The Sorcerer's Apprentice Season 4: Homecoming Edition - Discussion Thread

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Pi on my Cake

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If anyone is curious, the recaps of this season of SYWTBAI for the two finalists (@Disney Dad 3000 and @pixie_princess) was just posted by your's truly (With tiki's guidance of course). Should help the jury members with their decisions and might be an interesting read for anyone who hasn't followed that competition as closely.
Pionmycake said:
-SYWTBAI Season 16 Recap for @Disney Dad 3000-

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Disney Dad has been active since the very first round of the competition and has constantly impressed with amazing entries in nearly every round! If he wins, he will be the first parent to ever win SYWTBAI. Let's take a look at his projects this season!

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-Round One: So... Ya like Star Wars?!?! - Innovator-

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Kashyyyk

A new land themed to the planet of the Wookies was proposed for Animal Kingdom. This land was truly innovative and unique. An exciting E-ticket would take guests to a previously unexplored section of the planet (The Shadowlands) expanding on the Star Wars mythos in an exciting and creative way. Unfortunately, timing issues resulted in the project not being 100% completed, but even unfinished it was a true stand out!

Tiki's Scores
Creativity: 9.5/10
Realism: 7.5/10
Detail: 7/10
Presentation: 8/10
Total: 35/40

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-Round Two: Black Lights and Bus Bars - Purist-

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Cinderella's Royal Carriage, Merlin's Magic Ride, and Mickey's Fairytale Ending

Disney Dad proposed a whole new set of opening day dark rides for Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom! A traditional book report style dark ride themed to Cinderella. A mad cap crazy adventure in the vein of Mr. Toad's themed to Merlin and the Sword in the Stone. And a whimsical suspended dark ride themed to Mickey Mouse in an adventure to save Minnie Mouse. Three fantastic rides that would have made a great line up for the Magic Kingdom!

Tiki's Scores
Creativity: 9/10
Realism: 9/10
Detail: 10/10
Presentation: 9/10
Total: 37/40

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-Round Three: Virtually Magic Kingdom - Purist-

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Tron: Escape the Grid

The sole team based project of the season saw Disney Dad's team create an interactive ride themed to the original Tron where guests would shoot targets to speed up their vehicles in a race to the finish! Unfortunately, Disney Dad spent much of this round sick with the flu and wasn't the most active. But he did make some important contributions to the team brainstorming!

Tiki's Scores
Creativity: 8/10
Realism: 8/10
Detail: 10/10
Presentation: 9/10
Total: 35/40

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-Round Seven: New Frontiers - Innovators-

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Wild Wagon Express

After missing a couple of rounds, Disney Dad came back with a vengence with an incredible and very detailed new attraction for Frontirland! Utilizing many truly innovative ideas and the wonderful ride system seen in Dinosaur/Indiana Jones, this attraction was, in my opinion, one of the most innovative in the whole season!

Tiki's Scores
Creativity: 10/10
Detail: 8/10
Realism: 7/10
Presentation: 8/10
Total: 33/40

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-Round Nine: That's Entertainment - Innovators-

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Tommy Two Taps and the Buena Vista Hotel & Spa

After some technical issues nearly caused Disney Dad to have to forfeit the round (which was the very first round of the Elite Eight), Disney Dad recovered with a last minute write up! Despite the technical issues and the rushed final product, the hotel and the performer both came across very nicely and earned Disney Dad his position in the final Four!

Tiki's Scores
Creativity: 9/10
Detail: 8/10
Realism: 10/10
Presentation: 8/10
Total: 35/40

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-Round Ten: Volcano who? - Innovators-

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Hyperspace Falls

Disney Dad earned his place in the finals with an innovative Star Wars themed Water Park. While incredible enough already, what really set this project apart from the rest was the presentation! A truly fabulous write up, great visuals, and a creative use of photoshopped screenshots to create a very realistic Orlando Sentinel article on the project!

Tiki's Scores
Creativity: 8/10
Detail: 9.5/10
Realism: 9.5/10
Presentation: 10/10
Total: 37/40

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Now, heading into the final, @Disney Dad 3000 is tasked with creating not one, not three, but two new parks in a brand new international resort. Neither of which can be a traditional castle park. His choice of an innovators project for the final round makes sense considering he has done the innovators prompt on four out of the six projects he has completed this season.

