I was just thinking about
- cheap tickets
- very cheap grocery store and free-to-use kitchens, maybe conveniently within the park
- no fences unless they’re there to protect people from hazards
- And if you like, you can donate money at the entrance to help out others with less money than you have fun too.
Even though I love theme parks and they bring out my inner child, I haven’t been to a theme park in many years because I’m can’t afford it. I’m sure there are many in this world who basically share a neighborhood with a theme park, and still cannot afford to go until all these things I listed are implemented.
How else do you think socialism could make a theme park more accessible and overall be a better place?
Themeparks under socialism would probably be weirder because they’d let artists go buck wild.
Maybe safer because more regulations on the rides.
More open area attractions like pools, sports and beaches.
Less merch, but the merch available would be higher quality and designed to not be thrown away.
For one thing, the people working there wouldn’t be houseless and hungry.
After their shift all workers would be able to go back to their own home. Get to and from work on public transportation. Vegan only food options. ForcedFem on entrance into the park. Only Black and brown people get fast pass. Rides and the stories the rides were about would celebrate workers and oppressed people globally. Not only accessible for disabled people, but rides and experiences that are created for different disabilities people have. Some ideas…
ForcedFem on entrance into the park
who’s suggestion was that?
If you wanted an honest appraisal of what that might look like in practice so far, I would research Parque Lenin, an amusement park built in Cuba during the 70s when the economy was doing its best. Nowadays it’s abandoned due to the economic pressures instituted by the bloqueo, but it would have been the first socialist amusement park (as far as I know, and certainly in the western hemisphere atleast)
The pictures of it that seem most lively in the 70’s are charming. I’m not sure where to find out more about it. Little details like cost of tickets and themes of rides would be interesting to know about. I wish i could have an brochure with a theme park map in English of Parque Lenin.
I’d like to see more rides or devices for rides for disabilities maybe.
I’m pretty sure they’re going to have cafeterias. Although they’d definitely not have any “NO OUTSIDE FOOD ALLOWED” type policies so people could bring their own food. Probably still going to have fences because part of managing any sort of public space where there’s only so many people able to do the thing at once is either to heavily direct and linearize the traffic flow like a museum tour or do limits of the amount of people able to arrive at once and the main annoyance of funparks is waiting in lines all day for the limited amount of rides as well.
They’d probably be partially subsidized by general tax pools and then small ticket prices for individuals. I guess they’d be free at some point depending how much money society has and how much the general populace wants theme parks.
Not all amusement parks charge entry fees and those without entry fees usually don’t have walls/fences.
Can you give an example? I’m happy they exist.
The variety of the attractions seems so randomly put together. Just the way I like it.
There are no theme parks but there will be a themed children’s play are and a roller coaster at your local city park
I don’t think that last point about donating money would be needed. Everyone would just be able to go from time to time without relying on donations.
People would often go for free as a group, organized by school, work, neighborhood, union or political/cultural organization.
It would be a fun place, but also full of innovative art and culture. Instead of corporate mascots and copyrighted content, everything would be free to adapt and make your own. You would find cultural streams flow together there that you actually helped to shape yourself as part of a communal cultural movement instead of merely as passive consumers.
I often wonder this. Given the concrete burning hell they tend to be. Not to mention waiting in line for a long period of time for an attraction that lasts a few minutes.
Would a socialist park help fix these issues? Though a capitalist would have something to say about the lines under communism I’m sure.
Many theme parks around the world don’t have long lines for their attractions. The long lines are intentional so you buy more expensive food and souvenirs.
I’m now wondering if my experiences of enjoying theme parks with no lines are very special for people living in more capitalist hellholes. Or does the US for example also have less popular theme parks that are still fun with no lines on non-ideal weather days? Btw my favourite theme park is in the woods so also not a concrete hell. Still expensive food though which is way too sugary.
I’ve been to a few that had (at the time) world record height and or speed coasters. I’ve waited in line for longer than 3 hours for a ride before… Absolutely amazing rides that I’ll never forget, but I don’t have the stamina or patience anymore.
Once in a great while I’d catch a good theme park on a slow day and be able to immediately ride again. Those days were lovely.
Growing up in Oklahoma there was the theme park Frontier City. It still had pretty big lines.
I guess that’s was that time I went to Camden Park. It had pretty small lines… But you also felt like you were about to die at any second
What did you feel like you could die of there?
Well there is the big dipper, I honestly don’t know how that thing is still standing. it might be one of the oldest wooden coasters? It certainly looks it. A few of the spinning attractions go out over the interstate near it. Usual suspect food. It honestly feels like a place that a Final Destination could take place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dipper_(Camden_Park)
I’ve been on an old wooden rollercoaster that I thought could take off my arms on a beam if I raised them. It’s fun, but yeah something about old wood weatherd by the outdoors for high velocity fun feels suspiciously dangerous.
We all going to the Farfour fun house
as a touhouhead something I can see happening is allowing doujin-style distribution at the theme park. imagine if some themepark sponsored distribution of any fan works at the park, that would be pretty cool.
Maybe this isn’t what you’re asking, but I do know that prices at the Shanghai Disneyland are about half of the American equivalents.
I think that has a lot to do with how the usd had a 2:1ppp against the rmb so almost everything in China is half price when covering directly to dollars. To people making rmb it is essentially the same value.
In my communist utopia, you wouldn’t have one huge theme park in a single location as like an aspirational/conspicuous consumption thing. They’d be smaller, more accessible both in terms of transport and disability. More common, safer and somewhat standardised. They’d function more as a fun community meeting place, larger than say your local public library or park. Smaller than what they are under capitalism, but still large enough you could make an entire day out of going there. Somewhere you’d meet people from say, the neighbouring few suburbs.
