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Before being changed to an off-road driving ride using high-capacity African safari jeeps, the 'Lost World Safari' in the park's 'Adventure Tales' zone was planned as a large-scale boat ride.

'Magic in the Movies' is a unique studio tour concept in-development for an unspecified location in Asia. Through large-scale miniatures, interactive displays, and multimedia spectaculars, guests will be given an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at the process of film and television production.

HotGo DreamWorld's design features lands based on story genres, including Fairy Tales, Adventure Tales, Coming Tales, among others. One land eliminated during the park's concept design phase was the 'Scary Tales'.

Signature attractions of this area would have included 'The Banshee' B&M Inverted Coaster (designed nearly 5 years before The Banshee B&M Inverted Coaster at King's Island was announced), and 'The Monster' Maurer X-Car Launch Coaster with a non-inverting loop set around the land's entrance. The Gravity House / Tilt House attraction was moved to the park's Fairy Tales zone, and was included in the final design.

Located in the park's Underland zone, the 'Rock Tumbler' is a custom Huss Frisbee placed adjacent to the 'Giant Digger' roller coaster to create a near-collision effect.

During the rapid concept design phase of Trans Studio Cibubur, a number of themes and motifs were explored and considered. One idea explored early on was the concept of the entire park carrying a Science Fiction / Future theme. In the final product, this future theme is limited to one section of the park, home to the popular Pacific Rim: Shatterdome Strike dark ride, and Alien Taxi spinning roller coaster. Other elements from this scheme, including the Science Center and Indoor Sky Diving were also realized.

In early development phases, Cirque Du Soleil created a unique water park concept with several first-of-their-kind attractions. One such attraction was the 'Net Drop'. Grabbing onto large lets, guests would have been hoisted in the air, free to let go at any time, and in any manner they wished. The 'bubble' aeration system from 'O' would have been implemented here to soften the impact of riders landing on the water. At night, the attraction would have been used as a performance stage for a small-scale Cirque du Soleil show. Wiegand GmbH & CoKG collaborated with Cirque du Soleil and Legacy Entertainment on the engineering of this unique water park attraction.

Plopsaland De Panne recently announced 'The Ride to Happiness', a new roller coaster attraction being designed in collaboration with Tomorrowland- Europe's largest music festival creator.

This is not the first time the world of theme park design and music festivals have overlapped. In 2013, Legacy Entertainment was approached by Insomniac's Pasqualle Rotella about transforming the company's signature 'Electric Daisy Carnival' event in Las Vegas into a theatrical experience, complete with immersive sets, giant animatronic figures, and puppets.

This event marked the debut of Insomniac's giant robotic owl which has since made appearances at EDC New York, EDC Orlando, and EDC Mexico.

HotGo DreamWorld's largest and most-ambitious dark ride was a unique attraction called 'Around the World'. Designed for a client obsessed with replicating Disney, the experience would have been a combination of two of Disney's most popular dark rides- Peter Pan's Flight and It's a Small World. Riding in suspended hot air balloons, guests would have been taken on a journey around a world inhabited by adorable mice characters designed by Phil Mendez (best known in the theme park realm for his work on Monster Mansion at Six Flags Over Georgia). Many industry veterans collaborated on the development of this ride, including Don Carson and Bob Baranick. Located along the park's 'Golden Promenade' main street section, the facility for this ride was constructed before the project halted, and remains there to this day.

Inspired by Rothenburg ob der Tauber's iconic 'Käthe Wohlfahrt' Christmas Shop, Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park's 'Port Majestic' zone was the intended home of another highly-immersive retail experience. While the exterior facade is faithful to Legacy's design, the interiors were simplified during later phases.

Several years ago, the park's owners collaborated with Legacy Entertainment on an exercise to look at ways in which the classic oceanfront theme park might be reimagined. As part of this, a wide variety of architectural styles were developed for the main midway, as seen below. In the end, the selected option was a promenade comprised solely of beloved 'lost' architecture of San Diego buildings and structures which no longer exist.

Over the course of designing Lotte's new park in Busan, South Korea, a wide variety of themed retail and dining venues were developed by the project's designer, Legacy Entertainment. While most of these were merely conceptual, a few of them are represented in the park under-construction now.

In addition to the 'Animal Empire' park seen previously, China's DingLong / Loong Bay resort is also planning a large marine life park.

In Dubai's first wave of theme park development, Tatweer's Dubailand would have featured more than half a dozen theme parks. In original plans, first to open would have been Universal Studios, Legoland, and Six Flags. These early sketches and renderings were developed during Six Flags Dubailand's blue sky concept design phase;

China's Ding Long group has announced plans to develop two theme parks at their Loong Bay resort on China's southern coast. One of these park's is Animal Empire- a large scale zoological park. Legacy Entertainment, the project's designer, has stated their goal is to design a park that is more sanctuary than zoo, and in which the animal enclosures are visually borderless, with their inhabitants able to roam through much of the property unimpeded.

Prior to 2008's 'Great Recession', Tropicana Las Vegas was poised to become the world's largest resort, with over 10,000 rooms. Part of this expansion included the world's first 3D boat ride. This unique attraction would have begun its journey in the upper level retail promenade, before dropping into a show box under the resort (in the space currently occupied by the property's casino).

Enlight Media, China's largest film and television studio, has announced plans to build a 651 acre Universal Studios-style theme park and production facility in the city of Yangzhou. Budgeted at $2.5m USD, Enlight announced today that they have selected Legacy Entertainment as the project's designer, releasing a few pieces of concept art depicting the project's first phase, titled 'Enlight Epicenter'.











