

Our theme song is Golden Gate by the California Feetwarmers, Featuring Phil Alvin.Īdditional music comes from Kevin Macleod. Those Happy Places is Produced by Alice White and Edited By Buddy Duquesne. Topics Include: Accessibility in Theme Parks, Including and Elevating Guests, The Importance of Frontline Cast Members, Team Members, and Employees, Build-it-Yourself Narrative Spaces, Travel, the Environmental and Economic Impacts of Theme Parks, Theme Park Scents, The Alice White Themed Scent Categorization System, Motion as Metaphor, Motion as Literal Motion, The Limits of Motion in Attractions, The Speed of Theme Park Change Versus Social, Political, and Economic Change, The Enduring Legacy of Theme Park Intellectual Properties, Themed Spaces and Belonging, Themed Spaces and Community Buy-In, Themed Spaces and Exclusivity, The Newness of Themed Entertainment, The Importance of Domes, Theme Parks as Literature, Buddy and Alice as Scholars and Analysts, The Future of Themed Entertainment and Social Media, Themed Entertainment in Conversation, The Future of Those Happy Places.īe sure to visit our Patreon for all of the cool Passholder benefits, stretch goals, and an exclusive, long-lost episode of Those Happy Places! Join us on our Discord Server! It’s a 50th Episode Extravaganza, and you won’t want to miss it! Then, Buddy and Alice ask themselves those same questions-and set a course for a new era of Those Happy Places.

They’re joined with submissions by Cynthia Sharpe, Rob Yeo, Liam Findlay, Aslam Choudhury, and Andrew Spohn, all of whom weigh in on the central questions of what draws them to themed entertainment as a storytelling medium, what’s missing from our current analysis and conversations, and where they hope themed entertainment might be heading. In this extravagant episode, join Alice and Buddy as they revisit the central thesis of Those Happy Places-the very idea that Theme Parks, Rides, and Attractions can (and should) be treated with the same critical care and depth as other forms of storytelling and literature.
