[X] Plan Random
-[X] Tomorrow's Tomorrowland
-[X] Tour de Force
-[X] Finish the Rhine River Cruise
-[X] A New Hotel (value level resort)
-[X] Expand the Monorail, Shopping District
-[X] Touching Up Touchstone
-[X] The Bunny, the Mouse, and the Rabbit
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MAJOR BOARD GOALS
{} - Build a New Hotel, by the end of 1985
{} - Complete a New Ride in EPCOT, by the end of 1985
{} - Begin Planning (at least 5 successes) a New Resort, by the end of 1985
MINOR BOARD GOALS
{} - Find an Adviser, by the end of 1985
{} - Improve the Walt Disney World Village, by the end of 1985
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This quarter was… interesting, to say the least. You made some good progress in developing the overall resort at Florida, except for the infinite problems with trying to get the Rhine River Cruise going. Which you're trying very hard not to think about. Well, that and the latest "movie" from Touchstone, if you're willing to call it that. Still, the future of your movie department is looking incredibly bright, with how the meeting for "Who Censored Roger Rabbit" went.
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-[X] Tomorrow's Tomorrowland: The future just isn't what it used to be, and never has that been more apparent than Tomorrowland. It's time for a major redesign of this section of the park, in order to keep it from becoming wildly outdated. You have Frontierland for that.
DC: 15 per success, requires 30 successes. Currently: 3/30 successes, +5 to rolls.
Benefits: Automatic refurbishment of all rides in Tomorrowland, with updates to bring them in line with a more modern look at the future. May replace up to 3 rides in Tomorrowland with no chance of PR hit, does not count towards yearly ride replacement limit. May build 1 new ride in Tomorrowland, does not count towards yearly ride build limit. Massive PR boost. +5 to Eisner/Disney relationship.
Results: 25, +5 from previous progress. Total: 30. 2 successes, 5 total.
You did not have a great time working on Tomorrowland this quarter. Oh, sure, Lucas' pitch for a Star Wars ride was great, and you're certain that you're going to use it. But it did require a couple of things in other areas to get moved around. You're just glad that the work you did earlier on gave you enough wiggle room to plan around it.
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-[X] Tour de Force: George Lucas was running around with the imagineers a couple months back, and he's pitched the idea of a Star Wars themed flight simulator. It's exactly the sort of ride you think could slot into your Tomorrowland plans.
DC: 30.
Benefits: Gain 4 successes on
Tomorrow's Tomorrowland. One of the replacement slots or the new ride slot must be given to Star Tours, a Star Wars themed motion simulator ride.
Results: 44, +5 from previous progress. Total: 49. Success, now 9 total on overall project.
You met with George, then you both met with the imagineers, and you've got a solid ride planned out. It looks like a sure-fire hit, given the popularity of Star Wars. More than that, George happened across the planning for "Roger Rabbit," too…
Continued in "So when you said everyone…"
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-[X] Finish the Rhine River Cruise: This was planned for the German pavilion, but a number of development setbacks have kept it from seeing the light of day. You might be able to clear those up, if you're willing to throw enough money at the problem.
DC: 20 per success, requires 6 successes to complete.
Benefits: Increased park draw, PR boost with Germany and increased attendance from Germany.
Results: 1, +10 from developing in Reedy Creek. Total: 11. Natural Critical Failure.
This ride is cursed. There's no other explanation. You could understand delays. You could understand the occasional bad shipment. You could even understand accidents, or running into some hitherto unheard of national level regulation. But all of these things? At once? No wonder the ride plans were abandoned, if this is what everyone had to deal with.
-1d6 of successes. No successes to lose. 1d3 successes added to total success cost, +2 successes needed to complete project. 0/8 successes currently.
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-[X] A New Hotel: Hey, the people coming to the parks need somewhere to stay, and why not on a Disney property?
DC: 10 per success, requires 10/15/20 successes, for value/moderate/deluxe level resort.
Benefits: Move to Groundbreaking Stage.
