Theme parks are very expensive to build and run, so it's not usually financially viable to limit the audience like that, but they usually have some rides that are fun for adults. Or they have to be smaller scale, since it's a more niche audience.
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so it’s not usually financially viable to limit the audience like that [...]
Aren't they already sort of doing so by largely directing them towards children? 🤔
Disney California Adventure. Kid friendly but serving beer from day 1
Thanks, but to clarify when asking specifically for adults, I don't mean involving alcohol (or despite an earlier reply's suggestion, sex).
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.
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
Burning Man?
Not technically a park, more of an event
Tokyo
Correct
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.
You might enjoy cruise ships. They get a lot of hate but they're an amazing vacation.
Endless adult-friendly activities at the destinations. All you can eat gourmet included in the price of the ticket. World class service from staff that actually cares. You even get to know the housekeeper on a name-to-name basis. Not to mention waking up to a different view out your balcony every morning. It's worth it for that alone.
Meh. Cruises are boring as fuck. I guess they are OK if all you enjoy is getting wasted
Boring as fuck if all you do is get wasted. You have to sign up for the excursions. Why get wasted when I can hop on a water jetpack or swim with wild dolphins?
sky diving paragliding scuba diving jet skiing bungee jumping wall climbing
Queenstown, NZ has you covered.
Ya. These are activities tho. It’s not a theme park.
New Orleans - enjoy the potholes.
(It’s really a great place though & I miss living there)
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.
Evermore kind of fits this, but I wouldn't recommend it.
Baulder's Gate 3
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.
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).
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.
Prude stops being an issue when money can be made with it.
You got a point, if we've seen it work there, it can work here.
If you have a Meta Quest headset, my VR Theme Park is more mature. https://www.meta.com/experiences/4212005182188732/
Omega mart in Las Vegas might come close?
Can't think of large scale ones unless you include the rest of Las Vegas.
Children are allowed in Omega Mart and Area 15. Regardless, serious upvote for Omega Mart!
Yeah, it may not be the larger scale but it strikes at the basic idea I was thinking of, so thanks!
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