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I only have time to comment on two of your proposals right now- I'll attempt more soon. The idea of Wasteland in Dollywood could be very tricky to pull-off without it appearing so jarringly different from what is there now as to be an unpleasant experience for visitors. I understand that it is supposed to be exposing them to an unpleasant possible future, one that can happen if we don't stop our current ecology-trashing ways, but it seems a rather heavy-handed educational experience. Would people going to Dollywood want to be almost lectured to at a park that is so- happy? The presentation is excellent, as is throughout the entire submission, but the subject matter is perhaps too ambitious, too "in-your-face-hug-a-tree" lecturing to be a fun, happy experience.Team Heroes, thank you for your submission!
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Imma be the Simon to the Villains because I have things I need to do and nothing about it captured my fancy all that much. Here's my review.View attachment 351593
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Kennywood- probably my least favorite renovation of the four. I saw what you were aiming for, going for the rich history of Pittsburg, but for some reason the whole was less than the sum of its parts. It wasn't any one glaring problem, but several little things that, I feel, held this back from its full potential. Some of it was technical- the writing was irregular, with several sentences having no and one ending_____. See what I mean? Someone doing a careful proofread would have caught all of these issues. Your map showed the arrangement of the individual attractions in Iron City, and using a grid layout for the streets was a good, historically correct choice, but there were several areas that were labeled but that I didn't find in the description (Hotel, Facades). They looked like fairly large features that would have warranted mention ( unless I missed it, then my bad!). The inclusion of Exposition Park was an interesting choice, but a musical? I know, I know, it's been done before with "Damn Yankees" but here it seemed a bit of a stretch. I loved the idea of the coaster and dark ride being integrated, but the name "Twisted Iron" seemed a bit forced, like you were trying to force its way into the Twisted Coaster family (Wicked Twister, Mister Twister, Tidal Twister). The name "Molten Iron" jumped out at me. This section had potential but needed further thought and more proofreading.I only have time to comment on two of your proposals right now- I'll attempt more soon. The idea of Wasteland in Dollywood could be very tricky to pull-off without it appearing so jarringly different from what is there now as to be an unpleasant experience for visitors. I understand that it is supposed to be exposing them to an unpleasant possible future, one that can happen if we don't stop our current ecology-trashing ways, but it seems a rather heavy-handed educational experience. Would people going to Dollywood want to be almost lectured to at a park that is so- happy? The presentation is excellent, as is throughout the entire submission, but the subject matter is perhaps too ambitious, too "in-your-face-hug-a-tree" lecturing to be a fun, happy experience.
Morey's Piers were across-the-board an excellent way to retheme these three parks into something magical and unique, something that perhaps has only been attempted (more successfully) by the creators of Americana 1900. While it would be easy to say that much of your inspiration was from that magnificent park and resort, the truth is that both Morey's and Americana drew from the same historic well (or at least water table). Your retheming and additions were well-thought-out, but I wonder if you made the three piers too pretty, too clean and lost some of the inherent seediness of a seaside pier amusement park. They would be beautiful to the point of breathtaking, but how would the current audience react to it? Would you be changing one demographic for another? Both the seedy and the spectacular have their merits. Perhaps capitalizing on their separation could have been exploited better, having three separate themes united under an umbrella organization, rather than having three variations of the Coney Island theme (which most people would not appreciate anyway). Perhaps one pier rethemed to the Coney Island concept, one to perhaps a Magic City concept and the third having the current seaside seediness exploited and sanitized, keeping the gaudiness while cleaning up the crappy bathrooms!
The biggest weakness I saw in the Morey's Piers proposal was a glaring ignoring of their biggest liability- the separation of the three piers. Something is needed to unite them into one unified whole, and a boardwalk, while integral to the entire "feel" of the piers, is not enough. Some sort of unified transportation system, be it monorail, minirail, skyride, tram, something should have been added to bring three different parks together as one. You know about the old "the whole is greater..." thing. Here you missed the most important thing you could have done to unify these parks. You could have spent much less money on the hotel, still have had a great hotel head-and-shoulders above what they have now, and unified these three piers into one major theme park experience.
Hopefully I can get the other two proposals look at soon.
And so, I shall. Mwahahaha.Everyone on Team Heroes is invited to review Team Villains' project if you feel so inclined.
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