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Take a classic tale or even reality itself. Strip away all the complexities, boiling the source material down to a few tropes and a barely coherent plot. Congratulations! You now have the perfect blueprint for cashing in on the original's success. The characters are flatter than in the original, and the tropes have lost their justification, but surely the fans won't mind. Another word for this concept is a "simulacrum". Quite often, the writers producing the Theme Park Version have entirely misread the original, and are relying on other people's interpretations. This isn't always a bad thing, however. A simplification of the rules, characters, and activities present in the media can be used to help streamline the experience as long as it's used carefully and deliberately. While dumbing down the material means that it isn't as complex or interesting, it also trims out a lot of exposition, making the media either more accessible or less restricted. Compare with Adaptation Decay, Adaptation Distillation, Flanderization, Lost in Imitation, Small Reference Pools, Cowboy BeBop at His Computer, and Popcultural Osmosis; contrast with Pragmatic Adaptation. Theme parks themselves have their own Theme Park Version — Souvenir Land. Mildly Military commonly results when this is applied to stories set in war or otherwise military environments. See also: Flynning, Fluffy Cloud Heaven, Fire and Brimstone Hell, Pac Man Fever, Plot Tumor and Hollywood Atlas. If you're concerned about avoiding falling into this, give this page a read. |
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City Nerd mocks Lifestyle Centers, especially those that don't include any housing, as near dystopian artificial imitations of the longed for main streets the same type of car centric development helped to destroy in much of North America. | |
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Shtetl Days: In-Universe Wawolnice is a recreation of a pre-World War II shtetl replete with the stereotypes of Jewish life. | |
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Alien Worlds (2020): The alien worlds in question are used as tools to explain biological and ecological processes that occur on Earth (and would, theoretically, also occur for life across the universe), but broadly simplify the vast complexities that make up a real biosphere into something easily digestible and entertaining for general audiences, hence why each episode only focuses on two or three faunal species despite covering entire planets. | |
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Speaking again of Bioware, Dragon Age is often considered to have progressively turned into this with respect to the CRPG genre and particularly previous games such as Baldur's Gate itself, by giving more focus to world building, console-ificated mechanics, spectacular combat coreography ("if you press a button, something awesome has to happen"), and overprevalent romances, rather than actual tactical gameplay and character build. You might even respec your characters and purchase dlcs that grant overpowered gear so that you don't "waste" time planning which skills develop and which items are better to use - anything goes and can be changed whenever you want, so that you can resume the rest of the game. | |
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X-Men: There's a hashtag, #80sXmen, based around "reimagining" X-Men characters in 80s fashions. As if they weren't already around in the 80s, wearing genuine 80s fashions. Many of the art pieces submitted under the hashtag end up being the popular 80s throwback fashions palatable to modern audiences. Crack open some authentic '80s X-Men and feel your eyes bleed at the things people wore back then. | |
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If fiction is to be believed, The Prince is an evil overlord's guidebook for being a tyrant and a puppy kicker, when in reality, the point that Machiavelli was trying to make with the book was that a ruler should in all situations strive to be an unfettered pragmatist, who maintains their power at all costs and Machiavelli outright discourages unnecessary cruelty as this would eventually lead into retribution from the populace. | |
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The final world of Anarcute is called Anarland, a literal theme park designed by The Man Behind the Man to cash in on the protagonists protests. The final battle even has the Big Bad fighting you in a weaponized T-shirt making machine. | |
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The live action feature film version of the Japanese manga series Great Teacher Onizuka parodied this idea by showing the abandoned remains of a (fictional) failed theme park called "Canadaland." Flashbacks to the park's glory days were... embarrassing, to say the least. | |
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When The Simpsons go to Japan, they dine in a Theme Park Version restaurant of the United States called Americatown, complete with sarcastic waiters dressed as cowboys that state that they don't know anything as a result of America's educational system and also work in producing poor quality cars and inferior electronics. In almost any episode where the Simpsons leave Springfield, their destination is the Theme Park Version. Notable examples include France, Australia, and New York City, but the standout is Capital City, the state capital of The Simpsons' unnamed state that functions as a combined Theme Park Version of New York and Los Angeles, meant to invoke classic Big City tropes. |
