Theme Park Design & The Art of Themed Entertainment

<p><strong>Want to design a theme park?</strong></p><p>Over the past century theme parks have created worlds where pirates still loot Caribbean towns where daring adventurers explore booby-trapped temples and where superheroes swing from New York skyscrapers - and allowed us to step into them too. <strong>This is a book about how to design those fantastic places and the ingenuity that goes into their creation.</strong></p><p>This is a handbook for the practicing designer a textbook for the aspiring student and a behind the scenes guidebook for the theme park fan building on hundreds of interviews with accomplished designers from Walt Disney Imagineering Universal Creative Merlin Entertainments and more. <em>Theme Park Design & The Art of Themed Entertainment </em>explores everything from the stories themes and characters that theme parks bring to life to the business models processes and techniques that allow them to do it.</p><p>From rocket ships to roller coasters fairy tales to fireworks and dinosaurs to dark rides never before has a book dived so deep into the art form of themed entertainment.</p>