WI: Kruschev visits Disneyland and...

Mad Bad Rabbit

Mad Bad Rabbit

is so impressed that, upon returning to the USSR, he orders construction of "Rodinaland". Naturally, the decadent feudalist castle is replaced by (an almost entirely hollow) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Soviets.

The Sputnik ride is especially popular.

Of course, the USA isn't going to take this lying down, and Disney immediately announces plans for expansion to the existing park, as well as a major new one to be located somewhere in the Southeastern U.S.
 

TFLGuitar

Probably have some sort of Imagineer(?) race between Disneyland and Rodinaland. With not wanting to be upstaged by the Soviets, the US government sends some scientists to help out Walt.

KGB and CIA spies infiltrate both theme parks.
 

Fabilius

TFLGuitar said:
Probably have some sort of Imagineer(?) race between Disneyland and Rodinaland. With not wanting to be upstaged by the Soviets, the US government sends some scientists to help out Walt.

KGB and CIA spies infiltrate both theme parks.
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That would be awesome. Imagine the advances that would be made in the field.:D
 

rcduggan

the US government funs Freedomland, which is a theme park so big all the residents of Utah have to leave so it can fit.

in response to that, the Soviets announce the construction of Stalin's Super Fun Happy Non-Genocidal Theme Park, encompassing all of Siberia.

things escalate even further out of hand, leading to MAD. (Mutually something something theme park pun). what a dystopic world.
 

BrianP

The Cold War created many bizarre situations, but none as bizarre as the theme park race. I can't believe the government cancelled Apollos 18, 19, and 20 just to help fund Freedomland in the 70's, not to mention closing Yosemite, Yellowstone, and the Great Smokies National Parks to encourage tourism to the theme parks. The generals all harped that we can't let those pesky pinko commies narrow the theme park gap.
 

Sachyriel

Banned
Disaster strikes after the South Korean Disneyland is bombed by N.K., and the Amusement Park Wars being, as the gab bewteen spatial exploration is less essential, both nations using 300-km long roller-coasters to launch nuclear missiles...
 

sunsurf

Disney originally wanted the EPCOT center to be an actual model of a working community--Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. But there were problems, and it was a lot easier to make it a theme park instead. But what if Disney had managed to create multiple communities based on this model? It might be a combination--kids would grow up living in a theme park as their hometown!

Disney has another community called Celebration.

Disney is also noted for its Animatronic robots. Imagine the implications for the use of robots in the cold war, espionage, etc.? :D
 

BrianP

sunsurf said:
Imagine the implications for the use of robots in the cold war, espionage, etc.? :D
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I find it ironic that the United States chose the robot Abraham Lincoln from the Hall of Presidents to try to assassinate Brezhnev at the '78 parade in Red Square.
 

Rockingham

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BrianP said:
The Cold War created many bizarre situations, but none as bizarre as the theme park race. I can't believe the government cancelled Apollos 18, 19, and 20 just to help fund Freedomland in the 70's, not to mention closing Yosemite, Yellowstone, and the Great Smokies National Parks to encourage tourism to the theme parks. The generals all harped that we can't let those pesky pinko commies narrow the theme park gap.
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This isn't a DBWI;)
 
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