One Sentence Competition: Monopoly Edition

[Architectural Guinea Pig]

The CONTEMPORAR-E Resort

Stay a night beyond the Ordinar-E at Disney's Contemporary Resort, now completely refurbished and rethemed to feature the lovable little robot Wall-E and his companions!

The resort overhaul incorporates a futuristic solarpunk theme, as the original Contemporary Resort A-shaped structure (now themed as the redesigned Axiom ship) now incorporates natural greenery, floating glass, futuristic transparent screens, waterfalls and more, while keeping many of its original elements intact- including the 90-foot Mary Blair Mural, fitting right at home with newer murals all across the atrium (with limited-motion animatronic robots seen "painting" them, showing their creative side).

Along with the pool receiving a multitude of scattered robot statues/easter eggs, the resort's rooms also feature a character integration facelift: featuring a calming light green color palette, each room gains special Wall-E decor, an interactive Ai robot screen featuring EVE similar to the ones found on the Galactic Star Cruiser (or a REAL animatronic in the deluxe suites), and a dark "space" ceiling that comes to life at night/when the lights go off, sparkling with hundreds of small led stars that recreate the film's Space Dance sequence.​

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Community Bonus: The California Grill now includes a delicious new dessert in its final course- the Creme Brull-E, featuring a yummy toasted custard (similar to the apocalyptic Earth landscape), a Wall-E shaped Chocolate, and green "plant" spoons!​

 

[ThemeParkPriest]

Indiana Jones at Disney's Explorers Lodge (Hong Kong)

Following the success of Jock Lindsey's Hangar Bar (Disney Springs) and in anticipation of the Tropical America land at Disney's Animal Kingdom, Disney's Explorer Lodge in Hong Kong will be receiving an influx of the greatest cinematic explorer--Indiana Jones! Each hotel room will contain instruments, colors, and artwork representative of one of the series' films, while the Pankot Palace table-seat restaurant will bring to mind memories from the scene from Temple of Doom. The pool contains many body slides, including one that takes them face to face with the bolder from the iconic scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Community Chest: the popular Air Pirates Pretzels (with mustard and cheese) from Hangar Bar make it to Hong Kong, although they have been flattened and made smaller to make them more of a snack option for tourists in Hong Kong.

 

[Half/CartoonHalf/Human]

The CONTEMPORAR-E Resort

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Stay a night beyond the Ordinar-E at Disney's Contemporary Resort, now completely refurbished and rethemed to feature the lovable little robot Wall-E and his companions!

The resort overhaul incorporates a futuristic solarpunk theme, as the original Contemporary Resort A-shaped structure (now themed as the redesigned Axiom ship) now incorporates natural greenery, floating glass, futuristic transparent screens, waterfalls and more, while keeping many of its original elements intact- including the 90-foot Mary Blair Mural, fitting right at home with newer murals all across the atrium (with limited-motion animatronic robots seen "painting" them, showing their creative side).

Along with the pool receiving a multitude of scattered robot statues/easter eggs, the resort's rooms also feature a character integration facelift: featuring a calming light green color palette, each room gains special Wall-E decor, an interactive Ai robot screen featuring EVE similar to the ones found on the Galactic Star Cruiser (or a REAL animatronic in the deluxe suites), and a dark "space" ceiling that comes to life at night/when the lights go off, sparkling with hundreds of small led stars that recreate the film's Space Dance sequence.​

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Community Bonus: The California Grill now includes a delicious new dessert in its final course- the Creme Brull-E, featuring a yummy toasted custard (similar to the apocalyptic Earth landscape), a Wall-E shaped Chocolate, and green "plant" spoons!​

I was going to WALL•E VERY similar, but I guess you beat me. I’ll still share what I had in mind.

WALL• X Pixar Place Hotel​

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WALL•E, after 27 years, is FINALLY getting representation at the Disney Parks, though at the Pixar Place Hotel in Disneyland! The temporary retheme will bring many changes to the hotel, such as rooms getting axiom themed makeovers, complete with red & blue pajamas like the fat humans wear, the hotel getting decorated with a mix match of wgat you normally see in both WALL•E’s house & the axiom. The pool area now has a splash pad based around WALL•E & EVE’s space dance, & to round everything off, various robots (even ones that many thought could never happen, like EVE) from WALL•E can be found in the lobby for meet & greets!

