THE Monorail Lime
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1902 Carthay Circle
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CookieMouse
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How about this for the weenie?
and this will be the entrance:
Lets make sure everyone who comes to this park leaves scarred for life!
Suchomimus
Well-Known Member
I mean, I am okay with it but I want to know what your thoughts are?
spacemt354
Chili's
Well yes of course - do you have any suggestions for the land we've laid out?
Voxel
President of Progress City
It has no appeal, no draw. It was only built only to show ppl where to walk. Once your in the park you never see it.
Suchomimus
Well-Known Member
So if you could, would you move into the park?
Voxel
President of Progress City
Nope. I would demolish it. Lol
Suchomimus
Well-Known Member
So what be IoA’s new icon?
Voxel
President of Progress City
That is the million dollar questions. I don't think the park needs one. I think it works without one.. One of the few parks that due.
CookieMouse
Well-Known Member
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TJJohn12
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I'm really liking the concept of a adventurer's supply / jungle outpost main street. I'm visualizing it as a sort of linear Adventureland, with the emporium on one side as an adventure supply company, and the opposite being a collection of "museums" and specialty shops, along with buildings that look like tents and whatnot.
I'm also really digging the idea of the Lighthouse of Alexandria as an icon and weenie - it really embodies both the idea of myth and adventure. If it doesn't make it, the Colossus of Rhodes might also be a good option. Either way, I think the icon *needs* to be an anchor Indy attraction - so either something like "Indiana Jones and the Lost Library" (Alexandria) or "Indiana Jones: The Quest to Touch the Sun" (the statue was of Helios, the sun god).
I think an adventure-themed park *needs* to be hub and spokes too - it lends itself to remixing and criss-crossing when adventuring.
I'm also really digging the idea of the Lighthouse of Alexandria as an icon and weenie - it really embodies both the idea of myth and adventure. If it doesn't make it, the Colossus of Rhodes might also be a good option. Either way, I think the icon *needs* to be an anchor Indy attraction - so either something like "Indiana Jones and the Lost Library" (Alexandria) or "Indiana Jones: The Quest to Touch the Sun" (the statue was of Helios, the sun god).
I think an adventure-themed park *needs* to be hub and spokes too - it lends itself to remixing and criss-crossing when adventuring.
Respectfully no, I don't want to taint your creative process. But I will keep an eye on the progress. I auditioned and was given an additional role so I am a little preoccupied. So I would prefer to observe for now.
spacemt354
Chili's
For future reference, you wouldn't taint it - new opinions are in fact, encouraged, here, regardless of whether they would change something, everything can be talked through - but if you have another role best of luck in that
spacemt354
Chili's
I really like the Lighthouse of Alexandria as well - think it would be pretty neat. Also in terms of myth the Library of Alexandria might be a nice counterpart to it as well since nobody truly knows its design - it's up to interpretation in the 'lost worlds'
THE Monorail Lime
Well-Known Member
River rapids AND jungle cruise inside a volcano?
PerGron
Well-Known Member
Weird idea, but what if the entrance area just was Alexandria (maybe not modern but ancient). It could host the lighthouse as the weenie, some museums, and maybe make a dark ride about the history of culture and mythology based on nature (ala Spaceship Earth esque) in the library. Use that at the hub for exploring the lost worlds as really the only place that may have had definitive proof of these lands was the library that burned down...
spacemt354
Chili's
It's funny I've always wanted to see an ancient Egypt land, that might be interesting, as it was the hub of info in the ancient world. Was basically a university campus
Suchomimus
Well-Known Member
kap91
Well-Known Member
In general I find the idea of a park filled with a bunch of lost worlds pretty appealing...reminds me what IOA would be like if the Port of Entry actually made thematic sense with the rest of the park. So that's cool.
I'm iffy on the theme though...."where myths live in harmony with nature" is kind of vague and feels like it would result in lost worlds AND nature rather than the two integrated together. Granted I haven't read though the thread so I'm not sure what lost/mythical civilizations you're talking about but - Atlantis, Alexandria, Ancient Rome, Egypt, Pompeii, Mayan and Aztec's etc, civilization in general is generally about man's dominance over nature. Advanced cities typically destroy nature, though interestingly when lost it's nature that will destroy and reclaim them over time. So perhaps a theme that's more of a through line is mankind's relationship with nature. You could experience a lost world as it was in it's heyday, with nature being subjugated. A lost world as it was lost, in a battle with nature. A lost world as it is now, subsumed by nature. And maybe a mythical future where a new civilization has overtaken the ruins of an old civilization, but now has learned to live in harmony with nature. It depends on what you want to say about that theme, if anything. I think that's more interesting too than every land being some variation of "here's this famous place you've heard about, and it's abandoned"
I do like the idea of the entrance on the whole though. It sound's like a bit of an explorer's utopia - with people who respect and have learned from the past. I also like the idea of Alexandria a lot because of its inherent symbolism (though I'm not sure if this translates to a Chinese audience?). I think it would make a lot of sense if this entrance was a new Alexandria, set in the future, built on the ruins of the old Alexandria - at harmony with nature now that it's been reclaimed. This new Alexandria of course could still use the chinese and himalayan architecture/village look you were thinking of course. It's in the future, and it's at harmony with nature, maybe harmony with all humans and its an eclectic blend of peoples from all over.
Anyways that's my immediate reaction/ $.02
Overall I think you've got an exciting direction with a lot of material to draw on. Looking forward to seeing how it develops!
TJJohn12
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I like the idea, but I think what makes the castles work as weenies in the classic hub parks is juxtaposition - the weenie is markedly different and out of place compared to the avenue to approach it. A castle doesn't *belong* in Marceline, so it draws you deeper into the park. I think that whatever the weenie, the "main street" analog needs to be something in a slightly different theme just to make it's a true draw. It's a crucial lesson almost every other Disney park has failed to learn and I think you can see the detriment it causes in crowd flow (particularly at EPCOT, AK, and DCA).