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* ''Theme Park Tycoon 2'' in ''VideoGame/{{Roblox}}'' allows players to design a stereotypical theme park like the ones described here. You can add your favorite theme parks rides (including a Dumbo-like Planes ride) and build all kinds of roller coasters (including steel and wooden), and water and dark rides. However, you cannot build theater shows nor set up meet-and-greet characters or parades. You can add food/hat stalls, but no proper restaurant or gift shops. Also the visitors pay for each ride they ride.

* Tropical Land in ''Manga/MagicKaito'' and ''Manga/CaseClosed'' - notably, the creator is a huge Disneyland fan in real life, and actually spent one summer being a background painter for Pirates of the Caribbean. In its first ''Magic Kaito'' appearance it was apparently small enough for its one roller coaster to pull double-duty as the wraparound monorail, but later stories gave it add-ons like an ice rink and ThemePark/SeaWorld-esque shows. The ''Case Closed'' movies expand it to straight-up Disneyland size, with a central hub and six or seven themed sub-areas.

* Tropical Land in ''Manga/CaseClosed'' - it's very Disney-esque, with a central hub and themed sub-areas.

If it's obviously terrible and not even enjoyable, it's a CrappyCarnival that will rip you off without the merchandise.

* '''Roller coaster'''. Sometimes steel, but usually wooden. Always completely outdoors with visible track supports. This doesn't quite fit Universal or Disney-- Universal coasters nearly all feature inversions (which, while [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooden_roller_coaster#Inversions_in_wooden_roller_coasters possible on wooden coasters]], are difficult to pull off), while Disney parks typically hide the track in some way, whether by putting it inside a building (Ride/SpaceMountain, Rock 'n Roller Coaster) or by theming (Ride/BigThunderMountainRailroad, Matterhorn Bobsleds, Expedition Everest etc.). Ride/SixFlags does use this sort of coaster at its parks, often playing up the nostalgia angle, but typically has steel coasters alongside them.
* '''Boat rides'''. In real life, these take two forms: rides that keep trying to splash you, topped off with a big drop at the end, and rides that just use the boat as a form of transportation to show you scenery (Ride/PiratesOfTheCaribbean is one of these). Souvenir Land boat rides look like the latter for most of the ride, then suddenly throw in a big drop at the end (possibly the result of misremembering Ride/SplashMountain). Ride/JungleCruise is frequently parodied. Oddly, the inevitable ''Ride/ItsASmallWorld'' [[ItsASmallRide parody]] [[note]]which usually features incredibly low-quality puppets that Walt probably would have fired you for trying to put in his park, or super-high-quality puppets that turn out to be enslaved children[[/note]] is rarely one of these, usually happening out in the open.

* ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'': An extremely brutal version (which is a Disney production, if the title character doesn't give it away). Goofy takes his son Max to Lester Possum's Park, which is a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse (who had a cameo in the previous song number). Along with the cartoon costumes, they also brutally make fun of the Country Bears Jamboree attraction. The attack seems less like self-parody and more like extreme CreativeDifferences with the people running the park.

* ''Anime/PrettyCureAllStars DX2'' takes place in a ''Anime/PrettyCure'' theme park by the ocean.

* ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'' (the Creator/JohnnyDepp version) has a parody of "It's a Small World".

* The kingdom of Duloc from ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' has some Disneyland-like elements, particularly the "Main Street"-type entrance and a "Small World" parody, as part of Jeffrey Katzenberg's TakeThat against his former employer.

* Super Silly Fun Land, the bizarre theme park in ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'', in which Gru is forced to ride a crazy roller coaster along with the girls in his care, and in which he destroys the game stand and "wins" Agnes her stuffed toy unicorn. {{Defictionalized}} in various Ride/UniversalStudios parks.

* Super Silly Fun Land, the bizarre theme park in ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'', in which Gru is forced to ride a crazy roller coaster along with the girls in his care, and in which he destroys the game stand and "wins" Agnes her stuffed toy unicorn.

* ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'': An extremely brutal version (which is a Disney production, if the title character doesn't give it away). Goofy takes his son Max to Lester Possum's Park, which is a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of MickeyMouse (who had a cameo in the previous song number). Along with the cartoon costumes, they also brutally make fun of the Country Bears Jamboree attraction. The attack seems less like self-parody and more like extreme CreativeDifferences with the people running the park.

* ''ComicBook/{{Finder}}'' has many domed cities dotted around its world, one of which ([[LostTechnology conspicuously the most intact and well-maintained]]) is entirely taken up by Munkeyworld, an enormous distillation of all that is best and most over the top about theme parks. The whole place is very carefully managed to make sure the customers are kept in a prime state of consumerism, right down to making sure potential employees meet a set of non-offensive criteria, and whipping up the crowds into a hunt for mischief makers like Jaeger, with fabulous prizes for the one who catches him!

* ''Film/{{Zombieland}}'' has Pacific Playland. Two of the main characters put in a lot of effort to get there but it pretty much looks like a standard carnival. The Pacific Playland scenes were filmed at [[http://www.wildadventures.com Wild Adventures]] in Valdosta, Georgia. Wild Adventures is basically one-third water park, one-third second-tier zoo, and one-third this.

