mickeyfan5534
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Team Hufflepuff proudly presents a project that is sure to impress, astound and amaze. Team Hufflepuff presents, New Fantasyland!
http://newfantasyland.weebly.com/
Official mini-challenge entry:
For the potentially newly renamed "Disney Cars Speedway," a natural to straddle both Tomorrowland and Fantasyland, the decidedly non-futuristic gas-powered vehicles will be replaced with electric Cars. This would fit better with Disney's overall themes of conservation and innovation, and eliminate the need to pay Speedway cast members an extra 20 cents per hour for working in a hazardous environment. Each vehicle will be designed to represent a character from the popular Disney/Pixar Cars franchise that participated in the racing scenes. The interior will have a screen with interactive capabilities, such as welcoming guests who wear MagicBands by name, and recognizing other character cars as they pass in nearby lanes and communicating with them via pre-recorded messages by the original stars. This would include a new loading/pit-stop area featuring Mater and other non-racing friends offering words of encouragement to your particular character vehicle and "plugging in" your vehicle to drive the point home that it is powered by electricity.
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Fantastic Vehicles and Where to Find Them Submission - For Gryffindor!
Monsters Inc: Mike and Sulley to the Rescue is a dark ride at Disney California Adventure Park that over the years has not lived up to some other classic Disney dark rides, and therefore in 2022, will receive a full makeover and the long anticipated arrival of the "door coaster" vehicles.
To facilitate this change, the interior has been gutted and replaced with Disney's first ever inverted family coaster. As seen in the blueprint above, the ride vehicle itself hangs below the track and seats 2 riders per door, equipped with on-board audio of Mike and Sulley guiding you through the door factory to find Boo's door. The ride vehicles also have "swinging" capabilities, where your doors can swing out at a 23 degree angle, creating a more thrilling adventure on banked drops and turns.
Overall, the door coaster ride vehicles "plus" the attraction from a generic dark ride experience to something that excites visitors, adds a family coaster to DCA, and also could lead to a potential Monstropolis miniland down the line as DCA gears more towards Pixar and Marvel as staples of the park.
Fantastic Vehicle's and Where to Find Them Official Submission:
The attraction vehicle I will be replacing is Test Track in Epcot. Instead of the regular seating they have now, I feel like we could make this ride an actual race like the radiator spring racers, so what's my idea? Instead of having one car, we have five Chevrolet cars, and these five all seat up to five people; they can be single seated(like space mountain in the magic kingdom). This lets the wait time be shorter, still have the main idea of the attraction itself, while still adding a competition effect to the attraction, by doing this, we can create five different tracks, and depending on the speed of the car the "team"(referring to five people in one car) choses before riding what car they would like(either 1,2,3,4, or 5) not knowing how fast the speed is or who is going to win at the end. Overall, this changes the seating, vehicle style, and effect the ride has on the guest, while not just riding at 60 miles per hour(or less here and there, depending on what the team would chose), but also having the ability to be competitive.
RMichael21 Presents...
In association with the Hufflepuff House...
The Great Movie Ride
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In partnership with Turner Classic Movies, The Great Movie Ride will receive a complete re-imagining in 2018 as part of the top to bottom overhaul of Disney's Hollywood Studios, which will in introduce brand new scenes, effects and animatronics to the ride.View attachment 138838
Due to the ride possessing quite boring and plain vehicles, the cars will receive a complete redo, to evoke the style of classic movie premieres, (almost stuck in the old-fashioned mindset that when one goes out to the movies one gets dressed up for a night at the cinema). The vehicles will be riddled with many hidden details such as film reels worked into the design, plush red velvet seats and an LED piece on the back of the vehicles that changes color: personifying the mood/tone displayed in any particular scene.
In addition, the attraction will be converted into a trackless ride, so groups of four vehicles at a time will experience the attraction together, but can spin, turn, intertwine and interact, not only improving the ride experience and increasing kinetic energy between riders and separate vehicles, but controlling the direction that the rider is looking at. Finally, the new fleet of vehicles will feature double the cars and each car can seat 4 rows of 4 guests, meaning its capacity is retained while still offering a unique and magical time at the movies.
