24Oct

Storyland Studios-designed Nollywood film city moves forward

Studio complex gets an iconic name, completes BlueSky phase of master plan, enters agreement with Lagos government. Lagos, Nigeria – International experience design firm Storyland Studios’ partner, Del-York International Group, has signed an agreement with the Lagos, Nigeria state government formalising a studio city set to revolutionise the Nigerian film industry. With Storyland’s BlueSky now …

12May

Storyland Studios Welcomes Executive Producer Jonathan Bonner to its International Team

Amersham, England, UK – International experience design and production firm Storyland Studios is welcoming themed entertainment professional Jonathan Bonner to its UK team as Executive Producer. As a themed entertainment and attraction producer and project manager, Bonner has extensive experience in business development and will come alongside the UK team in its international outreach and …

12Apr

Storyland Studios Selected to Master Plan and Design All-New Sports Illustrated Resorts

Lake Elsinore, Calif. (April 7th, 2022) – Renowned international experience design and production studio Storyland Studios has been selected to master plan and design the latest addition to the world of immersive experiences: Sports Illustrated Hotels and Resorts, which are set to begin rolling out worldwide as early as 2023. These new destinations will feature …

22Dec

Storyland Studios Selected to Design Film City in Lagos, Nigeria

Lagos, Nigeria – Storyland Studios, the experience design and production studio with offices in the US and Europe, has been selected to master plan and design a film city and entertainment industry campus, a sprawling, first-of-its-kind film industry hub in Lagos, Nigeria. The project sponsor, Del York International Group in partnership with the Lagos State …

18Nov

First Ubisoft Entertainment Center to open at Studios Occitanie in France

Studios Occitanie Méditerranée is a new mixed-entertainment destination opening in 2025 ORLANDO, FL – November 18, 2021 – Ubisoft and Storyland Studios announced the development of the world’s first Ubisoft Entertainment Center at Studios Occitanie Méditerranée. This multi-brand themed entertainment experience is the first in a series of centers that will immerse fans and newcomers …

04Oct

Storyland Studios Welcomes Sean Featonby, Client Development Champion, to its Global Development Team

Amersham, United Kingdom – Storyland Studios is proud to welcome Sean Featonby as their new UK-based Client Development Champion, effective October 4th, 2021. With an extensive background in business development, sales, marketing, and project production in the global entertainment and themed attraction industries, Featonby brings a wealth of experience to the table. “Storyland Studios is …

19Aug

STORYLAND STUDIOS PARTNERS WITH MAJOR VIDEO GAME PUBLISHER UBISOFT

LAKE ELSINORE, CALIF. – International experience design and production firm Storyland Studios is announcing a partnership today with leading video game publisher Ubisoft to develop a new generation of tech-enabled, in-person themed entertainment experiences. The agreement puts Storyland at the helm of designing two multi-brand themed entertainment offerings based on Ubisoft’s game worlds, for fans …

22Jun

Veteran Disney Imagineer Jim Clark Joins Storyland Studios as Their Newest Executive Director

Lake Elsinore, Calif. – Storyland Studios is proud to welcome veteran Walt Disney Imagineer Jim Clark as their newest Executive Director. Clark’s 27-year tenure with the Walt Disney Company included work at Walt Disney World, Disneyland, and Tokyo Disneyland, with two decades at Walt Disney Imagineering. Most recently, he served as Senior Creative Producer for …

27Apr

Storyland Studios to design four new location-based entertainment concepts for leading Latin American tourism operator Grupo Cataratas

Lake Elsinore, CA, April 27, 2021 – Storyland Studios have been appointed to design a series of new location-based entertainment concepts for Grupo Cataratas, the largest tourism operator in South America. Grupo Cataratas currently operates six sites in Brazil, with more in development. In 2019 alone, the group welcomed nearly six million guests. The group …

02Mar

Storyland Studios launches NEW International Design Challenge for freelance designers in themed entertainment

Lake Elsinore, Calif. – Experience design and themed entertainment firm Storyland Studios is excited to announce its inaugural Storyland Design Challenge, an all-new, international concept design competition for freelance designers working in the themed entertainment industry. Freelance designers seeking to make their name in themed entertainment are invited to pitch their design concepts for immersive, …

22Feb

Storyland Studios welcomes veteran Disney Imagineer and Universal Studios Creative Director Jason Surrell

Lake Elsinore, Calif. – Experience design and themed entertainment firm Storyland Studios is excited to welcome Jason Surrell to their rapidly expanding team as Executive Creative Director. Surrell, a veteran of both Walt Disney Imagineering and Universal Creative Group, brings a wealth of experience in themed entertainment and storytelling to Storyland. Most recently, Surrell served …

17Sep

STORYLAND STUDIOS RECEIVES TEA THEA AWARD FOR POVERTY ENCOUNTER

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Storyland Studios, an experience design firm that helps brands connect their stories in three dimensions, has received the Themed Entertainment Association’s (TEA) Thea Award for Outstanding Achievement on a Limited Budget for Poverty Encounter, a permanent exhibit at Children’s Hunger Fund (CHF), a non-profit in Los Angeles, California. The annual award brings …

11Feb

Theme Parkology | Backstory

back·​story \ˈbak-ˌstȯr-ē noun, plural back·sto·ries. a narrative providing a history or background context, especially for a character or situation in a literary work, film, or dramatic series.   In themed entertainment design, we regularly employ a literary tool called “backstory.” Typically, this is used to provide color and context for a character. However, in Spatial …

11Nov

Themedattraction.com Relaunched As Theme Park Industry Info Hub

First Ever Theme Park Site Returns as Go-To Site for Themed Entertainment Design Professionals   ORLANDO, FLORIDA, November 11th, 2018 – ThemedAttraction.com, “The world’s most comprehensive site on theme parks and themed attraction design,” is relaunched as an online resource for themed entertainment industry professionals offering insights and interviews from the world’s foremost masters of …

22Mar

Marvel Invades Disneyland – Last Look At A Bugs Land

With the news today that a Marvel-themed land (including attractions for Spider-Man and the Avengers) will soon replace A Bug’s Land in Disney California Adventure, our comic-book-loving staff gave a collective cheer. But the good news came with the unexpected revelation that Disney had secretly closed the land’s anchor, opening-day attraction, the immersive 4-D theater …

22Nov

Space Between Places – An Interview with Artist Morleigh Steinberg

Storyland Studios’ writer, Freddy Martin, sat down with Morleigh Steinberg to talk about how creating unique spaces for people to interact can positively affect human creativity and experiences. Morleigh Steinberg is a dancer, choreographer, director, filmmaker, lighting designer, and is married to U2 guitarist, The Edge. When I first met Morleigh Steinberg, artist and co-owner …

14Nov

Themed Entertainment Design Firm Emerges as Spatial Storytelling Powerhouse

Lake Elsinore, CA, November 13, 2017 – The secret’s out. Storyland Studios is now a complete design and fabrication powerhouse serving story partners throughout the themed entertainment industry. Storyland Studios’ full-range of creative disciplines is directly inspired by the synergy and size of Walt Disney’s original design and fabricating team originally known as WED (Walter …

25Sep

Toodles Summer! We’ll miss you.

We wish we could have made it stop, but this week Summer came to it’s bittersweet end. So we’re revisiting Summer’s most memorable fabrications that left lasting impressions on us. Some of these fabrications were crafted right here at Storyland Studios by our talented team, while others (credited below) left us awe inspired. Escape Velocity at Coachella This …