** ''Ride/JungleCruise'' is a parody of ''itself''. Well, more accurately, the modern ''Jungle Cruise'' is [[SelfDeprecation a parody of the original]] ''[[SelfDeprecation Jungle Cruise]]'' -- while the ride was originally played straight (Walt Disney didn't want to deal with all the complexities real animals would cause in a small area of a park, so he went with robotic ones), the current version is basically one big comedy routine having fun at the scenery's expense, especially in light of guests being able to ride among actual animals over at the aforementioned Animal Kingdom. Sample lines:

* The Singapore Zoo is not even a theme park, and yet this is in full force. It's hard to turn anywhere and not see a stand or proper store selling stuffed toy animals, and there are themed restaurants and souvenir photo opportunities aplenty. Not to mention "Ah Meng" everything -- Ah Meng being the late orangutan mascot of the zoo.
** Pretty much ''any'' zoo is liable to become a bit SouvenirLand-ish in its children's area, where domesticated livestock and small inoffensive wildlife such as locally-commonplace varieties of tortoise make their inevitable appearance. Even the ''animal feed'' which can be purchased to hand out to goats or throw to the ducks will be identical to every other zoo's, and badly overpriced to boot.

* In ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'', the Demon Pirate Lechuck converts Monkey Island into "The Carnival of the Damned" as part of his scheme to recruit unknowing pirates into his undead army (since the first thing a sailor on shore leave is ever looking for is, of course, a family-oriented theme park). In the endgame, Guybrush is transformed into a seven-year-old version of himself and has to deal with rigged carnival games, corrupt mascots in costume and a snow-cone stand attendee with unnerving armpit hair.

* ''VideoGame/RollerCoasterTycoon'' lets you build one of these. Since the game relies entirely on the numeric excitement ratings of individual rides to judge how well guests like them, you can more or less get away with it.
* Ryan Amusements in ''VideoGame/{{BioShock 2}}''. There is exactly one ride, a Haunted Mansion style ride that's purportedly designed to [[ScareEmStraight scare kids into never wanting to leave Rapture]], but consists entirely of a series of Objectivist lectures, illustrated with exaggerated animatronic scenes. The rest of the park consists of a "Hall of the Future" that has all of three scenes and forces guests to backtrack to get out, a gift shop that either has been thoroughly looted or carries a paltry amount of merchandise, and a restaurant. Granted, it's still exactly the right size for a single level in a ''[=BioShock=]'' game, which is what mattered, but there aren't even any of the usual blocked-off passageways to give it a sense of originally being bigger.
* ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'' Atomic Edition has Babeland, which includes all three types of rides mentioned above in various stages of completion. And pretty much nothing else either.

* ''Theme Park Tycoon 2'' in ''VideoGame/{{Roblox}}'' allows players to design a stereotypical theme park like the ones described here. You can add your favorite theme parks rides (including a Dumbo-like Planes ride) and build all kinds of roller coasters (including steel and wooden), not to mention water and dark rides. However, you cannot build theater shows nor set up meet-and-greet characters or parades. You can add food/hat stalls, but no proper restaurant or gift shops. Also the visitors pay for each ride they ride.

* ''WebVideo/JoueurDuGrenier'': Across several [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtB6ZLAArV8 amusement]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ8dNGSOUc0 park games]], the idea of Fistiland (Motto: "Fun all the way to the bottom!") developed, an amusement park ticking off most of the boxes: overpriced and hideously unhealthy food, prices that go as high as the game allows, crappy rides (one is a boring track that blasts heavy metal at the riders for several hours, another sends riders flying off) that undergo maintenance never, dead animals, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylneqoMmdAw an annoying mascot]] (a giant statue of which sprays water on visitors that pass under its legs) who [[spoiler:eventually became the BigBad of the ten year anniversary video as Thanus...]] and to top it all off, the entire thing is based on fisting, as in the sex act.

** [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E4ItchyAndScratchyLand Itchy & Scratchy Land]] is a straight Disneyland/Walt Disney World parody, and surprisingly thorough in spoofing real stuff at the parks in TheNineties, like Disney Dollars, the Pleasure Island adult nightclub complex at the Florida resort, and even the ''Walt Disney Story'' attraction. The episode also briefly showed "Euro Itchy & Scratchy Land" in a cutaway gag; it's completely abandoned, save for a French ticket master calling out for customers because his last paycheck bounced and his "children need wine" -- a reference to the (then-topical) disastrous early years of what is now called Disneyland Paris.

** Before Elmyra joined in, Pinky is at one point tempted by Snowball to leave the Brain. The bait was Pinkyworld, a theme park contained inside a corporate headquarters. Of course, this is mouse-sized...

* The ''WesternAnimation/MegaManRubySpears'' cartoon had Fun World, which had the standard rides and even offered souvenir rings. [[spoiler: That were used to brainwash people to think like robots]].

