CNNGo.com: Angry Birds addicts around the world may still be committed to the ultimate destruction of the game's irritating porcine rogues, but at a real-life Angry Birds theme park (愤怒的小鸟), Chinese gamers are already knocking over actual green pigs.
Thursday, September 08, 2011
Angry Birds theme park opens in China
CNNGo.com: Angry Birds addicts around the world may still be committed to the ultimate destruction of the game's irritating porcine rogues, but at a real-life Angry Birds theme park (愤怒的小鸟), Chinese gamers are already knocking over actual green pigs.
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As an Angry Birds lover (yes, I have every star on every level in the original version!) I think this is very cool. I am not sure if it will work to reduce stress, since playing the actual game tends to induce it, so the main point of the setup may turn out to be void.
However, the fact that video games are being turned into life size scenarios is the beginning of another step toward the future. The concept of having things right in front of you in real time is a big one in popular culture. Setups such as this one may catch on and eventually become more popular. This is interesting to see because once activities being reduced to a screen, was the popular trend, and now seeing screen based activities being able to be acted out in real life is increasing as an interest factor.
I'm not entirely surprised by the premise of a theme-park based off of a video game. Today ideas are revised, converted, revised again, revived, remade, and redone over and over and over again. For example, one could say that Wicked is a musical based off of a book and the movie based off of that book. The play Parfumerie was re-worked into two movies and the musical She Loves Me. Recently, the Spiderman musical (Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark) has introduced a new unlikely conversion: comic book to Broadway show.
Originality is truly scarce in entertainment. What's exciting about these projects is examining how adaptation to another rendition or brand new format improves and worsens the source material.
It will be interesting to see how else video games (one of the newer mediums) are reworked. It's hard to image a game as simple as Angry Birds being explored through a story-driven media. However, I wouldn't be too surprised if we one day saw Fallout: the Musical. (There's already a fan-made YouTube series: Fallout: Nuka Break)
This is ridiculous I can't even believe this! I thought this was a joke at first! But I mean if it's working why not? It is a very popular game for many an iphone, blackberry, and other device users. I've never really been into the game myself. But I know it's very popular and Kassondra is right people are being very receptive to bringing things to real 3D life. I would go to see it and I know some friends who want to buy a ticket to China just to visit this 'park'.
This idea seems really cool that they are trying to simulate the games that everyone has on a smart phone or IPod has. It is interesting that they do not have a license to use the trademark of angry birds. I wonder if the law about trademarks is different in China. If it is the same as the USA I think that the company that has the trademark of Angry Birds should sue them. It seemed that the blocks did not fall down like that game. If they did that would be really cool and a pain for them to reset after each person played. Also the park in which they set up this game seems really interesting in that they have all of these little versions from the world. It would be cool if there was a place like this here in the USA.
I was half surprised and half unsurprised to see this article. I guess this just hammers home the point that people will go to any length to cash in on a fad. AngryBirds has become popular. It has even been a hardware selling app. (That is to say: people are buying iPads just for Angry Birds.) I am curious to know if this theme park has the requisite licensing, but part of me doubts it. At first I thought this was going to be like a giant amusement park type thing. It turns out to be a small park, so a bit less impressive. Still, a funny idea.
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