Another #ParkLoreLandline has joined the villa. UNIVERSAL KIDS RESORT in Frisco, Texas will open with seven lands centered on DreamWorks, Illumination, and Nickelodeon properties. What will its landline look like in 25 years? 🤔
See all my hand-drawn land-timelines at parklore.com/main/landlines!
DISNEY'S ANIMAL KINGDOM is perhaps the only Disney Park left that actually means something. Its consistent #ParkLoreLandline is an embodiment of that, and of the high thematic bar for entry. Pandora fit the brief. Will Tropical Americas?
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DISNEYLAND PARIS is famously the most beautiful and elegant "Castle Park," but it's also in suspended animation with no major new ride since 1995. The result is the ONLY #ParkLoreLandline with no change at all. Just ask fans: there's good AND bad in that lack of change.
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DISNEY'S HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS wasn't really initially meant to be a traditional "theme park," so tracking its lands relies on official designations on maps. The result is a #ParkLoreLandline as messy as the park's layout and focus, demonstrating eras of changing priorities.
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EPCOT opened with two realms – Future World & World Showcase. In many ways, they could also be defined as "technology & tradition"; "change & consistency." EPCOT's #ParkLoreLandline really shows those two extremes – a realm of continuous churn and one of relative steadiness...
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MAGIC KINGDOM borrowed Disneyland's late '60s set of lands (just substituting Liberty Square for New Orleans). It never added a rustic, forested Bear Country, but it did flirt with a temporary Toontown that evolved over several decades before being absorbed into a New Fantasyland. #ParkLoreLandline
Let's start at the beginning – DISNEYLAND. As this #ParkLoreLandline shows, Disneyland's lineup of lands has shown incredible consistency. How amazing is it that these literary lands have proven timeless and been "borrowed" by sister parks again and again? #ParkLoreLandlines
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I'm excited to share my newest nerdy, niche theme park storytelling & art project –LANDLINES! They're timelines... of parks' lands! I hope this gives us a new lens to "zoom out" and see the parks we love. #ParkLoreLandline
And here, I can share a link to the in-depth article! 🥳 buff.ly/a39Xu89!
In an hour, I'll be publishing a brand new #ParkLoreArt series, and I need your help! I spent a lot of time on this one, and if no one shares it and or engages, I think I'll basically just retire in shame. If you see it, share it! If you don't come find it at #ParkLoreLandline! 🥲