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One criticism of the Big World! Big Adventures! episodes of Thomas & Friends is that they boil the countries down a lot. China only has dragons and pandas, India only has Bollywood, elephants, and monkeys, Australia only has kangaroos, Italy only has the Leaning Tower of Pisa and opera, and Brazil only has rainforests and soccer. | |
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Peter Parker's Field Trip (Of course it's to Stark Industries): Apparently there is a model of Stark Tower in Las Vegas. | |
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Metal Wolf Chaos appears to be set in America as imagined by Japanese games developers who have only ever seen it in action movies. | |
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The original Baldur's Gate series by Bioware was often considered this by old pen & paper Dungeons & Dragons veterans, particularly because of the lack of different reactions, dialogues, and plot resolutions depending on the character stats, race, gender (there are some occasional instances but nothing major). Other complaints are the simplified combat whose calculations are run by the computer behind the screen, the recurrent use of railroading for many dialogues and quests, the power creep of gear and special abilities, and how the developers themselves encouraged to make use of a Dump Stat. It should be noted that it is harder to implement such tabletop complexities in a single player computer campaign without a dungeon master overseeing and deciding how to develop a game session according to the behavior of players, and that Baldur's Gate neverthless presented many interesting choices and quest branching that really set it aside from previous videogames. However, other contemporary games based upon the same engine, such as Icewind Dale or Planescape: Torment, made more use of these attributes and the latter allowed even Talking the Monster to Death rather than almost always having to fight. Within the franchise, Baldur's Gate II was considered this compared to the first Baldur's Gate by some fans due to the removal of the wilderness exploration and free roaming elements in favor of direct, limited areas each with a specific flavor or theme (e.g. the besieged keep, the druid grove, the haunted temple, the dragon's lair etc.), that simply opened up in the world map when you spoke with the right characters. |
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Sex and the City 2 is set in a theme park version of Abu Dhabi, which was actually filmed in Morocco. This is the case for almost any Arab country in a live-action movie, because Morocco has a big enough desert to build sets in (far enough away from major cities), while being secular enough that nobody will come and arrest your actresses for not wearing the hijab. | |
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Within the franchise, Baldur's Gate II was considered this compared to the first Baldur's Gate by some fans due to the removal of the wilderness exploration and free roaming elements in favor of direct, limited areas each with a specific flavor or theme (e.g. the besieged keep, the druid grove, the haunted temple, the dragon's lair etc.), that simply opened up in the world map when you spoke with the right characters. | |
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In Jurassic World, the head scientist explicitly calls out the fact that the creatures they're creating are not accurate to prehistoric dinosaurs, but are 'dinosaur-ish'. This is largely an in-universe explanation for the discrepancies with discoveries about dinosaur feathers and fluff that have been made since the first movie was filmed. | |
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Assassin's Creed and the other games more or less dials down the role of religion in the actual medieval era, insisting that such religious sects as The Hashshashin and The Knights Templar were Hiding Behind Religion and really secular humanists. While this compromise makes commercial sense and fits with the overall meta-narrative, it ends up giving a distorted view of the period and history. | |
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Don Quixote: Three centuries before Hollywood, the chivalry books writers of the Renaissance (1400–1600 AD) already had created the theme Park Version of the Middle Ages: A past that never was, full of marvelous elements, exotic (and a lot of times exclusively imaginary) lands that could extend any time between the fall of Rome (AD 475) to the Discovery of America (AD 1492). Don Quixote wants to revive this past that, at least for him, is troperrific. So, in chapter XLIX, part I, the Canon (who himself is a coveted fan of chivalry books) recriminates Don Quixote: | |
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In-universe in Golden Sun: Dark Dawn. The Psynergy Training Grounds are literally a theme park based on the story of the first two games, apparently made by Isaac fans who a) don't get the significance of the Fire Clan, b) don't get the significance of the Doom Dragon, and c) don't get that Felix was a good guy all along. Among other things. | |
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In the King of the Hill episode "Harlottown", the new city manager, upon learning about Arlen's origins as Harlottown, wants to use the town's dark history as a way to make tourist dollars. To that end, he does things like planning to convert the old soldiers-and-sailors home into a museum of prostitution (complete with an erotic bakery and a gentleman's reading room) and have Arlen be the home of the Texas Adult Video Awards. It becomes clear to Hank and Peggy that instead of learning from its history like Peggy wanted, the town is becoming a Disneyland for pornography. They, along with a former adult film star, appeal to the people and ask if this is what they want kids to learn. | |
