SERVICES DESIGNED TO CREATE LONG-TERM VALUE

We create unique destinations that stand out from the crowd, drive ticket sales, and build emotional brand connections to power repeat business. Now "That's Entertainment!"

Our Entertainment Design Services expand beyond formulaic approaches, pushing into new markets and venues with innovative place-making and storytelling techniques. Customized Services are provided by talented Advisors who have master's knowledge and experience from the creative think tanks of Universal Studios and Walt Disney Imagineering.

Grounded with world-class experience and knowledge, we Design, Entertain, & Inspire.

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BLUE-SKY CONCEPT CREATION & DEVELOPMENT

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Got an idea? Want to see if it will pan out?
Don't have any ideas? Need some new ones?
Too many ideas? Not sure which way to go?

We can help.

We guide owners and developers through the mysterious maze of Entertainment Design, bringing clarity out of chaos. Managing the creation and development of ideas, we turn them into actionable projects with defined goals, objectives, and results, turning grey skies to blue.

Through visualization, idea harvesting, nominal group and other techniques, we can take your ideas beyond the mental barrier into reality.

EMOTIONAL MASTER PLANNING™

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Bringing the underlying human desires and emotions to the drafting table is the only way to create a deep lifelong bond with consumers. Emotional Master Planning™ does just that.

By relating to consumers through primal emotional cores, we can ensure success for entertainment destinations. Our proprietary planning principles emanate from concepts used by Walt Disney to plan Disneyland. Adapted and refined for today’s market, Emotional Master Planning™ applies social science to entertainment planning to make lifelong consumer connections.

Whether it's a theme park, water park, or entire integrated resort destination, our Emotional Master Planning techniques will ground your brand in concepts that have initial appeal, have built-in repeatabilty, and generate intrinsic loyalty in your customers' hearts.

THEME PARKS, WATER PARKS, RIDES, SHOWS, ATTRACTIONS & EVENTS

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Danger! Rides, Shows and Attractions are like particle colliders--you need rocket scientists to prevent creating a black hole for your budget! But no need to worry if you hire an experienced team.

Combining the art of showmanship with state-of-the-art technology requires a diverse team of artistic and technical professionals focused on Creating Fun--Yes, you need rocket scientists!

Making it easy for the fun to occur requires a skillful orchestration of creative vision, technical know-how, project schedules, and client goals. The KBCA team brings together virtuoso talent with experience creatiing world-class entertainment worldwide.

ENTERTAINMENT FACILITY PLANNING & DESIGN

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How the heck are you going to build that castle, spaceship, or submarine? Worse yet, how are you going to get people into that fake mountain? What about guests in wheelchairs?

Leave it to the professionals who enjoy designing brand new buildings that look 700 years old, but meet current building and accessibility requirements. Safety is number one, so an experience facility designer is essential to blend ride/building/evacuation/operational/entertainment requirements into a seamless experience.

RETAIL & DINING DESTINATIONS

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"Retail-tainment" fuses entertainment into retail and dining venues, creating a differentiating draw in today’s competitive market. Mixed use complexes, shopping malls, and lifestyle centers can all benefit by integrating entertainment elements into the venue. The end result is an increased length of stay and more frequent customer visits.

Whether it's an interactive water feature, a live entertainment program, or nighttime spectacular, we have have created world-class, entertaining environments that sell.

HIGH-RISE PODIUMS & URBAN ENTERTAINMENT CENTERS

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Today's savvy developers use entertainment to anchor and differentiate developments of all types. With our deep background in retail planning and the design of mixed-use developments, as well as our entertainment expertise, we provide developers with a comprehensive podium planning solution. Working in sync with our client's architects, hotel and office design experts, we will ensure the requirements of successful entertainment and retail are provided for.

"WOW" FEATURES

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We design freestanding attractions, or "WOW!" Features, that breathe new life into your casino, shopping mall, or other destination in need of increasing sales revenue by extending customer length of stay. WOW! Features can be as small as a musical fountain to as large as an exploding volcano or sinking pirate ship.

Using theme park programming and performance techniques, our WOW! Features are automatic, and can be seamlessly integrated into existing facilities, in virtually any theme--limited only by budget and imagination.

To bring a WOW! Feature to your venue, please contact us.

ENVIRONMENTAL GRAPHIC DESIGN (Signs)

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Signs and Wayfinding are the icing on the cake, the final details that make entertainment environments come to life. Sensitivity to signs and typography brings another layer to the entertainment venue's design language, further reinforcing the theme, era, and locale.
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