See link for a long long list of Oz books, the first fourteen or so by the original author of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", L. Frank Baum. After his death others took up the task of entertaining children with "light" stuff ("dark" entertainment seems all-too-common today).

The location of this theme park could be in one of the U.S. states adjacent to Kansas, near the border with Kansas. Entering the theme park should only be done via some sort of giant tornado funnel on the Kansas side of the border, after which, of course, you won't be in Kansas any more....
-- Vernon, Feb 07 2017

List of Oz books https://en.wikipedi...ki/List_of_Oz_books
As mentioned in the main text. [Vernon, Feb 07 2017]

Will there be flying monkeys ?
-- 8th of 7, Feb 07 2017


We have the tech to make ornithopters that look like flying monkeys, so why not? (According to NASA, you can make anything fly if you put a powerful enough engine on it --or make its weight negligable.)
-- Vernon, Feb 07 2017


I thought this was basically Washington, post-Trump - Wizard of Crass?

<sings> Follow the yellow-haired toad! Follow the yellow-haired toad!<\s>
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Feb 07 2017


Nothing in the park about spiders that can kill you in 3 seconds, or paralysis ticks, or crocodiles, or croc-eating pythons, or deadly jelly- bean-sized jellyfish, or even drop bears then? What kind of an Oz-based theme park is this?

Ya wanna know what really happens to Dorothy or anyone that ventures off of the yellow brick road?
-- RayfordSteele, Feb 07 2017


I'd go just because I haven't skipped for a really long time and I should. But make the monkeys a little nicer, would ya?
-- blissmiss, Feb 07 2017


Such proposals should be subjected to specific criticism rather than rejected in toto.
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Feb 07 2017


Copyrights are likely expired for most of the material. Expenses of paying Baum descendants might be very small.

Do kids now days even know of OZ ? Kids dragging parents to theme parks is the primary way they grow to sustainable size.
-- popbottle, Feb 08 2017



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