I can understand taking over an abandoned mall to make a "Zombie Theme Park" like was done in the UK
http://www.zedevents.co.uk/the-mall/
but 200 acres is pretty big, and outdoors makes everything more complicated.
Zombie Theme Park in Detroit
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#12I can understand taking over an abandoned mall to make a "Zombie Theme Park" like was done in the UK http://www.zedevents.co.uk/the-mall/ but 200 acres is pretty big, and outdoors makes everything more complicated.
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#13Can someone say "liability issues"?
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#14I can understand taking over an abandoned mall to make a "Zombie Theme Park" like was done in the UK http://www.zedevents.co.uk/the-mall/ but 200 acres is pretty big, and outdoors makes everything more complicated.
And decades of dumping. And slum lords. And wild dogs. And squatters. And massive pollution. And peripheral crime. And dodgy-to-nonexistent infrastructure.
People see cheap building sales in Detroit and they don't realize those almost always come with requirements to pay back-taxes, tear down all the structures, decontaminate the grounds, etc.
There are good (read: expensive) reasons that much of Detroit remains abandoned.
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#15Something similar to this already happens in the UK, except it takes place in the middle of cities rather than in abandoned areas:
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#16Paintball guns could make this more interesting.
Near my city there's an airsoft field where weekend zombie events are organized. Basically, you assemble a group, pay the entrance, and a group of actors disguised as zombies attack you in the forest. Being paid actors, they play it real, safe, and "correctly" die when they should.
You mean when they are shot in the head or neck only?
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#17Aesthetically, the idea of a 'zombie theme park' is pretty weak. I get it; there's a lot of people who think zombies are the bees' knees. But a theme park dedicated entirely to them? You know how one dimensional zombies are? After running away from moaning, stumbling zombies for an hour, this would get boring as hell. And most people don't even commit to the acting (lame). Practically, what the hell is the matter wit…
And there are starving people in Africa, too. All that you suggest is already being done in Detroit. Personally, I think I would be bored after about an hour like you say but it would be really cool if they could pull this off.
The Detroit area (including parts of Detroit proper) isn't a complete wasteland. There are a lot of people in the area that want to have a little fun in their life, like anywhere else in the world. There's nothing wrong with that. If they pull it off, this would attract people from all over the region (and I'm sure far beyond), which can only be a good thing for the economy.
FWIW, I don't think they'll pull this off, especially for $145,000, but I like that someone's trying.
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#18To me 90% of the fun of living out a zombie apocalypse is taking a baseball bat to the side of a zombie's head. I don't really want to run around and hide all night.
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#19This is a poorly thought out idea. If the city took two years (after initial opposition) to agree to a tree farm I can not imagine they'd ever get support for this idea.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230489870457747...
What happens when someone running from 'zombies' gets injured inside one of the buildings? Just making the structures safe for the game would run into millions of dollars.
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#20I thought Detroit itself was already supposed to be something like a zombie theme park.