Team Durango Brainstorming Thread - Project Four: Kungalooshing the Night Away

TheOriginalTiki

TheOriginalTiki

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Project Four: Kungalooshing the Night Away!
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While themed bars such as Trader Sam's and Abracadabar are all the rage with the Disney nightlife crowd these days, back in the 90's at Walt Disney World there existed a happy place that blew pretty much every themed bar in existence out of the water. The Adventurer's Club had a full on mythology behind it's several themed rooms, intricate characters, and multiple puppet performers. It was a place stuck in time, perpetually celebrating New Years Eve on a nightly occasion. A place any average guest could go to be transported into another world. With multiple themed rooms and countless characters, The Adventurer's Club was truly a crown jewel of outside the box Imagineering. For this project, teams will be tasked to design a spiritual successor to the famous club to be placed in ANY Disney location of your choosing. This could go in a park, a Disney Springs/DownTown Disney, a resort, even a DVC. The only requirement is that it takes on the same spirit as the Adventurer's Club with multiple rooms and levels, a cast of characters, an elaborate backstory, and don't you DARE forget to include some puppets! Good luck teams, this project is due Friday, June 19th at 11:59PM Eastern.
 
PerGron

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Alright guys, I’ve had this idea for a while and boy do I wish that this round was next week haha!

So my concept is to replace Rainforest Cafe at Animal Kingdom with a bar/entertainment experience called the Safari Lodge. It’d be a very tongue-and-cheek parody of the Adventurer’s Club, but in name only.

The Safari Lodge would be hosted by Thulani Hassani, a former poacher who turned his life around to become a guide for humane and natural tourism around a massive game farm. This would be your safari lodge you’d be “staying at,” while on your safari vacation, but secretly, a group of poachers snuck into the lodge in an attempt to wreak havoc. You and your group have been hired to track down the poachers by traveling through different rooms, interacting with taxidermy animals, other game wardens, etc.

It’d be a sort of murder-mystery mixed with the comedy featured in AC All with an environmental message. I’ve hosted my fair share of drunk murder mysteries and they are a ton of fun!
 
Outbound

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PerGronStudio said:
Alright guys, I’ve had this idea for a while and boy do I wish that this round was next week haha!

So my concept is to replace Rainforest Cafe at Animal Kingdom with a bar/entertainment experience called the Safari Lodge. It’d be a very tongue-and-cheek parody of the Adventurer’s Club, but in name only.

The Safari Lodge would be hosted by Thulani Hassani, a former poacher who turned his life around to become a guide for humane and natural tourism around a massive game farm. This would be your safari lodge you’d be “staying at,” while on your safari vacation, but secretly, a group of poachers snuck into the lodge in an attempt to wreak havoc. You and your group have been hired to track down the poachers by traveling through different rooms, interacting with taxidermy animals, other game wardens, etc.

It’d be a sort of murder-mystery mixed with the comedy featured in AC All with an environmental message. I’ve hosted my fair share of drunk murder mysteries and they are a ton of fun!
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I love this!

I think we can pair it with a new presentation format as well. You know those new “Dugital Classrooms” teachers have nowadays? They put a bunch of pictures together on a slides and you click each picture to take you to a new room or zoom in. Super interactive.

I suggest we do that. Build the Club in Google Slides (collaboratively instead of my Minecraft build) and then add prose at the bottom to keep it from becoming all presentation. But in the same effort, we’d be digitally making a real place, rather than simply describing it.

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Disneylover152

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Ahh yes, the Adventurer's Club. Another prompt based around something most of us were not alive for (well, alive and old enough) 😂.

I'll be doing some research on this, I don't think I know enough about it yet to develop ideas!
 
Disneylover152

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Put this in the wrong thread but here-

I'm just going to say this now, I will not be available past Wednesday to work on this project. I'm going up to my house in Pennsylvania which has no wifi and spotty service. I may be able to check up on the app on my phone, but I'm not going to be reliable starting midway through the day and beyond (not sure yet how long we are staying, may go into the next prompt too).
 
CookieMouse

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PerGronStudio said:
Alright so with @Disneylover152 and I both not being fully present this round, I guess that leaves @ThatGuyFromFlorida as our PM for the round unless they really don’t want to, then I’ll take it.
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I don’t really feel ready to do that. But as for the theme of the restaurant, how about we could do some kind of sci fi theme? Maybe the backstory could be something Along the lines of the members of Sea have been invited to join a intergalactic group, basically sea but on a much larger scale. As part of the initiation into the group, they have a ceremonial feast. That’s my idea.
 
PerGron

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ThatGuyFromFlorida said:
I don’t really feel ready to do that.
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Alright, just where I’m not sure where I’ll be throughout the week I’m not sure how active a PM I could be, but if you’re dead set on not doing it I can take it over.

That being said, I do think it’d be a good thing to have you learn a bit of leadership and organizing. Like Goofy did last round, you don’t need to command the project, just help organize it, something I definitely think would help improve your score of teamwork with the judges.

Of course, you don’t HAVE to, but I do think it’d be beneficial for you to learn how to lead the team, especially since we all have to do it once.
 
Outbound

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I'm more inclined to go with the Zoo theme. @PerGronStudio is very knowledgeable on that topic and would be super helpful in the early brainstorming, even if he can't be with us the whole way through.

And if ThatGuy doesn't feel like organizing (I'd also recommend it, helpful for the future) I can always step up as an unofficial guide.
 
Outbound

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Ok I know I just said I support the zoo theme (and I still do) but I just had another idea. What if we set it in the Medieval Period?

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There would be a wedding between two major houses. Tons of detail would go into the many houses and their banners present, think Games of Thrones level intrigue but without the violence. Each Sir and Lady would have their own intentions some working with their family some secretly opposed. There'd be minor conflicts as well, perhaps hints at secret bastards or a rumor that a certain knight cheated at the past tourney. At the center, the bride doesn't want to marry for political reasons, and has a secret affair with lowly commoner, turning it into a story of love...
 
Outbound

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goofyyukyukyuk17 said:
I think both options have a lot of possibilities open to them... where would we put the medieval one? Fantasyland?
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I’d recommend outside the parks. Maybe at the far end of Disney Springs. It’d be cool to take the Adventurer’s Club to an even grander scale, building a forced perspective castle to serve as the show building.

EDIT: The more I think about this the more invested I become. Excuse me but I am now going to worldbuild, ignore what I'm about to post if we go with another theme.
 

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