New Theme Park Idea

[ArsonWinter]

Okay, I have no idea where, or in what time frame this should be in, but this is my idea for a new, original theme park. It's tied in with Epcot and Tomorrowland, so maybe California is a good place for it? I don't know, but this is my idea anyway...

(Warning: these are raw ideas, rife with mispelled words. English teachers, be afraid.)

It's called Disney's FutureVisions. A theme park dedicated to the visionaries who have inspired technologcial acheivement throught history, but by using mediums like books, tv, theme parks, ect. The park will be wheel-shaped, with these "Visions":

Leanardo Da Vinci. A look at the inventions, real and otherwise.

(Undecided, maybe based around 50's TV sci-fi serials?). Includes Buck Rodgers (they'd have to get the liscense). I know I want them to make the Astro Blasters ride (WDW) into a slighylu campy, silvery-shiny 50's setting.

(Undecided). This area is about genetic technology, nano-machines, and the like. I want to have a darkride of the factory where they install these little machines into people in the future.

Jules Vernon. This would be using some of the other attractions from DLP.



(Undecided). Emphasis on the cyberpunk-like vistage of the future. Could relate to the movie Tron somehow?

Walt Disney. Focuses on the original EPCOT design, as well as his focus on transportation, as seen in Tomorrowland.


(I know I'm missing some things out of the original idea. Bear with me, it was a while ago.)

The big hook to this park, though, is in the center, where the hotel Walt Disney designed for the original EPCOT, is standing. The reason this is, is because the circular design of the park is because a small peice of that is the "Garden of Great Minds" (working title), and that's open to the public from outside the park. Finally, much like DAK, you have to enter each "Vision" from the hub, because there is an optional (but short) lecture given by an AA of each person the "Vision" belongs to.

As for transportation, around the outside of the park is a WEDway Peoplemover that has stops at every other "Vision." This will also go through show buildings, giving you some background info on the ride, like what technology is running in the backround, how some effects happen, why the ride is in line with the "Vision" (or why it isn't...), and so on.

I'll post some more later, but any thoughts?

 

[FigmentDream]

Sounds preety cool, just try not to over strech the theme of the indivisual visionaries, if you need to expand, put more rides in the general areas rather than the areas around one person.

 

[SirNim]

Jules Verne and Leo DaVinch are good ideas, but as this is a park about visionaries you would need a visionary for each land. Like, you couldn't devote a "Vision" to a general concept in science, or else, you'd lose the "Visionary" aspect. Or, to smooth it out, make everything general - like instead of DaVinch do "Renaissance", "1950s", etc. To really smooth it out, call each "Vision" by its CENTURY, like 1600s, 1700s, 1800s, and it could go all the way into the future. I like the idea of the "gates" at the hub, manned by AAs who introduce the concept. I'm not sure that many people, however, would stop on their way with the same spiel (unless the show was interactive in some way). The PeopleMover concept is also nice, providing guests with a not too-often look behind the scenes, and actually EXPLAINING what's going on behind the scenes. Very nice. What would be really cool is if the park followed, at least roughly, Walt's original plans for EPCOT (with the flower-like pattern and some big futuristic dome or building or monument in the middle). Nice concept overall, a bit like a melange of Epcot and Tomorrowland as you have stated, standing in front of a pleasant and innovative idea.

 

[Mouse3268]

Don't forget to put H. G. Wells in the same group as Juiles Vern.

 

[ArsonWinter]

Right. HG Wells could share a vision. Actually, I'm thinking in wider terms... like a vision that belongs to Walt Disney, the 1950's sci-fi serials, Leanardo Da Vinci, ect. How this would work out fairly is anybody's guess. Actually, anybody care to guess?

I forgot to mention George Orwell's Vision. A 1984 ride, based on updated Test Track tecnology, would be great in this area.

Also, I would bring in Journey to the Center of the Earth, albeit smaller, and 20K from DisneySea. And Timekeeper would fit in nicely. (This is a concept for an Anehiem park, don't forget.)

As for the other rides, I'm thinking a dark ride like Peter Pan to go in the Da Vinci area, based on that flying machine thing he made the concept for.

And the "Flying Saucers" ride (yes, THAT ride) for the 50's area.

And CoP for Walt Disney's area.... they can't all be E-Tickets, you know.

Other areas will have movies based on the theme of the area. The 50's Vision also allows for a nice, campy, live-action sci-fi show. With wild costumes, polished silver, "Ray Guns" and the like.

As for the other areas, they're sadly lacking. (Wow, that sounds like the attraction-equivalent of DCA....)

 

[FigmentDream]

I think that this park has alot of possibilities, don't forget all the books verne wrote and I am sure some reasearch into Devinchi will lead to more attractsions aswell, I think you are just at a point now where you need to start making up alot of your own.