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Painterly illustration of people in a dark, 19th-century dockhouse with 'THE ARRIVAL' text, looking at a steamship outside.

Painterly illustration of people in a dark, 19th-century dockhouse with 'THE ARRIVAL' text, looking at a steamship outside.

make me a poster of a ride called The Arrival: Voyage to a New Shore, Pre Ride Area Description Guests enter a recreated late-19th/early-20th-century transatlantic dockhouse. The queue is staged as customs paperwork lines: period posters, packed trunks, audio letters playing in multiple languages, projection of ship manifests scrolling overhead. Interactive stations let guests "fill out" a boarding card (a keepsake card with a stamped date) and listen to short oral histories describing hopes and fears before arrival. Ride Description with explicit connection to historical event Slow dark boat ride with projection mapping, animatronics, and 360º sound. Guests board ship-like boats that "land" at an immigration processing center modeled on Ellis Island. The journey moves through scenes that alternate hope and hardship: families singing on deck; arrival procedures; a bustling medical inspection with spotlights and whispered anxieties; an urban street where language barriers, job posters, and anti-immigrant signage are projected across tenements; then a montage of micro-interactions — a landlord refusal, a child translating, a neighborhood fight and an ally standing up. Lighting, scent (sea salt, coal smoke, baking bread), and tactile cues (a gentle sway in the boat) deepen immersion. The narrative intentionally centers real, personal moments rather than spectacle — faces, choices, small acts of kindness and exclusion. The final scene frames the choice to stay, adapt, protest, See more