Talk:Theme Parks

The introduction makes it sound like the focus is on Theme Parks as a fandom/fan activity, but the "Tropes & Genres" category would imply it should be about Theme Parks in Fanworks (e.g. fanfiction set in a theme park, fanart depicting a theme park, etc.). It might be less confusing if Theme Parks in Fanworks (for fandoms that are not theme parks but movies/tv/books/whatever that may or may not canonically reference theme parks) was a separate page. (Neither page should be in the Glossary category, as "Theme Park" isn't a fannish term.) I'm also unclear as to how the analysis section and references to "lore" relate to fandom or fan practices. Is this official lore generated by the theme park, invented by fans, or some combination of the two? How do fans interact with the official theming? Do they create fanworks, dedicate fansites to documenting the theme park history/lore, ? One of my favorite Bandom fics is a Disneyland AU where rumors about the park's history become a key plot point, but I have no idea if that lore was made up for the fic. --aethel (talk) 18:06, 31 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for the thoughts. I've been meaning to come back to this page when I have the chance, but with everything else I haven't found much opportunity. So it's still very much a WIP atm.

Regarding the categories, I wasn't the one who added them, and I hadn't really checked them yet to determine if they were accurate or not. I did put a red link to Theme Park AU for a seperate page that I haven't started yet, but I could certainly put that under a section on a Theme Parks in Fanworks page instead. It's also why I just gave it a general template rather than a trope or fandom one.

I realise I've probably used the wrong term there. It should probably be canon or backstory or something like that. I was using it in the more broader sense, like video game lore, referring to the official worldbuilding of a game, rather than fanlore or fanon.

As for the analysis section, it's referring largely to the ways in which fans have analysed the 'text', so in this case: a theme park, a land, a ride - in the same way that fans of a TV show or film or video game may analyse the construction, representation or politics etc, of their texts. Thoughts? --OfMonstersAndWerewolves (talk) 20:02, 31 December 2020 (UTC)