I know you can visit some theme parks at certain times of year to avoid many children, however what I mean are theme parks built more for imaginative and fun-loving adults.
Take some of the park rides you might find in family theme parks that appeal to both adults and children, but instead of avoiding elements that may confuse/frighten children, they’re allowed to get more detailed or whatever may be more fun for people. Fwiw I’m aware of some smaller scale themed venues (particularly some horror-related ones), but I feel like I’m blanking on any obvious larger scale ones.
Strip clubs?
The theme is SEEEEEEEEEEX
“Why is there a waste management facility directly behind a playground? Sometimes there are kids there!!!”
If a bunch of them have coordinated a themed red light district, I guess that may count for the most explicit approach to this idea, but I don’t know of any that have, albeit maybe parts of Vegas have given that a run for its money.
I mean there is a red light district skyscraper being built in Amsterdam right?
Universal does Halloween horror nights that is very adult oriented. It’s in their normal park but they are open a standalone Halloween themed park in las Vegas soon that will be similar but full time.
Busch Gardens too. It’s pretty fun, we’ve gone a couple times and had a blast.
Worlds of Fun here in KC does this too. Kids can enter, but the do not recommend they stay after dark. They have a parade, have entire areas that are outdoor haunted houses, and send people running through the crowd to scare them. It is a lot of fun. Most of these regional parks are all owned by the same company (Six Flags, IIRC).
Omega mart in Las Vegas might come close?
Can’t think of large scale ones unless you include the rest of Las Vegas.
Yeah, it may not be the larger scale but it strikes at the basic idea I was thinking of, so thanks!
Children are allowed in Omega Mart and Area 15. Regardless, serious upvote for Omega Mart!
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Busch Gardens if you want a theme park that’s also a zoo and botanical garden and has a lot of alcohol because its purpose is to advertise Anhauser Busch beers.
EDIT: Kids are allowed, but the alcoholic attractions are designed for adults.
Oh God the worst beers
Tokyo
Correct
New Orleans - enjoy the potholes.
(It’s really a great place though & I miss living there)
if temporary counts i’d say burningman.org or one of the giant music festivals
Highly recommend meowwolf. I did the Vegas one on a work trip and it was a blast.
Unfortunately that one is still plagued by children, even if not fully designed for them, at least when I was there
Hadn’t heard of the first two, thanks!
There’s an amusement park in Maine that does “after dark” a few nights per year. Adults only and they serve drinks. It’s marketed toward millennials who grew up going to the park. I haven’t been, but it seems popular.
If you’re a disney adult, i have some great news.
LARPs, honestly
Fuji Q Highland in Japan has a lot of record breaking attractions and coasters and is more popular among adults. There are some areas catered towards children but these are fairly well sectioned off.
The Playboy Mansion? ;-)
Endless dog shit and women coerced to mount a geriatric?
The only way the place survived so long is because no one could smell the photos, tv, and radio dispatches from there.
Race track.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of one, and I’m not sure if it’d be profitable. I mean, a lot of elements of theme parks are designed to extract money from parents, and only work because they are there with a child.
How would the adult theme park make money? Expensive entry tickets maybe? We would want to avoid alcohol because we don’t want people acting without inhibitions near all this heavy machinery, plus it’d make cleaning more expensive, and might cause more vandalism. I guess you could not allow re-entry once they leave, to force them to eat inside the park. But that’s about all I can see happening. You could put a nice sit down dining place inside the park though too, because the audience would be more into that sort of thing.
How about the decor, what kinds of thing even appeal to adults? This one is tough. Maybe a western, or dystopian future theme? That could be cool.
You’d 100% be selling overpriced alcohol in an adult-centric theme park. If Six Flags and even Disney have figure out how to do it safely (and very profitably, I’m sure), so can other theme parks.
You can buy alcohol at Disney?! With everything being so prude about drinking in public in the US, this completely amazes me.
Prude stops being an issue when money can be made with it.
Not public, it’s private property, also this is California adventure.
Several of the global Disney parks besides California Adventure sell alcohol. Even in the original park, Disneyland, which has long had a nearly total ban on alcohol has relented and has started selling booze in limited venues (most notably, the Blue Bayou restaurant, which is a fantastic restaurant btw). Money talks, and booze is pretty good money.
In several of the parks, yes! Hell, getting drunk off of “drinks from around the world” at Walt Disney World’s EPCOT is a popular theme for adult guests nowadays. However, I’ll mention that Disneyland is still quite restrictive (though their neighboring park, California Adventure, is not and fully embrace alcohol sales).
You got a point, if we’ve seen it work there, it can work here.
