While the other projects are less ambitious in scope than Heritage City and Cybercity, and are privately funded, they all are decentralised enclaves that focus on a "live, work, play" concept, green electricity and services.
Among the attractions in the children's section will be an elaborate role-playing concept called Wannado City that Mr. Siegel discovered in Mexico City, and brought first to Sawgrass Mills, in Sunrise, Fla., near Fort Lauderdale.
Hans Beck, a furniture maker and model enthusiast, came up with the toy in 1974 after being asked to create a new and collectible play concept.
The London production was well-received and will arrive in New York with most of its cast intact and with the same play-within-a-play concept — inmates and guards at a women's prison are performing the Shakespeare play.
It is designed by analogy of Plug & Play concept in computer world.
Open image in new window Fig. 10 Play concept: subsurface model of the oligocene-eocene petroleum system in Onshore Eastern Niger Delta.
The "Hybrid Plays" concept revamps our understanding of lacustrine source rock reservoirs and genetically synthesizes the source to accumulation of unconventional to conventional systems in the source rock interval.
"There's no seats," Donner told Yahoo! Movies on Thursday, explaining the immersive play concept.
"I can still work on Meld but it was a concept, and I like to play with concepts," she says.
Like many Blizzard games, Plants vs. Zombies succeeds not because it innovates game-play concepts, but because it polishes a few ideas to a high sheen of design and then assembles them in an irresistibly attractive, fun-to-use package.
