Team Heroes - Stanza V: Patch 'Em Up

spacemt354

Chili's
If you're referring to this @James G. yes i have it

The three villains had locked themselves in a ladies’ bathroom just off the Grand Lobby of the Eisenhower Hotel. They heard dogs barking on the other side of the door, along with Americana Resort Security Officers ordering them to “come out with your hands up!”, something that none of them intended to do (even the one that actually had hands and not just paws or purple things).

“Now what do we do?” the Villain with the plastic KISS mask demanded from the Hindley dog…uh…rat…uh…mouse (he was so angry that he kept changing shape, sometimes having a dog’s body, a mouse head and a rat’s tail, then…you get it).

“I don’t know! You’re the one who saw the dogs coming and brilliantly yelled, ‘Quick! Hide in here! They’ll never find us in here!’ That was just BRILLIANT!!”

‘How was I to know there would be a bunch of women in here already?” he demanded!

“THIS IS A LADIES BATHROOM!” screamed the purple lizard. “WHAT DID YOU EXPECT TO FIND IN HERE? THE DISNEYLAND BAND?”

“The way they screamed when they saw us I’m not surprised that we’re now trapped in here!” Hindley squeaked, now seeming to have his rat-mouse hybrid character settling down.

“They screamed when they saw you two,” KISS said. “One of them tried to slip me her phone number,” he claimed smugly.

“SHE HIT YOU WITH HER PURSE, YOU MORON!” Purple screamed even more angry than before.

“Will you stop screaming?” Hindley said.

“I’M NOT SCREAMING!!! OK, maybe I am, but do you have a better idea? How are we going to get out of here?”

“Maybe we could shift into insect form and sneak out under the door?” KISS suggested. They heard the dogs outside scratching viciously at the base of the door, earnestly trying to get at the three Villains.

“That’s a stupid idea,” Purple said.

“This whole thing is a stupid idea,” KISS announced. “What made you think we could sneak into the meeting that Kalnow guy was having with the other parks by pretending to be his three flunkies? He’d recognize us in a minute!”

“He’d recognize us because “Mr. Hindley” here kept growing his tail back out. When was the last time you saw a human with a tail?”

“All right, stop!” Hindley demanded. “We’ve gotta get out of here before they break in.” He looked around and saw their only way out- the toilet. The others looked at where he was looking, and in unison firmly said, “NO!”

“YOU GOT A BETTER IDEA?” Hindley asked. They didn’t. “We shift into something small enough to get through the pipes, and swim downstream until we get to the nearest river. It’s our only way out.”

“At least flush it first,” Purple said. Hindley walked over and flushed it.

“There. Happy? Fresh, clean water. Now we’d better be going, and fast!” They heard the sound of an electric saw being used to cut through the metal door, and knew they had no other choice. They crowded into the stall, stood around the toilet bowl, and somehow, on the first try, all managed to change into three fish, each bearing a faint resemblance to their “normal” shape. Each of them managed to fall into the water in the bowl.

“Wow! This water is freezing!” KISS managed to say in strangely-accented fish-talk.

“Better than warm and yellow,” the purple, slimy fish said.

“Yuck. Gross,” KISS said.

“They’re probably almost through the door,” Hindley said. “Let’s talk about this later.”

All three fish swim toward the deep, round opening at the bottom of the bowl, and when they all reached it at the same time, they got stuck. All three together, side-by-side- were too big to fit through the hole! They heard a “crash” from above the water’s surface and knew the guards and their dogs (who they somehow remembered seemed to love to drink from the toilet) would find them, stuck in the bottom of the toilet like three pieces of…Banishing that thought, Hindley suddenly managed just enough shape control to form an arm and reached up for the handle on the toilet’s tank. He pulled on the handle, and just before the extra water pressure forced them through the hole and into the water-filled pipes below he remembered to pull his arm back and reshape it into a fin. They had escaped!

The guard dogs raced to the flushing toilet, and one of the guards ran over to see what the dogs were looking at. He wasn’t sure, but for a moment he thought he saw a strange looking arm, resembling something like a long, harry rodent’s arm, disappearing into the hole at the bottom of the bowl. He never told a soul- he was too close to retirement.

**

“We made it!” KISS declared to his fishy fellow Villains as they swam through the pipes (single-file now) towards their freedom. They hadn’t gotten the information they wanted from Kalnow and the other four theme parks, but at least they had their freedom and wouldn’t be spending the rest of their lives on display in the WildAmericana Aquarium, probably as an example of how water pollution can cause some fish to mutate!

“Do you smell something strange?” Hindley asked the others.

“Yea, did you just fart?” asked Purple, who was swimming directly behind Hindley.

“No!” he insisted.

“Wait a minute,” said KISS with a sudden feeling of dread. “Isn’t there something between the bathrooms and the river? They don’t just dump raw sewage into the waterways?”

“OMG!” said Hindley, switching for a second into his native California “Valley Girl” accent, “I FORGOT ABOUT THE SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT!!” but before they could turn around, they were caught in the raging current and soon saw a part of the Americana Resort facilities that few guests ever saw- or would ever want to see.
 

spacemt354

Chili's
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Preamble
“Mr. Kalnow, may I ask why all the heavy security and cloak-and-dagger secrecy around this meeting?” asked an older gentleman, identified only as “James G.” by the nametag he wore on his suit coat. “We had to pass through two metal detectors, were patted down by your security guards and even had sniffer dogs checking us for who-knows-what, and now we have to go by aliases instead of our real names. Why all the precautions? I don’t think any of us expected all this. All we’re here for is to present our proposals for improvements to our parks, not to plan the overthrow of the government!” The others seated around the massive oval conference table in the Dwight Eisenhower Hotel’s Gettysburg Conference Room shared his questions and concerns.

“You had it easy,” Douglas Hindley said. “Some of us had to give blood samples.” Everybody in the room chuckled a bit at that seemingly-humorous comment until Douglas, along with two of his Americana colleagues Jeff Elliott and Alex Chambers, held up their bandaged fingers as proof. The room got very quiet.

“I know you’re all confused at the unexpected level of security around this meeting,” Carl Kalnow said, “and if you just want to blame it on the eccentricities of a crazy rich man- that’s me- go ahead. Let’s just say that I have my reasons to be worried about security for this meeting. You wouldn’t believe me if I told you the whole story anyway, so just accept that there are people- I’ll call them people- who would do just about anything to hear what plans you’ve come up with for improving your parks.”

“Aren’t you the only person interested in our proposals?” asked a rather serious-looking young man with the name “Spacemnt354” on his badge.

“Actually, no. I’m the one fronting all the money, but after I approve your proposals they will be evaluated by a group of judges, hopefully impartial, that will make the final decision if your parks will be admitted into the Americana Entertainment Group.”

“Wait,” said ‘Pi on my Cake,’ “you’re offering to give to all of us a total of one billion dollars, but you don’t have the final say in the decision? No offense, but this is really strange.”

“Pi, you have no idea how strange it really is,” Carl said, remembering that evening when he was confronted by three very strange, very mysterious and potentially very dangerous- uh- what were they anyway? Since that night he had received several emails and texts from those three beings concerning this contest between their four theme parks and the four parks represented here, but even his best computer security experts couldn’t trace the origin of the messages or who- or what- had sent them. He turned away from Pi to address the rest of the theme park designers seated at the table, all of which looked both confused and troubled. “Ladies and gentlemen…” but before he could continue a young woman who looked to be somewhere between the ages of sixteen and twenty-six, appropriately called ‘TwilightZone,’ interrupted him.

“What about the other parks?” she asked.

“Wait, what other parks?” asked ‘Outbound Flight.’ “I thought it was just the four of us trying to join the Americana Entertainment Group.”

“I’ve also heard of other parks being considered,” said ‘Brer Oswald.’ “I heard that Lagoon out in Utah or someplace was working on a proposal. Are they here?” he asked, looking around the room. Nobody answered, but Carl realized that he was losing control of this meeting and needed to get it back quickly.

“There are other parks being considered,” Carl told them reluctantly. The cat was out of the bag and he needed to confront the rumors immediately. “Along with your four parks- Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk,” (he looked at the contingent from Santa Cruz, NateD1226 and TwilightZone), “Hersheypark,” (Spacemt354, PergronStudio, Outbound Flight and Fire Mountain), “Holiday World,” (Evilgidgit along with James G. and Brer Oswald), “and Silver Dollar City,” (Pi on my Cake, DisneyDad and DisneyManOne), “there are four other parks under consideration, and they’re also having renovation proposals done for them. They are Morey’s Piers, Lagoon, Kennywood and Dollywood.”

“They’re all good parks,” DisneyManOne stated. “Why not just let them into the association. Why not let all of us in?” DisneyDad, sitting next to him, gave him a good hard elbow to the side in a not-too-subtle warning. Carl just laughed a bit.

“That’s a good question. I wish I could give you the answer, but right now I can’t. Let’s just say that I have two-hundred-and-fifty million reasons for each of your parks to not ask too many more questions. I just want to assure you that the money is clean money, that I’ve got it to spend, and that once we get the Americana Entertainment Group established and organized, the movie guys at Universal and the Black Rat of Burbank Bob Iger will finally understand what real competition is. Your four parks are good parks, very good parks bordering on outstanding. So are the other four parks I mentioned. If you’ve done as good a job as I suspect you can with the money I’m offering, and if the judges that will make the final decision are as smart and as discerning as I think they are, they’re going to see that not only did your four organizations create the best, most imaginative plans for making your four small regional parks into multiday destination parks, they’re also going to award us the other four parks and the one billion dollars of investments that our competitors have put up. That means that my one billion dollars becomes two billion dollars, and that overnight the Americana Entertainment Group becomes the dominant theme park organization in the world. Here, let me show you something.” He turned to Alex Chambers, one of the Americana Senior Managers, and said, “Alex, let’s show them the promotional video we had made. Will someone turn down the lights, please?” Carl took his seat.

The lights in the room dimmed as Alex turned to his laptop. Everyone looked towards the large screen at the far end of the room.

(Here insert the video for the Americana Entertainment Group that @OutboundFlight is creating. This video needs to be dramatic, inspiring, impressive yet showcasing the excitement and family fun that the four parks in the Americana Entertainment Group promise)

The lights came back up and the twelve visiting designers from the four parks sat quietly, obviously impressed at what they had just seen. Carl stood back up.

