The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Season 7: Fantasmic Journeys - Hype Thread

[spacemt354]

@orlando678- is one of the longest running forum members we have around here - famous for refurbing or coming up with original theme parks, one of his most popular threads has accumulated over 61K views - in Refurbing Disneyland Resort Paris - check it out below!

Refurbing Disneyland Resort Paris

Paris oh Paris. The wonderful capital city of France and also home to Disneyland Resort Paris. So when I look at Disneyland resort Paris, I see a beautiful Disney resort, but there are a lot of things to fix or to add. Many years DLRP has had problems with many things in the parks, disney...

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[spacemt354]

Next we have the energetic and innovative @TwilightZone - for her spotlight we're going to look at something fun that was never was, but always will be. Back in 2019 there was a Star Rod Competition concept that she had come up with. While the timing just never worked out, the original story is something to be admired (and who knows maybe it's in The Celestial as well?)

Star Rod Competition

The day is Wednesday, April 17th. An anxious TwilightZone is preparing for her big break. After so many years of imagineering, I am exhausted! I deserve a break! Of course our little T - Zone was still nervous. Oh boy, I hope my friends won't be too upset. Who is going to take care of them...

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[NigelChanning]

@NigelChanning you might know from top finishes in So, You Want To Be An Imagineer Season 18 and 1986, but before those showcases, Nigel was a prominent blue sky brainstormer with an eclectic variety of threads this past spring.

One below - a Modern Magic Kingdom - is just a sample size of his creative potential!

Modern Magic Kingdom Park

This is a concept for a Castle Park if it was built from the ground up today. This park will include many IPs and will probably leave out some classic attractions like Space Mountain, Splash Mountain, and It’s a Small World. I love those attractions but they don’t really fit the theme of this...

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I would also like to announce that starting sometime between January and February 2021, you’ll get to witness a fully fleshed out Blue Sky Disney Resort by myself! This is the first time I’ve truly committed to a single idea and ran with it. Look out, everybody, it’s gonna be big!

 

[MickeyMousketeer]

Next we got @MickeyMousketeer - making his triumphant return to games like this, Mickey over the years has been known similar to Nigel for coming up with some unique brainstorming concepts including this one about Disneyland Madrid!

Disneyland Madrid || A Project By: MickeyMousketeer

Disneyland Madrid: Opening Day (Before I go any farther, I would like to say that this was inspired by the style that @tcool123 took with his resort.) "To all who come to this happy place, welcome. Disneyland Madrid is your land. Here lies the imagination of Walt Disney in its true form. Here...

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Hmm, I might have to get back into this one...

 

[spacemt354]

One of the player/hosts in this game is @tcool123 - known for many things around the forum such as the 12 Days of Christmas as well as other brainstorming threads throughout the years, one of his most popular accomplishments was with A Twist in Time - a time-traveling themed competition through the parks. Folks may want to take a read of this one as it's one of the events that may have influence over his segment of the Fantasmic Timeline!

A Twist In Time

Welcome armchair imagineers, to this ever exciting event! A Twist In Time - Imagineers are invited to the Tcool Labs, to encounter the Timeinator! Every challenge Tcool and the imagineers will board the Timeinator, and travel back in time into a moment of history regarding the Walt Disney...

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[spacemt354]

Next we have the return of @kmbmw777 - who is making a triumphant return in this game, but has been around for some time before. Back in the day, he used to run March Madness events on the forums, where people would vote for the best projects on the forum in the tournament style bracket. In addition, one of the most overlooked accomplishments was the 2016 year-end event - Eisner's Game, which included a bunch of creative concepts to round out the year!

2016 Year End Event - Eisner's Game: An Imagineering Competition

Coming Early December... THIS IS THE YEAR END EVENT Backstory To: The Sweet 16 Welcome Imagineers. You have been selected as the best (armchair) Imagineers of 2016. Therefore, as left in a document by former CEO Michael Eisner, please comply with the following: As soon as the science...

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[spacemt354]

@Miru has been around for a while, always providing feedback and comments to open brainstorming concepts throughout the years, and making his SA debut in this season! One of his active threads he has going on right now is envisioning 'Day 1'- Style Dark Rides that we should go check out!

Just For Fun: “Day 1”-Style Dark Ride ideas

I think it's interesting that the early dark rides tried to scare you as much as possible. If Frozen Ever After was an opening day dark ride it would probably be about Elsa trying to kill you while cardboard cutout Olaf's taunted your mortality, before entering Arendelle where all of the...

