A Mickey Mouse-themed land at DHS (open brainstorming), part three

[mharrington]

Not sure if it really matters anymore, but here's a list of the attractions, shops and restaurants here:

Attractions:
- A Fantasia-themed water thrill ride
- Some Clock Cleaners-themed dark ride (although I have no idea how to go about doing it)
- Mickey and co. meet-n-greets in a hotel-themed area
- Some other meet-n-greet area for characters from "Snow White" and "Pinocchio" (but not any other movies after that!)

Restaurants:
- Some Hollywood Canteen-themed character dining area
- Duck Diner (a Duck family-themed diner)

Shops:
- Oswald's Lucky Five and Dime
- A gas station-themed shop (probably Pete's Garage?)

And that's all I got right now. I'm not very creative.

 

[mharrington]

With Toontown Fair gone and really no place else to put them, not even in this new Mickey-themed land at DHS, I had despaired of ever finding a good spot to place some Disney-themed license plates like these pins here:

And of course, those made here:

Eventually, I finally found a spot to place my beloved license plates in this new Mickey-themed area of DHS: in the new gas station-themed shop, which is to be called Pete's Garage. In the Roger Rabbit ride, the license plates had years between 1931 and 1947. So that's how I'm going to do it here, only set between 1928 and 1941, the year I plan to set this area in. Some, but not all, of those license plates in the pictures above are going to be displayed, the ones not displayed being replaced by other ones.

What do you think?

 

[Sam Magic]

Has anyone added concept art? If not what if it was all placed inside this building?

I would love it if it replaced RRC by ToT. This building would fit in so much better with the surroundings...

 

[mharrington]

Has anyone added concept art? If not what if it was all placed inside this building?

I would love it if it replaced RRC by ToT. This building would fit in so much better with the surroundings...

The Rock 'n' Roller Coaster will remain. It's pretty good as a roller coaster, and this park needs all the help it can get. I would like to incorporate that design of the Hyperion studio into the new Mickey-themed section.

While on the subject of enclosed roller coasters, I also found something else out: the shorts dark ride is partially based on this concept here, as I read in "The Book of Mouse". According to the book:

In 1976, [Ward] Kimball designed an indoor dark ride called Mickey's Mad House. Using a traditional Wild Mouse Coaster similar to the Primeval Whirl in Disney's Animal Kingdom, guests would have careened madly back and forth, not able to see clearly where they were going, while they experienced the wild antics of early black-and-white Mickey Mouse animated cartoons.

I had tried to make a ride like that for Storybook Circus, since it had aspects of a circus and was to be placed in the never-built Dumbo's Circusland, but after a lot of hemming and hawing, I decided to go in a different direction and make it just a ride through a circus with different characters doing different acts.

Anyway, this kind of ride appears to be similar to what is proposed in post #2 (and repeated #21). However, as stated in bold, the original concept is similar to the Primeval Whirl, so what kind of a ride would it be? Also, as there is an enclosed roller coaster at the Studios already (RNRC) and the area will be home to another roller coaster, a water coaster themed to "Fantasia" (making for three roller coasters in this area of the park), what can be done with the shorts ride?

 

[Sam Magic]

I don't think that DHS needs little 'carnival' rides. It did not work in DCA or WDS, and it certainly would not work here.

 

[mharrington]

I don't think that DHS needs little 'carnival' rides. It did not work in DCA or WDS, and it certainly would not work here.

Well, I really couldn't think of any carnival rides anyway, except maybe for this:

According to one site, the ride is described thus:

Serving as a companion piece to Donald’s boathouse in Toontown, and featuring his nephews as the ride’s stars, this merry-go-round style ride took kids on a twirling adventure through the seas. As a bonus, onlookers and frustrated parents could fire water canons at riders, simulating splashes from the waves.

That was the closest I could think of. But if we can't have any carnival rides (which I agree we should go easy on here), I really don't know what else we can have. At this point, the only things this new land has are:

-A dark ride themed to classic Disney shorts
-A water thrill ride themed to "Fantasia"
-A meet-n-greet for Mickey and the gang
-A meet-n-greet for characters from "Snow White" and "Pinocchio"

I really can't think of anything else to put in here, especially since we can't have any smaller rides in here. Certainly the Fantasia ride would merit at a 44-inch height requirement, and, of course, anyone with a weak heart, a bad back or a bun in the oven would not be able to ride. With that attraction no longer an option, the only alternative would be the shorts-themed dark ride. There's not really a whole lot here to do here, and I really want to come up with a couple more ideas, preferably not dark rides or even thrill rides. But I can't think of anything.

 

[mharrington]

So as I said before, I have a Fantasia-themed water ride and a dark ride that may or may not be themed either to Disney shorts in general or to one short in particular, "Clock Cleaners".

All I need are just a few more simple rides, preferably a kiddie coaster and at least two flat rides. I could probably relocate a reskinned version of the Magic Carpet ride to here and give that one of the themes of the flat rides, maybe to "Plane Crazy". Maybe for the coaster, perhaps a complicated plan where Donald and Oswald have somehow gotten together to give a tour of the area their way, but things go wrong. But there needs to be one more ride, themed to Goofy. Once more, I don't know what it is. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[mharrington]

Well, all by myself, with no help from anyone whatsoever, I think I have a complete but tentative list of attractions:

1. A meet-n-greet for Mickey and the gang (in the hotel)
2. A meet-n-greet for Snow White and Pinocchio characters (a good themed building I have yet to think of)
3. A dark ride themed to classic Disney shorts
4. A water thrill ride themed to "Fantasia"
5. A spinning water ride with a Donald theme
6. A realization of the old runaway bus ride thought of way back when, but this time with Goofy instead of Roger Rabbit (I'm just concerned that two simulator rides (with Star Tours in the park, too) might be a tad much for one park)
7. A dark ride replacement of sorts for The Magic of Disney Animation, but only with characters from "Snow White" and "Pinocchio" (actually goes into Sunset Boulevard but should also be kept near the border between the two lands)

Like I said, I had to do it all by myself. It was a very, VERY frustrating experience, because I'm not the most creative person in the world. Part of my problem is I try to keep things very limited in terms of timing. Once I had created a thread on a time period, whatever that may be, on Mickey's Toontown in Disneyland (http://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/time-period-in-mickeys-toontown.840888/), because I was trying to study how best to do a time period here. I had thought that there was a certain time period here, say, the late 1940s or so (as per the Roger Rabbit ride queue). But everyone insisted that given the kiddie coaster themed to "Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers", it was set in the '90s. Anyway, I set my Mickey Avenue area sometime in the 1940s, in part to continue the 1930s-'40s feel of the park.

Part of my problem is I have a tendency to be literal-minded (I have Aspergers Syndrome) and work best in castle parks or Epcot. However, I seem to think (and others seem to confirm) that by virtue of this park being "The Hollywood That Never Was - and Always Will Be" (which I think is confusing, contradictory and oxymoronic), then it's clearly meant to be an imaginary Hollywood, one that may or may not have ever been real. As I'm literal-minded (and by extension, closed-minded), it was a very difficult process to create a new land without any help at all. But anyway, I had finally finished the list of attractions, albeit provisionally.

But I have one question, how should the meet-n-greet spot for Snow White and Pinocchio characters look?