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CHINA’S ENLIGHT MEDIA TEAMS UP WITH LEGACY ENTERTAINMENT ON THE CREATION OF ENLIGHT CHINA MOVIE WORLD

Beijing Enlight Media, China’s largest privately-owned media group, has selected Legacy Entertainment as the ‘Enlight Epicenter’ designer of its ambitious Enlight Movie World project in the eastern city of Yangzhou. The project, first announced in 2018, marks Enlight Media’s first foray into the Location Based Entertainment sector, and will ultimately encompass a total area of 3954mu (651 acres) with an investment of 16.4 Billion Yuan ($2.5 Billion US Dollars).

The cultural and tourism section of Enlight Movie World starts from the ‘Enlight Epicenter’, which will feature experiences and attractions inspired by Enlight’s popular animated film properties. Offerings will include elaborately themed retail and dining experiences, anchored by a Family Entertainment Center, and connected by a series of ‘Art Gardens’. To aid in the design of this unique destination, Enlight has selected Legacy Entertainment, a leading entertainment design firm with extensive experience in both theme park design and film production.

“It is an honor to collaborate with the Enlight team on such a great project.” says Eric Carnagey, Legacy’s Managing Director and one of the company’s owners. He adds “Unlike studio-themed parks in America and Europe which tend to look towards the past, the relative youth of China’s homegrown IP-based LBE industry is all about looking forward. We get a unique chance to imagine and create the ‘film studio and movie theme park of tomorrow’ by utilizing Enlight’s prominent position as a China-based film production and distribution company alongside their widely recognized properties. This poses an incredibly exciting creative angle for our team to run with.”

Subsequent phases will include a wide variety of uses, including a world-class Theme Park, along with expansive Film and Television production facilities. Fueled by a string of hits that include Ne Zha and Looking Up, this new complex has been designed to meet the needs of the fast-growing entertainment company. Ne Zha holds the record as the biggest animated film in China’ history, having grossed over $580 Million US Dollars, more than doubling that of the previous record holder, Disney’s Zootopia.

Legacy Entertainment was uniquely qualified for the task, having previously worked with China’s Hengdian World Studios, the world’s largest film studio, on their recent expansions. The first of these projects, the Hengdian Shanghai Bund, debuted in 2019 with a mix of theme park-style rides and shows, along with ample production facilities.

“Just as in our extensive collaboration with Cirque du Soleil, we love working with brands which are expanding into location-based entertainment projects for the first time.” adds Carnagey. “With groups like Enlight, we have the chance to create something completely new because there are no rules in place. What is the studio-themed destination of the future? Working closely with a great collaborator like Enlight, we are looking forward to answering that question in new and exciting ways.”

In early iterations of the project (circa 2015), when the entire project carried the Cirque du Soleil banner, the main Phase 1 anchor was an elaborately-themed Water Park. Inspired by immersive theater trends, the entire park would have been populated by Cirque du Soleil characters created for this project, with different tribes including The Oracles, The Healers, The Builders, and The Fishers inhabiting different sections of the park.Those familiar with Cirque du Soleil will notice subtle nods to its flagship production, "O".

'Lorry's Fantastic Fountains' is a custom-themed Zamperla Tea Cup Ride designed for the 'Royal Garden' section of Lotte's Magic Forest theme park.

Designed for one of China's largest developers, Legacy Entertainment has been developing a dramatic indoor water park complex.

In 2014, Legacy Entertainment created Lotte World's iconic 'Let's Dream!' nighttime spectacular, which continues to run today. Before this, in 2007, Legacy Entertainment proposed another night show concept for the Korean theme park, tentatively named 'Lightspell!'.

'Sentul City of Wonders' is a large mixed-use destination proposed for the city of Sentul, Indonesia (a suburb of the capital city of Jakarta). Renderings of the overall themed resort design have been shared below for context. In the development's central courtyard sit two gated attractions- a boutique theme park and water park. The theme park has been designed to feature a mix of western stories, as well as Indonesian fairy tales (much in the same was as Legacy Entertainment has interpreted Korean folklore in their world at Lotte World). In recent years, Legacy Entertainment has dominated the emerging Indonesian theme park market, having designed and opened several theme parks, including Trans Studio Bali, Trans Studio Cibubur, and Trans Studio Makassar.

'Sentul City of Wonders' is a large themed mixed-use resort proposed for Sentul, Indonesia.

In early schemes of the project, one of the 'signature attractions' was to have been a Cliff Diving experience inspired by Acapulco's famed 'La Quebrada'. Guests would be able to leap off of platforms located at 1m, 3m, 5m, and 7m. To soften the impact on the water below, the aeration (bubble) system from Cirque du Soleil's production of "O" in Las Vegas would have been utilized here. At night, the attraction would be transformed into a stage for a live Cirque du Soleil performance. Like the rest of the park, this attraction was designed in collaboration by the teams of Legacy Entertainment and Cirque du Soleil.

When the project initiated in 2016, the theme park's designer, Legacy Entertainment, explored a wide variety of attractions and themes with the goal of creating a 'Magic Forest' garden-themed park completely different from anything else available in the Asia market. Whereas most non-Disney / Universal theme parks in Asia put a great deal of value on spectacle and meaningless design features, the Lotte project team put great emphasis on creating a park that was 'human scale', and was more-focused on creating warm, magical spaces as opposed to cold, empty environments.

It is important to note that many of these concepts were developed during the exploratory Blue Sky phase, and are not represented in the park's first phase, under-construction now. However, several do have parcels allocated for them in future phases.

Early Blue Sky Concept Artwork from Lotte World Adventure Busan Theme Park, continued: