One Sentence Competition: The Prism of SYWTBAI

[Architectural Guinea Pig]

Season 18, Project 10: The Great Literature Ride
Welcome back to the sixth spectrum of the One Sentence Competition: Prisms of Light SYWTBAI! Solaris Knight's decision to use a new SYWTBAI prism means that all future prompts will be old prompts. The first prompt for the second half of the game is randomly generated through a random number generator, with the first roll being the season number and second being the project/prompt #. It's THAT simple! With this weird new prism in place, OSC is now ground for a revisting of the forum's past, diving into the What Ifs from the most cherished prompts to grace the forum.

-The Set Up-
@TheOriginalTiki: "In season ten, we did a Great Broadway Ride prompt that ended up being one of my all time favorite projects. The Great ____ Ride formula is a wonderful thing to use for Armchair Imagineering as it allows for a research intensive project that's fun and easy to put together with scenes that don't have to have any sort of real connection to each other other than being from the same medium.

​

As you can probably guess with the title of the prompt, this time around you're making a Great Literature Ride to be placed in a park of your choice. The park doesn't have to be Disney, but the ride itself should follow the Great Movie Ride formula of many different scenes of the greatest moments in the history of the medium. As far as timeline is concerned, I'll entirely leave it up to the team to determine when the cut-off for "Great Literature" should be."

-The Submissions-
Team Prospero's Legends of Literature

-Challenge-
Pitch a simple "Great Literature Ride" at any park of your choice, featuring at least one genre/story. You can either pitch the entire ride... or focus on one scene and make it amazing

-Rules-​

• I'll be pretty lax about what books you choose, though tread carefully with domain rights.​
• You may use between 1 to 3 sentences and up to 1 image.​
• No AI generated artwork, writing, or assistance in the brainstorming process is allowed​

-Deadline-
This project is due on Thursday, June 6 at 11:59 PM WDW Time
(8:59 PM Disneyland Time), abt four days from now

-Tips-
K.I.S.S. – Keep it simple, silly. Try not to complicate or overthink things too much. It’s a simple, casual competition – there are no eliminations. Propose as you please, let your imagination soar! Especially don't overthink the detail you need for the ride. Check out Team Prospero's Project and see what makes it good, and how it could be even extravagantly realized. Simply listing out what stories you want to incorporate and you have yourself a potentially fine pitch (Yes, just drop a list of some good books and you get points this round)!

-Judging Criteria-
Is it creative?
Is it (generally) realistic?
Does it fit thematically/visually?
​

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BONUS: Favorite Book
Add a small reference to your favorite book. If you don't have one or already have it in your pitch, I daresay you should use Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. You can use up to one extra sentence and image.
​

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Remember, don't overthink it!
And yes Tiki, all your success and nightmares from SYWTBAI will come back to bite your butt and haunt your dreams... The time is here, the place is now, today we become an Imagineer...​

 

[Disney Warrior]

The Great Shakespeare Ride

To be built at Epcot's United Kingdom pavilion (wherever there is space), this traditional dark ride will showcase many of the popular works of literature written by Shakespeare. Starting with a scene based on Hamlet, guests then are taken into the worlds of King John, King Richard, King Henry, Othello, Julius Caesar, Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Merchant of Venice, and, of course, Romeo and Juliet. Because this is at a Disney park, the stories (particularly the tragedies) have been modified to be more family friendly, which also means that Romeo and Juliet get a happily ever after ending.

Bonus:
Hey, what‘s Greg Heffley from Diary of a Wimpy Kid doing in medieval England (the Henry VI scene)?​

 

[Brer Panther]

-Challenge-
Pitch a simple "Great Literature Ride" at any park of your choice. You can either pitch the entire ride... or focus on one scene and make it amazing

The Strange World of Charles Dickens​

This new addition to the United Kingdom pavilion at EPCOT takes us through the iconic stories of famed author Charles Dickens. The queue takes guests through the author's writing workshop, then through a library and into a large open book, where we board trackless ride vehicles that resemble oversized novels and travel into such stories A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and A Tale of Two Cities. Also, the ride is narrated by Kelsey Grammer because Kelsey Grammer is awesome.

Not much of a pitch, I know...

