Cthulhu Theme Park Coming Soon?

I missed a brilliant suggestion on Halfbakery earlier this year: An H.P. Lovecraft theme park! I can think of a zillion places in rural Massachusetts or Rhode Island where we ought to build this dank, foggy amusement park whose presence is marked only by rotting signs and surly, fish-faced locals. Whirligig, who contributed the half-baked […]
Cthulhu Theme Park Coming Soon

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I missed a brilliant suggestion on Halfbakery earlier this year: An H.P. Lovecraft theme park! I can think of a zillion places in rural Massachusetts or Rhode Island where we ought to build this dank, foggy amusement park whose presence is marked only by rotting signs and surly, fish-faced locals.

Whirligig, who contributed the half-baked idea, suggests:

“Rides” are sometimes optional, usually the guest is instead suddenlygrabbed by a monstrosity or dropped through a hidden trapdoor,
screaming for their pitiful life . . . Tokeep the tourists in a constant state of mortal fear, its layout andconstituent parts are revised regularly. Some buildings aresemi-mobile, allowing the maze of streets and passageways to changeunexpectedly. Subterranean passages are hidden everywhere. Ghouls andmad scientists roam throughout, acting alternately as guides andcatalysts of doom and despair.

He also notes that the amusement park should include a traveling show on a floating barge called "The Lost City of R'lyeh," which can be "special ordered to terrorize a coastal town and appears at whim in the open sea along the way."

Excited commenters quickly chimed in with their own embellishments for the amusement park. Zen-tom suggested, "Occasionally, achild should dissapear, last seen by the shambling and misshapenmaintenence staff." And oneoffdave said, "I'm looking forward to the non-euclidian roller coaster." Me too!

Lovecraft Theme Park [via Halfbakery]