Trek Theme Park should there be one?
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Yep, there should be a Trek theme park. The hub area is the Enterprise and all the important parts - bridge, transporter room, sick bay, Ten-Forward. There should also be the DS9 Promenade, as if the Enterprise is docked at DS9 and you just walk from one to the other.
The Enterprise area is also how you get to the other sections, as though you were flying to other worlds: Earth (San Francisco/Starfleet HQ), Vulcan (the movie events can be finessed; I don't care if it's original Vulcan or the new colony, which of course will be a doppleganger for the original), Q'onos, Andoria, the Founder homeworld and a Borg Cube.
There will be food service and gift shops for most of these sections, appropriately themed: gagh on Q'onos, Borg doodads for face and arms on the Cube, etc. There will be skiing on Andoria and swimming in The Great Link. What else?
The Enterprise area is also how you get to the other sections, as though you were flying to other worlds: Earth (San Francisco/Starfleet HQ), Vulcan (the movie events can be finessed; I don't care if it's original Vulcan or the new colony, which of course will be a doppleganger for the original), Q'onos, Andoria, the Founder homeworld and a Borg Cube.
There will be food service and gift shops for most of these sections, appropriately themed: gagh on Q'onos, Borg doodads for face and arms on the Cube, etc. There will be skiing on Andoria and swimming in The Great Link. What else?
Something like this already happened. It was called Star Trek Experience and was located inside the Hilton hotel here in Las Vegas. I rather enjoyed it and went there many times, but it was shut down because it simply didn't make enough money to sustain itself...
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sounds inspiring and fun there needs to be a TOS section and s movies area as well what do you think?
I agree. There has to be enough bodies coming in the door year round.
It is a franchise but not every franchise needs a theme park with rides.
My answer to the question: No.
Its not rides like Six Flags or Busch Gardens. Rides that have high tech simalation in Trek park. Like dozen of Rides simulate you fly in Space. And Rides you enter alien planets. Restaurants in the park you eat space food or other goodies.Plus it has Attractions and Rides from other Sci Fi TV shows. Like,,Lost in Space,Land of the Giants,Buck Rodgers in the 24th century and Battlestar Galactica.
Um, did you bother to read up on Star Trek The Experience? That's exactly what it was.
Star Trek The Experience was a lil small. And it was in Vegas too far for east coast fans. Like i said id build a theme park in Cocoa Beach Florida near NASA.It will be a lot bigger than Busch Gardens in Tampa. Fans can travel to Florida go to Disneyworld and go to Trek Park,,Then after the next day you can go to NASA and see the real science stuff there.
Is that on PPV?
I've been to a few theme parks, and what little I know of Star Trek: The Experience? As much as I love trek, I'd go to a typical theme park, they are expensive but I read a quarks menu once and...come on, twenty bucks for a hamburger? That's insane, and a trek theme park wouldn't be much better. That's why I think things went downhill in all honesty, there's not enough change and/or new stuff to do and the prices are insane. anything with trek on it is automatically considered to be worthy of a higher price, and this just isn't the case.
So, unless they give it a more manageable price for people like me, then...no. A shame, really, it could possibly be fun.
So, unless they give it a more manageable price for people like me, then...no. A shame, really, it could possibly be fun.
I'm one of the many casual fans who doesn't even know what to do with the Diamond Select Tricorder bought on impulse... Even after loving the shows for many years, I doubt I would take the time to go to a theme park. I was even in Vegas, and although I was there for work, and didn't have a lot of free time, I didn't bother to check out the experience. YMMV
This guy has the right idea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbOGbkHlyVw
I loved the Experience and went there about a dozen times including the final summer when my wife and I renewed our vows on the Bridge. Awesome. In the link above, Tim Babb suggests bringing the Experience to Disneyland and he has an excellent plan. Trek probably won't be successful long term as a stand alone. But in an established theme park it could do very well. Sorta like the Simpson ride at Universal Studios.
I loved the Experience and went there about a dozen times including the final summer when my wife and I renewed our vows on the Bridge. Awesome. In the link above, Tim Babb suggests bringing the Experience to Disneyland and he has an excellent plan. Trek probably won't be successful long term as a stand alone. But in an established theme park it could do very well. Sorta like the Simpson ride at Universal Studios.
The theme park wouldn't make a lot of money in today's standards. The only reason the one in Vegas lasted so long, because there was a huge amount of enegry among fans in the 1990s. You had DS9 with the Dominion War, Voyager lost in the Delta Quadrant, and Star Trek First Contact. One of TNG's best movies made. Whicd made some folks interested in Star Trek or made them into die hard fans. I really don't see that enegry anymore today.
I think it would be cool if there was a Trek theme park. I dont know if it would work in this day or time though. I love to see one if there ever will be one. If there was one, there are few things I love to see like for instance: The Enterprise( like from TOS through STXI),The Bridge,The Transporter room,Sickbay,All the other rooms etc from the Enterprise,Vulcan,Starfleet Acdemany,Exbit areas where you could see costumes and props from all the tv shows and movies and models of all the ships etc.,Simlation rides like as if you were on the Enterprise in space & shuttle crafts etc, Gift shops through out the park where you can purcahase anything from the shows -movies & hard to find rare merchandise,Different kinds of food places where have the option to try anything that was in the shows-movies,Costume shops and much much more! But since that wont happen, I like to see sometype of attraction like a theme park like Disney World. They could have a attraction at Epoct Center since it has furtureristic attractions and stuff there besides the world showcase & nature stuff. And they could also have a traveling attraction that goes around the country to different cites just like the Star Trek exbit, but it could be a little different.What do you think about that?
That would be awesome, with exhibits and simulations from all of the TV shows and movies!
I still love the Disney idea. See my post above and watch the YouTube video. The guy's a genious. A stand alone place won't survive.
When The Experience was still around, I had hoped for a remodeling of the place with an area dedicated to each era. Quark's could remain the upscale lounge/restaurant, while a family friendly cafeteria could be based on TOS' mess hall or TNG's 10 Forward. Rides/exhibits would include Borg and Klingon plus there would be a Bridge from STXI. Of course there would be gift shops but they would have much more merchandise than STTE had. They would have all of the videos, books, props, toys, ornaments, uniforms, T-shirts, mugs, etc. Nothing would say "Star Trek" on it, only Starfleet, or ships' names, etc.
When The Experience was still around, I had hoped for a remodeling of the place with an area dedicated to each era. Quark's could remain the upscale lounge/restaurant, while a family friendly cafeteria could be based on TOS' mess hall or TNG's 10 Forward. Rides/exhibits would include Borg and Klingon plus there would be a Bridge from STXI. Of course there would be gift shops but they would have much more merchandise than STTE had. They would have all of the videos, books, props, toys, ornaments, uniforms, T-shirts, mugs, etc. Nothing would say "Star Trek" on it, only Starfleet, or ships' names, etc.
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