Back when Dave Cobb posted his #HomemadeThemePark video of the Men in Black: Alien Attack ride he actually served as creative director for, I joked about seeing other theme park designers' "homemade" versions of their attractions.
I now await Joe Rohde's #HomemadeDisney versions of Flight of Passage and Mission Breakout, as he also's an active participant in social media. (Though I think we're more likely to get from him a five-part, 5,000-word Instagram post series on the anthropological foundations of those attractions. Which I would be 100% down for, by the way.)
Well, that didn't happen. Joe didn't post a five-part Instagram series on the foundations of theme park design. He posted a 37-part series, instead.
So here for your reference, are Joe's posts, in chronological order, taking us from prehistory through Rome, the Middle Ages, Renaissance and on through to today, examining how art, architecture, gardens, expositions, and media evolved to lead us into contemporary theme park design. It's an amazing intellectual and historical foundation for understanding why theme parks are they way they are, and why they work for us.
If you love theme parks, please take them time to read Joe's posts (and subscribe to his Instagram feed). I am sure that you will find them both fascinating and insightful.
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