“Ladies and gentlemen, this is what we’re here for. Today could be the most important day in the history of the American theme park industry since Walt Disney opened Disneyland back in 1955, and you’re all a part of this. However, we have to do this right, and that’s what I need to know before we leave today. I need to see what you’re proposing to create with my billion dollars of free cash. If you’re ready, I’d like to see your proposals. Who goes first?”


CLICK THE LINKS BELOW TO EXPLORE!

Santa Cruz Music

Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk

Hersheypark Music

Hersheypark

Silver Dollar City Music

Silver Dollar City

Holiday World Music

Holiday World


Post-Script

The three villains had locked themselves in a ladies’ bathroom just off the Grand Lobby of the Eisenhower Hotel. They heard dogs barking on the other side of the door, along with Americana Resort Security Officers ordering them to “come out with your hands up!”, something that none of them intended to do (even the one that actually had hands and not just paws or purple things).

“Now what do we do?” the Villain with the plastic KISS mask demanded from the Hindley dog…uh…rat…uh…mouse (he was so angry that he kept changing shape, sometimes having a dog’s body, a mouse head and a rat’s tail, then…you get it).

“I don’t know! You’re the one who saw the dogs coming and brilliantly yelled, ‘Quick! Hide in here! They’ll never find us in here!’ That was just BRILLIANT!!”

‘How was I to know there would be a bunch of women in here already?” he demanded!

“THIS IS A LADIES BATHROOM!” screamed the purple lizard. “WHAT DID YOU EXPECT TO FIND IN HERE? THE DISNEYLAND BAND?”

“The way they screamed when they saw us I’m not surprised that we’re now trapped in here!” Hindley squeaked, now seeming to have his rat-mouse hybrid character settling down.

“They screamed when they saw you two,” KISS said. “One of them tried to slip me her phone number,” he claimed smugly.

“SHE HIT YOU WITH HER PURSE, YOU MORON!” Purple screamed even more angry than before.

“Will you stop screaming?” Hindley said.

“I’M NOT SCREAMING!!! OK, maybe I am, but do you have a better idea? How are we going to get out of here?”

“Maybe we could shift into insect form and sneak out under the door?” KISS suggested. They heard the dogs outside scratching viciously at the base of the door, earnestly trying to get at the three Villains.

“That’s a stupid idea,” Purple said.

“This whole thing is a stupid idea,” KISS announced. “What made you think we could sneak into the meeting that Kalnow guy was having with the other parks by pretending to be his three flunkies? He’d recognize us in a minute!”

“He’d recognize us because “Mr. Hindley” here kept growing his tail back out. When was the last time you saw a human with a tail?”

“All right, stop!” Hindley demanded. “We’ve gotta get out of here before they break in.” He looked around and saw their only way out- the toilet. The others looked at where he was looking, and in unison firmly said, “NO!”

“YOU GOT A BETTER IDEA?” Hindley asked. They didn’t. “We shift into something small enough to get through the pipes, and swim downstream until we get to the nearest river. It’s our only way out.”

“At least flush it first,” Purple said. Hindley walked over and flushed it.

“There. Happy? Fresh, clean water. Now we’d better be going, and fast!” They heard the sound of an electric saw being used to cut through the metal door, and knew they had no other choice. They crowded into the stall, stood around the toilet bowl, and somehow, on the first try, all managed to change into three fish, each bearing a faint resemblance to their “normal” shape. Each of them managed to fall into the water in the bowl.

“Wow! This water is freezing!” KISS managed to say in strangely-accented fish-talk.

“Better than warm and yellow,” the purple, slimy fish said.

“Yuck. Gross,” KISS said.

“They’re probably almost through the door,” Hindley said. “Let’s talk about this later.”

All three fish swim toward the deep, round opening at the bottom of the bowl, and when they all reached it at the same time, they got stuck. All three together, side-by-side- were too big to fit through the hole! They heard a “crash” from above the water’s surface and knew the guards and their dogs (who they somehow remembered seemed to love to drink from the toilet) would find them, stuck in the bottom of the toilet like three pieces of…Banishing that thought, Hindley suddenly managed just enough shape control to form an arm and reached up for the handle on the toilet’s tank. He pulled on the handle, and just before the extra water pressure forced them through the hole and into the water-filled pipes below he remembered to pull his arm back and reshape it into a fin. They had escaped!

The guard dogs raced to the flushing toilet, and one of the guards ran over to see what the dogs were looking at. He wasn’t sure, but for a moment he thought he saw a strange looking arm, resembling something like a long, harry rodent’s arm, disappearing into the hole at the bottom of the bowl. He never told a soul- he was too close to retirement.

**

“We made it!” KISS declared to his fishy fellow Villains as they swam through the pipes (single-file now) towards their freedom. They hadn’t gotten the information they wanted from Kalnow and the other four theme parks, but at least they had their freedom and wouldn’t be spending the rest of their lives on display in the WildAmericana Aquarium, probably as an example of how water pollution can cause some fish to mutate!

“Do you smell something strange?” Hindley asked the others.

“Yea, did you just fart?” asked Purple, who was swimming directly behind Hindley.

“No!” he insisted.

“Wait a minute,” said KISS with a sudden feeling of dread. “Isn’t there something between the bathrooms and the river? They don’t just dump raw sewage into the waterways?”

“OMG!” said Hindley, switching for a second into his native California “Valley Girl” accent, “I FORGOT ABOUT THE SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT!!” but before they could turn around, they were caught in the raging current and soon saw a part of the Americana Resort facilities that few guests ever saw- or would ever want to see.
 

James G.

Well-Known Member
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Preamble
“Mr. Kalnow, may I ask why all the heavy security and cloak-and-dagger secrecy around this meeting?” asked an older gentleman, identified only as “James G.” by the nametag he wore on his suit coat. “We had to pass through two metal detectors, were patted down by your security guards and even had sniffer dogs checking us for who-knows-what, and now we have to go by aliases instead of our real names. Why all the precautions? I don’t think any of us expected all this. All we’re here for is to present our proposals for improvements to our parks, not to plan the overthrow of the government!” The others seated around the massive oval conference table in the Dwight Eisenhower Hotel’s Gettysburg Conference Room shared his questions and concerns.

“You had it easy,” Douglas Hindley said. “Some of us had to give blood samples.” Everybody in the room chuckled a bit at that seemingly-humorous comment until Douglas, along with two of his Americana colleagues Jeff Elliott and Alex Chambers, held up their bandaged fingers as proof. The room got very quiet.

“I know you’re all confused at the unexpected level of security around this meeting,” Carl Kalnow said, “and if you just want to blame it on the eccentricities of a crazy rich man- that’s me- go ahead. Let’s just say that I have my reasons to be worried about security for this meeting. You wouldn’t believe me if I told you the whole story anyway, so just accept that there are people- I’ll call them people- who would do just about anything to hear what plans you’ve come up with for improving your parks.”

“Aren’t you the only person interested in our proposals?” asked a rather serious-looking young man with the name “Spacemnt354” on his badge.

“Actually, no. I’m the one fronting all the money, but after I approve your proposals they will be evaluated by a group of judges, hopefully impartial, that will make the final decision if your parks will be admitted into the Americana Entertainment Group.”

“Wait,” said ‘Pi on my Cake,’ “you’re offering to give to all of us a total of one billion dollars, but you don’t have the final say in the decision? No offense, but this is really strange.”

“Pi, you have no idea how strange it really is,” Carl said, remembering that evening when he was confronted by three very strange, very mysterious and potentially very dangerous- uh- what were they anyway? Since that night he had received several emails and texts from those three beings concerning this contest between their four theme parks and the four parks represented here, but even his best computer security experts couldn’t trace the origin of the messages or who- or what- had sent them. He turned away from Pi to address the rest of the theme park designers seated at the table, all of which looked both confused and troubled. “Ladies and gentlemen…” but before he could continue a young woman who looked to be somewhere between the ages of sixteen and twenty-six, appropriately called ‘TwilightZone,’ interrupted him.

“What about the other parks?” she asked.

“Wait, what other parks?” asked ‘Outbound Flight.’ “I thought it was just the four of us trying to join the Americana Entertainment Group.”

“I’ve also heard of other parks being considered,” said ‘Brer Oswald.’ “I heard that Lagoon out in Utah or someplace was working on a proposal. Are they here?” he asked, looking around the room. Nobody answered, but Carl realized that he was losing control of this meeting and needed to get it back quickly.

“There are other parks being considered,” Carl told them reluctantly. The cat was out of the bag and he needed to confront the rumors immediately. “Along with your four parks- Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk,” (he looked at the contingent from Santa Cruz, NateD1226 and TwilightZone), “Hersheypark,” (Spacemt354, PergronStudio, Outbound Flight and Fire Mountain), “Holiday World,” (Evilgidgit along with James G. and Brer Oswald), “and Silver Dollar City,” (Pi on my Cake, DisneyDad and DisneyManOne), “there are four other parks under consideration, and they’re also having renovation proposals done for them. They are Morey’s Piers, Lagoon, Kennywood and Dollywood.”

“They’re all good parks,” DisneyManOne stated. “Why not just let them into the association. Why not let all of us in?” DisneyDad, sitting next to him, gave him a good hard elbow to the side in a not-too-subtle warning. Carl just laughed a bit.

“That’s a good question. I wish I could give you the answer, but right now I can’t. Let’s just say that I have two-hundred-and-fifty million reasons for each of your parks to not ask too many more questions. I just want to assure you that the money is clean money, that I’ve got it to spend, and that once we get the Americana Entertainment Group established and organized, the movie guys at Universal and the Black Rat of Burbank Bob Iger will finally understand what real competition is. Your four parks are good parks, very good parks bordering on outstanding. So are the other four parks I mentioned. If you’ve done as good a job as I suspect you can with the money I’m offering, and if the judges that will make the final decision are as smart and as discerning as I think they are, they’re going to see that not only did your four organizations create the best, most imaginative plans for making your four small regional parks into multiday destination parks, they’re also going to award us the other four parks and the one billion dollars of investments that our competitors have put up. That means that my one billion dollars becomes two billion dollars, and that overnight the Americana Entertainment Group becomes the dominant theme park organization in the world. Here, let me show you something.” He turned to Alex Chambers, one of the Americana Senior Managers, and said, “Alex, let’s show them the promotional video we had made. Will someone turn down the lights, please?” Carl took his seat.

