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All tagged theme park
The ‘urban’ park, combining city atmospheres with different decades in easily-divided slices of the pie, united by a peoplemover system that weaves through the radial time-zones.
Wan Shi Tong's Library (subterranean, owl-fleeing dark ride), Omashu mail chutes (embedded high-speed steel coaster), Foggy Bottom Swamp (hickish flume ride), Boiling Rock (prison break splashdown)…
The Great Lakes area (1970-1995) features a record store with the classics of disco, punk, R&B, soul, pop, new wave, heavy metal, grunge, alt rock, etcetera—and there’s an adjoining laundromat where the glass faces of the washing machines are all playing music videos from different eras and genres, with parabolic loudspeakers overhead to sync the songs to their particular acoustic areas.
The Great War area features laser tag in a maze of WWI trenches, with large opposing teams and bouts of rolling fog simulating chlorine gas.
Phoenicians, Egyptians, Priests, Gutenberg, colonial pamphlets, newspapers, newsboys, Woodward & Bernstein, the 24-hour news cycle, dissemination and tribalism on the internet, the eternal battle of truth against lies, etcetera.
At the antique televisions and radios are buttons to activate the replaying of old songs, news reports and news reels, commercials, shows, and political ads.
A walkthrough attraction exploring Aztec ruins, full of treasure, traps, thrills, and displays of architecture and history. For instance, step on pressure plates in a hallway and they trigger “poison darts” (puffs of pressurized air to blast you, as if you’re being shot at). The story unfolds at your walking pace.
Horror amusement park recreating the Pripyat amusement grounds (dilapidated carnival rides) with a lot of walk-around areas specifically designed to be creepy and feature little else—the apparent lack of life, occupants, and rules.