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World of Warcraft is a much smaller version of Azeroth and Outland than is generally depicted in the lore and in the previous games. While generally all the important details are there and in (mostly) the right places, all the continents are scaled down so as to not affect gameplay — creating the Theme Park Version of Warcraft. Funnily enough, it causes Sequel Displacement for the rest of the series. There are other things wrong. Places are missing, as is one of Azeroth's moons (despite models of it appearing in Northrend Dungeons), Teldrassil looks like a humongous stump with a forest growing from its remains rather then the thriving tree it is in lore... The list goes on. As expansions have come out, some missing places have been restored. The second (blue) moon has been restored, and it is now possible to visit some places that were missing originally. Some still remain unaccounted for, however. Espen Aarseth actually points out that the game's Azeroth is similar to Florida's Disney World in size (before expansions) and layout in addition to purpose. "Both contain different thematic zones connected by paths, roads, and rail-based transportation, which cater to differing tastes, age groups, or levels." |
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The Grand Theft Auto games codified the Wide-Open Sandbox genre and established most of its conventions, forming more or less theme park versions of American cities, theme park versions of American crime movies and TV shows, and theme park versions of popular culture. All its cities (Liberty City, Los Santos, Vice City) are Fantasy Counterpart Culture of New York, Los Angeles and Miami respectively but much, much smaller than the real thing, far easier to navigate but with just enough of the general feel and look of the real-world counterparts to give players a facsimile of the real thing. The general gameplay more or less only works with a satirical distorted view to which Rockstar submit its portrayal, since the cities are portrayed to be as corrupt as a Banana Republic with suspects of multiple felonies buying their way out of murders with a slap on the wrist, an income system that doesn't punish you for losing your health (when American health care is incredibly expensive) and allowing a single individual to somehow learn how to drive multiple vehicles on land, sea and air which in real-life only few individuals ever accumulate the required knowledge to do so, leave alone the proficiency which allows for vehicle stunts as the games invites you to do. The games are based on many popular American crime movies and tropes but often the distorted the popular-culture vision rather than the Unbuilt Trope of the original. Brian de Palma's Scarface starring Al Pacino is an anti-drug story and a tragedy, the Spiritual Adaptation Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is a sociopath's gleeful and successful Roaring Rampage of Revenge with none of the qualms and drawbacks of dealing drugs addressed once in the game. The later games have a mechanic by which gamers can buy and invest in property and businesses which unlock missions that involve improving and building said works. Actual propety acquisition and businesses is a complex process that involves mortgage, electricity and maintenance which is usually handwaved with a one-time cash payment with no additional expenses incurred on the part of the owner. Red Dead Redemption is likewise a theme park version of The Wild West and The Western, greatly misrepresenting and distorting both to facilitate gameplay. The actual West was not as violent as the game makes it out to be, and while it was praised for deconstructing western tropes, said deconstruction has been old hat since Stagecoach (which deconstructed earlier forgotten westerns) and The Searchers. Likewise the game pays no attention to environment, heat and other factors that real settlers had to face and while its mechanic does avert Automaton Horses to some extent it is still a simplified take on actual cowboy activities. |
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The Civilization games are The Theme Park Version of... Civilization. No one disagrees it's an Acceptable Break from Reality, though. And Civilization Revolution is itself the simplified Theme Park Version of the Civilization games, intended for kids as in introduction to the series. |
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Making Mario Kart clones is one of the most common ways to make the compact versions out of serious motorsport events. EA made NASCAR Kart Racing and Codemasters made F1 Race Stars, for examples. | |
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Disney's Beauty and the Beast falls prey to this trope in its sequel, Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas. It takes place in the Enchanted Castle, has Belle, the Beast, and the Enchanted Objects... and has pretty much nothing else related to the original film. | |
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Invoked in-universe in These Words Are True and Faithful: | |
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3-D Ultra Pinball: Thrill Ride invokes this literally by using just the core attractions from the Real Life Hershey Park Theme Park. | |
