Free report (2426) - How to create the visual aspects of the themed attraction:

Architecture

The viewer should be completely engulfed in a new world, and the architecture should be designed to accomplish this task. In an ideal world, no expense should be spared to painstakingly recreate exquisite environments. In the real world though, budgets have limits, so one cannot always recreated every detail down to the doorknob.  But at the very least, one must always strive to avoid many common design pitfalls where some of the outside world "leaks" inside and diminishes the realism of the special world.

Landscape

All too often in today’s theme parks, millions of dollars are spent on new attractions, and then the "icing on the cake" it left off. Landscape is to architecture what make-up is to a model. Good landscape design adds an aesthetic to architecture that is necessary for completing an environment.

Lighting

The funny thing about lighting is that when it is done well, people generally comment on how good the architecture looks.  However, when the lighting is done poorly, people are usually very quick to criticize the lighting design.

Lighting is very important to the success of a themed attraction. There are four primary types of lighting in themed entertainment design: architectural lighting, theatrical lighting, black lighting, and fibre optic lighting.

in comparison to those senses previously mentioned, but they should never be overlooked when planning an attraction.

Conclusions

The best themed attractions can be said to be perfect mimics of the environment it attempts to re-create. When done well, the lines between fantasy and reality are blurred, and a truly memorable guest experience is created. But to be effective, these attractions must effectively stimulate all five senses.

Sound & Tactile stimulation

The mood setters.  There is no more effective tool for shaping the mood in a space than sound but also while tactile stimulation may not be as important as sound effects in terms of overall impact to the guest, but it still can be a very important tool in enhancing the "realness" of an environment. Consider the effect a spray of mist on the face would have on a guest in a tropical themed adventure ride, or how the cold iron bars in a dungeon might feel to a visitor of that

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attraction. The applications for texture planning are endless, and clearly contribute to an effective environmental design.

Taste Sensation

Although smell and taste are usually thought of as two different senses, they are so closely linked that for our purposes they can be considered one in the same. Humans use these senses very little

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