Results: 76, +10 from developing in Reedy Creek. Total: 86. 8 total successes.
Planning the new hotel, by contrast, was easy.
Continued in "The Only Way to Stay, part 1."
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-[X] Expand the Monorail, Shopping District: You've got a bunch of easy locations for monorail expansion, but getting a line out to the shopping district could really help speed things along.
DC: 25.
Benefits: -10 to DC per success at the shopping village, applies the turn this is taken if successful and taken the same turn as Improve the Shopping District.
Results: 67, +10 from developing in Reedy Creek. Total: 77. Greater Success.
On top of that, it turned out the materials you need to expand the monorail to the shopping district were half the cost you expected. You easily have enough left in the budget to add the new hotel to the line as well.
-10 to DC per success at shopping village. Continued in "The Only Way to Stay, part 2."
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-[X] Touching Up Touchstone: The live action portion of Disney Studios has been in a bit of a slump lately. A couple of hits, whatever Tron was… But it's nowhere close to the sort of movie house it could be, and you won't let it continue on like that. You had Paramount working on the theory of singles and doubles instead of home runs, and you know it can work here.
DC: 20.
Benefits: Movies are made much cheaper and with a focus on storytelling instead of grabbing big name actors. Vastly reduced penalty for any failed movies, +10 bonus to live action movie quality rolls while this is your production style.
Results: 20, no modifiers. Exact success.
You have literally no idea how you managed to get this done. It should have been easy. It should have taken, at most, a week. Instead you had to spend a whole month going around and making sure everyone got the memo. You had to constantly remind people that no, you were not going to shell out for whoever the current biggest name in Hollywood was, and that no, you weren't just going to hope that actors could cover up flaws in the script. Was it this difficult at Paramount? But, after all your work, you got the message through. Story-driven, low budget films. Back to basics. It was just too late for anything left coming out this year.
Production style in progress of switching over, will not fully take effect until JAN-FEB-MAR 1986.
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-[X] The Bunny, the Mouse, and the Rabbit: Frank has been going over the scripts and test footage of "Who Censored Roger Rabbit?" He thinks this could be big, the sort of live-action/animation blend that revolutionizes film making. What's more, he's asked around, and everyone wants a piece of this. Everyone.
DC: 35.
Benefits: Bring everyone on to the project. Spielberg as director, characters from Warner Bros., Fleischer, King, Turner, Felix, Universal, everyone. +50 quality to eventual film roll for "Who Censored Roger Rabbit?"
Results: 96, no modifiers. Magical Success.
Your first slightly hysterical thought, upon entering the room, was that the feds were going to arrive at any moment and arrest all of you for trying to form a monopoly.
Continued in "So when you said everyone…"
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Movies released this quarter: "Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend."
During an expedition into Central Africa, paleontologist Dr. Susan Matthews-Loomis (Sean Young) and her husband George Loomis (William Katt) attempt to track down evidence of a local monster legend. The monster, which the local natives refer to as Mokele-mbembe, shares many characteristics with the Sauropod order of dinosaurs. During the expedition, they discover Brontosaurus in the deep jungle and are further amazed when the animals show very little fear of them. The couple begins observing the creatures and become especially enamored with the curious young offspring of the pair, whom they nickname "Baby". Unfortunately, the discovery soon places the dinosaurs in jeopardy from both the local military as well as fellow scientist Dr. Eric Kiviat (Patrick McGoohan).
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend
Release Date: March 22, 1985
Quality roll: 31. Universally panned.
Appeal roll: 47, -20 for low quality. 27. Box office failure.
The attempt to change up your production style came far, far, too late for this movie. You just hope this doesn't scare anyone off your current projects.
-5 Board Approval.
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Notable Events: Disneyland now open every day of the week.
Disney Channel has begun turning a profit.
Charles Nash, voice of Donald Duck for over 50 years, dies of Leukemia.
AN: "The Only Way to Stay, Part 1" should be up within the next 15 minutes or so. Relationship table will be updated accordingly.
