Utopia

[Obscurerider]

I just recently read a great book called Utopia by Lincoln Child. It's a thriller about a theme park being taken over terrorists. I highly recommend it because it's a great book and it's about theme parks.

[timetrial3141592]

Wrong forum. It should go in Theme Parks, Roller Coasters, and Donkeys forum.

 

Anyway, I liked it too, but I had one little issue. The Scream Machine could apparently hold 120 people per train. That would make the train incredibly unwieldy.

[Obscurerider]

Oh sorry I wasn't exactly sure which section this topic should go in how would I change it?

And yeah most of the rides were a little unrealistic but the ideas behind them were pretty cool. I personally liked the horse drawn carriage coaster. If someone made a RCT version of the park it would be pretty cool.

[RollerC]

I attempted to make Utopia. I had the whole set up and almost all the rides but my computer crashed a few days later and everything was lost. I posted pictures of it on RCT Station years ago.

[Obscurerider]

Wow that sucks you lost all your hard work, do you have any links to the pics?

[timetrial3141592]

Actually, aside from the Scream Machine, everything could be done. The carriage ride = LoCoSuMo; Camelot = Intamin w/ animatronics, BBE = Gravity Group, drop tower = brilliant,...

[Obscurerider]

Yeah I can see why the one mistake is bugging you so much becuase everything else is brilliant.

[Billy Shears]

Eh, the best theme park-based book hands down is Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, and it's completely free (Cory Doctrow is a cool dude):

Google books. Set in the future, where company-like groups have taken over sections of the Magic Kingdom.

 

I ended up buying it because it's so great. There's a ton more formats if you want to read it on a PDA or something here.

[timetrial3141592]

Well, okay, a lot of it was stupid.