Land

Theme Park Field Tools

Land Layout

  • Long Shot
  • Medium Shot
  • Close-Up
  • Sublands
  • Minilands
  • Land Layout Archetypes
    • Street Layout
    • Plaza Layout
    • Loop Layout
    • Junction Layout
    • Zigzag Layout
    • Horseshoe Layout
    • Grid Layout

Walkways

  • Scale
    • Primary Walkways
    • Secondary Walkways
    • Tertiary Walkways
  • Layout
    • Clear Routes
    • Hidden Routes
    • Mystery Routes

Pinch Points

Decision Points

Transition Zones

The Fade

The Cut

Land Entrances

Land Types

Entrance Lands

  • Layout
  • Design
  • Content

The Hub

  • Presentation Point
  • Distribution Point
  • Focal Point

Kiddie Lands

Indoor Lands

  • Benefits
  • Issues

Area Development

Land Grading

Water Bodies

Horticulture

  • Theme & Story
  • Placemaking
  • Sightlines
  • Considerations
    • Ecosystems
    • Seasonality
    • Maturity
    • Artificial Foliage
  • Horticulture as Attraction

Placemaking

  • Elements
  • Day and Night
  • Temperature
  • Benches
  • Trash Cans
  • Drinking Fountains
  • Fencing
  • Quiet Areas

Character Plaster

Character Paint

Rockwork

Hardscape

  • Color
  • Material
  • Stamping
  • Texture
  • Pattern
  • Embedding
  • Curbs
  • Indoor Walkways

Area Lighting

Area Music

  • Content
    • Special Occasions
    • Soundscapes
    • Sound Effects
    • Tempo
    • Coverage
    • Speakers

Land Kinetics

Static Vehicles

Architecture

Silhouette and Detail

Form

  • Architectural Staging
  • Spatial Rhythm
  • Visual Rhyme
  • Bulk

Scale

Facades

  • Forced Perspective
  • Fractional Architecture
  • Double-Sided Architecture
  • Historicity
  • Charactering Architecture
  • Graphics
  • Props

Duplicating Architecture

  • Scale Changes
  • Changing the Signage
  • Mirroring
  • Restoration
  • Colors and Materials
  • Element Changes
  • Operations

Correlation

Icons

  • Castles
  • Mountains

Wienies

Park Icon

Icon Overlays

Land Content

Attractions

Multipurpose Facilities

Units

  • Unit Content
    • Aspirational Design
    • Popular Design
    • Medium Design
  • Subdivision
  • Appropriation
  • Queues
  • Lessees
  • Operating Hours

Shops

  • Shop Tiers
    • A Shops
    • B Shops
    • C Shops
    • Attraction Store
    • Park Store
    • Resort Store

Shop Design

Merchandise

  • Diegetic Merchandise
  • Extra-Diegetic Merchandise
  • Non-Diegetic Merchandise
  • Cult Merchandise
  • Personalized Merchandise
  • Retail Entertainment

Restaurants

  • Restaurant Tiers
    • Table Service Restaurants (TSR)
    • Counter Service Restaurants (CSR)
    • Quick Service Restaurants (QSR)
    • Vending
  • Restaurant Design
  • Restaurant Experience
    • Character Dining
    • Dinner Shows
  • Food
    • Food Nomenclature
    • Cult Foods
    • Alcohol

Carts

Restrooms

Backstage Access

Inbetweens

  • Land Scenes
  • Peek-Ins
  • Photo Ops
  • Overhears
  • Interactives

Characters

  • Static Figures
  • Animatronics
  • Costumed Characters
    • Design
    • Performance
    • Handlers
    • Face Characters
    • Rubberhead Characters
    • Walk-Arounds
  • Living Characters
    • Hidden Speakers
    • Puppetry
    • Remote-Controlled Robots and Animatronics
    • Digital Puppetry
  • Streetmosphere (Roamers)

Shows

  • Audienceship
    • Diegetic
    • Extra-Diegetic
  • Theaters
    • Theater Types
      • Fourth Wall Theaters
      • Thrust Theaters
      • Theater in the Round
      • Found Theaters
      • Focal Points
    • Emptiness
  • Show Types
    • Animatronics Show
    • Black Light Show
    • Character Show
    • Comedy Show
    • Dance Show
    • Dinner Show
    • Fireworks Show
    • Fountain Show
    • Game Show
    • Ice Show
    • Magic Show
    • Medley Show
    • Music Show
    • Parade
    • Participatory Show
    • Production Show
    • Projection Show
    • Puppet Show
    • Revue Show
    • Self-Referential Show
    • Short-Form Musical
    • Special Effects Show
    • Stunt Show
    • Talent Show
  • Spectaculars
    • Fireworks Shows
    • Fountain Shows
    • Projection Shows
  • Parades
    • Theme & Story
    • Music
    • Infrastructure
    • Parade Units
    • Mini-Units
    • Performers
    • Pre-Parades
    • Show Stops
    • Night Parades
    • Water Parades
    • Street Party Parades
  • Dance Parties
Updated: June 8, 2022 8:44 am

Dennis Cheatham

Associate Professor, Communication Design

Miami University