Future Imagineers Thread (Disney Parks in-depth)

[PlutosRHM55]

So, awhile back, someone on here started a contest where pairs of two would make a disney attraction, restaurant, etc. that would include a drawing, storyline and all that stuff needed to begin the planning of a Disney attraction. We've seen it done many times by the actual Imagineers when they announce updates and refurbishments at parks (i.e. Fantasyland Expansion project, World of Color...). Now, this has kinda toned down and I was involved in it, but I haven't discussed it in weeks. So, I had a thought that maybe we could have a thread where we just talked about the Disney Parks, more in-depth than usual. You can talk about past attractions, new attractions, up-and-coming attractions, modern-day updated attractions, anything but within the Disney parks! You also can share ideas you have for Disney that just continue to buzz inside your mind. Just anything we can really discuss and train to become the Walt Disney Imagineers we dream to be.

 

[KaiYves]

Great thread idea! I love reading the Imagineering field guides and learning about all of the details that go into an attraction and queue.

I have several attraction ideas in my head, but I have to hit the sack soon, so I don't have time to write about them now.

 

[disfreak24]

This sounds like a very cool thread!

I think that it would be amazing for there to be a "Tiana's Place" restaurant in Disney World. I loved Princess and the Frog and thought that that would be a cute way to add Tiana and friends into the parks a little more!

 

[PlutosRHM55]

This sounds like a very cool thread!

I think that it would be amazing for there to be a "Tiana's Place" restaurant in Disney World. I loved Princess and the Frog and thought that that would be a cute way to add Tiana and friends into the parks a little more!

That sounds like an intriguing idea. I have never seen that movie but it sounded like it had good music in it. I have an idea for somewhat of a mini version of the attraction, Tower of Terror, in the theme of the movie Sleeping Beauty. I have it in a journal where I write stuff like this down but it isn't with me. I'll post the ride layout and storyline later

 

[wicked.witch.of.wdw]

This sounds like a very cool thread!

I think that it would be amazing for there to be a "Tiana's Place" restaurant in Disney World. I loved Princess and the Frog and thought that that would be a cute way to add Tiana and friends into the parks a little more!

YES! YES! YES! YES!!!

I have nothing constructive to add, I just really love that idea XD

 

[IdesOmarch]

This is a great idea for a thread, although I hate giving away ideas for free! If any Disney or Universal employee runs with one of these ideas I will expect a royalty and to track me down!

I have actually designed full rides as a hobby, even an entire theme park. I worked with an artist to make a large park map painting of the park, I won't divulge the details of this because it is still a small possibility it could all happen.

As for new Disney attractions, I'll have to get back to you, but I do have 2 great ideas for Universal. One, they should do something similar to the Haunted Mansion, but based on their epic film Dracula. Have a big scary Draculas castle that you ride through, although it would be really scary, not campy like the HM, just my opinion. Maybe even an entire Transylvania section of the park, that you have to enter through large scary iron gates, with the castle on the hill. Graveyards everywhere, with the town folk walking around warning everyone to "beware".

Another for Universal would be to have a Scarface ride. Idea would be too ride on a old timy 1920s Cadillac and have tommy guns that you ride through the streets of NYC and shoot the gangsters. The tommy gun would shake and make loud machine gun sounds when you shot it, but it would be simulated, laser guns, (no bullets of course) (Early scarface movie, not the modern Al Pacino version, but it could be modified to be based on the newer one.)

 

[PlutosRHM55]

They were kinda quick with the Princess and the Frog theming. It was there and gone. I wonder if they will bring back Tiana's Showboat Jubilee.

 

[IdesOmarch]

Oh I forgot, I did have a couple for Disney, an attraction based off the movie Labyrinth. It would be just like out of the movie with a huge labyrinth that you have to walk through to get to the castle, which would be a cool restaurant and shop, but you meet all the trolls, and characters through the maze.

The other for Disney, is they need to do something similar to that above, but it would be a "Black Forest," do it indoors, like the ET que at Universal, indoor fake trees, (to control the lighting and make it spooky) it would be like a maze as well, where you walk through and encounter Black Forest characters etc.

 

[KaiYves]

Okay, here's one of my ideas...

Right now, in the real world, there are several companies that are working to be able to offer flights into space to tourists in the next few years. One of these companies is Virgin Galactic (part of the same group as Virgin Airlines, Virgin Records, Virgin Megastore, etc.) They're the only company that's actually put people into space so far on their own.

Since the two groups have already worked together (there is/was a Virgin Megastore in Downtown Disney), I think they should work out a deal to create a ride based around being a tourist taking a flight into space for Tomorrowland. (Similar to the old Flight to the Moon, but with modern tech and graphics) Tomorrowland needs more realistic near-future-based attractions, and this would be a good start.