 

[𝕴𝖒𝖆𝖌𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖊𝖗97]

The Game's Afoot!
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In the UK Pavilion at Epcot, a new immersive dark ride takes you on three possible adventures through the world of British mysteries: Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, Hercule Poirot by Agatha Christie, and Miss Marple by Christie. The ride begins as if you are going to see an overview of the genre, but via projections and a cool optical illusion, we enter into a book (rotating between the three characters using different projections). From here, the ride vehicle enters into a turntable (a la JIYI 1.0, but especially conducive where space is limited in UK) where an animatronic of the particular detective (and his/her sidekicks) demonstrates their ingenuity, quirks, and personality as a scene from one of their adventures is reenacted (there are multiple ride profiles, so you can experience one of three detectives, and for each detective one of three reenactments) before you return to the real world by disengaging from the turntable and disembarking.

[for illustrative purposes only, adapted from Park Lore]

BONUS: My favorite Poirot novel is the ABC Murders, so one of the possible scenes depicted is taken from that book.

 

[Miru]

Four Great Novels at Gilroy Gardens



An ode to China’s “Four Great Novels” (Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, Journey to the West, Dream of the Red Chamber), celebrating Chinese immigrant heritage in California and the impact these novels have had throughout East Asia and eventually the entire world via the ripple effects of pop cultural osmosis (Dragon Ball, Dynasty Warriors, Monkey Kid, etc), bringing together these beloved characters in an all-star dark ride. We start in Journey to the West, the most light-hearted and well-known of the four, as early as the ride’s queue, which gives the impression of illustrations of the books having come to life and surrounding us, educational plaques telling us about these stories as well, as Sub Wukong invites us to go on a magical cloud vehicle that seats six passengers, taking us through familiar destinations like the lair of the Ox King , where you see him busy managing a great fire alongside his soul brother, the Dinosaur King, while Zhu Baijie chases down a tumbleweed as Sha Wujing watches with disbelieving stare on his face, but then the Baigujing appears, sending us into darker territory, depicting brutal battles of the Three Kingdoms, where warriors like Lu Bu make their mark in combat, all to establish a new age, while we then see the bandits from Water Margin preparing to start a revolution themselves, leaving on scenes from Dream of the Red Chamber, before in a final room, getting to see Wukong again, trying to summarize some “runners up” among Chinese literature before we leave. Is about 8 minutes in length with a capacity of over 1,000 guests, and ends in a gift shop so you can buy the novels, including those mentioned by Wukong.

Bonus:
I’m partial to the original, raw story of the TMNT in all its tragic odds and ends, even if it ends with them all dead having lived rich and long lives, so there are four soldiers with identifying bandanas & weapons in the war scenes.

 

[Solaris Knight]

It seems like everyone got the same idea of a World Showcase dark ride. I was ready to do the UK before everyone hopped onto it while I was at work.

Nippon Monogatari (Japan's Story)

Instead of a ride, this would be a Carousel theater show in the back of the Japan pavilion to save on space. This show doesn't just focus on ancient Japanese literature such as the Tale of Genji and the story of Princess Kaguya. Still, it bridges the gap between the manga and light novels enjoyed today, all part of the Japanese virtue of adapting traditions to reflect the modern day.

BONUS

To reflect the exchange of ideas between west and East, there is a scene in the postwar period scene between Mickey Mouse and Mighty Atom (Astro Boy in America) as Audio Animatronics shaking hands and smiling

 

[Evilgidgit]

The time has come at long last!! I can finally do something featuring my favourite move of all-time.

The Pagemaster: Look to the Books

Journey into the marvellous world of books in a mesmerising new, trackless dark ride based on The Pagemaster, appearing in Hollywood Studios. Guests board altered book carts and tour a grand library, until they reach a beautiful rotunda depicting the titular Pagemaster, which comes to life and whisks us away into an illustrated realm of genres - Horror, where guests flee from the terrifying Mr. Hyde and sinister ghouls; Adventure, for a swashbuckling time with Long John Silver; and Fantasy, where guests encounter the Lilliputians from Gulliver's Travels, and ignite a dragon's wrath. This is a very atmospheric, sweeping attraction, never quite forgetting the library, as the walls of the set pieces appear to be made out of books.
BONUS: FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST

May not entirely count, but a favourite of mine is the manga/anime Fullmetal Alchemist, represented by an animated suit of armour located in Mr Hyde's haunted house.​

 

[Lord Fozzinator]

I forgot to ask @Architectural Guinea Pig can I use the Mickey and the beanstalk IP or do I have to use the original story.

 

[Architectural Guinea Pig]

I forgot to ask @Architectural Guinea Pig can I use the Mickey and the beanstalk IP or do I have to use the original story.

I'm ok with it.

Note that if anyone's out of ideas, making a ride out of a single book/story like Fozz counts!