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Nintendo Land is a literal example. The minigames that comprise it are based on various Nintendo games and simplified, with the premise that they're attractions at a Nintendo-themed amusement park. Rule of Fun is very much at play. | |
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In the "Old Days" festival in Harvey Beaks, apparently only four things happened in the 1970's: hippies, flower power, Afros, and disco. | |
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Several Voyages to Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver is a beautifully multi-layered satire on religion, politics, science and human nature while also being a delightfully hilarious parody of various contemporaries and the travelogue genre as a whole. It is vicious, often mean spirited, funny on oh so many levels, and brilliant beyond measure. For some indecipherable reason, however, it keeps getting made into books and movies for children.Most of these versions cut out the second two books altogether (and occasionally don't even get as far as Brobdignag), which are where it starts descending from political satire into a satire of progress and human nature. It's pretty easy, after all, to make a land of tiny people and a land of giants into kids' fare, much harder to turn a land of sapient horses and feral, evil, raping and squabbling humans into kid friendly material. | |
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The Mikado presents a version of Japanese culture that, by its own cheerful admission in the Opening Chorus, is about as accurate as what can be seen “On many a vase and jar / On many a screen and fan.� | |
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Red Dead Redemption is likewise a theme park version of The Wild West and The Western, greatly misrepresenting and distorting both to facilitate gameplay. The actual West was not as violent as the game makes it out to be, and while it was praised for deconstructing western tropes, said deconstruction has been old hat since Stagecoach (which deconstructed earlier forgotten westerns) and The Searchers. Likewise the game pays no attention to environment, heat and other factors that real settlers had to face and while its mechanic does avert Automaton Horses to some extent it is still a simplified take on actual cowboy activities. | |
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In the Star Trek: Lower Decks episode “Grounded�, the main four visit Bozeman, Montana, the site of the First Contact between Humans and Vulcans, which has a theme park centered around it. One of the attractions is a recreation of the Phoenix, mankind’s first warp-capable ship… which the crew hijack to get to the docked Cerritos. This also applies to the entire planet of Hysperia, which was colonized by Ren Fair nerds (primarily due to being home to actual dragons) and accordingly, they act like a 24/7 ren fair, even renaming advanced technology to sounds like magic. As it turns out, the Cerritos' chief engineer, Lt. Commander Andy Billups is actually Crown Prince Andarithio, but he opted to Abdicate the Throne and work in Starfleet. When his mother Queen Paolana shows up needing his engineering acumen to fix her starship, he's shown being visibly irritated by all the quasi-medieval stuff. |
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The Inner Sphere in BattleTech, especially the Chinese themed Capellan Confederation and Japanese themed Draconis Combine. While the ruling families are actually of Chinese and Japanese ethnicity (though early books mentioned strange details like Romanio Liao's red hair, such details were eventually dropped to depict them as being authentically Asian), most of the worlds' citizens aren't and simply act in a manner that shows how "Chinese" or "Japanese" they are. In the Draconis Combine, people wear kimonos, eat sushi, talk about honor, and fight with katanas. In the Warrior Trilogy, when the wedding of Hanse Davion and Melissa Steiner was held on Earth, there was a throw-away line about members of the Draconis Combine visiting Japan and how annoying the actual Japanese people found them to be. In fact, with regards to the Draconis Combine, this is almost to the level of Invoked Trope, as early Kurita leaders fostered the Bushido-themed culture explicitly to use as a unifying factor for their realm, and it has been mentioned (as in the above reference from the Warrior Trilogy) both in universe and out that it is ancient Japan seen through almost an Otaku point of view. |
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Bullfrog's Theme Park games are the theme park version of... running a theme park. | |
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Wonder Woman has always played with mythology, but in the Golden Age it warped, flattened and bowdlerised the mythological elements to a riddicoulous degree. A good example is right in issue #1's description of the gods Diana is compared to: | |
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Most characters in Punch-Out!! are over-the-top national stereotypes (even the Japanese ones), with the Wii version showing them coming from The Theme Park Version of their respective countries. | |
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Invoked literally in Starfinder with Golarion World, a planetary Theme Park based on Pathfinder's core setting of the Inner Sea region. | |
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Parodied in Futurama, when Fry visits a Disneyland-esque theme park on The Moon. In the future, most people have forgotten the first manned mission to the moon, and an animatronic display offers a version of history in which the moon was "discovered" by space whalers, which all visitors accept as the truth. When Fry tries to tell everyone the real story, Leela insists the theme-park version is just harmless fun and that no one really cares how the moon was first explored. | |
