Team TMNT Brainstorming Thread - Project Eight: New Islands, New Adventures

[mickeyfan5534]

Outline

Avatar - Toon Lagoon
Set between A:TLA and Korra in the first decade of Republic City
E-ticket with original story
Spirit Realm boat ride

The Land of Oz - Lost Continent
Book canon with Wicked elements
Emerald City E-Ticket
Munchkinland flat rides
Wicked Witch of the West Castle Thrill Ride
Wicked Theatre
Glinda's Palace Restaurant

Dragon's Lair - Marvel Superhero Island
Medieval village with tower in center
E-ticket elevator coaster
Trap dark ride

 

[TheOriginalTiki]

The big question is...was Zukko ever able to reach the spirit realm in cannon? If not, maybe Zukko enlists Aang to deliver a message to Iroh's spirit.

 

[TheOriginalTiki]

Outline

Avatar - Toon Lagoon
Set between A:TLA and Korra in the first decade of Republic City
E-ticket with original story
Spirit Realm boat ride

The Land of Oz
Book canon with Wicked elements
Emerald City E-Ticket
Munchkinland flat rides
Wicked Witch of the West Castle Thrill Ride
Wicked Theatre

Dragon's Lair
Medieval village with tower in center
Not much else is there?

Dragon's Lair will have two major attractions...An E-Ticket elevator coaster that runs on multiple different paths and levels, and an interactive screen-based dark ride based around the fantastical set-pieces of Dragon's Lair 2, with an emphasis on the death animations.

 

[mickeyfan5534]

Dragon's Lair will have two major attractions...An E-Ticket elevator coaster that runs on multiple different paths and levels, and an interactive screen-based dark ride based around the fantastical set-pieces of Dragon's Lair 2, with an emphasis on the death animations.

Added.
I say tomorrow we get on fleshing these lands out. Shopping, dining, atmosphere, world-building all that

 

[Tux]

So, how I was thinking the layout would work out here is that the yellow area shown is going to be the village area which would probably function as the dining/shopping and the streetmosphere/entertainment area altogether, with the red area shown being the interactive dark ride e-ticket, and the blue area being the coastelevator area. The green areas shown would be the transition areas. Does this sound good? If the village area needs more space, what could be down is that some more land could be added along the sides in the lakes to expand for more room. I hope that this is okay so far. Ideally, I was thinking of one to three restaurants and one to two shops for the village area, with some of the areas having interactive features like the wizarding world with the wands but combined in the style of Sorcerers Of The Magic Kingdom, but without having to buy any sensor related items. As for entertainment, I was thinking for a M&G area in the villages and that's about it. Sounds good?

 

[mickeyfan5534]

To expand futher: The story of the land as a whole will be centered around the anniversary of Princess Ozma's coronation.
Munchkinland/Munchkin Country is going to have some really cool architecture and have a festival/fair atmosphere. Some more intense flats (I think a launch tower that looks like it was built by Munchkins could be really cool looking) than Seuss and possibly a small dark ride that shares a showbuilding with the Emerald City E-ticket. Shops and restaurants there as well. The Yellow Brick road makes up the main path of this area with a pristine red road branching off it to send people toward the Glinda's Palace restaurant and a more run down looking branch of the yellow brick road sending people toward the Winkie Country area. The Poppy Field is a kids' play area (that will likely be a lot smaller than it is in this super rough map).
Emerald City will house the main E-ticket of the island, located in the palace and centered around Dorothy, Toto, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion on a journey through Oz to organize Ozma's party. Cameos abound here and I'm picturing a lot of animatronics. Shops and dining really dominate the area. Think Diagon Alley basically.
Winkie Country (also probably smaller than this rough map) will house a thrill ride (coaster?) in (and around? would this be too similar to Hagrid?) the old castle of The Wicked Witch of the West and a theatre housing an abridged hour-long version of Wicked. Universal Japan used to have something like this:

I'm picturing something a bit more fleshed out with a lot of Act 1 of the actual show and some elements of Act 2 worked in.
Oz in the books is dominated by characters and they will absolutely be present here: iconic characters known from the movie like Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man, Lion, the Wizard, and Glinda to beloved characters from the books like Ozma and Scraps the Patchwork Girl.