Disney gets a new ride and the chance to be part of history, and Virgin gets lots of great publicity ("You've taken the ride, now try it for real!"), so I think everybody would win.

I wrote out a walk-though of this possible attraction, but I don't have it with me right now.

 

[PlutosRHM55]

Okay, here's one of my ideas...

Right now, in the real world, there are several companies that are working to be able to offer flights into space to tourists in the next few years. One of these companies is Virgin Galactic (part of the same group as Virgin Airlines, Virgin Records, Virgin Megastore, etc.) They're the only company that's actually put people into space so far on their own.

Since the two groups have already worked together (there is/was a Virgin Megastore in Downtown Disney), I think they should work out a deal to create a ride based around being a tourist taking a flight into space for Tomorrowland. (Similar to the old Flight to the Moon, but with modern tech and graphics) Tomorrowland needs more realistic near-future-based attractions, and this would be a good start.

Disney gets a new ride and the chance to be part of history, and Virgin gets lots of great publicity ("You've taken the ride, now try it for real!"), so I think everybody would win.

I wrote out a walk-though of this possible attraction, but I don't have it with me right now.

That sounds like a really good idea KaiYves. Tomorrowland was originally almost like a mini-Epcot, almost as if it didn't seem very Disney-like until around awhile back where they made it look more futuristic, technological and space-travel-ish. So, this really is staying true to Walt's vision of Tomorrowland. I'm kinda having another Motion Simulator ride now that I've looked over your idea a few times or something along that line.

 

[wdi2b]

thank you for carrying on my contest pluto... awhile ago aliceinhalloweentown ran an updated thread... if you need resources use disney blog spot... also you can't really train to be an imagineer, just your imagination...

there is 1 thing tho... imagineers don't always get to choose what they make... so here's my challenge to you guys if you choose to accept:

pick 3 of the following movies and incorporate them into a "D" ticket attraction:

-fox & the hound
-aristocats
-the rescuers down under
-sword in the stone
-the black cauldron

good luck

 

[PlutosRHM55]

thank you for carrying on my contest pluto... awhile ago aliceinhalloweentown ran an updated thread... if you need resources use disney blog spot... also you can't really train to be an imagineer, just your imagination...

there is 1 thing tho... imagineers don't always get to choose what they make... so here's my challenge to you guys if you choose to accept:

pick 3 of the following movies and incorporate them into a "D" ticket attraction:

-fox & the hound
-aristocats
-the rescuers down under
-sword in the stone
-the black cauldron

good luck

Well actually wdi2b, this isn't really a contest thread, but if you want it to you can put up little tests for us and see what happens. And you can call me Timmy if you want I'm going to try and do this one, though I don't know how you can incorporate movies into one attraction and I need to re-research myself on what D ticket attractions are, since I've heard the term but I forget by definition what they are.

 

[KaiYves]

That sounds like a really good idea KaiYves. Tomorrowland was originally almost like a mini-Epcot, almost as if it didn't seem very Disney-like until around awhile back where they made it look more futuristic, technological and space-travel-ish. So, this really is staying true to Walt's vision of Tomorrowland.

I know, right? Walt's original description of Tomorrowland was:

"A vista into a world of wondrous ideas, signifying man's achievements .... A step into the future with predictions of constructive things to come. Tomorrow offers new frontiers in science, adventure, and ideals, the atomic age, the challenge of outer space and the hope for a peaceful and unified world."

When he did the episodes of the Disneyland show about space travel in the 50s, they were described as "Tomorrowland adventures", because the idea was that Tomorrowland was where things like that happen. If you went to Tomorrowland, the idea was that you should feel like you might run into or peek in on engineers and scientists creating tomorrow.

I'm kinda having another Motion Simulator ride now that I've looked over your idea a few times or something along that line.

I'm way more artistically-minded then technically, so I didn't think much about the actual workings or tech of the ride, but if you're really into this, PM me and maybe we can do a ride design together, just for fun.

 

[PlutosRHM55]

I know, right? Walt's original description of Tomorrowland was:

"A vista into a world of wondrous ideas, signifying man's achievements .... A step into the future with predictions of constructive things to come. Tomorrow offers new frontiers in science, adventure, and ideals, the atomic age, the challenge of outer space and the hope for a peaceful and unified world."

When he did the episodes of the Disneyland show about space travel in the 50s, they were described as "Tomorrowland adventures", because the idea was that Tomorrowland was where things like that happen. If you went to Tomorrowland, the idea was that you should feel like you might run into or peek in on engineers and scientists creating tomorrow.

Exactly, but I think as years have gone by, they haven't been able to find any way to add another futuristic ride, since they spend so much time getting rid of those (i.e. Timekeeper). Though I think the theming nowadays there is something different, it mostly is about space travel at Tomorrowland, if you notice. All the rides are connected to that.

