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Awesome job with this map!
Also interesting trajectory through the project, I'm assuming the 'main street' will be last?
Awesome job with this map!
Yes! Gonna do (probably) Tomorrowland next. Then Neveraland Island, then mainstreet/parade/night shows.Awesome job with this map!
Also interesting trajectory through the project, I'm assuming the 'main street' will be last?
-Tomorrowland part 2-
We now enter the heart of Tomorrowland! A bustling sci-fi city! Walk around characters (aliens and robots) help bring this land to life. Centered around the Rocketeer Tower (Modelled after the Astro Orbiter Tower in Disney World, but with a more modern look), this part of Tomorrowland features some of the biggest and most exciting attractions in the park!
-Star Wars: First Order Escape-
Tower of Terror is cool. Star Wars is cool. Let’s combine them and see what happens!
Guests enter into Tomorrowland City Hall. Nothing seems super Star Wars themed yet. Poe’s X-Wing was parked out front and there is graffiti Rebel Alliance Logos, but for the most part this first section of the queue seems like just the Tomorrowland City Hall. Sci-fi themed with a robot secretary, but mostly just an office. At the front of this section of the queue, a cast member asks a group of people if they are allied with the Resistance. When the guests say yes (a speaker is hidden nearby to say yes if no one does), the cast member performs a special knock (the knocking pattern is a secret code) and one of two hidden doors open leading to one of the two identical pre-show rooms.
The preshow features a holographic Poe Dameron (an effect achieved using a Pepper’s Ghost Effect) telling guests the Resistance’s plan. They have found a stash of Kyber Crystals that could change the tide of the war. But the First Order has discovered the secret base here in Tomorrowland! So, we are tasked with boarding the tank like Serling Class Shuttle and serving as a distraction for Kylo Ren and the Storm Troopers while Poe sneaks the Crystals out. He’ll then come back to rescue us.
The second part of the queue is much more heavily Star Wars themed as a Resistance base. Guests board their ships and the ride begins.
Much like Disney World’s Tower of Terror, this ride starts out moving forward through the base. Poe tells you over the speakers on the ride vehicle to stay strong. The First Order is coming! Alarms sound. Guests pull into the elevator shaft as the doors open and reveal an animatronic Kylo Ren flanked by storm troopers.
Kylo Ren asks us where the Kyber Crystals are. When we refuse to answer, Ren decides to get the information out of us by any means necessary. He grabs our shuttle with the force and send us flying upwards. After a couple thrilling, high-speed drops and jumps, we see a (projection screen) Kylo Ren confront us again. We see through a window Poe’s x-Wing fly up. Poe tells us over the speaker’s not to worry because here comes the calvary. He fires his ship’s lasers on Kylo through the window! This sends us plummeting. Luckily, Rey (projection screen) catches us before we hit the ground. The rest of the ride is us caught in the middle of a force battle between Rey and Kylo Ren until Poe is able to catch us in a tractor beam and pull us out of the elevator shaft and back into the safety of Tomorrowland. Guests then exit into the Merchant of Venus Trading Company.
-Merchant of Venus Trading company-
The Merchant of Venus Trading Company is the largest gift shop in Tomorrowland. It has a sleeker, more modern feel compared to the Galactic Outpost Gift Shop. It is more inspired by Shanghai’s Tomorrowland aesthetic. It is the best place in the park to find Star Wars merchandise as well as most Disney Sci-fi properties (Stitch, Tron, Buzz Lightyear, etc.).
This store also is the main location for high tech gadgets like battery packs, phone accessories, magic bands, photo pass, and more.
-Jungle Cruise… in SPACE!!!-
I was originally going to call it the The Jungle Planet Hover Cruise. But Jungle Cruise… in SPACE!!! felt like a more fitting name (The ellipses, the all caps, and the three exclamation marks are all a part of the official title).