 

[Lord Fozzinator]

Mickey and the Beanstalk
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Opening up Magic Kingdom’s Fantasyland, replacing Princess Fairytale Hall, is Mickey and the Beanstalk, a new Fantasyland-style dark ride where we see Mickey get the beanstalk, his journey up the beanstalk, his encounter with the giant, and his escape from the beanstalk. Guests enter Mickey’s House as they go through the many rooms as they approach the loading area, we see Mickey, Goofy, and Donald life up to this point as we see how their life has been and Mickey buying the bean, then we see the beanstalk growing and Mickey, Goofy, and Donald climbing up it, guests follow Mickey, Goofy, and Donald as they encounter many dangers as they goes up the beanstalk and reach the massive castle where the giant lives, we then see the giant attack Mickey, Goofy, and Donald as he steals a golden egg that is worth millions and the giant chasing Mickey, Goofy, and Donald, guests fall with Mickey, Goofy, and Donald down the beanstalk but right before they hit the bottom grab a branch unlike the giant which crashes to the ground, and finally we see Mickey, Goofy, and Donald finally living the good life and that is where the ride ends. The ride has a capacity of 1420 guests per hour and is 6 minutes long.

Bonus:
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As guests follow Mickey, Goofy, and Donald up the beanstalk they encounter a Giant Praying Mantis.​

 

[Lord Fozzinator]

Sorry for reuploading it. I accidentally deleted the original one.

 

[OSUPhantom]

The Great American Novel Ride

Located on Main Street USA at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom is an unsuspecting bookstore that invites guests to step inside to take a journey through the pages of the great American novel. This classic Omnimover ride will take guests through scenes from some of the most famous works of American authors; from the Mississippi River of Mark Twain, the horror of Edgar Allen Poe, and the swinging 20’s of The Great Gatsby and more. The experience is a love letter to American literature that has shaped and reflected the country; a fitting addition to the beloved section of the Magic Kingdom without a true great attraction of its own.

Epilogue (Bonus)

The queue of the ride winds through a book store featuring a section dedicated to America’s identity as a melting pot featuring novels from our many immigrant writers including my favorite book, Angela’s Ashes.​

 

[Pi on my Cake]

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Season 18, Project 10: The Great Literature Ride
Welcome back to the sixth spectrum of the One Sentence Competition: Prisms of Light SYWTBAI! Solaris Knight's decision to use a new SYWTBAI prism means that all future prompts will be old prompts. The first prompt for the second half of the game is randomly generated through a random number generator, with the first roll being the season number and second being the project/prompt #. It's THAT simple! With this weird new prism in place, OSC is now ground for a revisting of the forum's past, diving into the What Ifs from the most cherished prompts to grace the forum.

-The Set Up-
@TheOriginalTiki: "In season ten, we did a Great Broadway Ride prompt that ended up being one of my all time favorite projects. The Great ____ Ride formula is a wonderful thing to use for Armchair Imagineering as it allows for a research intensive project that's fun and easy to put together with scenes that don't have to have any sort of real connection to each other other than being from the same medium.

​

As you can probably guess with the title of the prompt, this time around you're making a Great Literature Ride to be placed in a park of your choice. The park doesn't have to be Disney, but the ride itself should follow the Great Movie Ride formula of many different scenes of the greatest moments in the history of the medium. As far as timeline is concerned, I'll entirely leave it up to the team to determine when the cut-off for "Great Literature" should be."

-The Submissions-
Team Prospero's Legends of Literature

-Challenge-
Pitch a simple "Great Literature Ride" at any park of your choice, featuring at least one genre/story. You can either pitch the entire ride... or focus on one scene and make it amazing

-Rules-​

• I'll be pretty lax about what books you choose, though tread carefully with domain rights.​
• You may use between 1 to 3 sentences and up to 1 image.​
• No AI generated artwork, writing, or assistance in the brainstorming process is allowed​

-Deadline-
This project is due on Thursday, June 6 at 11:59 PM WDW Time
(8:59 PM Disneyland Time), abt four days from now

-Tips-
K.I.S.S. – Keep it simple, silly. Try not to complicate or overthink things too much. It’s a simple, casual competition – there are no eliminations. Propose as you please, let your imagination soar! Especially don't overthink the detail you need for the ride. Check out Team Prospero's Project and see what makes it good, and how it could be even extravagantly realized. Simply listing out what stories you want to incorporate and you have yourself a potentially fine pitch (Yes, just drop a list of some good books and you get points this round)!

