Team Durango Brainstroming Thread - Project Two: The Golf War

[goofyyukyuk]

I had an idea for a storyline, if we go with sea (which it looks like we’re getting) so tell me what y’all think. If it works, I’ll take the opening and conclusion.

Sir Calvin Seawater was a prominent admiral in the British Royal Navy during a period in which much of the world remained undiscovered in the mid 1800s. One day was hired as a sailor to explore the entirety of the ocean and to map it out, taking a Series of passes through uncharted waters and discovering new islands and land masses. He set out from his lighthouse home to engage on his mission.

Seawater encountered a series of dangers along the way, including dangerous whirlpools, ravenous pirates, floating chunks of ice, sirens, and finally faced off against a massive kraken. However, despite his troubles, Seawater returned home, having mapped out the entire ocean and wrote all of his travels down in his novel “Dangers of the High Seas”.

Each hole would be themed to a different danger he faced in his travels, so we can take inspiration from the ideas I threw out and add new ones for each hole. The first hole would be the lighthouse he lived at and the last hole would be a kraken animatronic, but other than that, we could take a ton of liberties and make a super cool ocean-themed course without IP.

Let me know what y’all think

I love this! Bonus points if we make him a member of SEA

 

[NateD1226]

Just want to make this announcement so everyone is sure of what they are doing

Team Citra- Sea
Team Orbis- Sky/Space
Team Durango- Land

 

[PerGron]

Just want to make this announcement so everyone is sure of what they are doing

Team Citra- Sea
Team Orbis- Sky/Space
Team Durango- Land

Alright so much for that idea . Well we can roll with the punches. Give me an hour and I’ll have a story concept for it!

 

[goofyyukyuk]

It could be centered around some sort of explorer going through different ecosystems/terrains on earth... we could focus on nature or different man-made wonders or both?

 

[PerGron]

It could be centered around some sort of explorer going through different ecosystems/terrains on earth... we could focus on nature or different man-made wonders or both?

So it dawned on me. Disney has some solid minigolf courses already, but the issue is they’re both outside. You can’t play minigolf in the rain, nor can you play it when it’s crazy hot and humid, that sucks. Instead, what if we did an indoor course, and we set that indoor course inside... a museum.

Now, hear me out, it might be a bit crazy, but I think it could work. We set the course inside a natural history museum and have multiple different wings within it that you follow with a few holes in each wing. We could follow nature and history of humanity as we also use it as a teaching tool.

One hole could be inside an Egypt wing where we can display mummies, have the hole involve a pyramid, that sort of thing. Then maybe a jungle room where the animals (animatronic) would be there. Then whatever else we want, we could do an art wing, a wing about vehicles, a wing about China, there’s so much opportunity for theme and also education!

Near where I live we have a generic pirate-themed minigolf course that everyone seems to have, but with a unique twist. You’re learning about pirates as you go! They have signs, plaques, and dioramas that act kind of as a Pirate museum and it’s constantly packed in there, you actually have to call to reserve your spot in the dead of summer, so clearly there’s a market for an educational minigolf course, and I think this could be the godsend we need to push us over the top.

 

[goofyyukyuk]

So it dawned on me. Disney has some solid minigolf courses already, but the issue is they’re both outside. You can’t play minigolf in the rain, nor can you play it when it’s crazy hot and humid, that sucks. Instead, what if we did an indoor course, and we set that indoor course inside... a museum.

Now, hear me out, it might be a bit crazy, but I think it could work. We set the course inside a natural history museum and have multiple different wings within it that you follow with a few holes in each wing. We could follow nature and history of humanity as we also use it as a teaching tool.

One hole could be inside an Egypt wing where we can display mummies, have the hole involve a pyramid, that sort of thing. Then maybe a jungle room where the animals (animatronic) would be there. Then whatever else we want, we could do an art wing, a wing about vehicles, a wing about China, there’s so much opportunity for theme and also education!

Near where I live we have a generic pirate-themed minigolf course that everyone seems to have, but with a unique twist. You’re learning about pirates as you go! They have signs, plaques, and dioramas that act kind of as a Pirate museum and it’s constantly packed in there, you actually have to call to reserve your spot in the dead of summer, so clearly there’s a market for an educational minigolf course, and I think this could be the godsend we need to push us over the top.

Yes. Yes. Yes. 100 times yes!

 

[goofyyukyuk]

This means we need to have a really nailed down outline before we work on our individual items though.

 

[PerGron]

This means we need to have a really nailed down outline before we work on our individual items though.

So first we need to break down all 18 holes then people can pick which themes they want to design for, so let’s start throwing them out. Here are some of my suggestions.

- Ancient Egypt Hole
- Jungle/Animal Hole
- Ancient China Hole (with hole across a miniature Great Wall)
- A live greenhouse hole (maybe butterfly garden?)

 

[PerGron]

So first we need to break down all 18 holes then people can pick which themes they want to design for, so let’s start throwing them out. Here are some of my suggestions.

- Ancient Egypt Hole
- Jungle/Animal Hole
- Ancient China Hole (with hole across a miniature Great Wall)
- A live greenhouse hole (maybe butterfly garden?)

I’d also like to hear from the others

@Outbound @Disneylover152 @ThatGuyFromFlorida thoughts on this concept? If so, I’ll take the writeup and I can also maybe contribute to art if need be

 

[Outbound]

I’m game!

