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Patrons spend the day hiking, running around, playing in
the
river but when it comes time to eat, they need to work for
it.
Inspired by the easter egg hunt, this takes it to a new level.
You eat at numerous kiosks and
restaurants around the park, but you need to bring
tokens that you've
foraged to
cash in for food.
These tokens are hidden before the park
opens in things like plastic easter eggs and mechanical
rabbits that zip by
and only stop when hit with a well placed throw from the
provided plastic balls.
A cutout of a bird might pop up on a
tree branch,
you throw your foam spear at it and if you hit it, a token
for a
barbecued chicken falls out of the tree. Occasionally a deer
on
rails zips by and it might take several foam spears to stop
it,
but if everybody gets together and gets their timing right,
all
will feast since it's loaded with tokens for everything from
hot
dogs, mac & cheese to burritos and even cupcakes for
dessert.
Loin cloth optional.
You could use this as some kind of model.
http://www.behance....Mycenaeans/14053005
[xandram, Apr 29 2014]
Cave hotel room
http://www.thrillis...nj-feather-nest-inn
Scroll down to the 4th one. [doctorremulac3, Apr 29 2014]
[link]
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For our particular nation, I'd recommend less caloric
foods for awhile. |
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How is it paid for? If it's paid for up front, you would need
a way to make sure everyone got the same amount of food. |
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Foraging is hardly done by finding plastic eggs or
mechanical rabbits! It needs to be much harder than
that! |
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[+] but what [xandram] said ^, perhaps superseed an area, then bring people out camping to survive on nuts, berries and 'shrooms for a week. |
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Buffet style. All you can catch. |
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" Occasionally a deer on rails zips by " |
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The video game crowd would so work this. Picturing large groups of gamers camped in the known zones, monopolizing the deer analogs. |
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I've been reading a lot about Food Forrests lately, so
I was assuming this would be a lot less artificial and
it would just be a forest of mostly edible plants that
people were released into with a small manual so
that they could then gather up FRESH salad items
which could then be brought to a kiosk where the
items would be washed and prepared. |
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...and then traded for hot dogs and cotton candy? |
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I would like to see the real version of this where you accompany people who actually know all of the edible plants and the tricks to be able to hunt/gather successfully. I would pay to rough-it for a week or two to learn these things first hand. |
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" CAUTION: YOU ARE ENTERING A LOIN-CLOTH-OPTIONAL AREA - PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK " |
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This is brilliant, and I would pay to go.+ |
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[2 fries] I took a similar course at The Omega
Institute with Native American herbalists and
Pacific
Northwest Trackers. It was very cool and I learned
a
lot. I have been a self-taught wild plant identifier
since I was a teenager, although only for the
vegetation in my little corner of New England.
That is
why I shunned the plastic eggs, although this
could
be a good idea.
Also, I could drop the deer at the carnival with the
fake shotgun every time!! |
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Cool. I've spent a lot of time alone in the bush but I don't know that I'd be able to survive for very long without my gear. |
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I'm a bit surprised nobody has come up with
something like this after the success of the Hunger
Games movies. Running around in a natural setting
that's had some kind of technology added to enhance
the experience seems like a great idea. |
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For one thing, it would be a fraction of the cost of a
theme park you built with concrete and steel. Just
add neat little features to the existing flora, but some kiosks here and there, charge an arm and a leg to get in and make a mint. |
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When I've mentioned this idea people seem to get
very excited about it. The first Halfbakery Ventures
Inc project perhaps? Any venture capitalists out
there? |
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"Sorry sir, that's a raccoon; you'll have to put it back". |
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I'm picturing a control center very much like those seen in The Prisoner, The Hunger Games, Westworld or Jurassic Park. |
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These parks would be incorporating aspects of these popular new group iron man events going on such as Tough Mudder, Spartan Death Race etc. |
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I'd rather run around a natural setting chasing and throwing things like an idiot than stand in line for hours to be shaken around for a few seconds in a roller coaster. And how many featured pop up hunting targets could you buy for the price of a roller coaster? It would be the closest you could come to walking into a video game. |
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I'm thinking "Caveman Adventure Park" might be a better name. People could come dressed up in their finest Flintstones garb. Get back to our roots when we were all savages without iPhones. |
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For those who can afford it, the Wispering Caves Hotel gives you the comforts of central air, soft beds, a hot tub in every room with the excitement of fiberglass faux stone walls, floors and ceilings. Room service is available for those who don't feel like foraging today. (see link) |
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Montana would be an excellent fit. |
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Nor Cal has plenty of foresty areas a close drive to the Bay Area and it's 7 million people. We've got more money than we know what to do with due to Silicon Valley and being the main center of venture capital outside of New York. And I think we're closer to our animal past than most. Witness Haight Ashbury in the 1960s. Charge $100 bucks admission to run around like a maniac among the redwoods throwing stuff at robots? I could see it. |
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hmmm, you really want a location where the insects and reptiles are a little friendlier to the uninitiated, may I suggest British Columbia? Oh look I just did. I mean, I hear that we have rattle snakes but I've yet to even see one. |
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We do have horseflies to rival humming birds... but they's just good eatin. |
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One of my favorite shows, Shark Tank had a couple of guys on who were grossing about ten million a year, netting about one running a Tough Mudder competitor. Getting out and moving is becoming increasingly popular in the golden age of the couch potato, but I think today's modern outdoor activity has to compete with the excitement of a video game. |
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Telling you, somebody's going to do this and get very rich and if it's not me I'll be very unhappy. |
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Hmm. Maybe this would be a great crowd funding thing. |
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We recently opened one of these near Cambridge;
it's called Norfolk. |
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Worryingly, London has also opened one, called
Cambridge. |
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[doctorremulac3], I saw that episode. I never miss
that show, btw. Yeah if they could do that, then this
would be doable. And I vote for the San Fran area.
Jutta is nearby and could come and play around wih a
baker. That would be awesome to see. |
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