Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design Show - Episodes Tagged with “Hollywood Studios”

Scene Change vs Gear Change

Jim Murphy & Scottye Moore — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 02:00:00 -0500

This week, we celebrate (????) Zach Synder's birthday by creating attractions with a sort of Director's Cut. First up, JimCity takes the remnants of the Great Movie Ride and challenges guests to improve it, which isn't all that hard if you think about it. Then, Scottye shares the deleted scenes of Journey Into Imagination, and it might shock you to find out who was cut out of the attraction. Then again, if you've listened before, you will not be shocked at all.

Support Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design Show

Abstract vs Impressionist

Jim Murphy & Scottye Moore — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 02:00:00 -0400

This week, we discuss an unfortunate incident involving bugs and an unnannounced bunch of dinosaurs before getting down to business with making some, well, multiple choice additions to our theme parks.

First up, Jim invites guests to step into Jiminy Studios and don some VR goggles as they strap into Absttraction, a ride all about creating your own art that you can take home (for a price, of course).

Then, we take a mild detour into the world of Mountain Dew. It only very tangentially makes any sense in context. Jim still has not experienced Voo-Dew.

Scottye rights the theme park ship and decends into The Big City of Party Town to Fake It Till You Make It, a grand tower of bars and lounges that you must navigate through by sheer charm and wit for a chance to visit The Penthouse. If you don't have what it takes, don't worry, you can still get rather drunk and ride a bunch of elevators.

Be sure to check out our Facebook page for more fun, including some deeper dives into this season's attractions should we feel the need to elaborate.

A Song Of Thames And Men

Jim Murphy & Scottye Moore — Mon, 24 Aug 2020 02:00:00 -0400

This week, it's our season finale, and what better way to finish off our music theme park than by taking a seventy-four hour quiz and creating attractions based on the Greatest Band In The World, The Thamesmen...I mean Spinal Tap. First up, Jim takes guests on a BPM Backstage Tour hosted by the band and all the trials and tribulations that entails. Then, Scottye decides to fix a problem in the only way a theme park can, by having you the guest design a new drummer for the band and put it (it doesn't need a gender, its life is not sacred) through its paces. Adults only for the handling test, please.

See you in two weeks for season 10 (!!)

Support Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design Show

A Song of Giants And Films

Jim Murphy & Scottye Moore — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 02:00:00 -0400

This week, we discuss our lost TMBG episode and then take a quiz about classical music and Disney, which wasn't exactly planned. Then, we set about making attractions for BPM involving famous movie songs. First up, Scottye brings to life The Great Movie Music Ride and hits all the right notes in a coaster-like cavalcade of screens and loud noises that even Universal Studios would be proud of. Then, Jim focuses on one particular film and has guests play God as they help a rambunctious teenager, his girlfriend, and an introvert in a hockey jersey have a good day in Chicago. No sausage kings are harmed in the making of this episode.

Support Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design Show

New Season, New Park

Jim Murphy & Scottye Moore — Mon, 11 May 2020 02:00:00 -0400

This week, we finally step away from the shadow of SITCOT and pitch brand new theme park ideas for this, our ninth season. We end up spending time discussing seedy scams and defunct parks, as is our way.

Support Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design Show

Yo, Home To Bel-Air!

Jim Murphy & Scottye Moore — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 02:00:00 -0400

This week, we discuss the perils of drinking around the World and trying to traverse three theme parks in a single day. Then, we devise new attractions for SITCOT based on everyone's favorite Non-Rotten Prince Of Somewhere Near Los Angeles. First up, Jim lives out a fantasy as he is thrown out of a mansion by Uncle Phil at an incredibly high rate of speed. Remember to keep your head back. Then, Scottye brings guests onto an omnimover of the theme song, hitting all the classic bits, and then switches to a second attraction also featuring (a rather swole) Uncle Phil who has brought the Foot Clan to Southern California and it's up to you, and possibly some turtles, to defeat him.

Support Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design Show

Let's Get Gestalt!

Jim Murphy & Scottye Moore — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 02:00:00 -0500

This week, we decide to prove whether or not the sum is equal or greater to its parts as we combine the themes of every OppAtt season to create one wild ride. First up, Scottye goes all the way back to season one to call in a favor from a masterpiece as he presents Juicy Peaches' Sidekick Academy, a glitched fly-and-shoot training simulator that may not exactly pass muster as education but excels in flavor. Then, Jim decides that what Captain America really needs is two asses as he installs both himself and Scottye in the role of the great hero to then travel back in time to set the other host on a whole new path. The only problem is that it may be built out of really cheap materials and be held together by bailing wire, medicated adhesive strips, and willpower. Just imagine anything Chester & Hester would build, but not even good enough to be on top of an old parking lot at Animal Kingdom.

Support Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design Show

A New Great Movie Ride

Jim Murphy & Scottye Moore — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 02:00:00 -0400

This week on our program, we quiz ourselves on the late, great Great Movie Ride and then set about trying to remaster it for generations to come (in our imaginations). First up, Scottye invites guests to experience The Great Bad Movie Ride, featuring everything you know and hate to love from the silver screen and the bargain bin at an indoor flea market. It's really tearing me apart. Then Jim decides to play around inside Disney's very own wheelhouse as he showcases The Great Remake Ride, featuring all your favorite live-action versions of Disney's animated canon, as well as some that don't yet exist, but probably will eventually. Sadly it's not exactly a shot-for-shot redo of the original attraction, which might hurt it at the box office.

