Team Durango Brainstroming Thread - Project Two: The Golf War

TheOriginalTiki

TheOriginalTiki

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Project Two: The Golf War
Mini golf is always a good entry level Armchair Imagineering project that by its nature makes it easy to divide up bite-sized parts of the overall assignment to different team members. That's exactly why it's what you'll be working with for the first project in the season's official teams. For this project, teams will be assigned 30 acres to design an 18 hole miniature golf course. The catch is, all three of the courses the teams design must reside within the same miniature golf complex. This essentially acts as the game's first ever CROSSOVER PROJECT! This is NOT a big group project, and there will not be a centralized hub for collaborating the ideas. Instead, teams must rely on checking in on what the other teams are doing to make sure their concepts sync up to form the one unified whole of "DISNEY'S GOLFLAND".
This should be a really interesting experiment in the brainstorming of each individual team impacting the other two on some level.

Here's where things get interesting. Teams must assign a project leader within the first 24 hours of a project. It is the project leader's responsibility to guide the brainstorming, but they don't necessarily have to post the finished product if scheduling is an issue. Most importantly, each round the project leader will nominate two people for elimination and one person for PoMVP. If the team looses, the judges will deliberate between which of the two nominees to eliminate from the game based on performance within the project. If the team wins, the PoMVP nominee will be safe from being nominated for elimination the following round. Once you've been project leader once, you're not allowed to do it again until everyone on your team has done so.

It's worth noting that were all well aware that real life stuff is going to come up and are willing to be flexible during this time. If you're going to be inactive for a round, all we ask is that you notify your team. Don't get me wrong, I don't want anyone using this as a free pass and am trusting an honor system by putting this into place. I'm willing to be flexible, but this is still a game with 18 in the cast and only three people ultimately making the finals,, so eliminations WILL happen most every round barring really outstanding outside the game circumstances, including multiple DOUBLE ELIMINATION rounds we have strategically planned out throughout the next ten rounds. The game is a'foot!

Good luck teams. This project is due Friday, June 5th at 11:59PM Eastern/8:59PM Pacific.
 
Outbound

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Hi team! Super excited to work with all of you. Here are my initial thoughts for the project. I posted this in the other teams as well...

I think if "Disney's Golfland" is to have three primary mini-golf courses, we will need an overall theme. Let's just think it: it'd be a bit weird if a Disney Golfing Resort had an Emperor's New Groove Course, Star Wars Course, and Jules Verne inspired course.

My suggestion is for the first day, we all think in three's. What is a general concept that can be broken up into three equal elements?

My initial thought is Land, Sea, and Air (or Space). That would mean one team makes a mini-golf course all set on the land, another team makes one set under the sea, and a third sets one up in the air (or maybe in outer space). That would tie our projects together and give Disney's Golfland an identity, while we can still compete with relatively even themes and the ability to do whatever we'd like in the 18 holes.

Another possibility is to steal from SA6 and go with Yesterday, Tomorrow, and Fantasy (or Present). That would be mean one team gets a past-themed course (there's a lot of options there, no idea which time period you'd go for), one team gets a fantasy setting (or modern-day) and the last team gets a future setting.

Of course, these are only the two ideas I happened to come up in 15 minutes. I'm sure there's plenty of other groups of three's we can draw from.
 
goofyyukyuk

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Completely agree! If everybody has an idea for the course and puts it in sometime tomorrow so that we can vote on it, I think that would be a great way to spend the first day!
 
PerGron

PerGron

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Hey everyone! This project is a really interesting one and I’m excited to pursue it with everyone!

So I’ve concocted some ideas so I’ll throw what I have out there and see if anything sticks.

Similar to @Outbound’s suggestion for the land, sea, and air, I think one themed around the elements would be pretty neat. Of course, there are four elements, so I thought of this. We could make one themed to fire, one to water, one to earth, and the complex as a whole is air themed.

Another idea I had was the Disney Parks (at least at Disney World) have an Epcot one, a Hollywood Studios one, and an Animal Kingdom one and theme the complex to Magic Kingdom.

