• Detroit To Be Target of Zombies In The Near Future
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[img]http://www.windsorstar.com/entertainment/6899694.bin?size=620x400s[/img] [quote=The Windsor Star]Declining Detroit may become undead. A Detroit entrepreneur has proposed a controversial plan to help inject new life into the struggling city: creating a zombie-themed amusement park in the abandoned streets of downtown Motown. Marc Siwak garnered media attention this week from as far away as London after he posted an investment proposal on in-dependent fundraising site In diegogo, hoping to build something called Z World Detroit. "Let's take a big negative, the blight, and flip it into a positive," Siwak, 40, who has lived in the Detroit area most of his life, told The Star this week. "We have big abandoned factories and people seem fascinated by them. You see people crawling around the old Packard Plant on the east side all the time. Why not take advantage of that?" Siwak has raised more than $3,000 toward his goal of $140,000 to create a full proposal, though he acknowledges the project would cost much more than that. His zombie plan sprang to life after he heard Mayor Dave Bing's suggestion of cutting services to under-used portions of the city to save costs. The 2010 census shows Detroit's population fell to little more than 700,000, from a peak of almost 1.9 million in 1950. Detroit has been grappling with a $200-million budget deficit and $13.2 billion in long-term debt. "This idea came directly from the mayor's proposal to essentially abandon parts of the city," said Siwak, a financial adviser who works in Detroit and who lives in Clawson, Mich. "It got me thinking, 'Really, that's the best we can do?'" Better than abandonment, Siwak thought, is invasion. Specifically, a zombie invasion. The plan: visitors would pay a fee to enter Z World - with its real Motor City backdrop - only to be chased by hordes of zombies. As the game progressed, more zombies would amass, adding to the post-apocalyptic free-for-all as players searched for supplies and a home base. Call it Z in the D. Abandoned buildings would have to be rendered safe, of course. Land would have to be bought. Permits approved. Safety standards passed. But Siwak sees potential in decay. The idea has been cheered, but also ridiculed. Curbed Detroit blogger Sarah Cox wrote that the plan "sounds a lot like all that fun we had during the 1960s race riots." She also said: "It's nice to know Z Land is finally going to capitalize on our love of adrenalin rushes and nostalgia. Now even visitors from the 'burbs can 'wonder if they will make it through the night.'" City officials have declined to respond to the idea. But Siwak says his grand plan stems from a love of Detroit. "I don't want this to be viewed as ripping on Detroit," Siwak said. "This would bring jobs. And interest. I would just like to see Detroit resurrected to its former grandeur." [email]cpearson@windsorstar.com[/email] or 519-255-5767 © Copyright (c) The Windsor Star[/quote] [URL="http://www.windsorstar.com/entertainment/Detroit+ready+zombies/6898309/story.html"]Source[/URL]
Not big surprise. [sp]sensationalist title[/sp]
Hasn't this already been rubberstamped as incredibly unrealistic?
This sounds pretty cool to actually do, or be a part of but this; [QUOTE]City officials have declined to respond to the idea.[/QUOTE] Makes me think that the furthest this will go is an organized event where people play zombie hide and seek, probably nerfed to hell too, to stop the public injuring themselves on abandoned machinery and whatnot.
Good idea, build an undead theme-park in the same city where gun stores actually sell anti-zombie hollowpoints. It's actually a pretty interesting idea on how to take advantage of all the abandoned buildings, the city certainly looks post-apocalyptic already, but I really doubt this will work out.
It sounds like a really cool idea, but oh boy would there be so many accidental injuries and deaths that it would be shut down within days :v:
unless the zombie actors follow strict zombie rules it probably wouldn't work right
There already was a thread on this a couple weeks ago, with a link to their kickstarter
[QUOTE=Steven :D;36672001]There already was a thread on this a couple weeks ago, with a link to their kickstarter[/QUOTE] Tried to search for one, couldn't find any.
This would be cool as hell, too bad it will never happen and even if it did it would probably end up being lame compared to what we thought it would be like
There's so many impossibilites in this. Someone smuggling weapons, drugs, the houses themselves, health and safety, people freaking out and hurting people and so much more that could go wrong they wouldn't be able to control. Also, how do you kill zombies? nerf guns?
Would certainly make a good place for a real zombie apocalypse to start.
it'd probably be less dangerous.
wait, an article from my local news paper here, you wouldn't happen to be from the essex area would you?
Title makes it sound like there is some Zombie General or some kind of Zombie command structure. "TODAY, MY FELLOW ZOMBIES, WE SHAMBLE TO VICTORY!" -jaw falls off-
Don't worry kids, they'll get the funding! WITH A KICKSTARTER! [url]http://www.indiegogo.com/zworlddetroit[/url] Wow, sounds great! They're going to build a theme park and... [quote]Before contributing please read this entire description to understand what this project is and is not, and what your contribution will actually fund. To be clear, despite press reports to the contrary, this is a CONCEPT looking for some initial funding. We are not 'developers', we're just starting a grass roots campaign to get something going for Detroit.[/quote] Wait...they need 145k to make a CONCEPT? Sure.
Where else would zombies go? Hell?
[QUOTE=Lizzrd;36672107]Would certainly make a good place for a real zombie apocalypse to start.[/QUOTE] Start, destroy, and end.
[QUOTE=zakedodead;36672380]Where else would zombies go? Hell?[/QUOTE] It's probably less rusty there.
Wasn't this an episode of Castle?
It's all fun and games until a ghetto gangbanger shows up and shoots one of the "zombies" with a real gun.
[img]http://beefjack.com/files/2011/06/Killing-Floor-Summer.png[/img] For some reason I was reminded of this, then I realized how awesome that would be.
this is one of those things where it sounds great, but in reality it would be shitty, expensive and downright unrealistic
[QUOTE=SomeDumbShit;36673313]Wasn't this an episode of Castle?[/QUOTE]No, they were just Zombie flashmod people in that one. And [sp]one guy drugged with something to make him act like a zombie and try to devour a guy. Good episode though because, for half of it, they're slowly reinforcing the idea that it actually was a real zombie.[/sp] Decided to spoiler tag it since its still a fairly recent episode.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijFphEN8bE0&feature=player_embedded#[/media]!
Did anyone else go to the Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse event in Atlanta last year. I went with a couple of friends and it was actually incredibly awesome, especially how they interact with the crowd and everything. This year though, they've said they're actually going to let you shoot at the zombies at points during the event. They had a shooting gallery type thing set up separately last year.
Man this sounds like one of those ideas that are just too good to be feasible. I've always wanted to play a zombie game on this kind of scale. Too bad itll never happen
[QUOTE=viperfan7;36672310]wait, an article from my local news paper here, you wouldn't happen to be from the essex area would you?[/QUOTE] Windsor, Riverside to be exact.
Paid employees as zombies with makeup/masks (i.e. protective lenses behind it) then give players airsoft guns = epic.
Are the zombies open for peace talks? That seriously sounds like a cool idea.
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