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[spacemt354]

Our latest welcomed sign-up is @Lora Baines Bradley - who just recently had posted a new scene for Spaceship Earth that had come from one of her school projects! Lora goes back a long way to @Disney Dad 3000 's Great Movie Ride Competition from 2017 but for now go check out her thread below!

New Scene for Spaceship Earth

For my final project for my American History class, we had to create our own Spaceship Earth scene using content within the course. We had to explain why we thought the scene was significant and why we thought people should be aware of the scene. We also did not have to tie into Spaceship...

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[spacemt354]

A relatively new member to the forums - @ThemeParkPriest has in his brief time created an interesting thread on an attraction for the new movie Soul, which was conceptualized before its release as a brainstorming exercise. Now with the film's release, it would be neat to revisit the thread and see what we could change!

New Attraction for Pixar’s “Soul”?

Pixar’s “Soul” will be released on Disney Plus on December 25th (just in time for Christmas). As I start this thread, none of us have watched the movie. As is the case with any big release, Disney will be watching closely to see how well the movie is received. “The Princess and the Frog” (2009)...

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[spacemt354]

@TheSquirrel is a new member as well to the forums - notable for playing in the One Sentence Competition and for what I'd refer to as 'to the point' imagineering. Squirrl doesn't mince words and knows what he wants. It'll be very fun to see what he does in the game!

Disney Australia Resort

This is my idea for the latest Disney Resort.

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[PerGron]

Question of the Day
What is your favorite unbuilt Disney parks concept?​

 

[spacemt354]

Question of the Day
What is your favorite unbuilt Disney attraction concept?​

The Unbuilt Seven Seas Lagoon Resorts

These would have changed the whole landscape of the MK resort area - you'd have an extension of the monorail line, and sitting on the beach at the Poly would have looked much different.

 

[Brer Panther]

Question of the Day
What is your favorite unbuilt Disney parks concept?​

Beastly Kingdomme would've been so cool. Curse you, Disneyland Paris...

 

[DashHaber]

Question of the Day
What is your favorite unbuilt Disney parks concept?​

Dick Tracy's Crime Stoppers.

I've got an affinity for the film, thanks to the sheer style that it possesses with its color palette and the fun 1930s action. However, it's bolstered further by the fact that this ride would have been an interactive shooter dark ride with EMV tech for the ride vehicles. Basically, it would have beaten Indiana Jones Adventure and Men in Black: Alien Attack to the punch on both of those ride types.

 

[mickeyfan5534]

Beastly Kingdomme would've been so cool. Curse you, Disneyland Paris...

While I agree with your first statement, the second one is so, so, so incorrect that it offends me.

 

[D Hulk]

Question of the Day
What is your favorite unbuilt Disney parks concept?​

WestCOT!​

The benefits would have been at least twofold. The Disneyland Resort would be in a better place today, spared the horrors of DCA 1.0 (while still potentially maintaining worthwhile ideas like Soarin’) and with a far more efficient resort expansion master plan than we got. Plus a second gate that, whatever it’s possible flaws, would easily trounce DCA with ambition and with attractions that are based on a real theme.

Florida’s Epcot would have greatly benefited too, with a sister park to share R&D costs. WestCOT could have reinvigorated a park concept which has been willfully neglected by Disney’s CEOs from Eisner onwards. With WestCOT, the Epcot model would be strengthened, likely rescuing the original Journey into Imagination and likely minimizing thematically needless IP intrusions like Frozen or GOTG.

 

[kmbmw777]

Question of the Day
What is your favorite unbuilt Disney parks concept?​

I’m a big fan of the Fire Mountain attraction. In fact, I think it was responsible for my first post ever during the House Cup competition back in 2016.

 

[Tegan pilots a chicken]

Question of the Day
What is your favorite unbuilt Disney parks concept?​

That new Avengers ride, cause they haven’t built it yet.
Horizons, because they unbuilt it.
But in all seriousness, WestCOT.

 

[Disney Dad 3000]

Question of the Day
What is your favorite unbuilt Disney parks concept?​

Glacier Bay.

We had a chance to imagine it ourselves a few years ago in a comp, but would still like to see what Imagineers could've done with a real life version, maybe in Tokyo with their vision instead of HK.

 

[Solaris Knight]

Port Disney, given how it was the original concept for Disneysea