 

[NateD1226]

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To expand futher: The story of the land as a whole will be centered around the anniversary of Princess Ozma's coronation.
Munchkinland/Munchkin Country is going to have some really cool architecture and have a festival/fair atmosphere. Some more intense flats (I think a launch tower that looks like it was built by Munchkins could be really cool looking) than Seuss and possibly a small dark ride that shares a showbuilding with the Emerald City E-ticket. Shops and restaurants there as well. The Yellow Brick road makes up the main path of this area with a pristine red road branching off it to send people toward the Glinda's Palace restaurant and a more run down looking branch of the yellow brick road sending people toward the Winkie Country area. The Poppy Field is a kids' play area (that will likely be a lot smaller than it is in this super rough map).
Emerald City will house the main E-ticket of the island, located in the palace and centered around Dorothy, Toto, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion on a journey through Oz to organize Ozma's party. Cameos abound here and I'm picturing a lot of animatronics. Shops and dining really dominate the area. Think Diagon Alley basically.
Winkie Country (also probably smaller than this rough map) will house a thrill ride (coaster?) in (and around? would this be too similar to Hagrid?) the old castle of The Wicked Witch of the West and a theatre housing an abridged hour-long version of Wicked. Universal Japan used to have something like this:

I'm picturing something a bit more fleshed out with a lot of Act 1 of the actual show and some elements of Act 2 worked in.
Oz in the books is dominated by characters and they will absolutely be present here: iconic characters known from the movie like Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man, Lion, the Wizard, and Glinda to beloved characters from the books like Ozma and Scraps the Patchwork Girl.

Love all of it! Maybe for the Winkie Country thrill ride, it could be a Kuka arm ride system or pendulum coaster. Also for Munchkinland, what if we did a small boat ride with the plot being that guests travel down the Munchkin River to get the Poppy Fields. But overall, everything looks great.

 

[mickeyfan5534]

Love all of it! Maybe for the Winkie Country thrill ride, it could be a Kuka arm ride system or pendulum coaster. Also for Munchkinland, what if we did a small boat ride with the plot being that guests travel down the Munchkin River to get the Poppy Fields. But overall, everything looks great.

If a coaster feels a bit too close/similar to Hagrid next door, then a Kuka Arm is definitely going to feel too similar to Forbidden Journey next door. My main idea for this is for kids to kinda grow up alongside this stretch of the park: Seuss Landing and then they move onto Land of Oz with its height restrictions (lower than Potter's but still there) and more exploratory atmosphere and then to Wizarding World.
As for the boat ride, I like making it a boat ride but no one really GOES to the Poppy Fields on purpose. Them being a play area is more of a subtle gag for people to catch: go to The Poppy Fields tire the kids out for a bit.

 

[mickeyfan5534]

Additionally, what do we say to stealing the "new backstory" idea from Prospero (obviously writing our own version of one backstory) to tie the park together?

 

[mickeyfan5534]

 

[TheOriginalTiki]

Sorry I haven't been active. It's been a pretty busy work week working outside in the heat. I've got most everything figured out for the Dragon's Lair E-Ticket but am still blue-skying what the rest of the land can possibly be. Also kind of in a block about where to put the dark ride. I know the E-Ticket is going to take up the entire Spiderman/Doctor Doom/Storm area. The tricky part is that I definitely want to remove Hulk but I don't really want to place a huge showbuilding for the dark ride right over the water. Maybe make a new showbuilding out of the area that currently makes up Hulks queue up to Storm Force. Any ideas?

So I've been watching through Legend of Korra and I realized that Zukko never knew Iroh was in the spirit world until Korra told him, so the whole plot of Zukko trying to meet up with Iroh in the spirit world, as meaningful as that would be, is kind of off the table for continuity reasons. Right now I'm kind of thinking about making Empire City a straight up LARP land with the bending gloves. If we take out Popeye entirely and use it as more footprint for the city and use the current Dudley footprint for the E-Ticket anchor, we can really fill the land up with cool bending interactivity, streetmosphere, entertainment, tucked away areas ala Diagon Alley etc. Really the possibilities are endless for immersion and interactivity here, and having a massive land built around that with an E-Ticket that feels more like a Ride of the Resistance style experience than a stand-alone attraction.

I've got a TON of backstory for the time period and villain I have in mind for Empire City that I'll write up a bit later. Just wanted to throw out where I'm at with my progress.

 

[Outbound]

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Remember when Team Sea flooded our players vs judges brainstorming thread with angry reactions?

