Team Cap: SYWTBAI Season 14, Project Five Open Brainstorming

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Season 14, Project Five: Legend of the Lost Legend
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Based on DisneyFreak59's "Legend of the Lost Army" Project from Season One

This is a true "Mount Rushmore" of projects submitted for the game. An early, classic concept that left an imprint on the entire game and all those who played it afterwards. A true testament to the creativity these kinds of competitions can bring out in you. In the semi-finals round of Season One, eventual winner DisneyFreak59 presented her "Legend of the Lost Army" concept, an E Ticket for the China pavilion focusing on the stone Tera Cotta soldiers of Chinese mythology. The project was ambitious, detailed, well written, and unlike anything anyone had ever seen before. It truly gave future players a high bar to reach up towards.

For this project, you'll be attempting to recreate some of that Legend of the Lost Army magic by creating an EPCOT E Ticket of your very own. Your E Ticket must be placed in a World Showcase pavilion and be centered around an element of mythology or folklore from the country it's located. Absolutely NO IPs are allowed. Good luck teams, this project is due Friday, March 10th at 11:59 PM Eastern.
 
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Great work, team! I think we did really really well with our project, especially with the bevy of technical problems that we encountered all week (uuuggghhhh). @Pionmycake , I thought you really hit a home run with that dark ride, and now the judges have confirmed my opinion! Normally, when I was on Team Mist, I listed out things we did well for the project and things we could work on, but I think we did all that we could really well for this round! The only suggestion I want to make for the group is that if we continue to use the same service for the website that we try to better work around everyone's schedules and also whoever knows how to use the site builder best (@kmbmw777 , I'm thinking that's your specialty :) )

And welcome to the group, @ThatGuyFromFlorida !

World Showcase is one of my favorite areas at WDW, this is going to be a fun project. These are the ten countries we can work from:
Mexico
Norway
China
Germany
Italy
Japan
Morocco
France
United Kingdom
Canada

There's also a small refreshment port thats vaguely African, and an American pavilion in the middle, in case we decide we're really inspired by either of those. Some of the pavilions listed above already have attractions (boat rides, Circlevision movies, etc), but I really think we ought to keep all of them available for brainstorm so we can give ourselves every opportunity to come up with the most awesome idea for our project.

The obvious ideas that spring to mind for me are:

- ancient Roman pantheon of Gods for an Italy attraction (I studied these Roman boys at university. They're pretty similar in many cases to the Greek gods and myths)
- Norse pantheon for a Norway attraction (it's like Thor and Odin and Tyr and those guys)
- Old English/Celtic myths for a UK attraction (this would look something like Lord of the Rings, I suppose)
- Native American myths for a Canada (or US) attraction

I also know that there is a rich history of East Asian stories and characters that we could work with, I'm just not familiar with any of them.

What do you folks think?


---TrevorA
 
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TrevorA said:
Great work, team! I think we did really really well with our project, especially with the bevy of technical problems that we encountered all week (uuuggghhhh). @Pionmycake , I thought you really hit a home run with that dark ride, and now the judges have confirmed my opinion! Normally, when I was on Team Mist, I listed out things we did well for the project and things we could work on, but I think we did all that we could really well for this round! The only suggestion I want to make for the group is that if we continue to use the same service for the website that we try to better work around everyone's schedules and also whoever knows how to use the site builder best (@kmbmw777 , I'm thinking that's your specialty :) )

And welcome to the group, @ThatGuyFromFlorida !

World Showcase is one of my favorite areas at WDW, this is going to be a fun project. These are the ten countries we can work from:
Mexico
Norway
China
Germany
Italy
Japan
Morocco
France
United Kingdom
Canada

There's also a small refreshment port thats vaguely African, and an American pavilion in the middle, in case we decide we're really inspired by either of those. Some of the pavilions listed above already have attractions (boat rides, Circlevision movies, etc), but I really think we ought to keep all of them available for brainstorm so we can give ourselves every opportunity to come up with the most awesome idea for our project.