 

[Disneylover152]

So first we need to break down all 18 holes then people can pick which themes they want to design for, so let’s start throwing them out. Here are some of my suggestions.

- Ancient Egypt Hole
- Jungle/Animal Hole
- Ancient China Hole (with hole across a miniature Great Wall)
- A live greenhouse hole (maybe butterfly garden?)

Here are some more ideas about holes (literally googled natural history museum)-
- Dinosaurs Hole
- South American Reptile?
- Tikis
- Central America (Myan Ruins?)
- African Savannah
- North American Forests (Bigfoot hole?)
- Desert Hole

I think we should find our 18 holes first. We have the theme of land, which is both the easiest and the hardest course. The idea of land is so massive, we can really go in any direction. Do we want to go with a natural approach or a humanity approach? Do we want this to take place in the past or the present? The Future? What if we do an Epcot or an Animal Kingdom approach? Mythology? Any combination of above, or something entirely new?

We can really go in an infinite amount of directions with land, so I think we need pick one to prevent this from going all over the place.

 

[PerGron]

Here are some more ideas about holes (literally googled natural history museum)-
- Dinosaurs Hole
- South American Reptile?
- Tikis
- Central America (Myan Ruins?)
- African Savannah
- North American Forests (Bigfoot hole?)
- Desert Hole

I think we should find our 18 holes first. We have the theme of land, which is both the easiest and the hardest course. The idea of land is so massive, we can really go in any direction. Do we want to go with a natural approach or a humanity approach? Do we want this to take place in the past or the present? The Future? What if we do an Epcot or an Animal Kingdom approach? Mythology? Any combination of above, or something entirely new?

We can really go in an infinite amount of directions with land, so I think we need pick one to prevent this from going all over the place.

That’s a good point. My idea was sort of a hybrid World Showcase/Animal Kingdom. Focus on the idea of land and how it brings about life. Theme the holes around the beauty of nature and how humans have used nature to create their societies

 

[Outbound]

I think we should base it off the Natural History Museum. Not much human development, this is more about the land and nature.

1. South American Jungle
2. North American Redwoods Forest
3. Chinese Bamboo Forest
4. Japanese Cherry Blossom Forest
5. Australian Outback
6. Arabian Desert
7. Subafrican Savanna
8. Nepali Mountains
9. Russian Tundra
10. Lousiana Swamp

Here are ten unique biomes I've thought of. I'm sure there are more that are blanking my mind. But say we do two holes for eight of these rooms (we don't want to get overboard with the room numbers) and only one each (the first and last?) for two of the biomes.

Human contact can work in certain circumstances (Great Pyramids in Desert, Great Wall in bamboo forest) but I personally suggest keeping the focus on the land.

 

[CookieMouse]

I’d also like to hear from the others

@Outbound @Disneylover152 @ThatGuyFromFlorida thoughts on this concept? If so, I’ll take the writeup and I can also maybe contribute to art if need be

How about a 50s/60s suburban America hole? Like a backyard where you can crash a golf ball into a window and earn points. There would be pink flamingo statues, and stuff like that. It could serve as a more lighthearted theme. I’m reminded of over the hedge, personally. What do you think?

 

[PerGron]

So I have an idea to combine everything we’ve talked about and still keep it both land and museum themed. What if each hole follows the fossil record?

We could start with a Cambrian Explosion hole, then move onto dinosaurs, the ice age, late Pleistocene, ancient civilization, etc.

I just feel like just doing biomes isn’t really impressive enough to warrant a course as a whole.

 

[Disneylover152]

I'm not a fan of the museum theme, I think it's just an extra piece that really adds nothing to the project.

 

[Outbound]

I'm not a fan of the museum theme, I think it's just an extra piece that really adds nothing to the project.

It’s really just a framing device, anything else will do. But we do need something to set us apart from a normal mini golf course (sea and sky have an advantage with their theme and we don’t want one of us going home)

Another option is Team Citra’s idea of using a mountain, with the course slowly wrapping up to the peak.

 

[PerGron]

I'm not a fan of the museum theme, I think it's just an extra piece that really adds nothing to the project.

We don’t have to go with that, it was just a concept for how to make our project unique where our theme doesn’t lend itself to being much different than a standard course. If you have any other suggestions for how to make that work, shoot! But at the same time, we need to decide on something today, because the project is due in just over two days

 

[Outbound]

Yes, this is no sorcerer's apprentice stanza lol.

My thinking for Golfland is to have the Museum be in part an entire theme (provided Citra and Orbis are ok). The Sea and Sky areas would be outside the building on both ends, and could have whatever theme they want, just enclosed in a brick wall tying it to the Land. Then the Land is instead the building and would tell the story of Earth's Natural History, and our interaction with the land.

 

[Disneylover152]

My thinking for Golfland is to have the Museum be in part an entire theme (provided Citra and Orbis are ok). The Sea and Sky areas would be outside the building on both ends, and could have whatever theme they want, just enclosed in a brick wall tying it to the Land. Then the Land is instead the building and would tell the story of Earth's Natural History, and our interaction with the land.

I actually really like this, I think the museum here makes sense. I like how the golf course ties in with the theme of Earth's Natural history and human interaction. Maybe we can incorporate holes themed around creatures with the land, both real & imaginary? I think a hole themed around Bigfoot and maybe indigenous people would be cool!