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Mr. Webb was born and raised in Middle Tennessee.  Upon graduation from college, he immediately began working in video and television production in the Nashville area. He gained production experience producing corporate training videos as well as promotional videos. Feeling the need to be in a more creative environment, and hearing of the production opportunities and facilities being built in Orlando, Florida, he decided to make a move to Central Florida to pursue his dreams of producing TV shows. In an effort to build relationships from the ground up, he jumped right in with opportunities to work on numerous television projects including Nickelodeon’s Figure it Out, Universal’s Swamp Thing, Disney’s Mickey Mouse Club and Holiday Specials. 

While freelancing his production skills in Orlando, he also worked for the Walt Disney Company in their resort entertainment department as a video production technician assisting with corporate meetings in Disney hotels along with live events in the Disney parks.

During his career in Orlando, he co-created and produced the television game show pilot, Culture Quest. The series was licensed in the Asian market and aired for five seasons.  He was the co-writer for all 260 episodes.  The series maintained the same sponsor throughout its run. During its run, Culture Quest ranked fourth amongst format shows in terms of advertising revenues. The most recent year's ratings for the series put it in the same class as another American import, Wheel of Fortune

Another show he created and produced while in Orlando was the TV dance show pilot, That Swing Thing.  In addition to creating the show, his responsibilities included all areas of producing the show: from hiring crew and talent, to securing the location, and overseeing editing.

It was around this time Webb decided to move back to Nashville to raise his family. Once again, he began freelancing his video skills and creating concepts for shows, which include the kids’ TV game show Karpool Kids, a kids’ game show in a party bus. The pilot show of Karpool Kids is currently being shopped around the world as a format show. 

Another show in Nashville he co-created and produced was Dance Time, a kids’ TV dance show.  It is also currently being marketed around the world.

He has also pursued the world of video Internet streaming, creating and producing the music show Surviving Nashville, a coaches’ baseball show, and a live call-in business show on the Internet.

Not long after his move back to Middle Tennessee with his young family, Webb realized the obvious void of good family entertainment in the area he had grown up in.  Stirred by his passion for theme parks and wholesome family entertainment, while having lunch with a friend at the Sub Stop on 21stAvenue, the concept of Ole South USA was born. From its inception at this meeting in 2004, Webb has fervently continued to research and learn all that it would require to bring a quality theme park back to the Middle Tennessee area.

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Mr. Armstrong has a broad cumulative background in real estate, building and community development. He has managed large, complex projects from feasibility analysis and site acquisition through planning, engineering, entitlements, construction and marketing. Mr. Armstrong is a creative thinker, challenging his team to incorporate cutting edge practices and technologies to achieve practical and visually stunning results. His work at Bonita Bay in southwest Florida where he was President and CEO for ten years “championed environmental sustainability before it became a planning concept” according to the Urban Land Institute in the publication Great Planned Communities. 

 

 
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Mr. McCrary specializes in theme park, water park and family entertainment center master planning and concept development, including ride design, development, and construction as well as overall marketing and budget analysis and on-site project supervision.  He has participated in hundreds of project designs and more than 35 completed projects both large and small.  Mr. McCrary has worked on several significant projects throughout his career including Lotte World and Lotte Sky Plaza in Korea, Leofoo Village in Taiwan, Bosque Magico Theme park in Mexico, including master planning for multiple theme entertainment venues in the USA such as Hershey Park, Universal Studios City Walk and Six Flags Fiesta Texas.

 
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In 1990 after completing his illustration studies at Ringling School of Art and Design, located in Sarasota, Florida, Rob Corley achieved his life-long goal of becoming a Disney animator.  In the fall of that same year, Corley was hired as an artist for Walt Disney Feature Animation, located at the the Disney/MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida. Over his years at Disney, Rob has had a hand in creating such Disney classics as “Rescuers Down Under," “Beauty and the Beast," “The Lion King," “Aladdin," “Pocahontas," “Mulan," “Lilo and Stitch,” and most currently, “Brother Bear.”  His animation responsibilities have also included various non-feature films such as “John Henry," “Trail Mix-Up," “Prince and the Pauper,” and “Off his Rockers,” as well as numerous projects for the animation services division of the feature animation department at Disney/MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida. Corley has also worked as a freelance animation supervisor on several television commercials from Cocoa Pebbles to Froot Loops, Rice Krispies and Little Debbies for San Marco Films, formerly Cornell/Abood. He has also worked with Curious Pictures located in New York. Through his subsidiary company, Funnypages Press, Corley published his own creator-owned comics, as well as comics by other talented writers and artists. 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 
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