The obvious ideas that spring to mind for me are:

- ancient Roman pantheon of Gods for an Italy attraction (I studied these Roman boys at university. They're pretty similar in many cases to the Greek gods and myths)
- Norse pantheon for a Norway attraction (it's like Thor and Odin and Tyr and those guys)
- Old English/Celtic myths for a UK attraction (this would look something like Lord of the Rings, I suppose)
- Native American myths for a Canada (or US) attraction

I also know that there is a rich history of East Asian stories and characters that we could work with, I'm just not familiar with any of them.

What do you folks think?


---TrevorA
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We all knocked it out of the park! Even with technical issues!
Fantastic, clever writing on the Main Street Citizens @kmbmw777
Incredibly well done write up for the World's Fair @TrevorA

And welcome to the team! @ThatGuyFromFlorida
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Pi on my Cake

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Roman gods could be pretty awesome. I'm a big Percy Jackson fan, so while I won't say I'm an expert or anything, I'm pretty familiar with at least the basics of Roman Mythology.

Doing something themed to knights and dragons in the U.K. pavilion could be cool.

If we wanted a darker ride, we could always do a ride in Germany themed to some of the darker fairytales (the Erl-King jumps to mind as a favorite).


I think we should avoid Norse mythology since the Marvel Thor movies are so popular. Unless we avoid Frost Giants, Thor, Loki, Odin, and Heimdall.
 
TrevorA

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ThatGuyFromFlorida said:
Oh yeah. What are some other ideas for roller coasters? It must be a roller coaster! Epcot needs one badly!!!:geek:
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Pionmycake said:
I was actually thinking about a coaster too. I'm definitely open to other ride systems, but like you said... Epcot could use a coaster. A well themed one of course.
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Have you all been to Magic Kingdom to ride the Seven Dwarves Mine Train? It's not super overwhelming from a thrill- or storytelling-perspective, but it's a legit roller coaster/dark ride combination. We could do something like that. Show scenes splitting time with drops and banked turns.

EDIT: Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringott's does a marginally similar thing, but their whole schtick over at Uni is using television screens to "replicate" real environments, so I didn't want to count it at first. But if you've ridden that you get the gist of what I'm proposing.


---TrevorA
 
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TrevorA said:
Have you all been to Magic Kingdom to ride the Seven Dwarves Mine Train? It's not super overwhelming from a thrill- or storytelling-perspective, but it's a legit roller coaster/dark ride combination. We could do something like that. Show scenes splitting time with drops and banked turns.


---TrevorA
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That was the type of thing I was picturing! Maybe a bit more intense depending on what theme we pick though
 
TrevorA

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Oh hey @Pionmycake ! Have you seen Kwaidan? It's from Japan, and it's totally the sort of inspiration we're looking for here. If we decide that the Roman gods or King Arthur aren't gonna work for us, we now also have the beginning of an idea for a Japanese folk tale attraction.


---TrevorA
 
Pi on my Cake

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I was jusy logging on to suggest a Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper ride, but it looks like Team Must is doing that kind of thing. Oh well. Plenty of other good ideas we've discussed so far
 
Pi on my Cake

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For the Roman Mythology idea, we could have the queue/facade be a museum of Roman Mythology before entering "into" the ancient time of myths and monsters. Maybe tie it into Pompeii. Have a volcano based coaster to make up for the never built Mt. Fuji and fire Mountain.

Mt. Vesuvius. An adventure of godly proportions.


I don't really have any ideas for Japanese mythology based rides, but I do like the idea of using Japan.

English legends I again don't have much to say besides "dragons are cool" and it could be a sorta evolution of Beastly Kingdom.

A dark fairytale ride in Germany could be cool too. I picture a backwards roller coaster through dark forests as you are "pusued" by the Erl-King through the woods. Keep it low to the ground with launch sections giving it speed instead of hills.
 

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