The lights in the room dimmed as Alex turned to his laptop. Everyone looked towards the large screen at the far end of the room.

(Here insert the video for the Americana Entertainment Group that @OutboundFlight is creating. This video needs to be dramatic, inspiring, impressive yet showcasing the excitement and family fun that the four parks in the Americana Entertainment Group promise)

The lights came back up and the twelve visiting designers from the four parks sat quietly, obviously impressed at what they had just seen. Carl stood back up.

“Ladies and gentlemen, this is what we’re here for. Today could be the most important day in the history of the American theme park industry since Walt Disney opened Disneyland back in 1955, and you’re all a part of this. However, we have to do this right, and that’s what I need to know before we leave today. I need to see what you’re proposing to create with my billion dollars of free cash. If you’re ready, I’d like to see your proposals. Who goes first?”


CLICK THE LINKS BELOW TO EXPLORE!

Santa Cruz Music

Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk

Hersheypark Music

Hersheypark

Silver Dollar City Music

Silver Dollar City

Holiday World Music

Holiday World


Post-Script

The three villains had locked themselves in a ladies’ bathroom just off the Grand Lobby of the Eisenhower Hotel. They heard dogs barking on the other side of the door, along with Americana Resort Security Officers ordering them to “come out with your hands up!”, something that none of them intended to do (even the one that actually had hands and not just paws or purple things).

“Now what do we do?” the Villain with the plastic KISS mask demanded from the Hindley dog…uh…rat…uh…mouse (he was so angry that he kept changing shape, sometimes having a dog’s body, a mouse head and a rat’s tail, then…you get it).

“I don’t know! You’re the one who saw the dogs coming and brilliantly yelled, ‘Quick! Hide in here! They’ll never find us in here!’ That was just BRILLIANT!!”

‘How was I to know there would be a bunch of women in here already?” he demanded!

“THIS IS A LADIES BATHROOM!” screamed the purple lizard. “WHAT DID YOU EXPECT TO FIND IN HERE? THE DISNEYLAND BAND?”

“The way they screamed when they saw us I’m not surprised that we’re now trapped in here!” Hindley squeaked, now seeming to have his rat-mouse hybrid character settling down.

“They screamed when they saw you two,” KISS said. “One of them tried to slip me her phone number,” he claimed smugly.

“SHE HIT YOU WITH HER PURSE, YOU MORON!” Purple screamed even more angry than before.

“Will you stop screaming?” Hindley said.

“I’M NOT SCREAMING!!! OK, maybe I am, but do you have a better idea? How are we going to get out of here?”

“Maybe we could shift into insect form and sneak out under the door?” KISS suggested. They heard the dogs outside scratching viciously at the base of the door, earnestly trying to get at the three Villains.

“That’s a stupid idea,” Purple said.

“This whole thing is a stupid idea,” KISS announced. “What made you think we could sneak into the meeting that Kalnow guy was having with the other parks by pretending to be his three flunkies? He’d recognize us in a minute!”

“He’d recognize us because “Mr. Hindley” here kept growing his tail back out. When was the last time you saw a human with a tail?”

“All right, stop!” Hindley demanded. “We’ve gotta get out of here before they break in.” He looked around and saw their only way out- the toilet. The others looked at where he was looking, and in unison firmly said, “NO!”

“YOU GOT A BETTER IDEA?” Hindley asked. They didn’t. “We shift into something small enough to get through the pipes, and swim downstream until we get to the nearest river. It’s our only way out.”

“At least flush it first,” Purple said. Hindley walked over and flushed it.

“There. Happy? Fresh, clean water. Now we’d better be going, and fast!” They heard the sound of an electric saw being used to cut through the metal door, and knew they had no other choice. They crowded into the stall, stood around the toilet bowl, and somehow, on the first try, all managed to change into three fish, each bearing a faint resemblance to their “normal” shape. Each of them managed to fall into the water in the bowl.

“Wow! This water is freezing!” KISS managed to say in strangely-accented fish-talk.

“Better than warm and yellow,” the purple, slimy fish said.

“Yuck. Gross,” KISS said.

“They’re probably almost through the door,” Hindley said. “Let’s talk about this later.”

All three fish swim toward the deep, round opening at the bottom of the bowl, and when they all reached it at the same time, they got stuck. All three together, side-by-side- were too big to fit through the hole! They heard a “crash” from above the water’s surface and knew the guards and their dogs (who they somehow remembered seemed to love to drink from the toilet) would find them, stuck in the bottom of the toilet like three pieces of…Banishing that thought, Hindley suddenly managed just enough shape control to form an arm and reached up for the handle on the toilet’s tank. He pulled on the handle, and just before the extra water pressure forced them through the hole and into the water-filled pipes below he remembered to pull his arm back and reshape it into a fin. They had escaped!

The guard dogs raced to the flushing toilet, and one of the guards ran over to see what the dogs were looking at. He wasn’t sure, but for a moment he thought he saw a strange looking arm, resembling something like a long, harry rodent’s arm, disappearing into the hole at the bottom of the bowl. He never told a soul- he was too close to retirement.

**

“We made it!” KISS declared to his fishy fellow Villains as they swam through the pipes (single-file now) towards their freedom. They hadn’t gotten the information they wanted from Kalnow and the other four theme parks, but at least they had their freedom and wouldn’t be spending the rest of their lives on display in the WildAmericana Aquarium, probably as an example of how water pollution can cause some fish to mutate!

“Do you smell something strange?” Hindley asked the others.

“Yea, did you just fart?” asked Purple, who was swimming directly behind Hindley.

“No!” he insisted.

“Wait a minute,” said KISS with a sudden feeling of dread. “Isn’t there something between the bathrooms and the river? They don’t just dump raw sewage into the waterways?”

“OMG!” said Hindley, switching for a second into his native California “Valley Girl” accent, “I FORGOT ABOUT THE SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT!!” but before they could turn around, they were caught in the raging current and soon saw a part of the Americana Resort facilities that few guests ever saw- or would ever want to see.

@Outbound did a terrific video. did you know about that? Also, there's a short section at the end of the frame story after the presentations.
 

Pi on my Cake

Well-Known Member
In the Parks
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Preamble
“Mr. Kalnow, may I ask why all the heavy security and cloak-and-dagger secrecy around this meeting?” asked an older gentleman, identified only as “James G.” by the nametag he wore on his suit coat. “We had to pass through two metal detectors, were patted down by your security guards and even had sniffer dogs checking us for who-knows-what, and now we have to go by aliases instead of our real names. Why all the precautions? I don’t think any of us expected all this. All we’re here for is to present our proposals for improvements to our parks, not to plan the overthrow of the government!” The others seated around the massive oval conference table in the Dwight Eisenhower Hotel’s Gettysburg Conference Room shared his questions and concerns.

“You had it easy,” Douglas Hindley said. “Some of us had to give blood samples.” Everybody in the room chuckled a bit at that seemingly-humorous comment until Douglas, along with two of his Americana colleagues Jeff Elliott and Alex Chambers, held up their bandaged fingers as proof. The room got very quiet.

“I know you’re all confused at the unexpected level of security around this meeting,” Carl Kalnow said, “and if you just want to blame it on the eccentricities of a crazy rich man- that’s me- go ahead. Let’s just say that I have my reasons to be worried about security for this meeting. You wouldn’t believe me if I told you the whole story anyway, so just accept that there are people- I’ll call them people- who would do just about anything to hear what plans you’ve come up with for improving your parks.”

“Aren’t you the only person interested in our proposals?” asked a rather serious-looking young man with the name “Spacemnt354” on his badge.

“Actually, no. I’m the one fronting all the money, but after I approve your proposals they will be evaluated by a group of judges, hopefully impartial, that will make the final decision if your parks will be admitted into the Americana Entertainment Group.”

“Wait,” said ‘Pi on my Cake,’ “you’re offering to give to all of us a total of one billion dollars, but you don’t have the final say in the decision? No offense, but this is really strange.”

“Pi, you have no idea how strange it really is,” Carl said, remembering that evening when he was confronted by three very strange, very mysterious and potentially very dangerous- uh- what were they anyway? Since that night he had received several emails and texts from those three beings concerning this contest between their four theme parks and the four parks represented here, but even his best computer security experts couldn’t trace the origin of the messages or who- or what- had sent them. He turned away from Pi to address the rest of the theme park designers seated at the table, all of which looked both confused and troubled. “Ladies and gentlemen…” but before he could continue a young woman who looked to be somewhere between the ages of sixteen and twenty-six, appropriately called ‘TwilightZone,’ interrupted him.

“What about the other parks?” she asked.

“Wait, what other parks?” asked ‘Outbound Flight.’ “I thought it was just the four of us trying to join the Americana Entertainment Group.”

“I’ve also heard of other parks being considered,” said ‘Brer Oswald.’ “I heard that Lagoon out in Utah or someplace was working on a proposal. Are they here?” he asked, looking around the room. Nobody answered, but Carl realized that he was losing control of this meeting and needed to get it back quickly.

“There are other parks being considered,” Carl told them reluctantly. The cat was out of the bag and he needed to confront the rumors immediately. “Along with your four parks- Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk,” (he looked at the contingent from Santa Cruz, NateD1226 and TwilightZone), “Hersheypark,” (Spacemt354, PergronStudio, Outbound Flight and Fire Mountain), “Holiday World,” (Evilgidgit along with James G. and Brer Oswald), “and Silver Dollar City,” (Pi on my Cake, DisneyDad and DisneyManOne), “there are four other parks under consideration, and they’re also having renovation proposals done for them. They are Morey’s Piers, Lagoon, Kennywood and Dollywood.”

“They’re all good parks,” DisneyManOne stated. “Why not just let them into the association. Why not let all of us in?” DisneyDad, sitting next to him, gave him a good hard elbow to the side in a not-too-subtle warning. Carl just laughed a bit.

