Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Tourist Attractions

Tourist Attractions


1.A long winding yellow brick road up a mountain like the yellow brick road in Oz

2.A wax work musuem in a cylinder shaped building with wax statues of superheroes (in order of their appearance.)

3.A superheroe headquarters on an island.

4.A ‘spaceship’ like the Entertprise from Star Trek

5.A massive balloon like the Death Star suspended above the land.


Theme Parks

1.Adventure Park
2.Candy Country
3.Gardens and Roses
4.Born Free
5.Space World
6.Story Book Land


1.Adventure Park

-The park is set on an island that is a large area of land with a man made ‘moat’ dug around it.
-Gives people a chance to experience ‘sort of adventures’
-Gives people thrills/scary rides too
-People must get to the island in a sort of fantastic submarine
-In addition to the features described here ther care attractions from movies,books etc… including ones from public domain characters

-(Ride or Attraction)A ride around the great mysteries of the Earth
-This section is in the middle of the island
-It is about the size of a few branches of the Warehouse
-At the centre of it is Atlantis-a foreboding but futuristic city
-Around the city is divisions of three
-1.snow mountains for Yeti
-2.everglades for Bigfoot
-3.a lake for the Loch Ness Monster
-Atlantis is at the centre with a dome with water around it
The other major mystery used is the ‘Bermuda Triangle,’which fits in with being lost at sea like Atlantis
-Under an area of it are creatures,wreacks of planes etc…that are controlled by electronics that jump out and whiz around

-(Ride or Attraction)On the island are tram traks in the air over the island
-They transport the tourists through the air on small carriages that carry half a dozen peole each
-They are designed to look like the ‘Gump’from Oz books
-It is shaped like
-2 couches fastened together
-palm branche wings on each side
-a moose’s head at the front
-a broomsticktail
-The moose’s head can talk

-(Ride or Attraction)The Haunted House
-People enter in the groups of 6 that they travel in
-Each group always has a guide
-The Haunted House looks like a Witch’s Hat
-The Witch is a woman dressed in black with green hair and skin
-The Witch has traps around the castle
-She sometimes appears and grabs you (a controlled manequin)
-There is her army of huge spiders that are in piles(also controlled manequins)
-While walking around actors dressed up like creatures jump out and grab people
-There is the sound os screaming throughout the castle
-Visitors can tour different area of the castle
-There are 2 keys to the castle.
-In a darkened room with a spinning wheel/large crystal ball,the Witch can see anywhere in her castle with cameras
-The object or key to the game is to retreive the key for this room and unlock the entrance to the castle before the Witch can get you



-(Ride or Attraction)An attraction like ‘Star Wars’
-This time people travel by themselves(one at a time)
-They travel in small flying saucers
-Their enemies are like the ‘Empire’
-The Empire’s base is housed in sa circular wheel shaped base(and flat on it’s side)
-The flying saucers whiz around with their paths controlled by computer(not by the piolit)
-There are 3 main tasks/goals for the piolit
1.travel through a maze of tunnels inside the base to reach the centre and blast the main control room.This will ‘blow up’ the base/creates a lot of lights when this happens.The first piolit of each group who does this is th winner
2.The ship the piolit rides in,is bombarded by meteors.In reality this is just an area of rocks the saucer flies through.The piolits must use the cotrols like a video game to try to blow up the ship
3.The saucer must go into’Hyper Drive’.When this happens the saucer accelerates to incredible speeds

-(Ride or Attraction)
-Super Heroe Ride or Attraction
-You are ‘The Key’(a super heroe)
-You must fight the evil computer ‘Comptroller’
-He is a massive head made up of a lot of Televion sets
-You have an arsenal of crime fighting equipment
-These are used to fight the Comptroller
-4 of them are
1.Guns that fire loads of sticky stuff
2.Grenades that when a key/tab is removed releaes sleeping gas (you wear a mask)
3.Infra red glasses(to see in the dark)
4.Blackout bombs
-The object of the mission is to pass through different obstacles set up by Comptroller to reach the top of him to destroy him.If you can use the fighting equipment that is good,if you can’t that is not important
-The attraction is one that allows the first person to win,and the next players to come second and third etc…

-(Ride or Attraction)The Rotating Room
-The Rotating Rooms are controlled by an evil Teddy Bear
-Each person must travel through different rooms before reaching the end
-Each of the rooms rotate
-You must be able to balance yourself as the room spins
-One of the Rotating Rooms is a room with a tunnel through the middle with water all around it
-Another of the rooms shakes as you pass through it
-At certain times.like if you make a mistake,the place where you are standing rotates like a whee,so you are back to where you started
-When a person gets to the Teddy Bear at the end he must stand on a cushioned platform which will raise him out of the attraction

