theme park
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Building Galactic Starcruiser Forced Disney To Think Where Star Wars People Poop
As the design director for six mainline Star Wars films as well as The Mandalorian, Lucasfilm vice president and executive creative director Doug Chiang has spent a lot of time figuring out what stuff looks like in the galaxy far, far away. But mapping out the interiors of the Halycon — the “luxury starship” that…
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‘DefunctLand’ Investigates How And Why Theme Parks Die
When a theme park shutters its gates for good, it’s usually marked with a small sigh from the local news or, if the park was big enough, a what-went-wrong exposé from the national press. Decades later, they’re rusted-over playgrounds for teens who want to spook their dates. One YouTuber, who runs the channel Defunctland, is…
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Inside Japan’s New One Piece Theme Park
Dubbed “Tokyo One Piece Tower”, this is Japan’s first large-scale One Piece theme park. As Kotaku reported last year, this theme park (and it’s explicitly being called a “theme park” or テーマパーク in Japanese) marks the 15th anniversary of the One Piece anime. Pretty cool, huh?
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Watch The ‘Real’ Angry Birds Fly At This Chinese Theme Park
Remember that bigger-than-life Angry Birds attraction in China we told you about? Here’s a look at it in action. The attraction is located in an amusement park in China’s Hunan Province.