Fantastic Vehicles and Where To Find Them:
@IAmNotAHufflepuff's Submission:
With Journey Into Imagination set to have a massive makeover (restoring the Dreamfinder and Figment theme) in 2020, Imagineering has decided to design new, more imaginative ride vehicles for the restored attraction. And tell me, what's more imaginative than flying?
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Picture this, but changed to become a ride vehicle.
The Omnimover cars have been completely swapped out with "Dreamcatchers", looking straight from the original attraction , held up by an unseen mini-KUKA like arm. The new arm allows the vehicles to make gentle movements, like swaying back and forth, rising up and down, and maybe even spinning around at one point.
Hopefully, with the revolutionary ride vehicle and the resorted presence of the original attraction's charm, the new Journey into Imagination is sure to be a success!
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Walk-Tronixs will be a new ride system using the most advanced AudioAnimatronics ever used in a new way ever seen before.
Imagine riding in the cart of an AA pack mule. How would this pack mule move it's feet? Under the ground, diagram above is placed in a track. The big orange wheels turns on the track and also turns the red one. The red one is connected to the grey rod, which in turn moves in a circular motion, simulating the movement of legs. Attach a cart to the back with seats, and you've got an attraction.
Ideally, this ride was made for Dinosaurs, but it is a very flexible design. So, the vehicle will be located in a new second route on the Jungle Cruise, where guests ride in a cart behind an elephant AA pulling it.
Hope you enjoyed!
My new ride vehicle will give some Disney love to a classic attraction: Prince Charming's Regal Carrousel. With so many classic Disney horses to pick from why not invite children and children at heart to hop aboard some colorful characters they know well and dear rather than tired horses that can be found in any theme park or mall across America? Ride vehicles will be sculpted to look like a classic horse characters and can even be fitted with audio clips to add some more fun. This ride vehicle change will make this original attraction even more exciting while still retaining its classic charm. Headless horseman, anyone?
Voxel's Voxel-tastic review of Year One's end of year project:
Slytherin
Overall I think you guys implemented a great amount of detail, something that I really like. That being said there were a few questionable moves two biggies is Florida Weather and secondary keep in mind sight lines. Don't wanna ruin views with possible attractions.
- Like @MonorailRed I am sadden to see that your initial video doesn't work, I'm not sure if it was key to the entire project or just background music to get us in the imagination mood. Either way it has to be skipped.
- Not sure how I feel about calling original fantasyland as paling are you talking about the rides themselves or the exterior.
- I do love your questionaire, is something Disney would do when trying to get attention towards a product
- I completely agree that Fantasyland could use some heavily updating in terms of exterior, gold in my books.
- Thank you for retheming the exterior to the Magic Kingdom Music Hall, it has a grad feeling to it and as a big theatre nerd it just sounds better.
- You sold me at the tribute to the Sherman brothers. I be happy
- Overall Review for Philharmagic: It's truly brilliant the amount of detail that you placed into this area. I hope that the rest of the project as this level of detail it's memorizing and I can't say enough about it.
- I am struggling to read you It's a small world text, be careful with bright colors.
- I'm not sold on your fix for It's a small world, there is a reason loading areas are covered in Disney World when they aren't in Disneyland. Florida is known for afternoon showers sometimes for weeks on end.
- I wish you had gone into more detail about the retracking of Peter Pan, are you using the new system being implemented in Shanghai?
- I'm not sure that I am sold on the Beanstalk attraction, one of the beauties of a "Magic Kingdom" park is that nothing is taller than the castle, I fear that this attraction would be noticable the moment guest step into the park and might distract people away from the castle.
- I liked the various Alice details that were added
- I love the sword and the stone ride, it's been a long time since I have seen that used in a Disney attraction. Why I'm not sure if it's popular enough for a beautiful ride of that size it was still great to see. I loved it.
Year One Reviews
First, I want to say All the Houses were really interesting to look at in the blue sky/design process. So good job on that for all houses! Really great first projects everyone!
Slytherin
Starting out, sadly the video in the beginning of the thread wasn’t working, so I had to move on from whatever it was. I’m assuming it was music for reading along with the project, but that might not be correct. Really enjoy how you opened the project text wise though! Sold me to read more! I also like how you made the description of your changes clockwise traveling throughout the land! Small thing, but I thought it was cool!
