Theme Parks 100: What is a Land? Or: A Miserable Little Pile of Secrets

Those Happy Places

Welcome back to class for our fourth lecture! Join Alice and Buddy as they try to define one of the most idiosyncratic terms in Themed Entertainment. What is a Land in the context of a theme park? What separates an attraction or a ride from a Land? How many attractions does it take to make a Land? What makes lands important—both as storytelling tools and as experiences in and of themselves?

It’s another episode of Theme Parks 100, a Summer School Series from Those Happy Places! This is the fourth of five weekly episodes. Thanks for your patience last week while Buddy’s voice recovered. We hope you enjoy!

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Those Happy Places is Produced by Alice White and Edited By Buddy Duquesne. Our theme song is Golden Gate by the California Feetwarmers, Featuring Phil Alvin.

Music for Theme Parks 100 comes from HoliznaCC0 and the Free Music Archive, under a Creative Commons 1.0 Public Domain Dedication. Tracks Include: Waiting on a Train, Blue Skies, Day Dreams, Sailing Away, NPC Theme, Bikini Bottom, Western Showdown, and Mushrooms

Additional music comes from Kevin Macleod. All Tracks Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License. Tracks in this Episode:

Bummin on Tremelo by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/3464-bummin-on-tremelo
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

In Your Arms by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3906-in-your-arms
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license