Community Chest​

The Sketch Pad Cafe will now offer themed Milkshakes for the returned, but none of them will have a “food” in a cup flavor (In the movie, it’s fine, but realistically, it’s kinda disgusting); as for what these favors are, there’s “Birthday In A Cup” (Birthday Cake combination flavored), “Galaxy In A Cup” (Blueberry & other weird tasting foods flavored), & “Life In A Cup” (Mint Chocolate flavor with brownie chunks).​

 

[WaltWiz1901]

The Palace of Genovia​

Pretty much a temporary The Princess Diaries overlay of the Paradise Pier Hotel. Hey, Mia did use to live in San Francisco before becoming a princess, and this is California Adventure...
I would've had more to say, but I am pretty pressed for time as it stands

 

[Lizzy May Bee]

For example, if you’ve got the perfect IP in mind for Paradise Pier Hotel (preferably not Pixar), go for it!

Well now that you mention it…

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Phineas and Ferb: Summer of Fun!

Imagine that it’s the summer of 2012 and you’re Disney, you want to book more rooms at your Paradise Pier Hotel while also promoting the upcoming final season of your TV hit Phineas and Ferb, the only thing for a conglomerate like yourself to do is stir up a little cross-promotion! From May to the end of August (104 days specifically), the Paradise Pier Hotel would take on an aesthetic inspired by the iconic stepbrothers’ summer vacation, with half the rooms being themed around them and their friends many inventions, and the other half being themed around the battles between Perry the Platypus and Dr. Doofenshmirtz. Additionally, California Streamin’ is now Doofenshmirtz’s Slipslide-inator, PCH is now the Backyard Beach Grill, the Surfside Lounge is now the Lounge Without a Cool Acronym (LWCA), and finally the Sandcastle Cinema is redecorated to feature the Flynn-Fletcher family and friends and would play episodes from the series.

Community Chest: The LWCA would serve a bright blue “Perry-Colada” (non-alcoholic obviously) that would have a flavor that’s a mix of pineapple, coconut, blueberry, and orange that would be topped off with a little fedora.

 

[Earlie the Pearlie]

Reviews

I kept putting these off all week - I figured I’d just write like five in the hour before they were due. Around 11, I realized that maybe that was not a smart thing that I had done.
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Disney’s Cars at Wilderness Lodge

@Disney Warrior

Ooh, playing into the whole ROA debacle! Delightfully devilish! I like how you’ve incorporated this, pretty naturally, into the world of Piston Peak. I do think this submission is hindered a bit by how natural of a fit this is - altering more would’ve made your pitch stronger, but weakened your concept, if that makes sense. Nevertheless, I can’t fault you for coming up with something that’s just too good!

Community Chest: I’m a chocoholic, so you’ve quite literally hit a sweet spot!
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The Emperor’s New Coronado Springs

@Brer Panther

This is a creative match of character and hotel! As is, Coronado is one of the least interesting hotels at WDW, so this would add some much-needed character (pun fully intended). The detail of the murals is a wonderful one for fleshing out the actual execution of this. My biggest nitpick with this pitch can be summarized in a word you use: “tasteful”. If The Emperor’s New Groove is anything, it’s not tasteful! I would love to see a version of this pitch where you lean into the meme-ability of it all!

Community Chest: Now we’re talking!
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Kingdom Hearts Rooms at Pixar Place

@Miru

You’ve got a creative core idea here; I’m sure there are plenty of fans of the Kingdom Hearts series that would love to stay in these rooms. I love a good scavenger hunt, and it would provide an excellent thing for resort guests to do during their stay. I do wish you had been a bit more specific in your description, though! You mention there being “enough KH stuff” - what exactly does this entail? Just a general idea of where this would be centralized would have been plenty!

Community Chest: I’m a saltaholic, as well. I should probably get that checked out.
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The Hundred Acre Wood at Port Orleans Riverside

@Disgruntled Walt

I’ve got a real soft spot for Winnie the Pooh - and who doesn’t? I have no idea why, but this combination of resort and IP works very well. The misspelled names throughout your pitch are delightful, and the pool light show sounds wonderfully trippy. My main complaint here is I can’t quite grasp how this overlay impacts most of the hotel experience! The houses and little statues are adorable, but I can’t help but think that they seem like placemaking on a minigolf course (which… well… you’ll see). I still think this pitch is very cute!

Community Chest: I love the parenthesis here. It’s oozing with personality, and with hunny.
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Aulani Enchanted Tiki Resort

@D Hulk

Aulani is one of those places that I’d love to visit but realistically will probably never see. The infusion of the birds is a wonderful balance of large and small: on a grand, total scale, but in a seemingly unobtrusive way. The note of the room art demonstrates how this will most directly impact guest’s stays, and this overall seems like something diehard fans will have to dig for to see in totality, while still being present in every guest experience!

Community Chest: Well, now we know why his siestas are diminishing: he’s about to be eaten!
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Port Orleans - Tiana’s Bayou Country

@Mr. Sullivan

This is one of the most thorough submissions of this round; you’ve touched on almost every aspect of this overlay! Your room description is thorough, and the headboard is a lovely touch - although I don’t know if I love the idea of the visage of Ray the Firefly watching me sleep. What I do love is how you’ve described the swimming pool! The frog motif is well-realized, especially just in part of one sentence!

Community Chest: I had a Monte Cristo for the first time last week. It was life changing. Sorry the CCs for this round have kind of turned into the Earlie Talks About Food He Likes Hour!​

 

[Earlie the Pearlie]

The Contemporar-e Resort

@Architectural Guinea Pig

This is a wonderful choice of resort. If there’s any hotel that needs a refresh, it’s the Contemporary, and this is such an inspired way of doing it. Honestly, I have no feedback. The rooms are well realized, the atrium sounds breathtaking, the little painting robots are a wonderful touch. Can I stay here?

Community Chest: Adorable… except for the bit about the apocalypse!
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Indiana Jones at Disney’s Explorer’s Lodge

@ThemeParkPriest

The world’s greatest adventurer in a hotel themed to adventuring! The variety of rooms you describe is excellent, though I would’ve liked a bit more detail. The Temple of Doom dinner scene is iconic, and adapting that into a restaurant is perfect. I’m unsure of how you would execute the boulder effect in a body slide, but it’s very creative nonetheless!

Community Chest: A wonderful importation of a wonderful bit of bar food!
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Wall * X Pixar Place Hotel

@Half/CartoonHalf/Human

Wall-E is, in my opinion, one of the greatest films ever made, so I’m thrilled that it’s getting so much love this round. The splash pad sounds lovely, but my favorite detail is the hotel providing pajamas, in your words, “like the fat humans wear”. That made me chuckle out loud - sincerely, thank you!

Community Chest: This is an excellent adaptation of the In-A-Cup scene!
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The Palace of Genovia

@WaltWiz1901

I don’t know anything about Princess Diaries, and you were very much strapped for time with this one, so I don’t think there’s anything helpful or constructive I can say here. Sorry, but I appreciate you posting for a point!
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Phineas and Ferb: Summer of Fun!

@Lizzy May Bee

At the buzzer! I was really hoping someone would take advantage of the time-travel allocation, and you didn’t disappoint. Phineas and Ferb was a favorite of mine growing up, and the references and allusions here are just delightful - my personal favorite is a tie between the Slipslide-inator and LWCA. What a fun pitch!

Community Chest: Oh, there you are, Perry-Colada!​

 

[Earlie the Pearlie]

Results

The Terrier

Phineas and Ferb: Summer of Fun!

@Lizzy May Bee

Perfect for an OSC in tone and execution.

The Automobile

Aulani Enchanted Tiki Resort

@D Hulk

Unique and enchanting all around!

The Top Hat

The Contemporar-e Resort

@Architectural Guinea Pig

Just outstanding!​

 

[Earlie the Pearlie]

Marvin Gardens

I personally find highly themed minigolf courses like Fantasia Gardens and Hollywood Drive-In Golf to be essential parts of my theme park visits, although they’re not often emphasized in trip reports. There’s nothing quite like the low stakes, high fun thrill of a competitive round of minigolf! Still, this is an amenity that Walt’s Original Magic Kingdom and its associated resort is sorely lacking in. Now, however, with Disneyland Forward, there’s a perfect opportunity for one.

Create a minigolf course for the Disneyland Forward expansion

This prompt is due on Saturday the 21st at 12:00 AM, Disneyland Time (PST)

Tips ‘n’ Tricks

Note the time shift back - I like to keep you on your toes! This course can feature any and all Disney-associated characters or original ideas, in any capacity. Stay within your three allocated sentences, but describe as many sample holes as you would like within that limit. Unified theme is key!

Community Chest Bonus Point

In an extra sentence, detail the special 18th ball return hole for your course.​

 

[Disgruntled Walt]

Yesterland Mini-Golf
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Welcome to Yesterland, home of beloved (and not-so-beloved) defunct attractions, recreated in mini-golf form! Your trip begins with the Golden Gate Monorail Bridge/Sun Icon (Hole 1), continues with holes themed to classics (Country Bear Playhouse, Adventure Thru Inner Space, America Sings, the Skyway thru the Matterhorn, Mine Train thru Nature's Wonderland, Mission to Mars, Mike Fink Keelboats, Carousel of Progress), not-so-classics (Flying Saucers, Honey I Shrunk the Audience, Superstar Limo, Rocket Rods), and more recent additions to Yesterland (A Bugs Land, MuppetVision 3D, Red Car Trolley, Tower of Terror). Mechanical features would be the highlight of these immersive holes, with (for example) the Tower of Terror hole taking your golf ball into the Twilight Zone on a mini-elevator and through the hotel, Mike Fink transporting your golf ball across the Rivers of America, and the Skyway actually lifting your golf ball up through the mountain (if you can time it right!).

