1 - One Sentence Competition, Season Five Episode 3

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A fictionalized California-themed land to come to international parks, Sunset Harbour takes inspiration from the Bay Area and Los Angeles to create a diverse and inviting new land, featuring the following "sublands" -- Chinatown, Fisherman's Wharf, Sunset (Hollywood) Hills, Walk of Stars, Paradise Pier (much smaller and obnoxious than its DCA iteration), and the Bridge -- each connected via vintage trolley around a large central bay.

BONUS 1 -- A TICKET: In Chinatown, the Chinese Museum shows the history of Chinese Immigration to California and the many struggles they encountered.

BONUS 2 -- C TICKET: Muppet Mania is a practical dark ride starring the Muppets as they take on Sunset Harbour in hopes of earning their spots on the Walk of Stars... join them as chaos ensues, as Miss Piggy and Gonzo each pull increasingly ridiculous stunts to gain popularity while Fozzie keeps making the same joke to different crowds to the same result and Kermit frets endlessly... but eventually, they earn their rightful star among Hollywood's Greats.

BONUS 3 -- E TICKET: Secrets of Sunset Harbour (informally referred to as "Secrets" in the same way POTC is called "Pirates") takes guests to the center of the bay, where an old, abandoned island not unlike Alcatraz is waiting; guests board old fishing boats at the Wharf and all seems well until the boats suddenly begin shaking uncontrollably (Rise of Resistance levels of queue immersion) but this stops as soon as we enter the islands' proximity... we are then led further up the island, where we board the real ride -- a hybrid emv / water flume, capable of going into the bay for the ride's finale... the ride begins by exploring the dark and eerie halls of the abandoned prison before we horrifyingly realize these aren't strange coincidences, but the ghosts of former inmates who attempted to escape, chanting to not go into the bay... this leads to an intense chase as we attempt to escape the island, ending with our success by getting to the safety of the outside bay... and then we realize why everyone who attempted to escape were lost, and how in fact their "hauntings" were truly warnings -- for these are shark infested waters; after another intense chase, we finally evade the Lost Islands and return to the safety of the mainland, and the touring company suggests maybe they shouldn't be going back to this island anytime soon. .

Sunset Harbor
@Outbound

Sunset Harbor feels like a condensed - and possibly improved - version of DCA, boiled down to the size of a very large land. Obviously this could only work in the international parks, as you say, partly because these themes are already represented in the States. A lot of editing would need to occur in Paris, too, since WDSP covers the Hollywood theme (which is only 1/4 of Sunset Harbor)...admittedly WDSP covers that theme terribly.

Even minus the Hollywood stuff, a lot of Sunset Harbor feels more like a Second Gate land in several ways. It's a encapsulation of real places, which Castle Parks only do in their Squares. It features some Epcot-style edutainment elements, like the Chinatown show, and some DisneySea-style nautical elements, like Fisherman's Wharf. With so many divergent sub-lands, each perhaps the size of the Small World Plaza, the land overall might lack the singular thematic cohesion of places like Tomorrowland. "California" simply isn't a universal theme like "the future" is - a lesson which Disney learned with DCA 1.0 - meaning that a California-based land reads in a very different way. Mind you, it's not a bad land at all, it just isn't really a Castle Park land.​

 

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THE SAILING SEAS
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(Credit to Leon Tucker on ArtStation for the concept art!!)
Added to help breathe in some more life into Hong Kong Disneyland and blend with the current themes of fantasy (Fantasyland and Mystic Manor) and exploration (Adventureland and Grizzly Gulch), The Sailing Seas takes place on a tropical island beach landscape with shipwrecks, washed up treasure, skeletons of bizarre creatures, and the likes scattered across the land as the beach is home to pirates, mermaids, creatures of the deep, with a small town residing on the edge of the water consisting of Mudéjar style architecture with restaurants primarily selling a wide variety of Oceanic foods such as Butterfly Pan Lobster and Meat Pies (Tasmania/Australia in this case).

