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

[NigelChanning]

Good point. Perhaps we could go with 6 genres, going with broader genre types to allow for multiple entries per genre.

Yeah, I imagined it having multiple entries per genre.

 

[montydysquith-navarro]

Just to keep things in perspective, the Great Movie Ride only featured scenes from 12 movies (according to wiki), and I think it’s really vast in scope to try and do roughly that many categories with multiple works in each one. I think either doing 12, 6, or 4 categories makes the most sense, unless we’re not trying to be formulaic with the number of works per category

If we're following The Great Movie Ride formula (1 film per genre), how should we go about choosing which seminal work per genre should be featured? There's a lot of books that cross genres (like Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, which despite its mystery aspect, is also a romance novel).

 

[AceAstro]

Good point. Perhaps we could go with 6 genres, going with broader genre types to allow for multiple entries per genre.

Agreed. I’d rather 2-3 books from 6 genres than 1 book from 12 genres sort of thing

 

[AceAstro]

If we're following this, how can we go about choosing which seminal work per genre should be featured? There's a lot of books that crosses genres (like Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, which despite its mystery aspect, is also a romance novel between the main character and Max).

Transitions between genres?

 

[goofyyukyuk]

If we're following this, how can we go about choosing which seminal work per genre should be featured? There's a lot of books that crosses genres (like Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, which despite its mystery aspect, is also a romance novel between the main character and Max).

In a case like that, I’d say it probably falls under mystery... if we’re only highlighting a particular scene from a book, we can choose scenes that really emphasize one theme.

 

[goofyyukyuk]

Transitions between genres?

Definitely another good option

 

[DashHaber]

Transitions between genres?

Perhaps. Like transitions between stories that share a similar setting, or some other common factor.

 

[AceAstro]

Should fables/ fairytales be covered as well? Hans Christian Andersen, Brothers Grimm, Aesop, etc. Are all important but I also don’t know how you would shrink that down...

 

[montydysquith-navarro]

So, judging from the replies so far, we're agreeing on the following:

1. Focus on general genres of literature, around 6 genres featuring 2-3 books
2. Allow placement of interim/transition scenes between genres to showcase multi-genre books (e.g.: Harker Inside Dracula's Castle (Dracula; Mystery-Horror) → Burning of Manderley (Rebecca; Mystery-Romance) → Darcy's Second Proposal to Elizabeth (Pride and Prejudice; Romance)

 

[Sharon&Susan]

One thing that I think we can improve on from the Great Movie Ride is the first scene, while Footlight Parade was the first scene only because of its WOW factor (that never worked for most of its time in operation), I think we can do something that makes sense to be the first scene with a WOW factor with Shakespeare or Greek myth where both pieces of source material have plenty of moments of spectacle.

 

[montydysquith-navarro]

Should fables/ fairytales be covered as well? Hans Christian Andersen, Brothers Grimm, Aesop, etc. Are all important but I also don’t know how you would shrink that down...

I think we should, since I'm assuming this would be a family-friendly ride, and the kids will need some relief after going through the corridor of horrors.

 

[AceAstro]

One thing that I think we can improve on from the Great Movie Ride is the first scene, while Footlight Parade was the first scene only because of its WOW factor (that never worked for most of its time in operation), I think we can do something that makes sense to be the first scene with a WOW factor with Shakespeare or Greek myth where both pieces of source material have plenty of moments of spectacle.

To be fair, footlight was a WOW factor. For all of a few months... the effects started breaking and they shut them off.

That being said, we definitely need to start with something the pulls in the guests again and again

 

[AceAstro]

Also, I feel like this is a given but the loading platform should definitely just be something of a grand library like Beast’s Library, right? Could hide Easter egg books throughout it and then it’s like “sure, you’ve read all those books, but now you get to see them come to life!”

 

[montydysquith-navarro]

One thing that I think we can improve on from the Great Movie Ride is the first scene, while Footlight Parade was the first scene only because of its WOW factor (that never worked for most of its time in operation), I think we can do something that makes sense to be the first scene with a WOW factor with Shakespeare or Greek myth where both pieces of source material have plenty of moments of spectacle.

Greek myths, you say?

But yeah, kidding aside, we do need a good hook for the first scene. I don't think it's in our best interest to create a library book report ride (despite the prompt). Perhaps we can put the fantasy genre first then?

 

[montydysquith-navarro]

Also, I feel like this is a given but the loading platform should definitely just be something of a grand library like Beast’s Library, right? Could hide Easter egg books throughout it and then it’s like “sure, you’ve read all those books, but now you get to see them come to life!”

It would depend on the backstory of the ride, methinks. If, say, we're going on an adventure with The Keeper of Stories looking for a specific book element (aka a magical library-ripoff of the Dinosaur storyline), then yeah, a magical library in the load/unload platform makes sense.

 

[NigelChanning]

Greek myths, you say?

But yeah, kidding aside, we do need a good hook for the first scene. I don't think it's in our best interest to create a library book report ride (despite the prompt). Perhaps we can put the fantasy genre first then?

Maybe adventure first. The WOW factor could be Volcania from Journey to the Center of the Earth?

 

[DashHaber]

Also, I feel like this is a given but the loading platform should definitely just be something of a grand library like Beast’s Library, right? Could hide Easter egg books throughout it and then it’s like “sure, you’ve read all those books, but now you get to see them come to life!”

If not the loading platform, then there should be a library somewhere in the queue. Also, I'm definitely picturing some mystical master of these books.

Maybe adventure first. The WOW factor could be Volcania from Journey to the Center of the Earth?

Perhaps. We should probably settle on our six genres first, and then getting to figuring out what stories to showcase.

 

[AceAstro]

Counter proposal: we just do Muppet versions of every book

 

[Sharon&Susan]

Counter proposal: we just do Muppet versions of every book

 

[Outbound]

I feel like Islands of Adventure is begging for this attraction. It’s supposed to be a park tied to literature after all. We could place it in the Port of Entry.