 

[mickeyfan5534]

Remember when Team Sea flooded our players vs judges brainstorming thread with angry reactions?

Is that a threat?

 

[Outbound]

Is that a threat?

 

[Tux]

Additionally, what do we say to stealing the "new backstory" idea from Prospero (obviously writing our own version of one backstory) to tie the park together?

I think it's a great idea! It would allow for some more interesting perspectives, and new twists. Is it referring to all of the lands, or just Oz? Because, if you're talking for all of the lands, I was thinking I could frame the land from the perspective Ethereld, with it being him telling the tales behind the man/his son-in-law who saved his daughter and his entire kingdom.

 

[mickeyfan5534]

I think it's a great idea! It would allow for some more interesting perspectives, and new twists. Is it referring to all of the lands, or just Oz? Because, if you're talking for all of the lands, I was thinking I could frame the land from the perspective Ethereld, with it being him telling the tales behind the man/his son-in-law who saved his daughter and his entire kingdom.

Every land. A new backstory for the park.

I love that idea for the Dragon’s Lair land though

 

[Tux]

Every land. A new backstory for the park.

I love that idea for the Dragon’s Lair land though

Oh okay then, thank you by the way! Let's think for a moment.

With this fix, the lands now would be: Port Of Entry, Republic City, Dragon's Lair/Ethelred's Kingdom, Skull Island, Jurassic Park, The Wizarding World Of Harry Potter, The Lost Continent, and Oz.

Would it be possible to change the Port Of Entry and parts of Jurassic Park with this expansion? Because what I was thinking is that we could transform it into an adventurer's camp similarly to how The Lost Continent mostly is, and add the context of them trying to research the history behind most of these locations, with the context of Jurassic Park being that it's a replica of the original dedicated to partially to the events that happened there a long time ago, with the changes mostly just being aesthetic towards the Port Of Entry, and Jurassic Park's changes mostly just being more hints towards the original within the park and a monument in the area dedicated to all of those who had their lives claimed by the Dinosaurs. If the changes are allowed, would this work?

 

[mickeyfan5534]

With this fix, the lands now would be: Port Of Entry, Republic City, Dragon's Lair/Ethelred's Kingdom, Skull Island, Jurassic Park, The Wizarding World Of Harry Potter, The Lost Continent, and Oz.

Oz is replacing Lost Continent not Seuss Landing lol

Would it be possible to change the Port Of Entry and parts of Jurassic Park with this expansion? Because what I was thinking is that we could transform it into an adventurer's camp similarly to how The Lost Continent mostly is, and add the context of them trying to research the history behind most of these locations, with the context of Jurassic Park being that it's a replica of the original dedicated to partially to the events that happened there a long time ago, with the changes mostly just being aesthetic towards the Port Of Entry, and Jurassic Park's changes mostly just being more hints towards the original within the park and a monument in the area dedicated to all of those who had their lives claimed by the Dinosaurs. If the changes are allowed, would this work?

I like that. Here’s my pitch: Port of Entry is the home of The Author, and each of the islands is a land The Author has brought to life with his/her magic book for inspiring a certain feeling. I’ll talk more about this later because my break just ended.

 

[Tux]

Oz is replacing Lost Continent not Seuss Landing lol

Oh, sorry about that! I forgot about that and thought it was the latter. Even then, the plot could fit with the area being disconnected with the rest of the world.

I like that. Here’s my pitch: Port of Entry is the home of The Author, and each of the islands is a land The Author has brought to life with his/her magic book for inspiring a certain feeling. I’ll talk more about this later because my break just ended.

Okay! Sure thing! We would have to renovate the Port Of Entry to fit this context better, but I do enjoy it, especially in how often the literature versions of the media often tend to be different compared to their movie adaptations, with the exception of Avatar there, but even then Avatar can be explained in universe under a different context, as if it's a tale being told by the in-universe inhabitants.

 

[mickeyfan5534]

Oh, sorry about that! I forgot about that and thought it was the latter. Even then, the plot could fit with the area being disconnected with the rest of the world.


Okay! Sure thing! We would have to renovate the Port Of Entry to fit this context better, but I do enjoy it, especially in how often the literature versions of the media often tend to be different compared to their movie adaptations, with the exception of Avatar there, but even then Avatar can be explained in universe under a different context, as if it's a tale being told by the in-universe inhabitants.

Avatar was told in “Books” so like... it counts