I think it’s great that you mimicked DLR’s Fantasyland refub in the sense of aesthetics. The tents may be classic, but it can be better. Loved the stain glass windows, by the way! So good job there!
Philharmagic – Glad you included music from the attraction here! Made it more immersive to read!
I feel like the Fantasyland Opera House fits extremely well for the Fantasyland up update you did, and I love the backstory! The posters coming to life similar to the Main Street Mickey Mouse meet and greet was a nice touch! The switch from metal to wood barriers, crown molding, ceiling tiles, nods to Disney musicians, and the lobby’s pillars and marble were nice little touches I really enjoyed! The picture really helped me see what you we’re trying to do to the lobby as well, which was nice.
As for the show, regal opera house style and the opera boxes were great makeover decisions! The 4k 3D projection updates were a nice way of brining this into the 21st century. I like your additional music to the Philharmagic set list and the transitions were wonderful. I’m a little torn that you got rid of Lion King and Mermaid, though. Then again, you made this completely original then any other show or ride you can find a WDW and that’s a great thing! Nice that you addressed a CM outfit change, though I’m not sure if it was necessary. Opera style glasses helped immerse guests into the story in my opinion!
It’s a Small World – First, I love that you chose to give this ride some TLC, it needs it and I think it’s fitting for a “Final Phase” project. I honestly wish you did more inside the attraction itself, though.
I don’t know how I feel about getting rid of the tent and roof, considering Florida weather. I’d hate for small world to flood or that old structure to be molded over or something due to it’s age and harsh storms in Florida. Small world is one of those “Oh, I’ll ride this while waiting for the rain to stop” rides, and I think taking the ceiling out was a bad move.
Peter Pan’s Flight – Nice exterior change, glad you re-tracked this, and updated scenes. Great move here!
Under the Sea: Journey of the Little Mermaid – Though unrealistic because it’s been updated from various mistakes, I’m really happy you decided fixed this up. It could be so much better and I think you did just that. I like the screen you added, but I’m a little concerned about extending the show building to add that scene, because I think it’d terrify kids, and that’s the rides large audience.
Mickey and the Beanstalk – I just want to say I really loved this ride concept! I’ve never heard of putting a drop tower in Fantasyland, but I feel like this fits well and it’s very inventive! The bullet points described the ride great! Wish I had more with this because I enjoyed it so much, art, pictures, more detailed descriptions, anything really. Such a cool project!
Princess Fairytale Hall – Good move and design, here. Although I don’t know if I like all the princesses clumped together in the expansion, long wait times are never good. Would’ve liked to see you play with different characters more.
Wonderland – Thank you for fixing this part of Fantasyland! It needs to be a stronger transition area! Nice area, loved the Labyrinth! Although I don’t enjoy that you go rid of the major centerpiece in the Teacups, I personally think it adds to the experience.
Sword in the Stone – AMAZING artwork, ride, and descriptions. That’s all I have to say. This is one of my favorite attractions from Year 1 in general.
Overall, some rough spots here and there in your project. Wish I had a more detailed map to see more of what you we’re aiming for. I also wish you worked on fixing more attractions in Fantasyland, such as Pooh. I feel for a “Final Phase” Fantasyland needs a little more added pixie dust for me to be totally content with this as the “last phase.” Some things you could do to work on this is to use your time more wisely, and ask yourselves “Is there anything else I could make better?” and go from there.
But seriously, spectacular work Slytherin! I’m impressed with this project, awesome work!
Gryffindor
First of all, your music/art intro was wonderful. Really immersed me in the presentation! I want to say how much I enjoyed all the artwork here…. Great work on that!
The site is loud, but brilliant. The castle melody is one of my favorite loops at WDW. Really loving this interactive website!
Mickey’s Philharmagic – I really love the choice of randomizing scenes in this attraction, it makes it re-rideable and I think that’s what Philharmagic is suffering from now. Wish you updated the queue, but eh, it’ll work.
Like that you kept some original scenes, but randomized where you did. Good editions film wise, I think they appeals to many Disney era audiences and makes everyone want to watch it!
Peter Pan’s Flight – This is in need of a refurb inside the ride, and I’m glad you did that! Love the exterior change design! Nice maintenance, vehicle, track change, added effects, and starfield additions! Overall, great update! Good Job!
