Tag: Disney
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Why Theme Parks Need To Stop The Obsession With IP Lands!
The competition between Universal and Disney is an ever changing, high stake battle between two industry giants. It all really began back in the late 1980’s, when MGM Studios and Universal Studios Orlando opened just one year apart. The battle has raged on ever since and within this tussle we have seen different trends emerge…
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Walt Disney Studios Park – Can Disney save their worst park?
The Walt Disney Studios Park in Paris, is officially moving away from ‘how it’s done’ soundstages to immersive worlds. These fully realised adventure worlds will become the focus of the park’s new identity and appear as realms that guests discover as they navigate deeper within the park. The park is planning on an expansion on…
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Disney’s FORGOTTEN Water Park Gators
Over the years, Disney has created a number of original characters for their theme parks. Some fade quickly into obscurity, whilst others become icons of the parks; Think The Orange Bird or Figment. In fact, two of Disney’s more obscure original characters were not designed for their theme parks but actually find their homes in…
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The Failure of Movie Studio Theme Parks – What Happened?
Millions of people a year visit theme parks to escape the realities of everyday life, so it’s no surprise that most revolve around themes of fantasy and adventure, drawing on already established literary and cinematic genres for inspiration. This idea has remained at the heart of most theme parks, allowing us, the guests, to travel…
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Disney’s Most Misunderstood Land – DinoLand U.S.A.
DinoLand U.S.A. finds it home within Walt Disney World’s most intricately themed park. With land’s like Asia, Africa and Pandora, the standard’s for theming here are high. Thus, when most people find themselves walking through DinoLand U.S.A., they are confused to say the least. Why on earth is such a sparse and kitschy land housed…
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Disneyland Paris’ Disastrous Opening 100 Days
From its opening day in 1992, Disneyland Paris, then Euro Disneyland, was plagued by cultural clashes, financial woes, marketing snafus, and even a terrorist attack. Less famous than Disneyland’s disastrous opening day in 1955, Euro Disneyland certainly had its own opening day catastrophe. But, even more than this, the following one hundred days provide a…
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Why Do We Wait? (Psychology Of Theme Park Queues)
How can theme parks be such fun places, when we have to spend the majority of our time there waiting in long lines? Often, you’re looking at a twenty minute to an hour long queue for an experience that lasts no longer than a few minutes. How can this ever be worth it and why…
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The Impact of Walt Disney on Epcot Center
Before Epcot became a theme park, it was arguably Walt Disney’s most outlandish idea of his career. Largely inspired by architect Victor Gruen, the “Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow” was Walt Disney’s innovative urban idea, which he hoped would provide an antidote to the decay of American cities. Walt’s idea for Epcot was deemed impractical,…
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Disney’s Upcharge Event’s Are NOT Worth The Cost
Hollywood Studios, once home to Disney’s most celebrated holiday offering, The Osborne Lights, has this year decided to place their large-scale festive offerings behind a paywall. Such a thing isn’t out of the ordinary for Disney. Magic Kingdom has been home to Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party and Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party for…
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Disney Animatronics, Animation and the Uncanny Valley
Theme parks, outside of their haunted houses and halloween events, don’t typically strive to be horrifying. Disney theme parks particularly aim to stray away from frightening their guests. But sometimes, despite their best efforts, some people just have an aversion to certain types of attractions. Now when it’s motion sickness that’s the complaint, that’s an…