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Week 13: Theme Park Draft

Camelot: Rethinking the RenFair Camelot is a historically themed Dark Ages theme park focused on telling the history and lifestyle of Dark Ages England and their neighbors through the legends of King Arthur, both the well-known ones and the obscure ones. The goal of this park is to entertain and educate by creating a genuine historical experience with a living museum and presenting it not as a clinical reenactment but as an interactive adventure where guests can experience the history for themselves. The park is a return to the original purpose of reenactment, while reinvigorating it to make the purposes of research and education more readily appealing and accessible to an audience.             The main attractions of the park are interactive ‘exhibits’ where guests can watch and learn medieval crafts and skills from trained actors, stunt performers, and craftsmen, who turn the process of educating guests into an exciting hands-on experience. You don’t just watch some guys s

Week 12: Theme Park High Concept

My theme park concept is based on the Arthurian legends from a Dark Ages historical perspective, focusing on the true historical background of the legends and using the legends to present those historical truths in a fun, engaging fashion. Rather than just being purely entertainment focused the park is a living museum where every turn offers something new for guests to see, do, and participate in to learn about the world of the Dark Ages and the struggles of Anglaland.