Theme Park Design: When Usage Exceeds Intention

“My first trip to Wizarding World Orlando, I walk behind the 3 Broomsticks restaurant and I see a table full of kids in school robes with their heads in books. Who reads books at a theme park?

“So I walked up and asked what they were reading. They were doing their homework. Wait what?

“They explained they went to the junior high right behind the park and have season passes. Their parents let them come to the park and do their homework. They’re doing their real homework in a fake school in cosplay. Universal didn’t design that into the park but it’s happening.”

– Theme park ride designer David C. Cobb, via.



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