The Imagineering Story

In this episode Zoe and Clayton talk about their recent trip to an R&D facility where they learn about 3D printing and prototyping. In addition to this they spend time sharing an original story they came up with telling the origins of the Timeless Tales land of the theme park. Come hear the tale of Mr. and Mrs. Huggins and how their imagination and love led to the creation of Mr. Huggins Wonderful Living Library. Shout out to EquipmentShare for showing us around their R&D department. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1331651287620511 Also make sure to join our facebook group in order to get updates and see our progress. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1331651287620511

Welcome back!!! In this episode we continue our exploration of the eight different theme ideas that we have come up with thus far. In the first episode we covered four ideas and in this episode we tackle 4 (and a half) more. These ideas include my personal favorite The Main Frame (a world inside a computer), The Box (a land devoted to board games), The Clock (a world exploring time) and The Body (a land devoted to the human body). But wait, didn't I say 4 and a half. Listen as we come up with a new idea right on the spot! You will have to tune in to learn what this capital idea is.

We are finally ready to start talking about the themes that our theme park will have. This is the first part of a two-part episode that will discuss four different theme ideas we have contrived. The discussion explores rides, attractions, food, experiences and concepts that these areas would possess. Join us to hear more about these themes which include: Timeless Tales (a magical library), Subterra (an original underworld), Candyland (a tasty and joy-filled land) and also a land too be named later that explores the four core elements of earth, wind, fire and water. These are just the first four ideas that we have come up with and the next episode will contain four more. PLUS: We share a fantastic idea that was dreamed up by one of our devoted listeners.

We are back! After a little break we are going to be releasing a couple episodes just after the new year. In those episodes we will be exploring 8 different themes we have come up with for our theme park. Join us January 4th when we dive back into building a theme park together.

We went to Disneyland for Eleanor's birthday! As we enjoyed our time, Zoe and I made some observations. We thought you would enjoy hearing them and that  we also know these observations will help us in our endeavor to design and build a theme park. During this episode we also introduce you to a tool that we are using to design and visualize the park called Planet Coaster. This tool is a video game that you can also play and begin to let your imagination run wild with. We also talked about our new facebook group were you will be able to see posts and updates from us throughout the week and our new YouTube channel where we will be posting videos of our works in progress and showing off the tools that we are using to do the actual design. Resources: YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/@webuildthemepark Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1331651287620511

The Happiest Place on Earth didn't happen on accident. That may seem obvious, but do you realize just how much time, thought and effort went into creating the gold standard for theme parks, namely Disneyland? Join us as we share the lessons we gleaned from Disney+'s tremendous 6-part series called the "Imagineering Story." In this episode we will talk a little about our own experiences (including a guest experience from little sister Eleanor) and we will talk about how Disney Imagineers created those experiences. We will also share quotes and insights that we gathered from the series as well. Resources The Imagineering Story - Disney+ Interact You can help support this show by visiting https://anchor.fm/webuildthemepark/support. We would also love to hear from you! You can leave us a message at https://anchor.fm/webuildthemepark/message.

Rides, books, characters, songs, feelings, movies, people, history, civilization, religion... where can we pull reference from when we are attempting to begin the creative process? In this episode we explore that question. We don't merely explore that question we actually go through an exercise where we identify, sort and group these references in a way that reveals to us what natural themes we would like to have be a part of our theme park. We will be practicing the art of "silent sorting" this week. Come join us for some fun and laughter and you may just learn a thing or two also. Thank you for all our listeners from the first week. We are going to continue to invite your feedback and in a couple weeks we will be taking time to respond to and address some of the feedback we have received. In the meantime if you would like to contact us you can do that by going to anchor.fm/webuildthemepark there you will be able to leave a message for us and we would love to respond to you. You can also leave a review on Apple Podcasts or you can answer our questions for the episodes on our Spotify feed. We would love to hear from you!

You may be wondering, “who are these crazy people and what do they mean by ‘We are Building a Theme Park?’” In this episode Clayton and Zoe introduce themselves and the podcast, dive into the creative process, and share their “success criteria” for this project. They also share what the “end-product” may look like and from where some of their inspiration has come (including novels, Disney parks and documentaries). Interact by: Sending us a voice message at https://anchor.fm/we-build-theme-park/message Shoutout to: Josiah Bryan - Play Time (bumper music) The Imagineering Story - Disney+