-Judging Criteria-
Is it creative?
Is it (generally) realistic?
Does it fit thematically/visually?
​

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BONUS: Favorite Book
Add a small reference to your favorite book. If you don't have one or already have it in your pitch, I daresay you should use Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. You can use up to one extra sentence and image.
​

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Remember, don't overthink it!
And yes Tiki, all your success and nightmares from SYWTBAI will come back to bite your butt and haunt your dreams... The time is here, the place is now, today we become an Imagineer...​

Toontown Library

Instead of Runaway Railway, Disneyland decided to build a new and unique D/E-Ticket for their Toontown!

Entering through a cartoonish parody of a library, guests are whisked away into the world of literature where Mickey & Friends can be seen playing the parts and acting out classic literary works in this omnimover dark ride.

From Midsummer Nights Dream starring Mickey, Minnie, Donald, & Daisy as the four young lovers to Oswald & Goofy as Ford Prefect and Zaphod in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (my favorite book), there's a great mix of eras and genres showcasing the wonders of reading!
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[WaltWiz1901]

Great Railway Tales​

All aboard a carriage for a grand circle trip between the (railway) lines! This semi-Omnimover (a la Journey Into Imagination and A Passage to the Stars) transports guests from a station library through some of history’s greatest train tales both fact and fiction, like the Rainhill trials, the legend of John Henry, the completion of the Pacific Railroad, and the Race to the North.

Bonus​

In one scene, be on the lookout on a familiar-looking, and familiarly painted, E2 shunting in the yards...

 

[Architectural Guinea Pig]

@Disney Dad 3000
@montydysquith-navarro
@Outbound
@Rock Wren
@Tony the Tigger
@AceAstro
@ThemeParkPriest
@spacemt354
@NateD1226
@Lizzy May Bee

Out of ideas? Here's a quick reminder that the ride still counts as a Great Literature Ride even if it features ONE book. Any literary classic as it's own ride is a success in my opinion!​

 

[Disney Dad 3000]

La Grande Alade Littéraire

Set within the heart of Paris, France sits Jardin d'Acclimatation, a historic, year-round, family-friendly amusement park with a mix of smaller coasters and simple amusement park style attractions mixed with a beautiful park setting and walking paths. The addition of La Grande Alade Littéraire, housed within an aged and slightly overgrown castle-like structure, brings a needed family friendly dark ride option to the park utilizing a simple bus bar vehicle to move guests from scene to scene. The attraction takes guests on a journey through the highlights of France's most iconic novelists works using painted sets, flats as seen in attractions like Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, and static figures to immerse into the worlds of Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo, Hugo's Les Misérables, Verne and more.

Not really my favorite novel, but I like reading Presidential biographies like McCullough's John Adams, etc. but of course love Mr. Toad.​

 

[montydysquith-navarro]

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Season 18, Project 10: The Great Literature Ride
Welcome back to the sixth spectrum of the One Sentence Competition: Prisms of Light SYWTBAI! Solaris Knight's decision to use a new SYWTBAI prism means that all future prompts will be old prompts. The first prompt for the second half of the game is randomly generated through a random number generator, with the first roll being the season number and second being the project/prompt #. It's THAT simple! With this weird new prism in place, OSC is now ground for a revisting of the forum's past, diving into the What Ifs from the most cherished prompts to grace the forum.

-The Set Up-
@TheOriginalTiki: "In season ten, we did a Great Broadway Ride prompt that ended up being one of my all time favorite projects. The Great ____ Ride formula is a wonderful thing to use for Armchair Imagineering as it allows for a research intensive project that's fun and easy to put together with scenes that don't have to have any sort of real connection to each other other than being from the same medium.

​

As you can probably guess with the title of the prompt, this time around you're making a Great Literature Ride to be placed in a park of your choice. The park doesn't have to be Disney, but the ride itself should follow the Great Movie Ride formula of many different scenes of the greatest moments in the history of the medium. As far as timeline is concerned, I'll entirely leave it up to the team to determine when the cut-off for "Great Literature" should be."

-The Submissions-
Team Prospero's Legends of Literature

-Challenge-
Pitch a simple "Great Literature Ride" at any park of your choice, featuring at least one genre/story. You can either pitch the entire ride... or focus on one scene and make it amazing

-Rules-​

• I'll be pretty lax about what books you choose, though tread carefully with domain rights.​
• You may use between 1 to 3 sentences and up to 1 image.​
• No AI generated artwork, writing, or assistance in the brainstorming process is allowed​

-Deadline-
This project is due on Thursday, June 6 at 11:59 PM WDW Time
(8:59 PM Disneyland Time), abt four days from now

-Tips-
K.I.S.S. – Keep it simple, silly. Try not to complicate or overthink things too much. It’s a simple, casual competition – there are no eliminations. Propose as you please, let your imagination soar! Especially don't overthink the detail you need for the ride. Check out Team Prospero's Project and see what makes it good, and how it could be even extravagantly realized. Simply listing out what stories you want to incorporate and you have yourself a potentially fine pitch (Yes, just drop a list of some good books and you get points this round)!

