Ray Bradbury's Theme Park - The Great Electric Time Maze!

The Lowdown on the Plus-up - A Theme Park Podcast

Whether he was disappointed with how his work for EPCOT Center turned out or he was simply inspired to do it again, Ray Bradbury created his own vision of a theme park: The Great Electric Time Maze.
Impractical, economically unviable and centered around completely untethered Blue Sky concepts, this midwestern phantasia of a park is right up our alley!
Join us as we zoom through time, battle dinosaurs with our Electro-Guns, narrowly escape from the Mechanical Hounds and drown in the Sea of Eats in the park that only the greatest science fiction writer of the 20th century could have conceived.

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1. Cold Open: Multiverse Tease (00:00:00)

2. Show Intro & Premise (00:00:51)

3. Today’s Topic: A Lost Bradbury Attraction (00:01:35)

4. The Great Electric Time Maze Obsession (00:03:16)

5. Late-80s Tech Wave: Sims & Shooters (00:03:56)

6. Bradbury, Ackerman, Rumors & Celebs (00:06:07)

7. Bradbury x Disney: Epcot, Spaceship Earth (00:09:00)

8. Origins: Mr. Electrico & Creative Method (00:13:28)

9. The Proposal: Wild Blue-Sky Pages (00:16:10)

10. Park Layout: Circles, Hexagons, Mystery (00:18:05)

11. Time Maze I: Food Court Dreams & Tea Trolleys (00:21:07)

12. Rotating “Train” Restaurant Inspiration (00:25:30)

13. Hogwarts Express Before Hogwarts (00:28:40)

14. Limits of One-and-Done Experiences (00:30:40)

15. Crossing the Abyss: Into Time Maze II (00:32:08)

16. The Centrifuge: Dome Pods & Story Hook (00:35:10)

17. Dinosaurs, Shooters, And Sound of Thunder (00:38:30)

18. Statue of Liberty Launch & Space Run (00:41:20)

19. Mechanical Hounds: Reverse Laser Tag (00:44:10)

20. Sphinx Finale: Mirrors, Tombs, Mortality (00:47:20)

21. Time Maze III: The Victorian Bookshop (00:51:40)

22. October Country: The Halloween Overlay (00:54:00)

23. Why It Failed: Economics & Repeatability (00:58:15)

24. What’s Real, What’s Fabricated (01:01:50)

25. Bradbury, Architecture, and LA Tie-Ins (01:05:10)

26. Scholar Tease, Plus-Up, Closing CTA (01:08:20)

27. Sunsweet Tag & Stinger (01:39:24)