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I was thinking it could be a water ride. Like it deposits the people into a pool, maybe a funnel-like finale for the ride that ejects the rider into a slide

Maybe after the funnel it goes to a part of the ride where the employees safely get people out of the ride and deposit them to a slide, while the now empty balls go to the beginning of the ride

This would also give more time for the photographs to process, as the people in the ride wait to safely exit the ball and transition into the slide part, and the time it takes to go through the slide, exit the pool, and reach the photography area.

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Maybe we could add a bubble-like inflatable protector around the ball and have it be like a marble race water ride, where the winner is determined by luck/starting position.

Then the exit pool could have screens watching the racers with an NASCAR-esque race announcer, and there could be a 'trophy ceremony' at the end of the race where the riders who got 1/2/3/Participated can take a picture with a trophy and an employee dressed up as an officiant. And maybe something special for breaking the World Record. Could be a very big draw for the park especially early on as the record would be easy to break in the beginning, attracting tons of people.

Having that performative thing after the race could allow for a stronger emotional connection to the photo and increase the % of people that purchase a photograph.




Edit: We could maybe add a second track that exits to another portion of the pool with it's own big screen and announcer, which could be helpful to reduce waiting time on the ride.

Perhaps we could get an olympic sponsorship? Have a ton of rides in the water park be different 'events', to give people many opportunities for victory.
 
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Umm... question... wouldn't we have to lock people into these "marbles" which would likely be some form of transparent plastic... I'm not sure how our lawyers would react to us "sealing customers in inflatable balls with limited oxygen (or possible causing injury with limbs falling through the holes.) having them "bounce" into each other on a water slide or submerged underwater.
 
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Firebringer2077 said:
Umm... question... wouldn't have to lock people into these "marbles" which would likely be some form of transparent plastic... I'm not sure how our lawyers would react to us "sealing customers in inflatable balls with limited oxygen (or possible causing injury with limbs falling through the holes.) having them "bounce" into each other on a water slide or submerged underwater.
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Zorbing is a thing, though we are a bit ahead of the curve there and Water balls have been a thing since 1971.
 
There room for one or maybe two big ticket water shinies in a water park, the rest should be stuff like standard pools, wave pools, hot tubs, lazy rivers, water slides, maybe a surfing simulator, water playgrounds like those floating foam disks that are hard to balance on or two pirate ships armed with watergun "cannons" or those colorful gates and channels and basins in the shallow end for kids to play with.
 
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These are the maps from 2006 or so, iirc. Blizzard Beach hasn't seen any changes afaik, but typhoon lagoon gained a slide to the east and the shark lagoon was replaced with more beach chairs (the crush n' gusher slides were added in the 2k's, if you take them out you should have the park on open). Both parks have a large main attraction (summit plummet and wave pool, respectively), a kiddie area, and a lazy river, as well as a variety of slides. A zorb style water attraction is possible, but it'd be unwieldy at best, in all likelihood.
 
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Lille Land Plot, France, Mid-1986
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    • Well, I have a feeling we might be needing this soon. Presenting Lille Disney, after talking with Slynnwen about where precisely the park would be. Obviously when we figure out planning and what not I can add those in. Just to give you an idea Disneyland could comfortably fit in the build zone north of the Purple Line (which is a French Freeway, the blackline that makes the North boundary is a rail line.) You might be able to squeeze in an EPCOT but it would be pretty tight with no room for much maintenance or expansion area.


     
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    Giant&small land?

    For the marble olympics.
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    You know... I know you are talking about the Marble Olympics... but... what about the actual Olympics? Theoretically I could see the Board or the President (or more realistically either LA, or Orlando) asking us to be on the Olympic committee for a bid, or theoretically any major city in the US
     
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    I'm still not parsing how my Animal Kingdom idea corresponds to this marble thing. At all.
     
    -[x] Don Bluth
    -[X] Wait on the tech. It worked for Space Mountain, it'll work here.
    -[X] All aboard the nautilus. People (or your imagineers, at least) seem to love Verne, and you don't want to deny them.
    -[x] Value.
    -[x] Lille Disney.

    Slynnwen said:
    I'd argue that the initial accident was a 15-20, but the responses afterward caused it to get much worse. The 08 here is "the steam explosion sent graphite everywhere, and all of Pripyat is currently burning to the ground in radioactive hellfire, and another reactor got set off." It's much more directly, obviously worse, to the point that it garners a faster, more immediate response. It's also very easy to peg Chernobyl IRL as lower since we haven't got that much to compare it to, but here I'm comparing it to everything worse that can go wrong. Secondary explosions taking out the fire trucks sent to combat the blazes, hidden fires continuing out of sight for weeks, etc.
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    ...Did the lava reach the water under the plant?

    Or are we "only" at the point where the divers who went into the dark a.) didn't come back after completing their mission, or b.) came back but quickly wished they'd died?
     
    From what Slynnwen said, there's fires all over the place and two reactors blew but nothing as catastrophic as a secondary steam explosion from the water table being hit. I bet there's going to be another roll for how well the international cleanup effort works next quarter.
     
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    KnightDisciple said:
    ...Did the lava reach the water under the plant?

    Or are we "only" at the point where the divers who went into the dark a.) didn't come back after completing their mission, or b.) came back but quickly wished they'd died?
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    Bearing in mind that I am very, very far from being a nuclear expert, and that when I say "radioactive waste hit Pripyat" I mean small radioactive chunks got blasted there, releasing the radiation more directly onto the town, you're at the point where the divers did not come back. However, I'm still writing up more, but...

    Soviet response: Rolled 25+15 (Devoting large efforts to quell the issue), 40. Not quite good enough.
    European response: Rolled 69+10 (it's right next to us!), 79. Quick response.
    American response: Rolled 56. Not as much bickering as there could have been, sending teams will gain experience.
    Effectiveness of responses: Rolled 97+10 (quick European response) -5 (poor Soviet response), 102. Containment process underway, "total" containment projected for start of July. While large amounts of radiation were released, the global response was able to arrive timely, largely thanks to the efforts of European nations. Time will tell how bad the disaster ends up being, but for now, the immediate danger of further explosions or meltdowns is out of the way, and the bulk of the radioactive material is being doused by a constant stream of helicopters and planes.
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    From what Slynnwen said, there's fires all over the place and two reactors blew but nothing as catastrophic as a secondary steam explosion from the water table being hit. I bet there's going to be another roll for how well the international cleanup effort works next quarter.
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    Nah, rolls this quarter. The USSR realized pretty quickly that this was going to be a Big Problem, and sent out the call for aid before the end of April.
     
    Thank God. iwas concerned about the fallout to be honest. This amount of radiation can easily expand and extend to many areas of Europe, and to clean it is not easy at all. So to hear that Europe, America and the USSR actually managed to coopereate and stop the spreading of the radiation is good news.

    However I think this is the beginning of the end of the USSR, even more than before I don't see them surviving till 1991 like in OTL.
     
    Yeah, it's a real bad look that the USSR couldn't deal with alone and needed the combined aid of the west to pull their ass out of the fire.
     
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