However, honestly the Land, Sea, Sky/Space one has me hooked right now so it obviously depends on the team captains for the round, but that’s my personal favorite suggestion so far.

Speaking of team captains, we have to decide on that today as we have 24 hours to decide who our leader is! I think that should be priority number one right now. Personally, I’d like to nominate @Outbound as I think they have just the skills we need on a smaller tighter themed area. I’ve seen some amazing things on the caliber of a minigolf course from them and I think they’d be our best shot for leader this round!
 
CookieMouse

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ThatGuyFromFlorida said:
How about It can go by Hollywood studios and focus on books, cartoons, and movies?
The cartoon course could have a phineas and ferb hole, a gravity falls hole, and a ducktales hole, and more!
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I am kind of tempted to make a completly phineas and ferb themed golf course, because of the episode focusing on them building a mini golf course. a course resembling that would be amazing. We could do it so one franchise represents the form of media.
 
goofyyukyuk

goofyyukyuk

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I've been toying around with ideas related to land, sea, and air/space... I think, if we're trying to create continuity throughout the course, we try to tell a story with it. If we're wanting to use Disney IPs (which I really think we should), we should do some research on popular ones taking place in each of those three areas. For me, I think the story we tell should explain the crossover between sea to land and land to air/space... so thinking just briefly about this, Moana would be a good crossover from sea to land, and something like Wall-E or Up would make a good transition from land to air/space. I think this transition piece is something we need to understand early because I think this is something teams will struggle with. This story-telling/transition component applies to whatever theme we choose, I just used the first idea that was posted.
 
Outbound

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PerGronStudio said:
Speaking of team captains, we have to decide on that today as we have 24 hours to decide who our leader is! I think that should be priority number one right now. Personally, I’d like to nominate @Outbound as I think they have just the skills we need on a smaller tighter themed area. I’ve seen some amazing things on the caliber of a minigolf course from them and I think they’d be our best shot for leader this round!
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Unless someone else wants it of course.

ThatGuyFromFlorida said:
We should do a poll on which theme we want. We can total the votes for each team together.
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Compiling all current ideas... maybe we could talk a bit more before polling? We're barely over 12 hrs but have so many ideas already!
  • Land, Sea, Space/Sky
  • Yesterday, Tomorrow, Fantasy/Present
  • Fire, Water, Earth
  • Books, Movies, and Cartoons/Videogames/TV
  • Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar
  • Nintendo, Xbox, Playstation
  • Mickey, Donald, Goofy
  • Music, SciFi Fantasy, General Magic
And then some specific IPs that could fit into a few of the groupings.
  • Onward
  • Moana
  • Up
  • WALL-E
  • Phineas and Ferb
  • Frankenweenie
Which is your favorite? Any specific thoughts or queries towards one in particular?
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My favorite would be Land, Sea, and Space, partly because I'm biased cuz it's my idea, but also because I think we have the most freedom with such large-scale simple concepts, while also being a really effective theming tool not used by WDW yet.
 
CookieMouse

CookieMouse

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Outbound said:
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Unless someone else wants it of course.



Compiling all current ideas... maybe we could talk a bit more before polling? We're barely over 12 hrs but have so many ideas already!
  • Land, Sea, Space/Sky
  • Yesterday, Tomorrow, Fantasy/Present
  • Fire, Water, Earth
  • Books, Movies, and Cartoons/Videogames/TV
  • Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar
  • Nintendo, Xbox, Playstation
  • Mickey, Donald, Goofy
  • Music, SciFi Fantasy, General Magic
And then some specific IPs that could fit into a few of the groupings.
  • Onward
  • Moana
  • Up
  • WALL-E
  • Phineas and Ferb
  • Frankenweenie
Which is your favorite? Any specific thoughts or queries towards one in particular?
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My favorite would be Land, Sea, and Space, partly because I'm biased cuz it's my idea, but also because I think we have the most freedom with such large-scale simple concepts, while also being a really effective theming tool not used by WDW yet.
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My pick is yesterday today/fantasy and tomorrow
 

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