Only one question remains, will he be able to win it all?​
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Pionmycake said:
-SYWTBAI Season 16 Recap for @pixie_princess-

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Pixie Princess is a relative new comer to the boards. Before these games she had only ever done the one sentence competition. She joined the game rather late in the season. While she was at first hindered by her lack of experience, Pix grew at an incredible rate and quickly became talented enough to stand up among the best imagineers on the board. Even beating power houses to earn her way to the finals! An incredible under dog story and a great display of progress. If she wins the last round, it might be the greatest underdog story this game has ever seen. Let's take a look at her projects this season!

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-Round Six: The Simple Things - Purists-

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The Purple Wall

Pix's first project was a short but sweet one. Taking the bizarrely popular (among locals at least) photo spot of the plain purple wall in Tomorrowland and making it something special. It has the distinction of being one of the few projects this season where, after it was posted, it was announced that a similar thing is actually happening at Disney. It's unknown right now what the enhancements are, but it is being enhanced.

Tiki's Scores
Creativity: 8/10
Realism: 10/10
Detail: 7/10
Presentation: 8/10
Total: 33/40

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-Round Seven: New Frontiers - Innovators-

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Rainbow Ridge Rapids

While still a bit light on detail, Pixie's second project was already a big improvement on her first. A clever rapids ride in Frontierland using some cleverly designed and likable original new characters, Haley and Olivia. Part of a new version of S.E.A. set in modern day, Pix seems to have loved working on these characters and returned to them for a future project as well as having a separate thread she made after this project to post future stories about them.

Tiki's Scores
Creativity: 10/10
Realism: 8/10
Detail: 6/10
Presentation: 8/10
Total: 32/40

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-Round Eight: The Promise of Progress City - Innovators-

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New Horizons: Space/Ocean

While perhaps a slight step back from her Frontierland project, Pix created a truly creative and unique update of the Horizons concept into a new interactive ride. It even evolves the two sides with two unique experiences concept from Mission Space with the option to explore either deep space or the deep ocean.

Tiki's Scores
Total: 30/40

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-Round Nine: That's Entertainment - Innovators-

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Olivia and Haley and the S.E.A.S. Resort

Returning to her original characters from the Frontierland project and refining her update version of S.E.A., Pix created a new science themed resort right at the entrance to EPCOT. Done in the vein of the value resorts with each building themed to a different branch of scientific study and featuring a show in the bar hosted by Olivia, this resort was easily Pix's best yet and truly earned her place in the final four with its presentation that was just bursting with personality. Pix went from an inexperienced newcomer to winning against one of the most experienced and talented members on the board in her match up against Space. Truly an exciting underdog story.

Space's Scores (Tiki decided not to do numerical scores as Space and Pixie had such similar projects. But @spacemt354 provided his own reviews for this round, so I can include his score here)
Creativity: 10/10
Realism: 7.5/10
Detail: 8/10
Presentation: 7.5/10
Total: 33/40


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-Round Ten: Volcano who? - Purists-

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Art of Animation Resort Water Park

Pixie continued her strong streak with the sole purist project of the last round. Tying her water park to the Art of animation resort and themeing the simple park to the movies represented by the resort. Over all a simple project. Very well done, but the project itself may not be the most stand out. What really helped elevate it was the incredibly fun and unique presentation style. All the artwork for the project was drawn by Pixie's younger siblings resulting in a really special feeling projects. Plus, who doesn't love some adorable tiny human artwork. This project earned @kmbmw777 @pixie_princess her spot in the finals!

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Tiki's Scores
Creativity: 8/10
Detail: 7/10
Realism: 9/10
Presentation: 9.5/10
Total: 33.5/40

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Now, heading into the final, @pixie_princess is tasked with creating the best ever castle park for a brand new international resort. This purist project will see Pixie putting a new spin on the well worn classic concept. With three of her previous five projects being innovators, this sixth and final round of her's for the season will result in Pixie being possibly the only contestant to have an exactly even number of purist and innovator projects.

Only one question remains, will she be able to win it all?​
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