Unbuilt: An Unrealized Theme Park Podcast

The east winds take us to a lovely London town and along with us we encounter Tony Goldmark of Escape from Vault Disney! In today's ep, we examine the various unbuilt Mary Poppins attractions in Disney history from Tony Baxter's Jolly Holiday ride to EPCOT's cancelled UK pavilion expansion!

We journey to Murcia, Spain and examine an unbuilt bottom-up Paramount theme park with attractions based on movies you've heard of like Mission Impossible and Grease, and also based on films you've never heard of like Stardust and FairyTale!

In our fiftieth episode, we take a look at a myriad of Disney World projects that were never meant to be, but still announced by the company. Topics include: the Main Street Theatre, the Epcot Festival Center, Hyperion Wharf, Pop Century's Legendary Years, Reflections A Lakeside Lodge, the Play Pavilion and Spaceship Earth's most recent tabled redo!

We are joined with Garfield cartoonist and expert Ryan Estrada to explore a never-made Indiana theme park called Garfield's American Adventure! Does the fat cat get represented well or should this be shipped in a box to Abu Dhabi?

Merry Julymas! Once again we let Ryan Dorman chose a film for us to discuss, and this year he has chosen David Lynch's 1977 surrealist body horror Eraserhead! How much about parenting will we learn? Find out today!

Today we look at Disney's attempt to create a Harry Potter land, filled with completely underwhelming rides and attractions! Also we check out Universal's Villain Con: Minion Blast!

This Fourth of July week we take a look at Marc Davis' original 1975/1976 concepts for The American Adventure, including an omnimover ride with an original song! To purchase bonus episodes or gain early access to episodes, check out our Ko-Fi page: https://ko-fi.com/unbuiltpod

We dive in to Atlantis as we look at the proposed thrilling redo of Disneyland's Submarine Voyage: the Atlantean Encounter, based on 2001's Atlantis the Lost Empire. Will thrill-seekers escape the clutches of the Leviathan? Will we address the recent Titan Submersible incident? Well, the answer for that last one is no since the episode was recorded several weeks prior. That we just call ba...

We chopper back over to Islands of Adventure to take a look at the many possible replacements for the public domain land The Lost Continent! Could it be Rudolph, Harry Potter or even Willy Wonka? Thanks to Alicia Stella of OrlandoParkStop.com for the information for today's show. You can check out her original article here: https://orlandoparkstop.com/feature/unbuilt-attractions/5-never-built-...

It's the epic conclusion to our episode on Disney's America! Jaalin Harvey from A Podcast For All Things, But Mostly Disney continues to join us as we discuss why the history theme park was never built, the political controversy and fallout, as well as imagining the alternate reality where it came to be. Also announcing our Ko-Fi "Unbuilt Unlimited", where you can enjoy bonus epi...

It's an EPIC, slightly, kind-of patriotic two-parter as Jaalin Harvey from A Podcast For All Things, But Mostly Disney joins us to talk Disney's America! In the first half of the episode, we discuss how Disney's America, a failed Virginia history-based theme park, came about and what was to be included in it.

What happens when George Lucas is on top of the world? He gets his own enormous fully-indoor multi-level theme park expansion, that's what! Crystalline domes, rocket jets, many girders and beams, Alien Encounter and a massive Star Wars roller coaster with multiple tracks?! Celebrate Star Wars Day with this look at a project that could only exist in the 1980s!

We return to Dubai and take a look at several parks that were going to be a part of Dubailand, including an F1-themed park, a Marvel Superheroes park and even... Waterpark City?!

We drive from Hollywood to Sin City as we return to Las Vegas to check out some never-built resort oddities such as a tacky recreation of the Titanic, a hotel shaped like cowboy boots, various cities and even the Moon! It's an insane grab-bag of bizarre ways to ensnare your wallet!

We conclude "Hooray for Hollywood" with a look at the original plans for EuroDisneyland's second gate, Disney-MGM Studios Europe! Today a dumpster fire sits on what was planned to be more akin to a grander, more fulfilling vision of Hollywood excess, but French!  Plus: we discuss the recent Haunted Mansion movie teaser and stick around to the end for some bonus Star Wars chatter!

We'll conclude our Hooray for Hollywood miniseries next week, but today enjoy a couple of hilarious outtakes from our last few episodes!

Illusions abound as David Copperfield teams with Michael Eisner to create a magic-themed restaurant on the border of Disney-MGM Studios as we continue our Hooray for Hollywood series! 

Nothing can stop us now! We continue to proclaim Hooray for Hollywood as we check out another unbuilt Disney-MGM Studio attraction, "Mickey's Movieland", where guests got to experience the making of a Mickey cartoon. Interactive exhibits, museum pieces and a bizarre dark ride along with a complete recreation of Disney's old Hyperion studio were the highlights!  Plus: we discuss the recent ope...

Hooray for Hollywood continues as we drive thru the tunnel into Toontown with a proposed Roger Rabbit expansion to Disney-MGM Studios! Rideable trolley cars, a wild motion simulator bus ride, a Baby Herman dark ride, roller coasters, bars, clubs, mallets, weasels, toons, Jessica Rabbit and more! We also talk about the recent closures at Universal parks!

We have a bonus outtake from yesterday's episode with a five-minute discussion about Ryan Dorman's recent Disneyland visit, and a surprising take on a divisive attraction!

Hooray for Hollywood! We begin a brand-new series of episode dedicated to all things Disney-MGM Studios and what could've been! Today we explore the never-realized concept for taking a Burbank mall and turning it into a colossally insane film-themed headache with streetmosphere, E-ticket rides, underwater steer and over-the-top nightclubs alongside your standard Gap and Hot Topic.

Happy Holidays! It's our last episode of the year, and we roll out the CRT into the classroom once again before our winter break! This year we tune into "Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas", where all our "favorite" prehistoric "friends" make us "laugh" with their "hysterical" Christmassy "hijinks" guest-starring some unfortunate people! It's an animated Scrat-astrophe! WINTER BREAK FUN DAY SONG Music a...

It's the holiday season, so this year we're heading over to Universal's Islands of Adventure to examine an unbuilt roller coaster based on How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Get ready to careen down Mount Crumpit with the-the-the... THE GRINCH! Also, Dorman tries to steal the MCU, it's a whole thing.

WHO LIVES IN A PINEAPPLE UNDER THE SEA?! We could've, if only Universal Studios Beijing went with their plan to construct an indoor SpongeBob land! We discuss this idea, plus IAPPA and wrestling with the very idea whether or not Bikini Bottom is somewhere one would want to visit! 

Live long and prosper with this brand-new episode of Unbuilt where we are joined by Chandler Desrochers from Podcast Without a Cool Acronym discussing Landmark and Downtown Las Vegas' crazy plan to construct a LIFE-SIZED Starship Enterprise! Guests would've climbed aboard and live their Star Trek adventure in a mighty monument to nerdiness.