Community Chest: The final hole (18) is Walt Disney's very own Carolwood Pacific Train, which you must catch as it loops around the perimeter of Yesterland returning the golf balls to the entrance.

 

[Brer Panther]

Create a minigolf course for the Disneyland Forward expansion

Muppets Mini-Golf Mayhem

What happens when the Muppets build a miniature golf course? Answer: this, a madcap and clumsily-constructed series of holes themed around the swamp where Kermit was born, a fountain in Miss Piggy's likeness (yes, the same fountain that once stood in front of MuppetVision 3D at Disney's Hollywood Studios), the cave of Bobo the Bear (who can be heard snoring inside, using the same snoring sound first used for Rufus in Bear Country), Muppet Labs, a chicken coop where Camilla and her flock are hanging out, a giant snowglobe featuring the Muppet penguins (if you get your ball into the hole, it snows inside!), a miniature replica of the White House constructed by Sam the Eagle, and other out-of-the-ordinary sights and locations. Believe it or not, this golf course even features a few animatronics, including Statler and Waldorf, who heckle you as you putt and crack jokes about how Disney still has absolutely no idea what to do with the Muppets.

BONUS: The eighteenth hole has you hitting the ball into the mouth of Big Mean Carl, who "swallows" it - actually, the ball travels down a series of underground tunnels that sends it back to the entrance.

 

[Disney Warrior]

Golf Around California

In an effort to bring some more “California” (and more fun) to Walt's Disneyland, a new 18 hole mini golf course will take guests on a tour of the state. The first hole is a straight putt through the Golden Gate Bridge, and other fun holes include a curvy hole based on Embarcadero Street, a hole where you have to putt around a grizzly bear, one themed to a Hollywood movie set (complete with water effects), and a somewhat-luck based hole where you have to putt your ball through a gold mine. Of course, there's also a hole involving redwood trees, as well as holes based on San Diego, Monterey, Palm Springs, Napa, Lake Tahoe, and the Silicon Valley.

Bonus: The final hole is themed to the Disneyland Resort, and you put your ball down “Main Street” into the Castle, where firework sound effects play as your golf ball is collected.​

 

[Earlie the Pearlie]

Well, gang, it’s that time again: time to roll out the green carpet (because golf course!) for your 24-ish hour notice!

I’m finding that there’s not as much to say in these as the game goes on, so I’ll just end with this: good luck, everyone!​

 

[Miru]

Kingdom Hearts: Orb of Recontextuality

Funny title aside, the following golf course is a canon event, and covers a glimpse of the Keyblade War, distilled into mini golf form, where you golf using Keyblade-shaped clubs, which are representing magic spells performed using the colorful golf balls. Each course is themed to various Square-Enix IP that will make their debuts in Kingdom Hearts canon here, such as Mana, Live-A-Live, Octopath Traveller, Illusion of Gaia, Terranigma, and of course, Dragon Quest. Enemies from the series also appear as targets to hit to reveal the holes, including such faces as the Stealth Sneak.

COMMUNITY CHEST: The final hole is based on Live-A-Live, and has you confronting Odio, the lord of dark, who is at the end of a somewhat luck-based maze, where you have to hit the multiple incarnations of Odio to open up the goal hole.

 

[Half/CartoonHalf/Human]

Pixar Putt​

For the Disneyland Forward expansion, the resorts first mini golf course has been added, based around Pixar’s timeless movies. But this isn’t your regular mini golf course, as some of the holes will feature some highly themed elements that correspond with the movie they’re based on, like Toy Story, Cars, Ratatouile, Elemental, etc. But their are two holes that stand out against the other holes, with the first one based around Soul, where you place your ball on a piano, then play that same piano to have you ball then bounce down on stationary piano keys down to the hole, & the second hole (The one for the Community Chest)…
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Community Chest​

The second/Final hole is based around UP, where you putt your ball into Carl’s House, in which a cast member uses a crane to move the house to Paradise Falls, where your then goes down the falls into the final hole, & after that, you return your ball.
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Oh, Wait! This Already Exists!​

 

[Earlie the Pearlie]

