If you’ve ever been to Disneyland and come away thinking ‘that was okay, but I really want a theme park experience where the threat of being killed and/or maimed hangs over my head’, then you may be in luck.
This week, Lionsgate confirmed that a pair of Hunger Games theme parks are opening in the U.S. and China. The first is set to open its doors in Macau in late 2018, with another to follow near Atlanta in 2019.
The Atlanta location, which will be called Avatron Park, promises to “push the thresholds of location-based entertainment storytelling like never before”, which may or may not mean that a kid will end up getting impaled on a javelin at some point.
What a fun time you’re going to have.
If that’s not enough for you, Lionsgate are opening an “entertainment zone” in the UAE, which will allow you to travel through a replica of Katniss Everdeen‘s home town in District 12, complete with costumed characters and a version of Peeta‘s family bakery.
The “entertainment zone” will also feature a roller coaster based on the train ride to the Capitol, as well as rides and attractions based on Step Up, Now You See Me and Lionsgate’s other dystopian YA cash cow Divergent.
TBH, we think they buried the lead with this announcement, because a Step Up theme park sounds magical as fuck, especially if at some point in the future we’ll get to dance with a robot Channing Tatum.
Please make the robot Channing Tatum thing happen, okay guys? Thx.