-(Ride or Attraction)Ride on Air
-This is meant to be a really long and scary ride
-It accelerates and de-celerates again and again on and off
-Some of the features you pass through
1.are skimming over ponds with dangerous creatures jumping up and appearing above the water
2.Travelling downwards at amazing speeds round and round in a temple like in ‘Indiana Jones’
3.Entering a Clown’s mask with him laughing and travelling through different rooms designed to look like a clown
4.The ‘Trams’ shaking while over footage/or real volcanoes and earthquakes
5.The Trams travelling down a hillside followed by different objects rolling behin you
6.Piles of living snakes and spiders etc…coming down around the Tram
7.A circular tour of the island as fast as possible
8.As well as these attractions the park has a lot of other ‘adventure themed’attractions



2 Candy Country

-Candy Country is an amusement park based around ‘Candy’
-It is based inside a number of large warehouses
-A warehouse building filled as with many of the cookies from around the world as possible
-A small cottage made entirley of chocolate and different sorts of candies.Each morning it is replaced.People can bite lumps out of it.(Except the floor which is covered)
-Each day at 12 (miday and midnight) there is a street procession around Candy Country where sweets are thrown out
-In a park/wood like area runs a stream.The stream has soft drinks in it.The flavours automatically change throughout the day.People can use cups to drink out of it.They can’t go into the drink
-People can make their own sweets
-There is a souvenir shop there
-Around the park walk attendants dressed as colourfull animal characters
-Around the park and along the ‘stream’ rides a ‘barge’.It travels on both water and land,along tracks.Ocasionally sweets rain down upon the barge,and the visitors try to fill up buckets with the sweets
-While in the park,the customers buy ‘lunch pails’ .For every lunch pail they buy they can fill with candy
-Around the park,on the trees,hang toffee apples and rum balls.Each day the workers put out more of these on the trees
-There is a sort of zoothere.It is an open area where non-dangerous wildlife animals lived together.(At the front of the park and all behind a tall fence,so anyone can see the animals from the road)
-In the Wicked Witche’s home a group of witches show visitors how the candy is made
-In ‘DreamLand’(part of Candy Land) there are lots of small homes in the traditional designs of their own countries.Each of these homes have candies that are from that country
-Visitors can travel in a ‘jeep’ around the wildlife park,throwing (non-sweet)foods to the animals
-In the middle of Candy Country is an upright mountain in the shape of a pole.The top of it rotates for a full view of the park for visitors



2.Gardens and Roses

-This is a theme park that makes fun of theme parks
-Around the park march workers dressed as security gaurds which look like terrible/dangerous cartoon/cuddly characters
-Visitors take a ride on a ballon like/pad that bounces them around like having sex
-The security gaurds reguarly pelt people who cause trouble with water etc… like a group of crooked police
-There is a ‘Ground Quake’room.Inside this the floor sways viontley from side to side
-Through a curtained door in it is the entrance to the ‘Some Hot Some Not’ the swimming pool area
-Allthe workers are attractive,all the visitoprs must wear bikinis or speedos,the male workers wear sarongs,the female workers wear tight pants and a brief top like a ‘T’design
-There are hot and cold pools
-These is also a continous Fish and Chipc bar here called ‘Fish and Chicks’-In one of the pools there are tournaments
-On top of the water are long padded “rugs’.2 people stand at each end of the pad
-They each have a padded pole and must try to knock their opponents off
-There is an aquarium
-It is filled with dangerous water based animals like alligators etc…in different tanks.
-At five o’ clock each day,all of the workers strip to their underwear,and usinbg hoses,spray people with alocohol
-There is the ‘Anudemalium’ Super Heroe Souvenir Shop
-This shop sells a variety of souvenirs,such as novelties, T-Shirts,lava lamps etc…
-Scary Tale Land(part of Garden and Roses)
-In this there are different cubicles
-Each cubibcle has a different Fairy Tale setting using Fairy Tale chracters in the same sort of designs as a Disney Movie/but different enough
In each of the displays the characters and items are mechanical,and can mive and do things
-The settings make fun of fairy tales a lot like the ‘Itchy and Scratchy’ segments of ‘the Simpsons’



4.Born Free

-A ‘Garden Theme Park’
-In spots around the park(if possible) are flowers etc…based on characters from literature
-Some of the characters that can be used are ones like fairy tale characters
-There is a café area
-Around and above it are trees and scrubs etc… from around the world
-The café also sells specialty foods from different countries
-There is a space display
-This is designed to look like a map of our solar system using plants
-There is a New Zealand Wildlife Area with New Zealand wildlife such as kiwis
-As part of this display a brief history of the country and the birds are given
-There is a public bath/hot pool
-People can pit their feet in the hot water
-In the Roses area,a Massive Atlas/picture of the world is maed up of different coluured roses for each of the different areas of the world
-There is also a duck pond etc…People can feed the birds
-In another area there are more placid animals
-People can also feed them
-These animals are behind enclosures
-They go in and out of’small’castles etc…eg:moats
-Allof the main makes of flowers,have a section or display of them,such as with water ,or a windmill display
-In ‘Land of Nz’ is a New Zealand themed section with New Zealand displays like a New Zealand museum(and not just plant based themes)
-There is a flower shop
-From here you can send flowers and/or gifts to people
-They also make and send New Zealand bottled fruit etc…
-Throughout the park,speakers play relaxing music
-Also trhroughout the park often are different clusters of scrubs,flowers,trees etc…