I'm way more artistically-minded then technically, so I didn't think much about the actual workings or tech of the ride, but if you're really into this, PM me and maybe we can do a ride design together, just for fun.

Oh you just reminded me, wdi2b and I were working on a ride together for the contest I mentioned at the beginning of this thread. I could work on this with you, but I think we are still working on that. Ours is a very interesting idea

 

[wdi2b]

pluto you guys can work on our original contest idea... the more the merrier

 

[brdlyleon]

this was a good idea!!!

Ever since my last visit to WDW, all I could do was look around and think of idea in which, Magic Kingdom especially, could expand. I thought up a Rapunzel kind of attraction, but it was so badly thought of that I don't remember anymore. One I do remember though is a sort of two vehicle ride in which instead of a queue, a certain amount of people get on a monorail-type vehicle, kinda like a dark ride, and go through slowly and watch scenes from a certain type of movie, or perhaps a mash-up. Then, you arrive at the end of that, where you get off, and anyone who is willing to take the more thrilling ride, can, and those who are too small or scared, can just exit the ride. Then, like I said, there would be a thrill ride of some sort. I thought it was cool

Then for another ride, as big of a success as Home on the Range was (sarcasm,) I thought there should be a ride for this too. This would be a definite thrill ride, mocking sort of one the last scenes in which they ride that mine cart when trying to kidnap Alamaeda Slim. I suppose it would be close to the concept of BTMR, but this would have an elevator, like the movie, where you ascend up, then go around like a coaster, then an elevator back down, like a drop, and it would have a launch system. A little like combining ToT and RnR all in one, without all the inversions. I think i'd ride that

 

[KaiYves]

Exactly, but I think as years have gone by, they haven't been able to find any way to add another futuristic ride, since they spend so much time getting rid of those (i.e. Timekeeper). Though I think the theming nowadays there is something different, it mostly is about space travel at Tomorrowland, if you notice. All the rides are connected to that.

Well, space travel per se isn't the enemy of real futurism. Every day when we watch satellite weather forecasts on the news, use GPS devices or engage in long-distance telecommunications, we're taking advantage of the fact that space travel is (Ariel voice) a real part of our world. The Earth is circled by thousands of artificial satellites, and there have been people living continuously in space for ten years on the International Space Station. This is all reality.

What's the enemy of real futurism is incredibly far-out and fantastic aspects of space travel. There's nothing wrong with having one ride that takes you to another star system (Space Mountain) or to infinity and beyond (Buzz Lightyear), but there's room in Tomorrowland for things related to the more immediate future.

 

[PlutosRHM55]

Well, space travel per se isn't the enemy of real futurism. Every day when we watch satellite weather forecasts on the news, use GPS devices or engage in long-distance telecommunications, we're taking advantage of the fact that space travel is (Ariel voice) a real part of our world. The Earth is circled by thousands of artificial satellites, and there have been people living continuously in space for ten years on the International Space Station. This is all reality.

What's the enemy of real futurism is incredibly far-out and fantastic aspects of space travel. There's nothing wrong with having one ride that takes you to another star system (Space Mountain) or to infinity and beyond (Buzz Lightyear), but there's room in Tomorrowland for things related to the more immediate future.

That is very true. I never thought of those rides that way. Yeah, I think immediate future would be better and probably grab others attention to test something out that is actually possible in the near future. Though, those rides, the immediate future ones would get outdated pretty fast.

 

[wicked.witch.of.wdw]

That is very true. I never thought of those rides that way. Yeah, I think immediate future would be better and probably grab others attention to test something out that is actually possible in the near future. Though, those rides, the immediate future ones would get outdated pretty fast.

That was actually the original idea behind Tomorrowland, to focus on progress and the immediate future, but it became more sci-fi because the attractions they were comming up with were outdated and obsolete by the time construction was done.

Just so I can say I added something, I'd love to see a roller coaster based off of Yzma and Kronk's ride down to the lab in New Groove. I know the movie didn't do so well, but it's got a decent sized fan base, and I've always thought that little mini-coaster would be so much fun XD

 

[PlutosRHM55]

That was actually the original idea behind Tomorrowland, to focus on progress and the immediate future, but it became more sci-fi because the attractions they were comming up with were outdated and obsolete by the time construction was done.

Just so I can say I added something, I'd love to see a roller coaster based off of Yzma and Kronk's ride down to the lab in New Groove. I know the movie didn't do so well, but it's got a decent sized fan base, and I've always thought that little mini-coaster would be so much fun XD

That would be a fun ride! I actually liked that movie. I thought it was pretty funny. Though it got old after awhile. But that would be another fun indoor rollercoaster. I'm imagining a pre-show in my head along with the opening sequence to the ride, before the roller coaster part comes in.