The future is more immersive, more experiential, and more storytelling! The creed of our profession today – but the stories we tell are seldom other than those of happiness or fear. I was born in 1987. Reborn in 1994. Disney’s The Lion King was such a life changing moment for many of us 90’s kids.…
A new experience at 8 LEGOLAND® Parks worldwide has been designed and rolled-out by international themed attraction designers, Katapult working in collaboration with The LEGO® Group and Merlin Entertainments.
What I want to share with you in this issue is: An man bought a luxury villa covering an area of 4,000 square meters 15 years ago for 50 million. Now this mansion has become his family’s private water park, he build a water park, and the price has also changed. It is nine times…
Designing a guest experience can be a fun and innovative exercise. Whether you are starting from scratch, revamping an existing attraction, or fine-tuning your operating model, this is the chance to be creative and provide something that you genuinely want your guests to experience.
But here’s the question… do they want to experience what you want them to experience?
Everybody knows pretty much everything about Disneyland—how it got started, how the Imagineers do their thing, and so on. But nobody hardly ever talks about the parks that most of us across the country enjoy far more often. The regional theme parks, different from amusement parks, owe their existence to the magical land Walt built…
Pale Blue Dot Ventures has partnered with Orlando-based experience design firm IDEAS to design an all new space-themed entertainment and education destination in coastal Santa Barbara County, CA.
Given the vast, seemingly universal popularity of sketch comedy, here’s a thought experiment to mull on — could some of the better known characters or skits from television ever be brought into a theme park attraction?
Over the course of the last couple of decades, increasingly easy and inexpensive international travel has made the world feel smaller; making the appeal of such ideas limited, even as recently as five or ten years ago. Why would I want to look at Orlando through a window, when I could just fly there tomorrow? But as we all begin to finally wake up to the evidence climate scientists have been waving in our faces for several generations — perhaps flying to Orlando tomorrow isn’t the best idea — and the separate realisation that something like Covid-19 can ground flights without much warning, the idea of seeing the world without actually travelling very far may become more appealing. The future of themed entertainment may well be a hybrid, combining in-person visits with virtual experiences set in far flung locations.
The Inaugural Themed Attraction Student Showcase continued with feedback panels for the submitted projects. Day one featured the individual projects. Day two featured the team entries. Industry veterans panel Tom Morris (Walt Disney Imagineering / retired), MK Haley (University of Texas at Austin / WDI R&D), Louis Alfieri (Raven Sun Creative), Peter Cliff (Holovis), Thomas…