Your park expert is @TheOriginalTiki. Other presently involved include @Brer Oswald, @Disney Dad 3000, @DisneyManOne, @AceAstro, and @Pionmycake.
I’ll let Tiki discuss the project further. Have fun!
Park primer thread found here.
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Team Brava/Castle - Discovery Kingdom Brainstorming Workshop
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Your park expert is @TheOriginalTiki. Other presently involved include @Brer Oswald, @Disney Dad 3000, @DisneyManOne, @AceAstro, and @Pionmycake.
I’ll let Tiki discuss the project further. Have fun!
Park primer thread found here.
Disney Dad 3000
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Was really intrigued by the early thoughts of a Looney Tunes dark ride in the vein of haunted mansion style ride, but a highly themed road runner coaster as you mentioned Tiki could be fun. Needed a break from work for a few minutes and doodled around a little. All of the cartoonish rock formations would be cool. I don't know with the suggested ride system if it allows for start/stop, but if nothing else have some classic scenes in the slower portions.
Pi on my Cake
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Was really intrigued by the early thoughts of a Looney Tunes dark ride in the vein of haunted mansion style ride, but a highly themed road runner coaster as you mentioned Tiki could be fun. Needed a break from work for a few minutes and doodled around a little. All of the cartoonish rock formations would be cool. I don't know with the suggested ride system if it allows for start/stop, but if nothing else have some classic scenes in the slower portions.
I love the idea of a Looney Tunes Coaster with some dark ride elements mixed in. It could lead to some great, fast paced, zany action which really fits the spirit of Looney Tunes.
Pi on my Cake
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Do we want to have other Looney Tunes involved, or keep it focused on Road Runner and the Coyote
AceAstro
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I think just focusing on those two would be a really successful attraction!!
Pi on my Cake
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One last thought before I head to get food. Do we want to make a better, more immersive, Looney Tunes themed area. Like, spend part of our budget to retheme the looney Tune Sea Port and the Seaside Junction next door to create a Looney Land.
Maybe a studio could work and allow for a lot of the meta humor they are known for. Or possibly, keep the theme of the sea port, just plus it. The Looney Tunes boardwalk. Might be a bit similar to the Muppet boardwalk one of the other teams is working on though and I'm not sure how a canyon would fit into it. I'll try to think on this more. Anyone else have any ideas?
Maybe a studio could work and allow for a lot of the meta humor they are known for. Or possibly, keep the theme of the sea port, just plus it. The Looney Tunes boardwalk. Might be a bit similar to the Muppet boardwalk one of the other teams is working on though and I'm not sure how a canyon would fit into it. I'll try to think on this more. Anyone else have any ideas?
Disney Dad 3000
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I don't know. Tiki had suggested roadrunner as a possibility and that was what got me doodling. Nice thing about RR/coyote is the environs really lends itself to a full on immersive experience with the desert, wacky cartoonish rock formations, etc.
Is there other iconic Looney tune environs that can provide that? Maybe Yosemite Sam and the old West saloons, etc and with him you do get some BB elmer fudd crossover. A lot of the LT just end up taking place in a forest or generic city locations.
Pi on my Cake
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If we do make a more immersive Looney Tunes land, the entrance and exits should have the orange circles as an archway. That way it starts and ends your cartoon
Pi on my Cake
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Yeah, that was kinda the roadblock I was running into trying to think of how to make a Looney Land lol. Maybe the whole land could take on a vaguely ghost town feel with a Yosemite Same Saloon restaurant. One one side of it you get the canyon coaster and more dessert like. On the other you get more trees and Elmer Fudd. But overall, relatively cheap themes to pull off. Trees, rocks, and wooden buildings. Just repaint the current rides in the area to fit the new setting
Disney Dad 3000
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Yosemite Sam, while not pc, one of my all time favorite cartoon characters
Pi on my Cake
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I mean, the Looney Tunes have never been politically correct. That was literally part of the plot for Looney Tunes Back in Action, a studio head trying to tell them their act is not ok for modern audiences and Bugs Bunny basically responding with "A bunny in drag was funny when I started and it is still funny today." That movie was like 15 years ago lol
What makes Looney Tunes work is that it never tries to be offensive, just outrageous. It is the extremes of everything. So, even non PC stuff like Yosemite still work to well to this day (There are, of course, a few exceptions to things that are just not good humor for the modern audiences, but those are rather rare for Looney tunes and not hidden like other studios do.)
Brer Oswald
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I do think we should include some of the other Looney Tunes characters (Bugs, Daffy, Sylvester) but in western attire. The main focus should be on RR (which could be the ride vehicles) and the constant reappearance of the Coyote.
Another Roadrunner coaster approach lets guests be Wile E. Coyote. They're riding Acme rocket cars in doomed pursuit. I'd discussed a version of this in the morning with Tiki using a variation on Uni's DK trains which appear to leap freely from track to track.
Pi on my Cake
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I like that idea for it! The downside of putting us in the perspective of being Wile E. is that we wouldn't be able to have figures of him around the ride setting traps for guests. But I think it is worth it for the rocket cars and all.
Also, since the gimmick for discovery Kingdom is the real animals, I had an idea for an advertising campaign for the Looney Tunes expansion.
Real meets Looney
A series of ads with Looney Tunes animals seeing real life equivalents and being confused.
I whipped this up real quick as an example
Disney Dad 3000
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Haha. That's awesome.
TheOriginalTiki
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Dude, I love it! This is totally in the spirit of the park.
A couple things...
1. I strongly think the Looney Tunes Seaport theme should stay in tact. The Seaport works really well with the surrounding Ocean Discovery, Shark Experience, and dolphin shows and adds a level of cohesion to the park. No reason we can't plus it though.
2. Personally I'm in the camp that thinks only Roadrunner and the Coyote should show up on Roadrunner Express, just to keep things simple. There's a reason those two barely cross over with the other characters. They bounce so well off of each other that throwing other characters in might be a bit too messy and throw off the dynamic.
3. Are we all in agreement for an RMC T-Rex replacing the Vekoma SLC?
Pi on my Cake
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1. Fair enough. What exactly is Seaport theming? Is it basically like a Looney tunes boardwalk/beach area?
2. I agree, keep the coaster focused. I'm not against a small cameo or something. But I agree that the main focus is Road Runner vs coyote.
3. Sure! dinos are cool. That would basically dividing the park up into three area: Looney Tunes/water, Dinos, and vaguely African jungle. Right? Am I reading the map correctly?
Pi on my Cake
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Maybe like Beach City from Steven Universe (or Ocean City Maryland for the real world version) with Looney Tunes?
Pi on my Cake
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Also, how do we fit a Grand Canyon type atmosphere in a sea port theme?
Disney Dad 3000
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Good question, because I like the idea of keeping a straight RR/coyote coaster. Just looking at a few random google images, I didn't see any signifying decor background wise except trees?