5.Space World

-Space World is a theme park based around space
-A large room with mobiles hung from the ceiling of the planets and moons of our solar system revolving around the sun
-A room,about the the size of a decent book shop which is designed to look like the inside of a rocket.There are rows of seats to sit in that move along with the rocket.There are also lights/sounds and displays on a screen at the front
-Day passes/or weekend passes give a person the chance to train like an astronaut really does.(Also with an examination for a ‘qualification’)
-A walk through gallery with models and a guide that explains facts such as the orogins of the sun
-A ride to ‘scare’ people.You strap yourself into a space shuttle like ride that blasts upwards fast and then down again
-In th Anti-Gravity Room a cord is attached to you and without gravity,you get the chance to ‘fly’
-In the middle of the Space World builing is a massive globe of the Earth(like only the top half showing)
-The entire builing is designed to look futuristuic.A lot of it is white,like something out of ;Star Trek’/a modern retirement home
-over the globe and around areas of Space Wiorld runs a train for the visitors
-‘World Store’This is a souvenir shop here.They sell items related to sd=pace eg:Sci-Fi books,gemes etc…encycopedias,gifts
-‘The Captain’s Log’.This is a resturant at Space World.It has all you can east baffet for one price.The inside is like a resturant may look like one day in a spaceship like from ‘Star Trek’
-‘Reasearch Institute’In a computer room are rows of computers programmed to give the user information about the history of space
-(If possible)’Outer Space’.This is a big room(abouyt the size of a big church).The room is circular.Around the sides rotate.Around the walls are displays about “space in Fiction’.The room is all black and darkened.The floor has white spots that people stand on.The spots that people stand on are about the size of a chair seat
-At night every night is a big display of fireworks over Space World
-In this display,each couple of people get into a space ship like yhr X-Wings from ‘Star Wars’.The ships run on tracks.They travel in the dark/space.Below is a moon like surface.On the ground is a amusement park like a circus.There is scary creatures that move/pop up as each of group of spaceships fly around


6.Story Book Land

-This is a theme park based around characters from literature that can’t be copywritted such as the originals of Snow White,Tom Thumb etc…
-To enter Story Book Land you must go through a tall open book at the gates
-As well, each time you enter a new section,you must go through another opened book door
-Twice a day,workers dressed up as charavters.parade around the grounds throwing out candy bars,occasionally giving gifts,greeting children,and letting people take photos with them
-At the centre of Story Book Land is a resturant on a tower like the Sky Tower(but only a few levels tall)
-Thr resturant rotates giving a good look/view of all of the park
-In the bottom of the tower,are displays on the history of children’stories
-There is a lake/moat with a river going around the park
-There arew gondela rides around the park(each boat has a guide)
-Passengers travel around the park on these
-All arouind the park,is a yellow brick road like from ‘Oz’
-One of the attractions is like a wax-works museum.There is a winding passageway with mechanical manequins of fairy tale characters from Grimms Brothers and Hans Christian Anderson main/most stories.The passageway is darkened with the dispays lit up.The maneqiuins in them can move
-Another of the attractions are a display of true characters from history such as Daniel Boone.Edmund Hillary etc…There are statues set up in a garden/park like area,with flowers,trees etc…People can take photos with them
-A games area has qames like lawn bowls,p-tonk,lawn chess,minature golf withg the props based on story book characters
-An adventure ride takes passengers around an area of the patk on a roller coaster ride.As you journey you pass by characters etc…from stories who jump and mone around to scare you
-The New Zealand Museum area is about the size of a warehouse,It has an area of merchandise for sale.Most of it thiugh,is a dispay of as many of the children’s books as possible from New Zealand,as well as New Zealan heroes like Edmund Hillary etc…
-In another area of the park is a small town.Each of the homes in it is based on a different fairy tale.You can enter rthem
-Heroes from Literture.This is about non-fairy tale characters.At different times each day,actors reinact scenes from stories for the visitors
-Another attraction is like the Hollywood Walk of Fame.Each pavement is made up of a picture of a story book character.If possible,the pavements automativally slide along like a method of transport

1 comment:

Matthew Ager said...

Hi Matt, Sarah here

Just checking your blog. 16 February 2010.