Season Twenty, Final Project: Disneyland IS a Museum
Through the past few years, theme park history coverage has evolved from text-based websites like Yesterland to modern YouTube/podcast marvels such as Defunctland, Podcast: The Ride, and Offhand Disney just name a few. It's pretty clear that the public's fascination with Disney parks and their place in entertainment history has reached a fever pitch, and for this project the final three will get to fully capitalize on that thirst. For your final project, you must work together to design an 85 acre boutique Disney park that caters to all things in the realm of extinct attractions.
Here's the twist: This park must be partly a museum featuring brick by brick recreations of classic experiences. The attraction roster should include a healthy mix of museum style recreations combined with some modern reimaginings of iconic concepts. You can draw from anything that's no longer in the parks as well as any never-built concepts. Attractions that exist anywhere stateside are off the table, so no Mr. Toad, Country Bears, etc. even if they are fondly missed in one half of the country. The combination of "museum" and full blown theme park is the tricky mind-teaser puzzle at the end of this road. Oh yea...one last twist just to keep things interesting. One of the headlining attractions in this park MUST be an attraction currently operating stateside. That's right...it's up to the final three to give the axe to one experience to be brought over to the "Yesterland" style park as a museum piece.
A couple other components
-Shopping and dining shouldn't be the primary focus, but are definitely encouraged
-I'd very much like to see properly built out lands here. In a way you can definitely think of this as a "Mirror Disneyland" of extinct attractions, but feel free to go outside the lines of the Castle Park layout if you wish.
-Give the park a name other than Yester/Defunctland
A note to jurors: Please submit any questions you'd like to hear the final three address in your Diary Room at any point before the end of the brainstorming time. We'll be asking for the jury votes in the time period between the project being turned in and the live show, which will include a full day to make sure the jury has a chance to read everything.
Good luck to the final three, this project is due Tuesday, March 28th at 11:59PM Eastern/8:59PM Pacific
(couldn't respond because I was driving home with pizza and then ingesting said pizza)