BONUS E-TICKET ATTRACTION - Journey Into The Deep

A submarine expedition to find the source of the increasingly bizarre skeletal remains of a bunch of unidentified creatures has guests head down into the depths of the ocean in this motion simulator e-ticket as head down to the bottom of the sea, passing by large pockets of biodiversity at first, then coming across some docile yet bizarre beasts, and eventually having to evade the increasingly dangerous attacks of the creatures of the deep until said species is properly identified and the guests must escape in a high speed escape to the surface as the amount of monstrous sea creatures piles onto an unbearable amount.

The Sailing Seas
@Tux

Hong Kong Disneyland specializes in smaller, single-attraction lands, which it favors over the larger and more thematically-expansive classics. This is exemplified by Mystic Manor, Grizzly Gulch, and now The Sailing Seas. There is a sort of vague shared sense of adventure among those various lands, which are also so specifically themselves that there's no way to combine them into a singular thematic whole a-la Frontierland. Within that Hong Kong limitation, this tropical paradise fits well. It hits some of the same notes as Pirates of the Caribbean, which is strangely omitted from the park.

There is nice attention-to-detail with many of this land's descriptions. There's a good assortment of fantasy sea creatures, good real world inspiration with the Mudejar architecture (gotta look that up), and overall a nice distinctive Disney feel. It is appropriate to go non-IP with this land, which follows the Hong Kong rule book. As a land specifically for HKDL, this is a good one. It's a minor submission compared to some other proposals which could fit into any Castle Park, but for what it is this is lovely.​

 

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Final Challenge Results

Being a good land in its own right is good, but also being a perfect fit for Disney’s Castle Parks is great. Our highest medalists found this difficult balance with ease.

Honorable Mention (0.5 points)

@DisneyManOne – Mysteryland
A fantastic land – tactile, evocative, with elaborate backstory – which is a slightly awkward fit for a Castle Park.

Bronze Medal (1 point)

@Brer Panther – The Top of the World
These wintry worlds work wonderfully as counterpoints to the other lands, without any thematic redundancy.

Silver Medal (2 points)

@InspectorSpacetime – Winterland
Both snowy lands are great, but this one gets the edge with its in-depth shared story, cultural influences, and careful descriptions.

Gold Medal (3 points)

@b-wolf95 – Sunrise Land
East Asia is a rich, untapped vein of thematic potential, which is presented with care & precision while avoiding possible pitfalls​

 

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FINAL STANDINGS
IN ASCENDING ORDER

@Nonja – 1
@boardwalk22 – 1
@Disney Dad 3000 – 1
@mickeyfan5534 – 5
@Shannoninthemagic – 5
@1HAPPYGHOSTHOST – 5
@VaderTron – 7
@NigelChanning09 – 7
@JokersWild – 7.5
@tcool123 – 7.5
@Pi on my Cake – 8
@gam3rprincess – 11.5
@b-wolf95 – 11.5
@DashHaber – 12.5
@Pufflefan – 16.5
@Outbound – 16.5
@NateD1226 – 17.5
@spacemt354 – 17.5
@Tux – 17.5
@AceAstro – 21.5
@Imagineer Sroo – 22
@DisneyManOne – 22
Et cetera​

 

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WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT
TOP THREE!

Coming in Third Place, with a total of 22.5 points, is…

A two-way tie between
@Evilgidgit
&
@Suchomimus



Coming in Second Place, with a total of 23.5 points, is…

@Brer Panther



And the winner of One Sentence Competition…
…with 24.5 total points…
…is…

@InspectorSpacetime!!!
Congratulations! Well deserved!



Cheers to everyone who played, whether it was throughout the game or for a single challenge! And special thanks to my Executive Producer, @Pi on my Cake!

One Sentence Competition will return…​

 

[Tux]

Wait so this thread is over after this last challenge?????

Yep, it's the finale of this competition.
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Good game everyone, congratulations on the win @InspectorSpacetime !! You certainly earned it! Thank you for hosting and the invitation @D Hindley and @Pi on my Cake !

 

[1HAPPYGHOSTHOST]

Yep, it's the finale of this competition.
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Good game everyone, congratulations on the win @InspectorSpacetime !! You certainly earned it! Thank you for hosting and the invitation @D Hindley and @Pi on my Cake !

wait so we not gonna do any more games??????