About twelve hours remain in this round! Remember, if you’re having trouble coming up with an idea, just think of a favorite Disney IP and imagine what it might be like as a golf course!​

 

[Half/CartoonHalf/Human]

Mickey Mouse & Friends’ Minigolf Fun!​

For the Disneyland Forward expansion, the resorts first mini golf course has been added, based around Disney’s most iconic cast of characters, the Mickey Mouse & Friends characters, of course. You first start your golf adventure but entering a highly themed laboratory based around Ludwig Von Drake, where on of his inventions gives you a colored ball of your choice, after which you start the course in the first hole, also based around Ludwig. After that, you then exit the lab & putt your ball into the seventeen other holes, obviously based around the Mickey characters, but characters from Three Little Pigs & The Sorcerer’s Apprentice have holes of their own as well, with a majority of the holes having unique gimmicks, such as Donald Duck’s hole (where you putt your ball into his trailer window, causing a ruckus in there), Yen Sid’s hole (where you putt your ball into a funnel like hole, based around the magical brooms, complete with lots of water sprays), Oswald The Lucky Rabbit’s hole (based around a film reel which replays moments from Oswald shorts), other characters like Pluto, Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Daisy, Chip & Dale, etc. (I just couldn’t think of what their holes could be).
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Community Chest​

(Prepare yourself, this bonus is gonna be a long one) The 18th/final hole is based around the Big Bad Wolf, & what he does best: huffing & puffing till he blows your house down; you putt your ball into the Practical Pig’s brick house into his fireplace, where it activates a animatronic BBW, where he closes the door, starts huffing & puffing, & when he unleashes that strong breath or whatever it is, the house puffs up like a cartoon, & the chimney unleashes a small gust of colored wind high up into the air, signifying your ball has been launched into the atmosphere, but in reality, it actually travels down a series of underground tunnels back to Ludwig’s lab, where another guest can use it.​

Just as a heads up, this is my real submission, the Pixar one was just for fun.​

 

[Mr. Sullivan]

WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR BLACKLIGHT GOLF

Along with the Disneyland Forward expansion, WDI has introduced the first ever mini-golf course on the Disneyland property in the form of Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color Blacklight Golf, an indoor mini-golf experience themed to the famed 1960s iteration of the popular Walt Disney Anthology television program.

This indoor mini-golf course is housed inside of a replica of the original Walt Disney Animation Studios building where many of the cartoons featured on the Wonderful World of Color program were created and features an experience that makes use of use of bright colors and black light to make the whole course pop with bright and vivid color.

Once inside, guests will make their way through holes themed to various beloved cartoons and live action segments shown on the program such as holes themed to the color labs of Ludwig von Drake (a character first introduced on the show), the frontier with Davey Crockett (a poplar recurring live action presentation on the show), Mickey Mouse & Friends (including some of the classic theatrical cartoons aired on the show), and even Disneyland attractions that were present in the 1960s (as the park was featured heavily in the show).

COMMUNITY CHEST

The final ball return hole can be found on a miniature recreation of the 1960s iteration of the park's entrance in which guests putt their ball down Main Street USA through the draw bridge of Sleeping Beauty Castle, a nod to the castle's prominent featuring in the title screen for the program.​

 

[Lizzy May Bee]

Toy Story: Mini-Mini Golf

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Toy Story Land is built off the premise of Andy creating a model theme park in his backyard, but given just how dedicated he is to this project, it shouldn’t be shocking to find out that this isn’t his only diorama, as he has also used some of his many toys to create a Mini-Mini Golf course! The holes in order (as depicted above) are: Alphabet Blocks, K’nex Maze, Barrel of Monkeys, Toy Soldier Battleground, Music Box, Marble Slide, Sand Castle, Train Heist, and finally Green Aliens.

Community Chest: The final hole ends with a claw picking up the balls and dropping them into a pipe that returns them to the start.

 

[ThemeParkPriest]

Villains Kingdom

While the Magic Kingdom gets Villains Kingdom Land, Disneyland has been awarded Villains Kingdom minigolf course with all of the most popular villains--including Cruella de Vil, the Queen of Hearts, and the Evil Witch. On Hole 2, guests will take to the sea and launch their golf ball between the swinging tentacles of Ursula; on Hole 9, the dragon Maleficent will spew a water mist that makes it difficult to see the path to the hole. Also of note, on Hole 13, guests must shoot their ball past the evil Captain Hook on his ship before landing it in the chomping mouth of Tick-Tock the crocodile.

Community Chest: Guests will launch their ball up a ramp and if they knock Scar (as a target) off of Pride Rock, then they will win an extra round; otherwise, the ball will be returned.

(Edit: name of Witch)