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I just had a tour of your newly renovated theme park. I hate to be that guy, but I just want to mention that, while you refer to your destination as a theme park, it would be more accurate to describe it as a motif park.
See, a theme is the central subject your experience is about, like lost love, patriotism in wartime, or the allure of social status. What you have is a cluster of motifs, distinct features of your work that attempt to develop a theme.
I say “attempt” because the imagery here is unhinged. On the map we have a castle, a geodesic dome, a haunted house, and a Chinese pavilion with a dragon poking out of it. What thematic concept, in the abstract, are you going for? Amusement? Yes, but what about amusement are you saying?
Most great themes are about conflict. For example, while the title of your park, Cedar Coppice, evokes the arboreal, the attractions are more man-made. So maybe your theme is “man versus nature.” Then one of your motifs would be that thirty-foot-tall plexiglass treehouse. Or there’s “man versus machine,” exemplified by rides like the Tungsten Titan.
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