Wonderland Forest – Custom Artwork and the slideshow is amazing! Great transition idea and teacups move. Nice QS alternative to Village Haus and D-Zone.
Amazing queue! I can’t say that enough. Well written, immersive, it would be one of the best queues at MK besides Mansion. Loved that! I also enjoyed how you made the ride a water ride, almost as a family transition to Splash Mountain like the Mine Train is for Big Thunder. Loved the glass tunnel and the attraction all around. Definitely, one of my Year 1 favorites! Great job!
Meet and Greet – Loved that you made it so you can meet the dwarfs this way!
It’s a Small World – Amazing changes in the clock tower, great art to show that! Really enjoyed that you made it work with the railroad! That area in the railroad is an eyesore and I’m glad you fixed it. Little things add up. I feel like the move according to the map is nice as well, being close to the colors of Storybook Circus, it should transition very well. I wish you said if the queue was indoor or outdoor, it really makes a difference in Florida.
Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree – Great Blueprint and queue design! Nice additions added like “Up, down, touch the ground” Wonderful update overall! One of my Year 1 favorites!
Mary Poppins – This attraction was practically perfect in every way. The art, the scenes, everything. Great job! One of my Year 1 favorites!
Overall, stunning, immersive, presentation Gryffindor! There were some spelling/grammar errors and some blasting music, but that’s really all I have to say as a negative. Wonderful Work!
Hufflepuff
Good presentation opening! Wish it was more about the project and less about the team introduction though. I didn’t feel immersed in the intro. Although I must say, the Website opening is cool! Nice overview as well!
Princess Fairytale Hall – I like how you added the enchanted artifacts. I think the coolest effect in the hall is that slipper and it’s great that you added to that! I don’t know how I feel about adding Elena to the lineup. I feel like she might work better at DHS’s Disney Jr. Meet and Greet area. Other character meet and greets were nice as well.
Roaming characters – Love this addition because of the Flynn Rider testing!
Mickey’s Philharmagic – Enjoyed the idea of mixing more new and old movies, though I don’t know about our choices of adding “Strangers Like Me”. It seemed out of place with the rest of the Fantasyland style music scenes you choose. I was also a little confused with the new façade, since it’s still castle themed I didn’t really see the purpose (Unless your getting rid of the tents?). Wish you updated the queue as well. The other music choices were good though!
Peter Pan Updates – Good basic fixes. Wish there was more information on this.
When Will My Life Begin: Rapunzel's Magical Adventure – I like how you added a contemporary princess to the Fantasyland land’s lineup. LOVE the artwork for the area! – Helps me picture what your thinking for this. Good queue and pre-show. Love the vehicle - Think it was really inventive for a dark ride! Overall, great ride experience as well! One of my Year 1 favorites!
Snuggly Duckling – Good replacement for Pinocchio’s!
Pinocchio Daring Adventure – Really enjoyed this version of the Disneyland attraction! I felt like it was unique and I really wanted to ride it after reading it! Perfect fit for the expansion. Ride vehicles were nice as well. One of my Year 1 favorites!
Good job an justification of keeping the Enchanted Forest as is!
Dark Forest – I really like how you made this indoor to combat the fireworks issue, though I feel the Belle entrance is a little narrow, I totally agree with the Storybook Circus enterance. Great for Florida weather as well!
Tale as Old as Time: Belle's Storybook Journey – Love the bluerprint! But it seems that the attraction may be too long when adding the music from the musical. Plus, even though I love the musical, it just doesn’t fit with the cartooniness of the rest of the dark rides. Plus, I feel “Me”, “Home”, “Home Reprise”, “A Change In Me”, and even the library scenes were unnecessary. An attraction is more of the sparknotes version of a story, remember that for later! J
Once Upon a Dream: Aurora's Thrilling Tale – I loved this attraction! Very well put together, nice blueprint, queue and preshow are great – Good Stuff! Great attraction as well!
Storybook Circus – I feel like you could have tackled this more, but I’m cool with you leaving it be considering how much your adding.
Wonderland – Loved the map! Theme is wonderful. A little weary getting rid of Tomorrowland territory for more of a giant Fantasyland. Alice's Curious Journey: An Adventure Through Wonderland was a nice ride through attraction!