Keeping with the theme of the original Jungle Cruise, this is based out of shipping company. Your skipper has decided to run tours to make extra money.
The queue is themed as the storage warehouse for the Merchant of Venus next door. The queue is very much designed to be reminiscent of the classic Jungle Cruise attraction, just with a Sci-Fi twist. Right down to the corny announcements over the speakers.
The ride itself uses the Flight of Passage Ride System.
Our skipper is the (self-proclaimed) famous intergalactic adventurer known as Kyle Cosmic! While that name is almost certainly fake, Kyle Cosmic has travelled much of the known universe in his deliveries and is happy to use his knowledge to give a great tour. His charm and unearned confidence makes him a great skipper. Not to mention his love of bad puns and cheesey humor.
Guests board their Rocketcycles and follow their Skipper through a pun filled flight around an alien jungle planet with fantastic creatures, dazzling sights, attacks from alien headhunters, and the most exciting sight of all: THE BACKSIDE OF WATER!!! While the ride itself is much more action packed, fast paced, and exciting than the classic attraction, Kyle Cosmic’s cheesey sense of humor will bring the same corny charm from the original to this new experience. Guests then exit out into the Merchant of Venus.
-Figment’s Fantastic Flight into Imagination-
Tomorrowland is home to the all-new Imagination Institute! A bit brighter and more futuristic than the version in EPCOT, but still featuring the iconic glass pyramid and reverse waterfalls on either side of the entry door. Inside is a new Figment and Dreamfinder attraction (taking inspiration from the comics, but not being a direct aspiration).
Guests are invited on a tour through the colorful Realm of Imagination (Think of what you would get if Sam Raimi and Ghibli made a world together) with The Dreamfinder and Figment as your guides, but watch out for the giant Dragon of Dreams that attacks guests and our heroes!
The ride system is a large, high capacity suspended cab that slowly moves along the track and is capable of bouncing/shaking. This ride system is taken from the late, great Kongfrontation in Universal Florida, but themed to the Dreamfinder’s flying machine. This ride system is capable of simulating being grabbed and attacked realistically while also allowing for grand views flying over and around the scenery. Makes the ride a mix of Kongfrontation and Peter Pan's Flight. Plus, it has a high hourly capacity.
A mix of large animatronics, practical effects, and large-scale projector screens create the environments and brings them to life. The Dragon of Dreams is a particularly exciting large scale animatronic with lighting effects that give it the ability to change colors.
This ride will help revitalize the Figment brand and bring the Dreamfinder into the modern theme park landscape. While also being a great tribute to the wonder, excitement, and beauty of imagination. The ride exits out into the BnL Outlet.
-Fantasia Avenue East-
Let’s keep on going with Fantasia Avenue East! This side is a lot of smaller shops and food places compared to the larger locations of the west side like the Garden House and the Emporium.
-Pines of Rome: Plaza Restaurant-
The Plaza Restaurant, like its Disney World counterpart, is a simple, small table service restaurant. It is nothing too exciting, but it does have reliably good food a view of the castle. Murals on the ceiling and engravings on the walls show the humpback whales flying through space from the artistic, memorable, Pines of Rome short from Fantasia 2000. Just like at Disney World, the dishwashers for the plaza Restaurant will be consistently rude to the ice cream parlor cast members who share the backstage area (I have experience with this lol).
-Sugar Plum Ice Cream Parlor-
Given a loose themeing to the Sugar Plum Fairies from the Nutcracker Suite, the Sugar Plum Ice Cream Parlor is the place to go for freshly made waffle bowls and hand scooped ice cream! Maybe get a giant sundae in the Mickey Sink Souvenir bowl that Brazilian tourists seem to go absolutely crazy over for some reason.
If you do get any kind of sundae, don’t be surprised when the parson giving it to you asks who your favorite Disney character is. They’ll be sure to make the character (or something from that characters movie) out of whip cream and cherries to put on top of your sundae! Or, if your character is too tough, comically exclaim “Did you say Mickey Mouse!” while making a mickey shape with the whip cream.