Support Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design Show

Challenge: The Simple Things (Get-A-Souvenir Attraction)

Jim Murphy & Scottye Moore — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 02:00:00 -0400

This week, we dig deep into our brains to create attractions where our guests exit with their own souvenirs! Prices and participation may vary!

Scottye brings his guests to The Creation Corner where they can partake in writing challenges, leatherworking, painting, weaponsmithing, and of course mixology. Meanwhile, Jim sets his sights back on WeDew Mountain (from episode 3 of this season) and invites guests to UBU, pronounced "You Be You", a place where you can make your dreams of taking home a member of the WeDew Crew a reality by way of drawing, computer animation, puppetry, and mask-masking.

Join us as we realize way too late that not much about any of this is all that humorous, and are then attacked by a drunk muppet.

Support Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design Show

Challenge: All Together (Weird Kiddie Attraction)

Jim Murphy & Scottye Moore — Mon, 28 May 2018 02:00:00 -0400

This week, Scottye lays out the challenge for a crazy weird kiddie ride and comes out swinging with The Exquisite Corpse, a humdinger of an attraction that appears to feature almost every popular theme park attraction rolled up into a single mystifying conflagration of fun. It also has an 8-drink minimum, so maybe save this one for later in the day. The cocktail(s) of choice are the USS Bomber for the adults (link to the recipe below) and something known as Shit for the kiddos, an amalgamation of Pixie Stix, Monster Energy drink, and...let me check the notes...muscle relaxers. Seem's perfectly reasonable. And mandatory.

Jim, on the other hand, spends most of his time developing a cartoon series about a group of palindromic animals that live in a place called Wedew Mountain which you can visit on his side of the park. Join TacoCat(traditional 2D), GoDog(stop-motion), SooMoos(CGI), and RaeBear(someone in a costume) as they have a raucous water-gun battle in their mountain clubhouse that soon goes completely out of control! Stick around for the exhibits featuring artwork and other paraphernalia from the show as well as meet-and-greets with the characters and get yourself a special (very non-alcoholic) drink of WeDew Mountain Dew with the refreshing taste of cherry limeade! (Hit me up, Pepsico!)

Support Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design Show

Links:

All Together (1942 film) - Wikipedia — If you wonder where the title of this episode came from.
USS Bomber (recipe)
Exquisite Corpse - Wikipedia
Absinthe (The Green Fairy) - Wikipedia

Challenge: Building A Building (Anchor Attractions)

Jim Murphy & Scottye Moore — Mon, 21 May 2018 02:00:00 -0400

This week, we look at the big show-stopping attractions for each side of our new theme park. Jim, having done little preparation last week, gets more in-depth on his vision for his side of the park and its new showcase attraction The Golden Coaster, because when one is talking theme park history, it's hard to ignore how important the coaster is. The attraction also includes exhibits, ways to design your own coaster (think CyberSpace Mountain), and other fun surprises.

Meanwhile, Scottye takes his guests on a tour of The Secrets Of The Unicorn. In this zero-drink minimum family-fun attraction (a phrase no one in the theme park business has probably ever typed before), guests travel to the cave of the mystical unicorn and help it wage war against Rat Fink, who is seemingly the mascot of this side of the park. Afterward, enter the requisite gift shop/requisite-for-this-park bar to try some Cave Water, which is apparently just a Blue Hawaiian but probably in some kind of souvenir container for an exorbitant price. This is a theme park after all.

Support Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design Show

Links:

Challenge: The Karnival Kids (Create A New Theme Park)

Jim Murphy & Scottye Moore — Mon, 14 May 2018 02:00:00 -0400

It's the season premiere and you know what that means - a brand new theme park! This time, Scottye and Jim put themselves against each other to create the Opposite Attractions theme park of their dreams. Jim controls one half, Scottye controls the other, a line in the sand has been drawn like so many sitcom sibling rivalries.

What do we learn this episode? Scottye has lots of ideas, some of which include dicks. Jim has a history lesson, not so many dicks though.

Please note that we cut out quite a bit of audio for various reasons. If you wish to see the show in its entirety check us out on Twitch live every Wednesday night when we record brand new episodes!

Support Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design Show

Challenge: You're Welcome (What Stays And What Goes At Vista)

Jim Murphy & Scottye Moore — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 02:00:00 -0400

It's the second season finale and you know what that means - time to kill our children! Scottye and Jim attempt to bungle their way through all their notes to find out what attractions Vista will present to the world on it's opening day. A triangle of knock-offs, dick jokes, and everything we couldn't put in a category greets guests as they enter a land of tweets, 'grams, and inspirational status updates (and plenty of corporate advertisements) en route to a magical day at the first ever theme park dedicated to voting, interacting, and streaming!

Also, Jim decides to do a better job on show notes - but, you know, starting NEXT season. D-I-C...See ya real soon...K-E-Y...Why? Because we always take a week off in between seasons...V-I-S-T-A

And tell 'em Dickey Vista sent ya!

Support Opposite Attractions: A Theme Park Design Show