“That’s a good question. I wish I could give you the answer, but right now I can’t. Let’s just say that I have two-hundred-and-fifty million reasons for each of your parks to not ask too many more questions. I just want to assure you that the money is clean money, that I’ve got it to spend, and that once we get the Americana Entertainment Group established and organized, the movie guys at Universal and the Black Rat of Burbank Bob Iger will finally understand what real competition is. Your four parks are good parks, very good parks bordering on outstanding. So are the other four parks I mentioned. If you’ve done as good a job as I suspect you can with the money I’m offering, and if the judges that will make the final decision are as smart and as discerning as I think they are, they’re going to see that not only did your four organizations create the best, most imaginative plans for making your four small regional parks into multiday destination parks, they’re also going to award us the other four parks and the one billion dollars of investments that our competitors have put up. That means that my one billion dollars becomes two billion dollars, and that overnight the Americana Entertainment Group becomes the dominant theme park organization in the world. Here, let me show you something.” He turned to Alex Chambers, one of the Americana Senior Managers, and said, “Alex, let’s show them the promotional video we had made. Will someone turn down the lights, please?” Carl took his seat.

The lights in the room dimmed as Alex turned to his laptop. Everyone looked towards the large screen at the far end of the room.

(Here insert the video for the Americana Entertainment Group that @OutboundFlight is creating. This video needs to be dramatic, inspiring, impressive yet showcasing the excitement and family fun that the four parks in the Americana Entertainment Group promise)

The lights came back up and the twelve visiting designers from the four parks sat quietly, obviously impressed at what they had just seen. Carl stood back up.

“Ladies and gentlemen, this is what we’re here for. Today could be the most important day in the history of the American theme park industry since Walt Disney opened Disneyland back in 1955, and you’re all a part of this. However, we have to do this right, and that’s what I need to know before we leave today. I need to see what you’re proposing to create with my billion dollars of free cash. If you’re ready, I’d like to see your proposals. Who goes first?”


CLICK THE LINKS BELOW TO EXPLORE!

Santa Cruz Music

Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk

Hersheypark Music

Hersheypark

Silver Dollar City Music

Silver Dollar City

Holiday World Music

Holiday World


Post-Script

The three villains had locked themselves in a ladies’ bathroom just off the Grand Lobby of the Eisenhower Hotel. They heard dogs barking on the other side of the door, along with Americana Resort Security Officers ordering them to “come out with your hands up!”, something that none of them intended to do (even the one that actually had hands and not just paws or purple things).

“Now what do we do?” the Villain with the plastic KISS mask demanded from the Hindley dog…uh…rat…uh…mouse (he was so angry that he kept changing shape, sometimes having a dog’s body, a mouse head and a rat’s tail, then…you get it).

“I don’t know! You’re the one who saw the dogs coming and brilliantly yelled, ‘Quick! Hide in here! They’ll never find us in here!’ That was just BRILLIANT!!”

‘How was I to know there would be a bunch of women in here already?” he demanded!

“THIS IS A LADIES BATHROOM!” screamed the purple lizard. “WHAT DID YOU EXPECT TO FIND IN HERE? THE DISNEYLAND BAND?”

“The way they screamed when they saw us I’m not surprised that we’re now trapped in here!” Hindley squeaked, now seeming to have his rat-mouse hybrid character settling down.

“They screamed when they saw you two,” KISS said. “One of them tried to slip me her phone number,” he claimed smugly.

“SHE HIT YOU WITH HER PURSE, YOU MORON!” Purple screamed even more angry than before.

“Will you stop screaming?” Hindley said.

“I’M NOT SCREAMING!!! OK, maybe I am, but do you have a better idea? How are we going to get out of here?”

“Maybe we could shift into insect form and sneak out under the door?” KISS suggested. They heard the dogs outside scratching viciously at the base of the door, earnestly trying to get at the three Villains.

“That’s a stupid idea,” Purple said.

“This whole thing is a stupid idea,” KISS announced. “What made you think we could sneak into the meeting that Kalnow guy was having with the other parks by pretending to be his three flunkies? He’d recognize us in a minute!”

“He’d recognize us because “Mr. Hindley” here kept growing his tail back out. When was the last time you saw a human with a tail?”

“All right, stop!” Hindley demanded. “We’ve gotta get out of here before they break in.” He looked around and saw their only way out- the toilet. The others looked at where he was looking, and in unison firmly said, “NO!”

“YOU GOT A BETTER IDEA?” Hindley asked. They didn’t. “We shift into something small enough to get through the pipes, and swim downstream until we get to the nearest river. It’s our only way out.”

“At least flush it first,” Purple said. Hindley walked over and flushed it.

“There. Happy? Fresh, clean water. Now we’d better be going, and fast!” They heard the sound of an electric saw being used to cut through the metal door, and knew they had no other choice. They crowded into the stall, stood around the toilet bowl, and somehow, on the first try, all managed to change into three fish, each bearing a faint resemblance to their “normal” shape. Each of them managed to fall into the water in the bowl.

“Wow! This water is freezing!” KISS managed to say in strangely-accented fish-talk.

“Better than warm and yellow,” the purple, slimy fish said.

“Yuck. Gross,” KISS said.

“They’re probably almost through the door,” Hindley said. “Let’s talk about this later.”

All three fish swim toward the deep, round opening at the bottom of the bowl, and when they all reached it at the same time, they got stuck. All three together, side-by-side- were too big to fit through the hole! They heard a “crash” from above the water’s surface and knew the guards and their dogs (who they somehow remembered seemed to love to drink from the toilet) would find them, stuck in the bottom of the toilet like three pieces of…Banishing that thought, Hindley suddenly managed just enough shape control to form an arm and reached up for the handle on the toilet’s tank. He pulled on the handle, and just before the extra water pressure forced them through the hole and into the water-filled pipes below he remembered to pull his arm back and reshape it into a fin. They had escaped!

The guard dogs raced to the flushing toilet, and one of the guards ran over to see what the dogs were looking at. He wasn’t sure, but for a moment he thought he saw a strange looking arm, resembling something like a long, harry rodent’s arm, disappearing into the hole at the bottom of the bowl. He never told a soul- he was too close to retirement.

**

“We made it!” KISS declared to his fishy fellow Villains as they swam through the pipes (single-file now) towards their freedom. They hadn’t gotten the information they wanted from Kalnow and the other four theme parks, but at least they had their freedom and wouldn’t be spending the rest of their lives on display in the WildAmericana Aquarium, probably as an example of how water pollution can cause some fish to mutate!

“Do you smell something strange?” Hindley asked the others.

“Yea, did you just fart?” asked Purple, who was swimming directly behind Hindley.

“No!” he insisted.

“Wait a minute,” said KISS with a sudden feeling of dread. “Isn’t there something between the bathrooms and the river? They don’t just dump raw sewage into the waterways?”

“OMG!” said Hindley, switching for a second into his native California “Valley Girl” accent, “I FORGOT ABOUT THE SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT!!” but before they could turn around, they were caught in the raging current and soon saw a part of the Americana Resort facilities that few guests ever saw- or would ever want to see.

I have a different link for Silver Dollar City. I had accidentally locked the original Slides and couldn't unlock it because it DDad was the admin lol.

Looks good! Maybe put the preamble and post-script in spoiler tags so it doesn't look like big blocks of text. Other than that, it looks perfect to me
 

spacemt354

Chili's
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“Mr. Kalnow, may I ask why all the heavy security and cloak-and-dagger secrecy around this meeting?” asked an older gentleman, identified only as “James G.” by the nametag he wore on his suit coat. “We had to pass through two metal detectors, were patted down by your security guards and even had sniffer dogs checking us for who-knows-what, and now we have to go by aliases instead of our real names. Why all the precautions? I don’t think any of us expected all this. All we’re here for is to present our proposals for improvements to our parks, not to plan the overthrow of the government!” The others seated around the massive oval conference table in the Dwight Eisenhower Hotel’s Gettysburg Conference Room shared his questions and concerns.

“You had it easy,” Douglas Hindley said. “Some of us had to give blood samples.” Everybody in the room chuckled a bit at that seemingly-humorous comment until Douglas, along with two of his Americana colleagues Jeff Elliott and Alex Chambers, held up their bandaged fingers as proof. The room got very quiet.

“I know you’re all confused at the unexpected level of security around this meeting,” Carl Kalnow said, “and if you just want to blame it on the eccentricities of a crazy rich man- that’s me- go ahead. Let’s just say that I have my reasons to be worried about security for this meeting. You wouldn’t believe me if I told you the whole story anyway, so just accept that there are people- I’ll call them people- who would do just about anything to hear what plans you’ve come up with for improving your parks.”

“Aren’t you the only person interested in our proposals?” asked a rather serious-looking young man with the name “Spacemnt354” on his badge.

“Actually, no. I’m the one fronting all the money, but after I approve your proposals they will be evaluated by a group of judges, hopefully impartial, that will make the final decision if your parks will be admitted into the Americana Entertainment Group.”

“Wait,” said ‘Pi on my Cake,’ “you’re offering to give to all of us a total of one billion dollars, but you don’t have the final say in the decision? No offense, but this is really strange.”

“Pi, you have no idea how strange it really is,” Carl said, remembering that evening when he was confronted by three very strange, very mysterious and potentially very dangerous- uh- what were they anyway? Since that night he had received several emails and texts from those three beings concerning this contest between their four theme parks and the four parks represented here, but even his best computer security experts couldn’t trace the origin of the messages or who- or what- had sent them. He turned away from Pi to address the rest of the theme park designers seated at the table, all of which looked both confused and troubled. “Ladies and gentlemen…” but before he could continue a young woman who looked to be somewhere between the ages of sixteen and twenty-six, appropriately called ‘TwilightZone,’ interrupted him.

“What about the other parks?” she asked.

“Wait, what other parks?” asked ‘Outbound Flight.’ “I thought it was just the four of us trying to join the Americana Entertainment Group.”

“I’ve also heard of other parks being considered,” said ‘Brer Oswald.’ “I heard that Lagoon out in Utah or someplace was working on a proposal. Are they here?” he asked, looking around the room. Nobody answered, but Carl realized that he was losing control of this meeting and needed to get it back quickly.

“There are other parks being considered,” Carl told them reluctantly. The cat was out of the bag and he needed to confront the rumors immediately. “Along with your four parks- Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk,” (he looked at the contingent from Santa Cruz, NateD1226 and TwilightZone), “Hersheypark,” (Spacemt354, PergronStudio, Outbound Flight and Fire Mountain), “Holiday World,” (Evilgidgit along with James G. and Brer Oswald), “and Silver Dollar City,” (Pi on my Cake, DisneyDad and DisneyManOne), “there are four other parks under consideration, and they’re also having renovation proposals done for them. They are Morey’s Piers, Lagoon, Kennywood and Dollywood.”