 

[D Hulk]

wait so we not gonna do any more games??????

There will be more. This is simply the conclusion of this episode.

We are already developing the next One Sentence Competition behind-the-scenes. Guaranteed you will get a notification once that game begins!

 

[Pi on my Cake]

wait so we not gonna do any more games??????

This game will be back before too long!

And there's always something going on on these boards!

 

[Pi on my Cake]

Fantastic job @D Hindley bringing this game to life again and creating something special! Fantastic hosting!

And congrats to @InspectorSpacetime for a well deserved win in an incredibly close race! Perhaps the most talented cast in 1SC history!!!​

 

[JokersWild]

Jokes on you. I was aiming for 14th place.


Actually though, real life and SYWTBAI took up most of my attention so I wasn’t as active as I would have like to have been. Kudos all around. Can’t wait for the next season.

 

[Chaos Cat]

Good game. everyone! I may not of won the competition (not too surprising given), but I had fun regardless. Honestly, wining the final challenge was good enough for me.

Congratulations on a well-earned win, @InspectorSpacetime! From one new member to another.

 

[1HAPPYGHOSTHOST]

This game will be back before too long!

And there's always something going on on these boards!

Bogus. Most untriumphant

 

[AceAstro]

Great game y’all! I had a lot of fun playing and didn’t realize how much I missed OSC until it came back!

Great work @Pi on my Cake and @D Hindley and I can’t wait to see what’s next!

 

[InspectorSpacetime]

WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT
TOP THREE!

Coming in Third Place, with a total of 22.5 points, is…

A two-way tie between
@Evilgidgit
&
@Suchomimus



Coming in Second Place, with a total of 23.5 points, is…

@Brer Panther



And the winner of One Sentence Competition…
…with 24.5 total points…
…is…

@InspectorSpacetime!!!
Congratulations! Well deserved!



Cheers to everyone who played, whether it was throughout the game or for a single challenge! And special thanks to my Executive Producer, @Pi on my Cake!

One Sentence Competition will return…​

Yep, it's the finale of this competition.
---------------------------------------------------------------

Good game everyone, congratulations on the win @InspectorSpacetime !! You certainly earned it! Thank you for hosting and the invitation @D Hindley and @Pi on my Cake !

Fantastic job @D Hindley bringing this game to life again and creating something special! Fantastic hosting!

And congrats to @InspectorSpacetime for a well deserved win in an incredibly close race! Perhaps the most talented cast in 1SC history!!!​

Good game. everyone! I may not of won the competition (not too surprising given), but I had fun regardless. Honestly, wining the final challenge was good enough for me.

Congratulations on a well-earned win, @InspectorSpacetime! From one new member to another.

Thank you all! This whole competition has been a ton of fun and I'm thanking my past self for signing up at 3 am just to join. And a big thanks are in order for @D Hindley and @Pi on my Cake for hosting an amazing episode!

 

[Brer Panther]

Getting second place just feels like such a shock to me.

 

[spacemt354]

Congratulations @InspectorSpacetime and to Doug and Pi for a great episode of the One Sentence Competition!

And a special shout-out to all the new players like @b-wolf95 and others - exciting to see you here and welcome!

 

[DashHaber]

Congratulations @InspectorSpacetime and to Doug and Pi for a great episode of the One Sentence Competition!

And a special shout-out to all the new players like @b-wolf95 and others - exciting to see you here and welcome!

Yeah, this was a really fun contest to take part in. Doing one-liner pitches on a variety of prompts is a solid approach to getting the ideas going.

 

[Evilgidgit]

Congratulations @InspectorSpacetime for winning! Fantastic works.

Thanks to @D Hindley and @Pi on my Cake for leading the contest. Some real fun rounds, chaps.

Honoured to become third alongside @Suchomimus. Now we shall celebrate with some explosive cupcakes... >_<

 

[Orange Cat]

Stretches the definition of a "sentence" a bit, but an incredible ride! A really simple yet charming experience that could rival Splash Mountain

Fair