Great idea!
Looking at real estate there now and, with the exceptions of some, the prices are cheap. Grab land or a home now because it will be crazy when the place is built.
Who’s going to have the money to go to it?
Consider. The Grand Lake area is just off I-40, centrally located to the entire country. A two day driving trip from either coast, a day and a half driving trip from Canada or the Rio Grande, 8 hours from Chicago, Dallas, Minneapolis, Denver. And all those small towns in that fly-over country Disney has long since ignored.
While the Eastern Leftists sneeringly ignore Branson, the C/W shows and Silver Dollar City, you don't see controversy, either. How many drag shows are there along the strip in Branson? A trifecta would be that it could become the new Vegas. Indian casinos thrive in Oklahoma, and while Branson has pushed for years to legalize gambling, Missouri just ain't having it.
FutureWorld, WestWorld, the possibilities are boundless. Most of all, it's safe.
Alternate headline:
Mickey Mouse to be replaced by Okie Dokie.
No offense, their model looks awful and boring.
I saw the same model in Fletch 2.
It looks to have a monorail.
Are they going to have a live twister ride? Call it the F5!
And during the cold Winter months in Oklahoma, do they close?
America needs a change. Mickey Mouse died with Walt. It’s now Ricky Rat land.
Where I live, over the last 20 years, it was very publicly announced that some people were going to build a NASCAR track, and another announcement that some people were going to build a billion dollar sports complex. There were artist’s renderings of the facilities, etc. As far as I know not one acre of land was ever purchased for either project. I’m wondering if this is a real thing or some kind of grift.
Rush uses William Bradford's own words from his journal. At first, they established a commune, and not everyone worked as hard as they could.
From Bradford's Journal: “For young men that were most able and fit for labor and service did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men’s wives and children without any recompense,'” without any payment, “‘that was thought injustice.’ Why should you work for other people when you can’t work for yourself? What’s the point? … The Pilgrims found that people could not be expected to do their best work without incentive."
Then Bradford assigned a plot of land to each family. The production soared, and people could sell/trade whatever they did not use themselves.
Heck, there could be an entire building/area for Rush, with the Rush Revere books; get permission to animate Rush Revere into video; show Rush's first foray into radio, that gadget his mom bought so he could 'broadcast' in the house; his Jeff Christie years, and a room for Bo Snerdley.
New parks always get me thinking of this one in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Discovery Channel’s show “Moedrn Marvels” did an episode on it’s creation. By the time the the show aired and the park opened, the Hard Rock name was gone. Four months after it opened under the new name it closed forever. Was the quickest park to fold I’ve ever seen not due to accidents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freestyle_Music_Park
Over half of the rides ended up in Vietnam.