Post Apocalyptic Disney World video game

[Ghoulish Delight]

This is very very early concept art stuff, but it's a bloody awesome start. A game, titled Epic Mickey, more or less announced for the Wii.

Details - such as they are

[Ghoulish Delight]

One more image because, well, yeah

[Disneyphile]

I so can't wait for this!

[Gemini Cricket]

I wrote a story I never finished about a messed up, post-apocalyptic Disneyland. Nothing as twisted and awesome as mecha-zombie Goofy, tho.

[Melonballer]

I think it is meant to be Steampunk, not post apocalyptic. Still neat pictures.

nevermind, it looks like it is both.

I was looking at the picture of the ship with the SpaceShip Earth on it and thinking how maybe it travels the globe, shanghaing the few remaining humans to work its attractions.

[RStar]

Terminator: Rise of the Mouse

[Bornieo: Fully Loaded]

What's different than the parks on a hot summer day? I see zombies all the time there.

[flippyshark]

It's interesting to me that I've seen and read a number of different post-apocalyptic takes on Disney parks. I guess to some extent, they are so iconic, that if you are going to portray the "end of the world as we know it," it makes for a very effective symbol of our society demolished. But I wonder if there isn't also a bit of twisted wish-fulfillment involved as well, one that I would express as "Disney has lost its way, so part of me would almost rather see it destroyed than continue to evolve into something hollow and pointless."

Then there is the fact that it's just kind of cool to envision familiar places in a state of ruin or distortion.

Whatever the case, I've made a couple of contributions to this notion myself. Back in the early nineties, I created a role playing game taking place in Central Florida after a virulent strain of encephalitis has decimated the population. It involved tribes and factions, some with access to technology and weapons and others relying on primitive means and their own wits to survive - bla bla bla. It didn't play as well as it looked on paper, and I abandoned it after a single test run.

Just this year, I wrote a short short story for a project my brother is still completing. He is putting out a CD/book combo - basically a concept album with accompanying short fiction - about a post-oil world. I contributed a little story that I will post right here in a moment.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by flippyshark

But I wonder if there isn't also a bit of twisted wish-fulfillment involved as well, one that I would express as "Disney has lost its way, so part of me would almost rather see it destroyed than continue to evolve into something hollow and pointless."

I'm sure that is part of it for some. But also for many people Disney parks have a somewhat sinister air of conformity, enforced happiness, and big brotherism and so decay and an seedy underbelly is assumed.

Kind of like why so many horror films start out in seemingly perfect families or suburbs. There must be something rotten in Denmark.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Alex

I'm sure that is part of it for some. But also for many people Disney parks have a somewhat sinister air of conformity, enforced happiness, and big brotherism and so decay and an seedy underbelly is assumed.

Or, a corollary, even if they don't presume there's something unwholesome from within, they are so turned off by the idea of the fantasy utopia that they delight in the thought if it being overtaken and brought down by the corruption of external reality.