Fantasia Gardens – Though I enjoy a garden transition to Tomorrowland, I’m still weary of taking space from Tomorrowland territory when Fantasyland’s so large. Loved the world peace café and the swings! Nice Small world exterior change!
Overall, a wonderful, giant, naturalistic, expansion Hufflepuffs! There were some things that didn’t resonate as much as others, but you let the last expansion in Fantasyland go out with a bang!
Ravenclaw
Good intro Ravenclaw! Love that you included a table of contents type area in the beginning. Wish it were in the order that you presented things, but eh, you guys we’re on a time crunch so I’ll let it go.
Wonderland – Really like theming of this area! The English street is a nice fit. Down the rabbit hole sounded like a fun attraction! Wish I had more detail or pictures, but I could still see what you we’re going for. Enclosing Teacups was a nice addition! Walrus and Carpenter's seemed a bit of a confusing addition considering Harbor House selling seafood in the park already, but I like how you tried to theme it to the movie!
The Kingdom - The Enchantment Theater really reminded me of the theater at DLR’s Fantasyland. It adds more capacity to the land without making a darkride… Good thought! The Cheshire grotto added a table service and I find that really important for MK in the sense of the crazy BoG reservations. Hopefully that restaurant balances it out more.
Volcanicia – This seemed a bit more of a tomorrowland expansion then a Fantasyland one. Though I can see how the old 20k in Fantasyland could see where you we’re going with this. The Nautilus and The Captain's Quarters were great additions as well.
Around the World in 30 Days seems like a Fantasyland attraction, actually! I could see it kind of working! The orange Effiel tower was a bit confusing in the artwork. Love that you made it Peter Pan’s flight style! Overall, it sounded like a great ride!
Journey To The Center of The Earth seems more of a fusion between tomarrowland and Fantasyland, but I do like that you put it in WDW! The music was fantastic! AMAZING job on that! Great attraction, good job!
Storybook Circus – I like how you totally made a car themed ride to take up the love of Autopia! This looked like a very fun ride, however I’m not sure that it fits in with the “traveling circus” theme enough to go in this area.
The Forest – I feel like I didn’t see this part
Overall, there were a few glitches here and there, especially posting after due date, but I feel like you all put something special together. So great job! For future challenges, I’d advise to get everything together a few days earlier so your ready the night of!
SundayDobby must ask Hogwarts Imgaineers when the second term starts?
Sunday
AS soon as Fawkes comes back with it.Results coming in soon.......
Results from Year OneHufflepuff - 165
Year One Main Challenge Rankings
1. Hufflepuff
2. Slytherin
3. Gryffindor
4. Ravenclaw
Mini-Challenge Rankings
Challenge 1
1. @RMichael21
2. @IAmNotAHufflepuff
3. @spacemt354
Extra points for the rest of the contestants.
Challenge 2
1. disneydf
2. Fox&Hound
3. Tony the Tigger
Extra points for the rest of the contestants.
House Cup Points
Hufflepuff - 165
Gryffindor - 137
Slytherin - 137
Ravenclaw - 79
But wait...
The "Prefect Award" this challenge goes to @David2319
for best composed score in a challenge. Fantastic work!
This award is 25 points.
Which changes the standings to...
Current House Cup Points
Gryffindor - 137
Slytherin - 137
Ravenclaw - 104
More clock gifs...As winners of the Final Fantasyland Challenge, Hufflepuff's your on the clock to choose the Next challenge!
2 - 14 votes - Design a new Future World Pavilion ---- from @David2319
3 - 13 votes - Re-design Disney Quest at Disney Springs ---- from @IAmNotAHufflepuff
4 - 13 votes - Design a new Animal Kingdom continent ---- from @David2319
5 - 12 votes - Design an E-ticket attraction based on a Disney/Pixar film not used for an attraction before ---- from @BNImagineer
6 - 11 votes - Re-design Disneyland Paris' Discoveryland ---- from @David2319
7 - 11 votes - Imagine Swan and Dolphin never existed, and design a deluxe resort in that location ---- from @spacemt354
The next challenge is until Saturday May 14th at Midnight, so plan accordingly!
Choose Wisely...
@BNImagineer, @Flippin'Flounder, @IDInstitute, @KingOfEpicocity, @mickeyfan5534, @RMichael21, @The90skid
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