* ''Comicbook/{{Finder}}'' has many domed cities dotted around its world, one of which ([[LostTechnology conspicuously the most intact and well-maintained]]) is entirely taken up by Munkeyworld, an enormous distillation of all that is best and most over the top about theme parks. The whole place is very carefully managed to make sure the customers are kept in a prime state of consumerism, right down to making sure potential employees meet a set of non-offensive criteria, and whipping up the crowds into a hunt for mischief makers like Jaeger, with fabulous prizes for the one who catches him!

* ''[[Comicbook/{{Asterix}} Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra]]'': One of the Egyptian cities is apparently this.

* The ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan'' cartoon had Fun World, which had the standard rides and even offered souvenir rings. [[spoiler: That were used to brainwash people to think like robots]].

* '''Boat rides'''. In real life, these take two forms: rides that keep trying to splash you, topped off with a big drop at the end, and rides that just use the boat as a form of transportation to show you scenery (Ride/PiratesOfTheCaribbean is one of these). Souvenir Land boat rides look like the latter for most of the ride, then suddenly throw in a big drop at the end (possibly the result of misremembering Ride/SplashMountain). Ride/JungleCruise is frequently parodied. Oddly, the inevitable ''Ride/ItsASmallWorld'' parody [[note]]which usually features incredibly low-quality puppets that Walt probably would have fired you for trying to put in his park, or super-high-quality puppets that turn out to be enslaved children[[/note]] is rarely one of these, usually happening out in the open.

** The name of Duff Gardens ("[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E13SelmasChoice Selma's Choice]]", Season 5, 1993) implies a Busch Gardens parody, but parts of it parody Disney attractions like "It's a Small World" and "The Hall of Presidents". It's also worth noting that this one is ''meant'' to be crappy, with the longest line being for the complaints booth.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E4ItchyAndScratchyLand Itchy & Scratchy Land]]" (Season 4, 1993) is a straight Disneyland/Walt Disney World parody, and surprisingly thorough in spoofing real stuff at the parks in TheNineties, like Disney Dollars, the Pleasure Island adult nightclub complex at the Florida resort, and even the ''Walt Disney Story'' attraction. The episode also briefly showed "Euro Itchy & Scratchy Land" in a cutaway gag; it's completely abandoned, save for a French ticket master calling out for customers because his last paycheck bounced and his "children need wine" -- a reference to the (then-topical) disastrous early years of what is now called Disneyland Paris.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E15HungryHungryHomer Hungry Hungry Homer]]" (Season 12, 2001) opens with a trip to Blockoland (a lampshaded {{Expy}} of Legoland), where everything is made out of "Blocko"s, including the water for the scenic boat ride.
** "I'm Goin' to Praiseland" (Season 12, 2001) had Ned Flanders opening [[TheMoralSubstitute a Christian Souvenir Land]], a parody of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_USA Heritage USA]], which closed in 1989. (It may or may not also reference [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holy_Land_Experience the Holy Land Experience]], which opened in central Florida in February '01; the episode aired in May). Within a few days it is on the verge of shutting down, as visitors are turned off by its preachiness and wholesomeness, until an apparent miracle at the park (actually the result of a gas leak) causes attendance to skyrocket.
** [=EFCOT=] ("Special Edna", Season 14, 2003) is a parody of Epcot, though the attractions parodied were pulled from an assortment of different Disney parks. It takes the "older ride parodies" to ridiculous extremes -- there's a parody of a Disneyland attraction that closed in ''1967'' (sponsored by real-life but long-defunct Eastern Airlines), and there are no parodies of attractions that were operating at the time save for ''Honey, I Shrunk the Audience'' and the ''[=IllumiNations=]'' light show. It starts looking less like a mistake and more like an intentional nostalgia trip. (At the episode's end, Homer runs off to the ''real'' Disney World.)

* '''Boat rides'''. In real life, these take two forms: rides that keep trying to splash you, topped off with a big drop at the end, and rides that just use the boat as a form of transportation to show you scenery (Ride/PiratesOfTheCaribbean is one of these). Souvenir Land boat rides look like the latter for most of the ride, then suddenly throw in a big drop at the end (possibly the result of misremembering Ride/SplashMountain). Ride/JungleCruise is frequently parodied. Oddly, the inevitable "Ride/ItsASmallWorld" parody [[note]]which usually features incredibly low-quality puppets that Walt probably would have fired you for trying to put in his park, or super-high-quality puppets that turn out to be enslaved children[[/note]] is rarely one of these, usually happening out in the open.

-->-- "Happy World Land Theme", ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventuresHowISpentMySummerVacation''

-->-- "Happy World Land Theme", ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures''

-->"Do you know what kind of flamingos those are? They're ''plastic'' flamingos, that's what."\\

-->'''[[OurPresidentsAreDifferent US President]]''': When do we get to the ride?\\
'''Timmy's Dad''': This ''is'' the ride! Wheee!!

---> ''We're whalers on the moon/We carry a harpoon/But there ain't no whales/So we tell tall tales/And sing our whalin' tune''