Team Prospero Brainstorming Thread - Project Ten: The Great Literature Ride

[TheOriginalTiki]

Romance

• Pride and Prejudice
• Jane Eyre
• Rebecca
• Anna Karenina
• Doctor Zhivago
• THE GREAT GATSBY

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[JokersWild]

Fixed

Jesus, Tiki, we’ve gone over this. It’s spelled Twilight.

 

[DashHaber]

I know there are plenty of great works that we will miss in the main ride, but I will say this: I am totally envisioning the queue as crammed with easter eggs. Stuff that might not be featured in the actual ride could easily get a reference or acknowledgement in the queue, providing guests with plenty to see as they wait.

In the meantime, I have been thinking about that central character in the ride's backstory, and I'm initially picturing this character as almost a cross of magician and librarian. Someone who looks like they have lived many lifetimes, but still have a twinkle in their eye when discussing stories. They know the power that comes with words and the worlds that these many tales evoke and conjure, so they watch over all of these literary realms.

I'm not sure of a proper name, but I'm thinking a title like Story-Keeper or Chronicler.

 

[mickeyfan5534]

I know there are plenty of great works that we will miss in the main ride, but I will say this: I am totally envisioning the queue as crammed with easter eggs. Stuff that might not be featured in the actual ride could easily get a reference or acknowledgement in the queue, providing guests with plenty to see as they wait.

In the meantime, I have been thinking about that central character in the ride's backstory, and I'm initially picturing this character as almost a cross of magician and librarian. Someone who looks like they have lived many lifetimes, but still have a twinkle in their eye when discussing stories. They know the power that comes with words and the worlds that these many tales evoke and conjure, so they watch over all of these literary realms.

I'm not sure of a proper name, but I'm thinking a title like Story-Keeper or Chronicler.

Sounds familiar somehow...

 

[DashHaber]

Sounds familiar somehow...

I swear I wasn't thinking of Dreamfinder! Awesome character, by the way, but this is just an archetype that would work so well for this sort of thing. It's what my own mind was going towards.

 

[JokersWild]

Do we really need a character if he's not going to show up in the ride? Not to derail what you're working on, but simplicity and implication might be better than outright showing a character who's going to be abandoned by the time guests board the ride.

 

[DashHaber]

Do we really need a character if he's not going to show up in the ride? Not to derail what you're working on, but simplicity and implication might be better than outright showing a character who's going to be abandoned by the time guests board the ride.

I feel like having a character like this can help set up guests for the experience they are about to have, and we can bring him back for the finale scene after Historical Epic.

 

[NigelChanning]

Do we really need a character if he's not going to show up in the ride? Not to derail what you're working on, but simplicity and implication might be better than outright showing a character who's going to be abandoned by the time guests board the ride.

I’m pretty sure we were going to have him appear in the beginning and the end of the attraction.

 

[Sharon&Susan]

I know there are plenty of great works that we will miss in the main ride, but I will say this: I am totally envisioning the queue as crammed with easter eggs. Stuff that might not be featured in the actual ride could easily get a reference or acknowledgement in the queue, providing guests with plenty to see as they wait.

In the meantime, I have been thinking about that central character in the ride's backstory, and I'm initially picturing this character as almost a cross of magician and librarian. Someone who looks like they have lived many lifetimes, but still have a twinkle in their eye when discussing stories. They know the power that comes with words and the worlds that these many tales evoke and conjure, so they watch over all of these literary realms.

I'm not sure of a proper name, but I'm thinking a title like Story-Keeper or Chronicler.

We could also connect it with the backstory of our redone IoA by having the story teller be Pharos the philosopher.

 

[Outbound]

Having watched the podcast, I’ll be swapping out Pride and Predjuice for the Great Gatsby.

 

[JokersWild]

Having watched the podcast, I’ll be swapping out Pride and Predjuice for the Great Gatsby.

Weak.

 

[DashHaber]

We could also connect it with the backstory of our redone IoA by having the story teller by Pharos the philosopher.

That is actually a really good idea, and could help to keep it from not feeling like a copy of Dreamfinder/Christopher Lloyd from "Pagemaster".

 

[Outbound]

That is actually a really good idea, and could help to keep it from not feeling like a copy of Dreamfinder/Christopher Lloyd from "Pagemaster".

Back in Project Eight I imagined Pharos was female and not exactly elderly... more so an adventurer who discovered the lighthouse and was now using it to explore other adventures.

Alternatively we can just have Holden Caulfield narrate it, “tHiS bOoK iS sUcH a pHoNy”

 

[DashHaber]

Back in Project Eight I imagined Pharos was female and not exactly elderly... more so an adventurer who discovered the lighthouse and was now using it to explore other adventures.

Alternatively we can just have Holden Caulfield narrate it, “tHiS bOoK iS sUcH a pHoNy”

Good point. Perhaps it could be either Pharos when she has chosen to settle down for a more "guardian" role after her earlier adventures, or this could be a more direct associate of Pharos who oversees a waypoint through the literary realms.

 

[JokersWild]

Also, we essentially dropped the literature theme for the park, so it might not make sense to make that central again when there are a handful of lands that have nothing to do with literature. If we're going to have a character, a Pagemaster as it were, it'd probably be best to have him featured only within the bounds of his attraction.

 

[DashHaber]

Also, we essentially dropped the literature theme for the park, so it might not make sense to make that central again when there are a handful of lands that have nothing to do with literature. If we're going to have a character, a Pagemaster as it were, it'd probably be best to have him featured only within the bounds of his attraction.

True, true.

Perhaps we could split the difference and have our "Pagemaster" figure essentially be focused to this ride, and maybe there could be an allusion somewhere that Pharos had crossed paths with them.

 

[JokersWild]

True, true.

Perhaps we could split the difference and have our "Pagemaster" figure essentially be focused to this ride, and maybe there could be an allusion somewhere that Pharos had crossed paths with them.

I think that's a great compromise. I just worried about conflicting backstories in the park, especially since we went to such lengths during the last IoA project to change the backstory of the park.

 

[Outbound]

I think that's a great compromise. I just worried about conflicting backstories in the park, especially since we went to such lengths during the last IoA project to change the backstory of the park.

That's a good point.

 

[NigelChanning]

Is there anything else I can tackle besides Fantasy like the exterior or gift shop? We have a lot of time to complete this and I want to stay busy!

 

[DashHaber]

Is there anything else I can tackle besides Fantasy like the exterior or gift shop? We have a lot of time to complete this and I want to stay busy!

Oh, sure. If you want to tackle something like the exterior or gift shop, that is fine. In fact, if there are any elements like those that someone wishes to tackle, that's fine with me.