The location I have selected for a ride on the miracles of Jesus (at my Bible World resort) is “The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.” That ride is located in Fantasyland at Walt Disney World and in Critter Country at Disneyland. It is a dark ride that uses a track (although the one in Tokyo Disneyland is trackless). In The Imagineering Field Guide to the Magic Kingdom book, I had the ride layout of the Winnie ride at WDW, so I used that as the layout for the Miracles ride. A dark ride (with a track) is a good ride type for this set of stories, because it will provide close-up encounters of Jesus’ healings. There are other ride types that could work (depending on budget and space allowances)—the E-ticket “Rise of the Resistance” ride, a boat ride, or some type of show.
With all of the miracles that Jesus worked during his 3 years of public ministry, how would a ride designer select which miracles to include? I based the number on the layout of the Pooh ride, in which I counted to have 7 main scenes. Well, John’s Gospel has 7 major miracles that are called the 7 Signs! Those 7 are the Wedding at Cana (John 2:1-11), the Healing of the Official’s Son (4:46-54), the Lame Man at the Pool (5:1-17), the Feeding of the 5000 (6:1-15), Jesus Walks on Water (6:16-21), the Healing of a Man Born Blind (9:1-41), and the Raising of his Friend Lazarus (11:1-47). The scenes of my proposed ride follow that order except I have reversed the order of the Feeding and the Lame Man to provide for a bigger scene for the Feeding. However, the correct ordering could be kept by adding/removing walls. For the Wedding Feast of Cana, the first room will show the water turning into wine through lighting effects. Guests can see the water from a waiter pouring from the stone jug into a pitcher as well as some other waiters who are spilling water out of their jugs. The second room shows the tasting of the wine. An element that would need special development is Jesus walking on water (with Peter sinking). Other healings of Jesus (or scenes from John’s Gospel, like the Samaritan woman) could be included in the queue for the ride.
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