-Judging Criteria-
Is it creative?
Is it (generally) realistic?
Does it fit thematically/visually?
​

---

BONUS: Favorite Book
Add a small reference to your favorite book. If you don't have one or already have it in your pitch, I daresay you should use Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. You can use up to one extra sentence and image.
​

---

Remember, don't overthink it!
And yes Tiki, all your success and nightmares from SYWTBAI will come back to bite your butt and haunt your dreams... The time is here, the place is now, today we become an Imagineer...​

Trese: Fight the Dark
Cultural Village, Enchanted Kingdom, Philippines

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Based on the hit Filipino supernatural mystery comic books and the acclaimed Netflix animated series, Trese: Fight the Dark will allow guests to join the Babaylan-Mandirigma ("shaman-warrior" in Tagalog) herself, Alexandra Trese, and her allies in defending the city from the evil creatures of the Underworld. Part shooting gallery and part dark ride, the attraction will use state-of-the-art ride technologies never seen before in a Philippine theme park: an EMV-based ride system (designed by Oceaneering International), mounted laser-based pistols (as seen in the Buzz Lightyear attractions), immersive "2 1/2-D" screen-to-practical theming, and advanced Audio-Animatronics portraying the lead characters. A word of caution: this mission is not for the light-hearted, as hordes of aswangs (vampires) and tiyanaks (undead babies) await you at every dimly lit corner!

Bonus

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A storefront with the sign "San Mauricio Vintage Clothing" can be seen in one of the attraction's larger show scenes.

 

[Outbound]

YOU AND THE GIANT PEACH
PORT OF ENTRY, ISLANDS OF ADVENTURE

Hop aboard a Giant Peach in this suspended dark ride showcasing vingettes of famed storyteller Roald Dahl. Fly high in the sky with James & the Giant Peach, travel into the lands of magical giants in The BFG, snag poultry & cider from cruel farmers with Fantastic Mr. Fox, watch The Twits get their much-deserved commuptance, travel to outer space and save the president with Charlie & the Great Glass Elevator, and race past frightening witches in The Witches, and finally, uncover a hidden and wonderous magic alongside Matilda.

All as the whole ride is expressed in the style Quentin Blake's original and colorful hand-drawn illustrations (seen above).


BONUS - The Martian

While Charlie rescues the President from the evil Venimous Knids at Space Hotel USA (yes, this actually happened, and in-story its the same day as the entire first book) a lonely Martian watches overhead.​

 

[Tony the Tigger]

The Great Before They Were Movies Ride

Chapter one: board your classic automobile to ride through European classics - some featured, like Dracula and Miss Havisham’s stale wedding room with rotting cake from Great Expectations, and some in the background like the rabbits & warrens of Watership Down.

Chapter two: your car arrives at the Gatsby home in the US (mid-gala) and you exit your vehicle (something everyone wished they could do on The Great Movie Ride) and walk a bridge path, which becomes a yellow brick road for the resurrection of Oz,

and then pass Gulliver strapped down to the ground by those other small folks, the Lilliputians as you board…

Chapter three: a boat trip through the highlight of the ride - Moby Dick - and after that tumult, the calm of the Mississippi River with Huckleberry Finn.

Bonus: Watership Down: the astonishing journey of rabbits from one warren to another - complete with a psychic, his brother, spirituality, a dictator, many escapes, and tons of emotion and detail.

 

[Rock Wren]

Sorry I'm late. I'm traveling and doing this on my cell phone...... if it's too late ignore this.

Don't panic: a improbable guide to the galaxy

Located in tomorrowland magic kingdom, this take on famous sci-fi literature focuses on the fantastic world and improbable situations found in sci-fi lit. Joining Marvin the depressed robot and the overly optimistic shipboard computer enter your very own spaceship with an malfunctioning improbility drive ( Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy) and tour thru literary worlds and different invasions of Earth until Mavin gets so annoyed he reboots the device setting everything right. The attached gift shops sell towels and sci-fi lit.

Bonus- One of the featured worlds is from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burrows one of my favorite easy summertime reads.