“They’re all good parks,” DisneyManOne stated. “Why not just let them into the association. Why not let all of us in?” DisneyDad, sitting next to him, gave him a good hard elbow to the side in a not-too-subtle warning. Carl just laughed a bit.

“That’s a good question. I wish I could give you the answer, but right now I can’t. Let’s just say that I have two-hundred-and-fifty million reasons for each of your parks to not ask too many more questions. I just want to assure you that the money is clean money, that I’ve got it to spend, and that once we get the Americana Entertainment Group established and organized, the movie guys at Universal and the Black Rat of Burbank Bob Iger will finally understand what real competition is. Your four parks are good parks, very good parks bordering on outstanding. So are the other four parks I mentioned. If you’ve done as good a job as I suspect you can with the money I’m offering, and if the judges that will make the final decision are as smart and as discerning as I think they are, they’re going to see that not only did your four organizations create the best, most imaginative plans for making your four small regional parks into multiday destination parks, they’re also going to award us the other four parks and the one billion dollars of investments that our competitors have put up. That means that my one billion dollars becomes two billion dollars, and that overnight the Americana Entertainment Group becomes the dominant theme park organization in the world. Here, let me show you something.” He turned to Alex Chambers, one of the Americana Senior Managers, and said, “Alex, let’s show them the promotional video we had made. Will someone turn down the lights, please?” Carl took his seat.

The lights in the room dimmed as Alex turned to his laptop. Everyone looked towards the large screen at the far end of the room.

“Ladies and gentlemen, this is what we’re here for. Today could be the most important day in the history of the American theme park industry since Walt Disney opened Disneyland back in 1955, and you’re all a part of this. However, we have to do this right, and that’s what I need to know before we leave today. I need to see what you’re proposing to create with my billion dollars of free cash. If you’re ready, I’d like to see your proposals. Who goes first?”
CLICK THE LINKS BELOW TO EXPLORE!
INTRODUCTION VIDEO

Santa Cruz Music

Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk

Hersheypark Music

Hersheypark

Silver Dollar City Music

Silver Dollar City

Holiday World Music

Holiday World


The three villains had locked themselves in a ladies’ bathroom just off the Grand Lobby of the Eisenhower Hotel. They heard dogs barking on the other side of the door, along with Americana Resort Security Officers ordering them to “come out with your hands up!”, something that none of them intended to do (even the one that actually had hands and not just paws or purple things).

“Now what do we do?” the Villain with the plastic KISS mask demanded from the Hindley dog…uh…rat…uh…mouse (he was so angry that he kept changing shape, sometimes having a dog’s body, a mouse head and a rat’s tail, then…you get it).

“I don’t know! You’re the one who saw the dogs coming and brilliantly yelled, ‘Quick! Hide in here! They’ll never find us in here!’ That was just BRILLIANT!!”

‘How was I to know there would be a bunch of women in here already?” he demanded!

“THIS IS A LADIES BATHROOM!” screamed the purple lizard. “WHAT DID YOU EXPECT TO FIND IN HERE? THE DISNEYLAND BAND?”

“The way they screamed when they saw us I’m not surprised that we’re now trapped in here!” Hindley squeaked, now seeming to have his rat-mouse hybrid character settling down.

“They screamed when they saw you two,” KISS said. “One of them tried to slip me her phone number,” he claimed smugly.

“SHE HIT YOU WITH HER PURSE, YOU MORON!” Purple screamed even more angry than before.

“Will you stop screaming?” Hindley said.

“I’M NOT SCREAMING!!! OK, maybe I am, but do you have a better idea? How are we going to get out of here?”

“Maybe we could shift into insect form and sneak out under the door?” KISS suggested. They heard the dogs outside scratching viciously at the base of the door, earnestly trying to get at the three Villains.

“That’s a stupid idea,” Purple said.

“This whole thing is a stupid idea,” KISS announced. “What made you think we could sneak into the meeting that Kalnow guy was having with the other parks by pretending to be his three flunkies? He’d recognize us in a minute!”

“He’d recognize us because “Mr. Hindley” here kept growing his tail back out. When was the last time you saw a human with a tail?”

“All right, stop!” Hindley demanded. “We’ve gotta get out of here before they break in.” He looked around and saw their only way out- the toilet. The others looked at where he was looking, and in unison firmly said, “NO!”

“YOU GOT A BETTER IDEA?” Hindley asked. They didn’t. “We shift into something small enough to get through the pipes, and swim downstream until we get to the nearest river. It’s our only way out.”

“At least flush it first,” Purple said. Hindley walked over and flushed it.

“There. Happy? Fresh, clean water. Now we’d better be going, and fast!” They heard the sound of an electric saw being used to cut through the metal door, and knew they had no other choice. They crowded into the stall, stood around the toilet bowl, and somehow, on the first try, all managed to change into three fish, each bearing a faint resemblance to their “normal” shape. Each of them managed to fall into the water in the bowl.

“Wow! This water is freezing!” KISS managed to say in strangely-accented fish-talk.

“Better than warm and yellow,” the purple, slimy fish said.

“Yuck. Gross,” KISS said.

“They’re probably almost through the door,” Hindley said. “Let’s talk about this later.”

All three fish swim toward the deep, round opening at the bottom of the bowl, and when they all reached it at the same time, they got stuck. All three together, side-by-side- were too big to fit through the hole! They heard a “crash” from above the water’s surface and knew the guards and their dogs (who they somehow remembered seemed to love to drink from the toilet) would find them, stuck in the bottom of the toilet like three pieces of…Banishing that thought, Hindley suddenly managed just enough shape control to form an arm and reached up for the handle on the toilet’s tank. He pulled on the handle, and just before the extra water pressure forced them through the hole and into the water-filled pipes below he remembered to pull his arm back and reshape it into a fin. They had escaped!

The guard dogs raced to the flushing toilet, and one of the guards ran over to see what the dogs were looking at. He wasn’t sure, but for a moment he thought he saw a strange looking arm, resembling something like a long, harry rodent’s arm, disappearing into the hole at the bottom of the bowl. He never told a soul- he was too close to retirement.

**

“We made it!” KISS declared to his fishy fellow Villains as they swam through the pipes (single-file now) towards their freedom. They hadn’t gotten the information they wanted from Kalnow and the other four theme parks, but at least they had their freedom and wouldn’t be spending the rest of their lives on display in the WildAmericana Aquarium, probably as an example of how water pollution can cause some fish to mutate!

“Do you smell something strange?” Hindley asked the others.

“Yea, did you just fart?” asked Purple, who was swimming directly behind Hindley.

“No!” he insisted.

“Wait a minute,” said KISS with a sudden feeling of dread. “Isn’t there something between the bathrooms and the river? They don’t just dump raw sewage into the waterways?”

“OMG!” said Hindley, switching for a second into his native California “Valley Girl” accent, “I FORGOT ABOUT THE SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT!!” but before they could turn around, they were caught in the raging current and soon saw a part of the Americana Resort facilities that few guests ever saw- or would ever want to see.
 

James G.

Well-Known Member
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“Mr. Kalnow, may I ask why all the heavy security and cloak-and-dagger secrecy around this meeting?” asked an older gentleman, identified only as “James G.” by the nametag he wore on his suit coat. “We had to pass through two metal detectors, were patted down by your security guards and even had sniffer dogs checking us for who-knows-what, and now we have to go by aliases instead of our real names. Why all the precautions? I don’t think any of us expected all this. All we’re here for is to present our proposals for improvements to our parks, not to plan the overthrow of the government!” The others seated around the massive oval conference table in the Dwight Eisenhower Hotel’s Gettysburg Conference Room shared his questions and concerns.

“You had it easy,” Douglas Hindley said. “Some of us had to give blood samples.” Everybody in the room chuckled a bit at that seemingly-humorous comment until Douglas, along with two of his Americana colleagues Jeff Elliott and Alex Chambers, held up their bandaged fingers as proof. The room got very quiet.

“I know you’re all confused at the unexpected level of security around this meeting,” Carl Kalnow said, “and if you just want to blame it on the eccentricities of a crazy rich man- that’s me- go ahead. Let’s just say that I have my reasons to be worried about security for this meeting. You wouldn’t believe me if I told you the whole story anyway, so just accept that there are people- I’ll call them people- who would do just about anything to hear what plans you’ve come up with for improving your parks.”

“Aren’t you the only person interested in our proposals?” asked a rather serious-looking young man with the name “Spacemnt354” on his badge.

“Actually, no. I’m the one fronting all the money, but after I approve your proposals they will be evaluated by a group of judges, hopefully impartial, that will make the final decision if your parks will be admitted into the Americana Entertainment Group.”

“Wait,” said ‘Pi on my Cake,’ “you’re offering to give to all of us a total of one billion dollars, but you don’t have the final say in the decision? No offense, but this is really strange.”

“Pi, you have no idea how strange it really is,” Carl said, remembering that evening when he was confronted by three very strange, very mysterious and potentially very dangerous- uh- what were they anyway? Since that night he had received several emails and texts from those three beings concerning this contest between their four theme parks and the four parks represented here, but even his best computer security experts couldn’t trace the origin of the messages or who- or what- had sent them. He turned away from Pi to address the rest of the theme park designers seated at the table, all of which looked both confused and troubled. “Ladies and gentlemen…” but before he could continue a young woman who looked to be somewhere between the ages of sixteen and twenty-six, appropriately called ‘TwilightZone,’ interrupted him.

“What about the other parks?” she asked.

“Wait, what other parks?” asked ‘Outbound Flight.’ “I thought it was just the four of us trying to join the Americana Entertainment Group.”

“I’ve also heard of other parks being considered,” said ‘Brer Oswald.’ “I heard that Lagoon out in Utah or someplace was working on a proposal. Are they here?” he asked, looking around the room. Nobody answered, but Carl realized that he was losing control of this meeting and needed to get it back quickly.

“There are other parks being considered,” Carl told them reluctantly. The cat was out of the bag and he needed to confront the rumors immediately. “Along with your four parks- Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk,” (he looked at the contingent from Santa Cruz, NateD1226 and TwilightZone), “Hersheypark,” (Spacemt354, PergronStudio, Outbound Flight and Fire Mountain), “Holiday World,” (Evilgidgit along with James G. and Brer Oswald), “and Silver Dollar City,” (Pi on my Cake, DisneyDad and DisneyManOne), “there are four other parks under consideration, and they’re also having renovation proposals done for them. They are Morey’s Piers, Lagoon, Kennywood and Dollywood.”

