his wife Penelope and their son Telemachus are awaiting his return.

But little did he know that his voyage would be easier said than done.

As through his journey, Odysseus finds himself having to endure the wrath of the god of the sea himself, Poseidon, and facing the many hardships he's placed on his path.

This includes getting captured by Calypso (who wanted to make him her lover), braving through a massive storm casted by Poseidon himself, being tempted by the food of The Lotus Eaters, battling the cyclops Polyphemus, escaping the cannibal-like Laestrygonians, avoiding Circe and her army of pig-men, navigating through the depths of the underworld to meet with the blind prophet Tiresias, ignoring the luring song of the sirens, and fighting the sea monster and living whirlpool Scylla and Charybdis.

The second attraction is Journey of the Hippocampus.

On this indoor rollercoaster ride, guests can hope aboard cars modeled after the legendary sea creature the ride is named after.

Soon enough, guests find themselves zooming through the underwater world of The Mediterranean, encountering coral reefs, sunken ruins, shipwrecks, and even volcanic chasms.

In terms of dining, this land has one restaurant: The Olive Tree.

Set in a replica of an ancient Greek courtyard with a massive olive tree at the center of it, this restaurant serves dishes dating back to the days of Ancient Greece such as wine-dipped barley bread, teganites, Greek salad (made with lettuce, asparagus, cucumber, onion, olives, olive oil and vinegar), a cheese and olive platter (consisting of feta, kasseri, kefalograviera, manouri, graviera, and kefalotyri), figs, a nut mix (consisting of pistachios, walnuts, almonds, sesame and chestnuts), a Greek fruit salad (made with figs, pomegranates, apples, pears, cherries and grapes), roasted fish, fried fish skewers, roasted octopus, fried squid, lentil soups, pastilli, a choice of either honey-drizzled cheese, figs or olives, and a wide selection of wine to choose from.

For shopping, we have The Agora. 

Named after and set in a replica of the ancient Greek marketplace of the same name, this establishment sells items such as Greek dolls, Greek Orthodox Iconography, leather goods, and evil eye charms.

There's also two smaller shops within this massive shop.

First there's Θησαυροί της Ελλάδας (“Treasures of Greece”), which sells Greek masks, carvings, statuettes, paintings, pottery, miniature mosaics and stories on scrolls, and Νέκταρ των Θεών (“Nectar of the Gods”), which sells food items, like Kalamata olives, olive oil, and traditional Greek spices.

As for entertainment, there's The Players of Dionysus.

Based in a replica of an ancient Greek theater, this group performs somewhat condensed versions of classic Greek theater productions such as Medea, Oedipus Rex, The Frogs, and even Disney's very own adaptation of Hercules.

And finally for character greetings, we have Hercules, Pegasus, Philoctetes, Megara, Hades, Zeus and Hermes.

[meetmeinthepast]

Do you know what kind of questions I want to ask Epic Universe cast members the most, but I can't because it would be inappropriate?

I want to ask about what the training materials and scripts look like and how it differs in different roles. I want to ask how much info the characters are given, how much is improv, and how much comes from establishing canon as they're out with the public. I want all the gritty, little details that the theme park and experience design team put in, hoping that somebody would pick them up. I want someone who worked on the parks to show me all of their favorite elements that they feel like most people miss, but only if they would find joy in doing so. I want to marvel at the attention to detail that they worked so hard to put in.

For some people, this would completely ruin the magic, and that is understandable. The behind the scenes things, for me, add to the magic rather than subtract to it. I have done theater and worked in museums, have friends who work in theme parks both in public and behind the scenes, and have been on both sides of wanting someone to see the details that you worked on and hearing others excitedly talk about the things that few people catch that they worked on. I want to ask all of these questions and know all of these things, not only because I am curious, but because when someone has put that much work into something, they usually light up when getting to talk about it, and that light in someone else's eyes is one of the most amazing things in the world.

(Epic is just the one that's on my mind most recently, but please know this applies to just about any theme or amusement park, museum, haunt, or theater production out there.)