An outdoor seating area can be found in between the ice cream parlor and the bakery. The seating area has exciting features such as chairs! And tables!
-Bald Mountain Bakery-
The Bald Mountain Bakery is the place to go for freshly made cookies, brownies, and other pastries. The décor has a more gothic style then the rest of Fantasia Avenue. A darker color scheme with more greens and purples. This shop has a more dramatic, darker feel. The most ominous thing about the bakery though is that it serves Starbucks coffee! How wicked!
-The Wilfred Jackson Cinema-
Named for the director of the Bald Mountain segment of Fantasia (and many other classic Disney projects), the Wilfred Jackson Cinema is very similar to the Main Street Cinema at Disneyland. A quiet, air-conditioned building where kids and families can watch some Mickey Mouse cartoons. There are screens here showing everything from Steamboat Willie to the most recent Mickey Mouse shorts. The biggest draw is the celebrity visiting the theater!
Guests can meet Mickey Mouse himself in the back room of the theater! And Mickey will even talk as he interacts with guests!
-Fantasound Music Shop-
When Fantasia came out, it used a new audio technique dubbed Fantasound. Named in honor of that, music shop will feature soundtracks from every Disney movie and all kinds of Disney music albums! The shop itself is full of interactive elements that allow younger guests to join in the fun and help make the music!
-The Hirschfeld Chapeau-
Named after the artist whose work inspired the Fantasia 2000 short, Rhapsody in Blue, the Hrischfeld Chapeau will bring the heights of turn of the century fashion to Fantasia Avenue! And by the heights of fashion, I mean mostly Mickey ear hats. The Chapeau is the main hat store for the park. Don’t forget to get your hat embroidered with your name here! The décor has a stylish turn of the century New York feel inspired by the short.
-The Ponchielli Confectionary-
The Confectionary (candy shop) will feature sculptures made out of actual candy of the hippos and gators from the Dance of the Hours Fantasia Short! Don’t eat them though, the amount of preservatives on them to keep them from not going rotten and not attracting bugs is astounding. They are basically plastic.
The confectionary has candy and treats of all kinds! Some of which are made fresh right there! And the name “Ponchielli confectionary” comes from the original composer of the Dance of the Hours.
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And with that, just one more part to post! The park itself might just be complete by the end of the night!
Pomp and Circumstance is the one with Donald and Daisy in Noahs Ark.Taking its loose theming from Fantasia 2000’s Pomp and Circumstance short (The one with the Flamingo and the yoyo. I’ll save you the Google search)
whoops! Must've gotten my notes mixed up when I watched it the other night. I'll go fix that. Thanks for pointing it out!Pomp and Circumstance is the one with Donald and Daisy in Noahs Ark.
Carnival of the Amimals is the one with Yo-yo Flamingo.
Overall I really like Fantasia Avenue, and I think it is a clever twist on the typical Main Streets that we are so used to. I especially love the Fantasmic! show you have planned.
I just want to say that I really like your project and the way you’ve been developing it! It’s really creative and different enough from the typical Castle Park without losing the core of it. And I think that Fantasia Avenue is a great concept and you developed it pretty well!Feedback as I finish up would be greatly appreciated. Fantasia Avenue especially has a lot of elements I was not super confident, so feedback while I finish up and write Town Square would be very helpful.
Yes! I'm gonna do the attractions descriptions first (at least some of them), before working on it. I only have some vague ideas right now. But I do want to do a second park and some other resort details (like hotels and stuff) eventually!I just want to say that I really like your project and the way you’ve been developing it! It’s really creative and different enough from the typical Castle Park without losing the core of it. And I think that Fantasia Avenue is a great concept and you developed it pretty well!
Also, sorry if this has been asked before (my memory sometimes fails me), but are you planning on developing a Second Gate?
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