“They’re all good parks,” DisneyManOne stated. “Why not just let them into the association. Why not let all of us in?” DisneyDad, sitting next to him, gave him a good hard elbow to the side in a not-too-subtle warning. Carl just laughed a bit.

“That’s a good question. I wish I could give you the answer, but right now I can’t. Let’s just say that I have two-hundred-and-fifty million reasons for each of your parks to not ask too many more questions. I just want to assure you that the money is clean money, that I’ve got it to spend, and that once we get the Americana Entertainment Group established and organized, the movie guys at Universal and the Black Rat of Burbank Bob Iger will finally understand what real competition is. Your four parks are good parks, very good parks bordering on outstanding. So are the other four parks I mentioned. If you’ve done as good a job as I suspect you can with the money I’m offering, and if the judges that will make the final decision are as smart and as discerning as I think they are, they’re going to see that not only did your four organizations create the best, most imaginative plans for making your four small regional parks into multiday destination parks, they’re also going to award us the other four parks and the one billion dollars of investments that our competitors have put up. That means that my one billion dollars becomes two billion dollars, and that overnight the Americana Entertainment Group becomes the dominant theme park organization in the world. Here, let me show you something.” He turned to Alex Chambers, one of the Americana Senior Managers, and said, “Alex, let’s show them the promotional video we had made. Will someone turn down the lights, please?” Carl took his seat.

The lights in the room dimmed as Alex turned to his laptop. Everyone looked towards the large screen at the far end of the room.

(Here insert the video for the Americana Entertainment Group that @OutboundFlight is creating. This video needs to be dramatic, inspiring, impressive yet showcasing the excitement and family fun that the four parks in the Americana Entertainment Group promise)

The lights came back up and the twelve visiting designers from the four parks sat quietly, obviously impressed at what they had just seen. Carl stood back up.

“Ladies and gentlemen, this is what we’re here for. Today could be the most important day in the history of the American theme park industry since Walt Disney opened Disneyland back in 1955, and you’re all a part of this. However, we have to do this right, and that’s what I need to know before we leave today. I need to see what you’re proposing to create with my billion dollars of free cash. If you’re ready, I’d like to see your proposals. Who goes first?”
CLICK THE LINKS BELOW TO EXPLORE!
INTRODUCTION VIDEO

Santa Cruz Music

Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk

Hersheypark Music

Hersheypark

Silver Dollar City Music

Silver Dollar City

Holiday World Music

Holiday World


The three villains had locked themselves in a ladies’ bathroom just off the Grand Lobby of the Eisenhower Hotel. They heard dogs barking on the other side of the door, along with Americana Resort Security Officers ordering them to “come out with your hands up!”, something that none of them intended to do (even the one that actually had hands and not just paws or purple things).

“Now what do we do?” the Villain with the plastic KISS mask demanded from the Hindley dog…uh…rat…uh…mouse (he was so angry that he kept changing shape, sometimes having a dog’s body, a mouse head and a rat’s tail, then…you get it).

“I don’t know! You’re the one who saw the dogs coming and brilliantly yelled, ‘Quick! Hide in here! They’ll never find us in here!’ That was just BRILLIANT!!”

‘How was I to know there would be a bunch of women in here already?” he demanded!

“THIS IS A LADIES BATHROOM!” screamed the purple lizard. “WHAT DID YOU EXPECT TO FIND IN HERE? THE DISNEYLAND BAND?”

“The way they screamed when they saw us I’m not surprised that we’re now trapped in here!” Hindley squeaked, now seeming to have his rat-mouse hybrid character settling down.

“They screamed when they saw you two,” KISS said. “One of them tried to slip me her phone number,” he claimed smugly.

“SHE HIT YOU WITH HER PURSE, YOU MORON!” Purple screamed even more angry than before.

“Will you stop screaming?” Hindley said.

“I’M NOT SCREAMING!!! OK, maybe I am, but do you have a better idea? How are we going to get out of here?”

“Maybe we could shift into insect form and sneak out under the door?” KISS suggested. They heard the dogs outside scratching viciously at the base of the door, earnestly trying to get at the three Villains.

“That’s a stupid idea,” Purple said.

“This whole thing is a stupid idea,” KISS announced. “What made you think we could sneak into the meeting that Kalnow guy was having with the other parks by pretending to be his three flunkies? He’d recognize us in a minute!”

“He’d recognize us because “Mr. Hindley” here kept growing his tail back out. When was the last time you saw a human with a tail?”

“All right, stop!” Hindley demanded. “We’ve gotta get out of here before they break in.” He looked around and saw their only way out- the toilet. The others looked at where he was looking, and in unison firmly said, “NO!”

“YOU GOT A BETTER IDEA?” Hindley asked. They didn’t. “We shift into something small enough to get through the pipes, and swim downstream until we get to the nearest river. It’s our only way out.”

“At least flush it first,” Purple said. Hindley walked over and flushed it.

“There. Happy? Fresh, clean water. Now we’d better be going, and fast!” They heard the sound of an electric saw being used to cut through the metal door, and knew they had no other choice. They crowded into the stall, stood around the toilet bowl, and somehow, on the first try, all managed to change into three fish, each bearing a faint resemblance to their “normal” shape. Each of them managed to fall into the water in the bowl.

“Wow! This water is freezing!” KISS managed to say in strangely-accented fish-talk.

“Better than warm and yellow,” the purple, slimy fish said.

“Yuck. Gross,” KISS said.

“They’re probably almost through the door,” Hindley said. “Let’s talk about this later.”

All three fish swim toward the deep, round opening at the bottom of the bowl, and when they all reached it at the same time, they got stuck. All three together, side-by-side- were too big to fit through the hole! They heard a “crash” from above the water’s surface and knew the guards and their dogs (who they somehow remembered seemed to love to drink from the toilet) would find them, stuck in the bottom of the toilet like three pieces of…Banishing that thought, Hindley suddenly managed just enough shape control to form an arm and reached up for the handle on the toilet’s tank. He pulled on the handle, and just before the extra water pressure forced them through the hole and into the water-filled pipes below he remembered to pull his arm back and reshape it into a fin. They had escaped!

The guard dogs raced to the flushing toilet, and one of the guards ran over to see what the dogs were looking at. He wasn’t sure, but for a moment he thought he saw a strange looking arm, resembling something like a long, harry rodent’s arm, disappearing into the hole at the bottom of the bowl. He never told a soul- he was too close to retirement.

**

“We made it!” KISS declared to his fishy fellow Villains as they swam through the pipes (single-file now) towards their freedom. They hadn’t gotten the information they wanted from Kalnow and the other four theme parks, but at least they had their freedom and wouldn’t be spending the rest of their lives on display in the WildAmericana Aquarium, probably as an example of how water pollution can cause some fish to mutate!

“Do you smell something strange?” Hindley asked the others.

“Yea, did you just fart?” asked Purple, who was swimming directly behind Hindley.

“No!” he insisted.

“Wait a minute,” said KISS with a sudden feeling of dread. “Isn’t there something between the bathrooms and the river? They don’t just dump raw sewage into the waterways?”

“OMG!” said Hindley, switching for a second into his native California “Valley Girl” accent, “I FORGOT ABOUT THE SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT!!” but before they could turn around, they were caught in the raging current and soon saw a part of the Americana Resort facilities that few guests ever saw- or would ever want to see.

Then please take out the line in ( ) where I said to insert the video., but then the following lines make no sense.
 

Pi on my Cake

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enhance


“Mr. Kalnow, may I ask why all the heavy security and cloak-and-dagger secrecy around this meeting?” asked an older gentleman, identified only as “James G.” by the nametag he wore on his suit coat. “We had to pass through two metal detectors, were patted down by your security guards and even had sniffer dogs checking us for who-knows-what, and now we have to go by aliases instead of our real names. Why all the precautions? I don’t think any of us expected all this. All we’re here for is to present our proposals for improvements to our parks, not to plan the overthrow of the government!” The others seated around the massive oval conference table in the Dwight Eisenhower Hotel’s Gettysburg Conference Room shared his questions and concerns.

“You had it easy,” Douglas Hindley said. “Some of us had to give blood samples.” Everybody in the room chuckled a bit at that seemingly-humorous comment until Douglas, along with two of his Americana colleagues Jeff Elliott and Alex Chambers, held up their bandaged fingers as proof. The room got very quiet.

“I know you’re all confused at the unexpected level of security around this meeting,” Carl Kalnow said, “and if you just want to blame it on the eccentricities of a crazy rich man- that’s me- go ahead. Let’s just say that I have my reasons to be worried about security for this meeting. You wouldn’t believe me if I told you the whole story anyway, so just accept that there are people- I’ll call them people- who would do just about anything to hear what plans you’ve come up with for improving your parks.”

“Aren’t you the only person interested in our proposals?” asked a rather serious-looking young man with the name “Spacemnt354” on his badge.

“Actually, no. I’m the one fronting all the money, but after I approve your proposals they will be evaluated by a group of judges, hopefully impartial, that will make the final decision if your parks will be admitted into the Americana Entertainment Group.”

“Wait,” said ‘Pi on my Cake,’ “you’re offering to give to all of us a total of one billion dollars, but you don’t have the final say in the decision? No offense, but this is really strange.”

“Pi, you have no idea how strange it really is,” Carl said, remembering that evening when he was confronted by three very strange, very mysterious and potentially very dangerous- uh- what were they anyway? Since that night he had received several emails and texts from those three beings concerning this contest between their four theme parks and the four parks represented here, but even his best computer security experts couldn’t trace the origin of the messages or who- or what- had sent them. He turned away from Pi to address the rest of the theme park designers seated at the table, all of which looked both confused and troubled. “Ladies and gentlemen…” but before he could continue a young woman who looked to be somewhere between the ages of sixteen and twenty-six, appropriately called ‘TwilightZone,’ interrupted him.

“What about the other parks?” she asked.

“Wait, what other parks?” asked ‘Outbound Flight.’ “I thought it was just the four of us trying to join the Americana Entertainment Group.”

“I’ve also heard of other parks being considered,” said ‘Brer Oswald.’ “I heard that Lagoon out in Utah or someplace was working on a proposal. Are they here?” he asked, looking around the room. Nobody answered, but Carl realized that he was losing control of this meeting and needed to get it back quickly.

“There are other parks being considered,” Carl told them reluctantly. The cat was out of the bag and he needed to confront the rumors immediately. “Along with your four parks- Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk,” (he looked at the contingent from Santa Cruz, NateD1226 and TwilightZone), “Hersheypark,” (Spacemt354, PergronStudio, Outbound Flight and Fire Mountain), “Holiday World,” (Evilgidgit along with James G. and Brer Oswald), “and Silver Dollar City,” (Pi on my Cake, DisneyDad and DisneyManOne), “there are four other parks under consideration, and they’re also having renovation proposals done for them. They are Morey’s Piers, Lagoon, Kennywood and Dollywood.”

“They’re all good parks,” DisneyManOne stated. “Why not just let them into the association. Why not let all of us in?” DisneyDad, sitting next to him, gave him a good hard elbow to the side in a not-too-subtle warning. Carl just laughed a bit.

“That’s a good question. I wish I could give you the answer, but right now I can’t. Let’s just say that I have two-hundred-and-fifty million reasons for each of your parks to not ask too many more questions. I just want to assure you that the money is clean money, that I’ve got it to spend, and that once we get the Americana Entertainment Group established and organized, the movie guys at Universal and the Black Rat of Burbank Bob Iger will finally understand what real competition is. Your four parks are good parks, very good parks bordering on outstanding. So are the other four parks I mentioned. If you’ve done as good a job as I suspect you can with the money I’m offering, and if the judges that will make the final decision are as smart and as discerning as I think they are, they’re going to see that not only did your four organizations create the best, most imaginative plans for making your four small regional parks into multiday destination parks, they’re also going to award us the other four parks and the one billion dollars of investments that our competitors have put up. That means that my one billion dollars becomes two billion dollars, and that overnight the Americana Entertainment Group becomes the dominant theme park organization in the world. Here, let me show you something.” He turned to Alex Chambers, one of the Americana Senior Managers, and said, “Alex, let’s show them the promotional video we had made. Will someone turn down the lights, please?” Carl took his seat.

The lights in the room dimmed as Alex turned to his laptop. Everyone looked towards the large screen at the far end of the room.

“Ladies and gentlemen, this is what we’re here for. Today could be the most important day in the history of the American theme park industry since Walt Disney opened Disneyland back in 1955, and you’re all a part of this. However, we have to do this right, and that’s what I need to know before we leave today. I need to see what you’re proposing to create with my billion dollars of free cash. If you’re ready, I’d like to see your proposals. Who goes first?”
CLICK THE LINKS BELOW TO EXPLORE!
INTRODUCTION VIDEO

Santa Cruz Music

Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk

Hersheypark Music

Hersheypark

Silver Dollar City Music

Silver Dollar City

Holiday World Music

Holiday World


The three villains had locked themselves in a ladies’ bathroom just off the Grand Lobby of the Eisenhower Hotel. They heard dogs barking on the other side of the door, along with Americana Resort Security Officers ordering them to “come out with your hands up!”, something that none of them intended to do (even the one that actually had hands and not just paws or purple things).

“Now what do we do?” the Villain with the plastic KISS mask demanded from the Hindley dog…uh…rat…uh…mouse (he was so angry that he kept changing shape, sometimes having a dog’s body, a mouse head and a rat’s tail, then…you get it).

“I don’t know! You’re the one who saw the dogs coming and brilliantly yelled, ‘Quick! Hide in here! They’ll never find us in here!’ That was just BRILLIANT!!”

‘How was I to know there would be a bunch of women in here already?” he demanded!

“THIS IS A LADIES BATHROOM!” screamed the purple lizard. “WHAT DID YOU EXPECT TO FIND IN HERE? THE DISNEYLAND BAND?”

“The way they screamed when they saw us I’m not surprised that we’re now trapped in here!” Hindley squeaked, now seeming to have his rat-mouse hybrid character settling down.

“They screamed when they saw you two,” KISS said. “One of them tried to slip me her phone number,” he claimed smugly.

“SHE HIT YOU WITH HER PURSE, YOU MORON!” Purple screamed even more angry than before.

“Will you stop screaming?” Hindley said.

“I’M NOT SCREAMING!!! OK, maybe I am, but do you have a better idea? How are we going to get out of here?”

“Maybe we could shift into insect form and sneak out under the door?” KISS suggested. They heard the dogs outside scratching viciously at the base of the door, earnestly trying to get at the three Villains.

“That’s a stupid idea,” Purple said.

“This whole thing is a stupid idea,” KISS announced. “What made you think we could sneak into the meeting that Kalnow guy was having with the other parks by pretending to be his three flunkies? He’d recognize us in a minute!”

“He’d recognize us because “Mr. Hindley” here kept growing his tail back out. When was the last time you saw a human with a tail?”

“All right, stop!” Hindley demanded. “We’ve gotta get out of here before they break in.” He looked around and saw their only way out- the toilet. The others looked at where he was looking, and in unison firmly said, “NO!”

“YOU GOT A BETTER IDEA?” Hindley asked. They didn’t. “We shift into something small enough to get through the pipes, and swim downstream until we get to the nearest river. It’s our only way out.”

“At least flush it first,” Purple said. Hindley walked over and flushed it.

“There. Happy? Fresh, clean water. Now we’d better be going, and fast!” They heard the sound of an electric saw being used to cut through the metal door, and knew they had no other choice. They crowded into the stall, stood around the toilet bowl, and somehow, on the first try, all managed to change into three fish, each bearing a faint resemblance to their “normal” shape. Each of them managed to fall into the water in the bowl.

“Wow! This water is freezing!” KISS managed to say in strangely-accented fish-talk.

“Better than warm and yellow,” the purple, slimy fish said.

“Yuck. Gross,” KISS said.

“They’re probably almost through the door,” Hindley said. “Let’s talk about this later.”

All three fish swim toward the deep, round opening at the bottom of the bowl, and when they all reached it at the same time, they got stuck. All three together, side-by-side- were too big to fit through the hole! They heard a “crash” from above the water’s surface and knew the guards and their dogs (who they somehow remembered seemed to love to drink from the toilet) would find them, stuck in the bottom of the toilet like three pieces of…Banishing that thought, Hindley suddenly managed just enough shape control to form an arm and reached up for the handle on the toilet’s tank. He pulled on the handle, and just before the extra water pressure forced them through the hole and into the water-filled pipes below he remembered to pull his arm back and reshape it into a fin. They had escaped!

The guard dogs raced to the flushing toilet, and one of the guards ran over to see what the dogs were looking at. He wasn’t sure, but for a moment he thought he saw a strange looking arm, resembling something like a long, harry rodent’s arm, disappearing into the hole at the bottom of the bowl. He never told a soul- he was too close to retirement.

**

“We made it!” KISS declared to his fishy fellow Villains as they swam through the pipes (single-file now) towards their freedom. They hadn’t gotten the information they wanted from Kalnow and the other four theme parks, but at least they had their freedom and wouldn’t be spending the rest of their lives on display in the WildAmericana Aquarium, probably as an example of how water pollution can cause some fish to mutate!

“Do you smell something strange?” Hindley asked the others.

“Yea, did you just fart?” asked Purple, who was swimming directly behind Hindley.

“No!” he insisted.

“Wait a minute,” said KISS with a sudden feeling of dread. “Isn’t there something between the bathrooms and the river? They don’t just dump raw sewage into the waterways?”

“OMG!” said Hindley, switching for a second into his native California “Valley Girl” accent, “I FORGOT ABOUT THE SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT!!” but before they could turn around, they were caught in the raging current and soon saw a part of the Americana Resort facilities that few guests ever saw- or would ever want to see.

Looks great! if @DisneyManOne isn't ready by 10, I can put his stuff in and post it for us if you have to go
 

Pi on my Cake

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In the Parks
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I'm an hour ahead of east coast time so if you would like to post that's fine by me, appreciate that - when James said 10 I was all for that because I do have to go off soon.
Yeah, I'm a night owl. So, I have no problem staying up a bit more. I won't cut it down quite to the wire. But I will be wide awake well past midnight EST lol
 

James G.

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Yeah, I'm a night owl. So, I have no problem staying up a bit more. I won't cut it down quite to the wire. But I will be wide awake well past midnight EST lol
Please insert this after the last presentation and before the postscript.

"They sat down, confident in their presentation. Everyone in the room turned and looked at Carl. He slowly stood up, thinking about what to say, what to tell them.

“I have to admit that I was a little bit worried about what I was going to see here today. Even for me, a billion dollars is a lot of money- okay, not really, but considering that I’m investing it into theme parks that I don’t own and that are potentially rivals to Americana I guess it IS a lot of money.” He paused and looked around the room- every eye was on him, every person focused on what he was going to say about their proposals.

“I’m no longer worried. These proposals are among the best I’ve ever seen, and that includes some of the early ideas that these four next to me came up with for some of the Americana Resort parks. You’re all going to get your money, regardless of what the judges say, and I am absolutely not worried that those yahoos at the other parks will be able to come up with ideas anywhere near the caliber of your proposals. By the end of the year the Americana Resort, along with your four parks and the other four parks that I’m going to win, will officially unite under the umbrella organization of The Americana Entertainment Group, and the Black Rat of Burbank will know what true competition is!”

This finishes the story. It's important.
 

Pi on my Cake

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In the Parks
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“Mr. Kalnow, may I ask why all the heavy security and cloak-and-dagger secrecy around this meeting?” asked an older gentleman, identified only as “James G.” by the nametag he wore on his suit coat. “We had to pass through two metal detectors, were patted down by your security guards and even had sniffer dogs checking us for who-knows-what, and now we have to go by aliases instead of our real names. Why all the precautions? I don’t think any of us expected all this. All we’re here for is to present our proposals for improvements to our parks, not to plan the overthrow of the government!” The others seated around the massive oval conference table in the Dwight Eisenhower Hotel’s Gettysburg Conference Room shared his questions and concerns.

“You had it easy,” Douglas Hindley said. “Some of us had to give blood samples.” Everybody in the room chuckled a bit at that seemingly-humorous comment until Douglas, along with two of his Americana colleagues Jeff Elliott and Alex Chambers, held up their bandaged fingers as proof. The room got very quiet.

“I know you’re all confused at the unexpected level of security around this meeting,” Carl Kalnow said, “and if you just want to blame it on the eccentricities of a crazy rich man- that’s me- go ahead. Let’s just say that I have my reasons to be worried about security for this meeting. You wouldn’t believe me if I told you the whole story anyway, so just accept that there are people- I’ll call them people- who would do just about anything to hear what plans you’ve come up with for improving your parks.”

“Aren’t you the only person interested in our proposals?” asked a rather serious-looking young man with the name “Spacemnt354” on his badge.

“Actually, no. I’m the one fronting all the money, but after I approve your proposals they will be evaluated by a group of judges, hopefully impartial, that will make the final decision if your parks will be admitted into the Americana Entertainment Group.”

“Wait,” said ‘Pi on my Cake,’ “you’re offering to give to all of us a total of one billion dollars, but you don’t have the final say in the decision? No offense, but this is really strange.”

“Pi, you have no idea how strange it really is,” Carl said, remembering that evening when he was confronted by three very strange, very mysterious and potentially very dangerous- uh- what were they anyway? Since that night he had received several emails and texts from those three beings concerning this contest between their four theme parks and the four parks represented here, but even his best computer security experts couldn’t trace the origin of the messages or who- or what- had sent them. He turned away from Pi to address the rest of the theme park designers seated at the table, all of which looked both confused and troubled. “Ladies and gentlemen…” but before he could continue a young woman who looked to be somewhere between the ages of sixteen and twenty-six, appropriately called ‘TwilightZone,’ interrupted him.

“What about the other parks?” she asked.

“Wait, what other parks?” asked ‘Outbound Flight.’ “I thought it was just the four of us trying to join the Americana Entertainment Group.”

“I’ve also heard of other parks being considered,” said ‘Brer Oswald.’ “I heard that Lagoon out in Utah or someplace was working on a proposal. Are they here?” he asked, looking around the room. Nobody answered, but Carl realized that he was losing control of this meeting and needed to get it back quickly.

“There are other parks being considered,” Carl told them reluctantly. The cat was out of the bag and he needed to confront the rumors immediately. “Along with your four parks- Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk,” (he looked at the contingent from Santa Cruz, NateD1226 and TwilightZone), “Hersheypark,” (Spacemt354, PergronStudio, Outbound Flight and Fire Mountain), “Holiday World,” (Evilgidgit along with James G. and Brer Oswald), “and Silver Dollar City,” (Pi on my Cake, DisneyDad and DisneyManOne), “there are four other parks under consideration, and they’re also having renovation proposals done for them. They are Morey’s Piers, Lagoon, Kennywood and Dollywood.”

“They’re all good parks,” DisneyManOne stated. “Why not just let them into the association. Why not let all of us in?” DisneyDad, sitting next to him, gave him a good hard elbow to the side in a not-too-subtle warning. Carl just laughed a bit.

“That’s a good question. I wish I could give you the answer, but right now I can’t. Let’s just say that I have two-hundred-and-fifty million reasons for each of your parks to not ask too many more questions. I just want to assure you that the money is clean money, that I’ve got it to spend, and that once we get the Americana Entertainment Group established and organized, the movie guys at Universal and the Black Rat of Burbank Bob Iger will finally understand what real competition is. Your four parks are good parks, very good parks bordering on outstanding. So are the other four parks I mentioned. If you’ve done as good a job as I suspect you can with the money I’m offering, and if the judges that will make the final decision are as smart and as discerning as I think they are, they’re going to see that not only did your four organizations create the best, most imaginative plans for making your four small regional parks into multiday destination parks, they’re also going to award us the other four parks and the one billion dollars of investments that our competitors have put up. That means that my one billion dollars becomes two billion dollars, and that overnight the Americana Entertainment Group becomes the dominant theme park organization in the world. Here, let me show you something.” He turned to Alex Chambers, one of the Americana Senior Managers, and said, “Alex, let’s show them the promotional video we had made. Will someone turn down the lights, please?” Carl took his seat.

The lights in the room dimmed as Alex turned to his laptop. Everyone looked towards the large screen at the far end of the room.

“Ladies and gentlemen, this is what we’re here for. Today could be the most important day in the history of the American theme park industry since Walt Disney opened Disneyland back in 1955, and you’re all a part of this. However, we have to do this right, and that’s what I need to know before we leave today. I need to see what you’re proposing to create with my billion dollars of free cash. If you’re ready, I’d like to see your proposals. Who goes first?”

CLICK THE LINKS BELOW TO EXPLORE!
INTRODUCTION VIDEO

Santa Cruz Music

Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk

Hersheypark Music

Hersheypark

Silver Dollar City Music

Silver Dollar City

Holiday World Music

Holiday World


"They sat down, confident in their presentation. Everyone in the room turned and looked at Carl. He slowly stood up, thinking about what to say, what to tell them.

“I have to admit that I was a little bit worried about what I was going to see here today. Even for me, a billion dollars is a lot of money- okay, not really, but considering that I’m investing it into theme parks that I don’t own and that are potentially rivals to Americana I guess it IS a lot of money.” He paused and looked around the room- every eye was on him, every person focused on what he was going to say about their proposals.

“I’m no longer worried. These proposals are among the best I’ve ever seen, and that includes some of the early ideas that these four next to me came up with for some of the Americana Resort parks. You’re all going to get your money, regardless of what the judges say, and I am absolutely not worried that those yahoos at the other parks will be able to come up with ideas anywhere near the caliber of your proposals. By the end of the year the Americana Resort, along with your four parks and the other four parks that I’m going to win, will officially unite under the umbrella organization of The Americana Entertainment Group, and the Black Rat of Burbank will know what true competition is!”


The three villains had locked themselves in a ladies’ bathroom just off the Grand Lobby of the Eisenhower Hotel. They heard dogs barking on the other side of the door, along with Americana Resort Security Officers ordering them to “come out with your hands up!”, something that none of them intended to do (even the one that actually had hands and not just paws or purple things).

“Now what do we do?” the Villain with the plastic KISS mask demanded from the Hindley dog…uh…rat…uh…mouse (he was so angry that he kept changing shape, sometimes having a dog’s body, a mouse head and a rat’s tail, then…you get it).

“I don’t know! You’re the one who saw the dogs coming and brilliantly yelled, ‘Quick! Hide in here! They’ll never find us in here!’ That was just BRILLIANT!!”

‘How was I to know there would be a bunch of women in here already?” he demanded!

“THIS IS A LADIES BATHROOM!” screamed the purple lizard. “WHAT DID YOU EXPECT TO FIND IN HERE? THE DISNEYLAND BAND?”

“The way they screamed when they saw us I’m not surprised that we’re now trapped in here!” Hindley squeaked, now seeming to have his rat-mouse hybrid character settling down.

“They screamed when they saw you two,” KISS said. “One of them tried to slip me her phone number,” he claimed smugly.

“SHE HIT YOU WITH HER PURSE, YOU MORON!” Purple screamed even more angry than before.

“Will you stop screaming?” Hindley said.

“I’M NOT SCREAMING!!! OK, maybe I am, but do you have a better idea? How are we going to get out of here?”

“Maybe we could shift into insect form and sneak out under the door?” KISS suggested. They heard the dogs outside scratching viciously at the base of the door, earnestly trying to get at the three Villains.

“That’s a stupid idea,” Purple said.

“This whole thing is a stupid idea,” KISS announced. “What made you think we could sneak into the meeting that Kalnow guy was having with the other parks by pretending to be his three flunkies? He’d recognize us in a minute!”

“He’d recognize us because “Mr. Hindley” here kept growing his tail back out. When was the last time you saw a human with a tail?”

“All right, stop!” Hindley demanded. “We’ve gotta get out of here before they break in.” He looked around and saw their only way out- the toilet. The others looked at where he was looking, and in unison firmly said, “NO!”

“YOU GOT A BETTER IDEA?” Hindley asked. They didn’t. “We shift into something small enough to get through the pipes, and swim downstream until we get to the nearest river. It’s our only way out.”

“At least flush it first,” Purple said. Hindley walked over and flushed it.

“There. Happy? Fresh, clean water. Now we’d better be going, and fast!” They heard the sound of an electric saw being used to cut through the metal door, and knew they had no other choice. They crowded into the stall, stood around the toilet bowl, and somehow, on the first try, all managed to change into three fish, each bearing a faint resemblance to their “normal” shape. Each of them managed to fall into the water in the bowl.

“Wow! This water is freezing!” KISS managed to say in strangely-accented fish-talk.

“Better than warm and yellow,” the purple, slimy fish said.

“Yuck. Gross,” KISS said.

“They’re probably almost through the door,” Hindley said. “Let’s talk about this later.”

All three fish swim toward the deep, round opening at the bottom of the bowl, and when they all reached it at the same time, they got stuck. All three together, side-by-side- were too big to fit through the hole! They heard a “crash” from above the water’s surface and knew the guards and their dogs (who they somehow remembered seemed to love to drink from the toilet) would find them, stuck in the bottom of the toilet like three pieces of…Banishing that thought, Hindley suddenly managed just enough shape control to form an arm and reached up for the handle on the toilet’s tank. He pulled on the handle, and just before the extra water pressure forced them through the hole and into the water-filled pipes below he remembered to pull his arm back and reshape it into a fin. They had escaped!

The guard dogs raced to the flushing toilet, and one of the guards ran over to see what the dogs were looking at. He wasn’t sure, but for a moment he thought he saw a strange looking arm, resembling something like a long, harry rodent’s arm, disappearing into the hole at the bottom of the bowl. He never told a soul- he was too close to retirement.

**

“We made it!” KISS declared to his fishy fellow Villains as they swam through the pipes (single-file now) towards their freedom. They hadn’t gotten the information they wanted from Kalnow and the other four theme parks, but at least they had their freedom and wouldn’t be spending the rest of their lives on display in the WildAmericana Aquarium, probably as an example of how water pollution can cause some fish to mutate!

“Do you smell something strange?” Hindley asked the others.

“Yea, did you just fart?” asked Purple, who was swimming directly behind Hindley.

“No!” he insisted.

“Wait a minute,” said KISS with a sudden feeling of dread. “Isn’t there something between the bathrooms and the river? They don’t just dump raw sewage into the waterways?”

“OMG!” said Hindley, switching for a second into his native California “Valley Girl” accent, “I FORGOT ABOUT THE SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT!!” but before they could turn around, they were caught in the raging current and soon saw a part of the Americana Resort facilities that few guests ever saw- or would ever want to see.
 

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