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The college-themed show Undeclared attempted to avert being this. Unfortunately, heavy amounts of Executive Meddling prevented Judd Apatow from reaching this goal. | |
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Brave New World applies this trope to Refuge in Audacity, in which it calls that trope "Savage Reservations". You can visit these places like a theme park. Take a moment to analyze that. | |
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Invoked in Rutherford Falls. Part of Terry's ambitious redevelopment includes a section of the town made up to look like Colonial Williamsburg — or, rather, the version of it that exists in people's minds. History buff Nathan complains about the historical inaccuracies of the costume and props (eg. the type of butter churn Terry procures was used in North Carolina, not New York); Terry dismisses his concerns since audiences don't care enough about the real details to withhold profits. | |
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In Fatal Fury 2 and its expansion Special, Andy Bogard's stage is set in Italy for some reason (he is an American McNinja, after all). The fight takes place on a boat that seems to be running through the channels of Venice, passing by the Coliseum and the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The famed Venetian canals also serve as the backdrop for the Fatal Fury Team's stage in The King of Fighters '94 (as Terry, Andy, and Joe officially were "Team Italy" that year), though the venue is only limited to that area of Italy. | |
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Game of Thrones, acclaimed as it is on its own, has been accused of being this towards its source material A Song of Ice and Fire. Certainly some trope-defying situations from the book series become victim of a far less complex interpretation in the series. For example, the books followed Catelyn Stark instead of Robb Stark (focusing on the mother of the traditional hero instead of the hero himself), but the series disregarded this and focused on Robb instead, relegating Catelyn to the sidelines. | |
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In the 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers movie, the pod people came out of pods, which eventually ended up being trucked all over the place to spread the invasion. When the movie was remade in 1978, the invaders first came as spores which grew into flowers. But pods are still being trucked all over the place, because that was in the original, even though carrying around the smaller and less suspicious-looking flowers would make far more sense from the aliens' standpoint. | |
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North: Every place the title character visits is distilled to its most stereotypical essence. The Texans are obsessed with eating and are dressed like cowboys in a Wild West Show; the Hawaiians are obsessed with tourism and marketing; the African tribe lives in grass huts; the Eskimos sacrifice their elderly; the Amish are defined entirely by not using electricity; the Chinese are portrayed as bowing down before a dynasty and the French are shown smoking, drinking wine and watching nothing but Jerry Lewis on TV. It eventually turns out to be All Just a Dream, and North just has a limited and messed up world view. | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean can be said to be this for pirates and piracy, if only because it was based off an amusement park ride. However the franchise has notably opened up a lot of the general public's Small Reference Pools concerning piracy (such as the East India Trading Company) even if it often takes artistic liberties with them. | |
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Team Fortress 2 - the (playable) cast features 8 men from the Theme Park Versions of America, Australia, France, Germany, Scotland and the Soviet Union. The ninth, the Pyro, is a Featureless Protagonist. | |
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Judge Dredd has been criticised for using national stereotypes for all countries other than the United States (including Britain, interestingly). A couple, particularly Britain and Japan, have since been fleshed out somewhat due to a number of spinoffs taking place in them. Ireland takes the trope to its logical extreme, by being literally one big theme park. It also uses regional American stereotypes freely, for example presenting a Las Vegas ruled by gamblers. | |
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In Jurassic Park, a movie about an actual themed dinosaur park with actual dinosaurs, not all the dinosaurs are from the Jurassic period; in fact most of them are from the Cretaceous period. (Cretaceous Park doesn't sound very cool, though, and the whole Jurassic-vs-Cretaceous thing is actually noted in the book: the guy bankrolling the operation says that they couldn't very well have a dinosaur theme park without a T. rex, Jurassic or not Jurassic.) Lampshaded repeatedly when characters admit that their park is an exercise in idealism and does not accurately represent the period (or even the dinosaurs, for that matter). One of the characters blatantly states that a lot of the dinos died in the Cretaceous period. The film averts this and seems pretty aware that Jurassic is just a cool name. In Jurassic World, the head scientist explicitly calls out the fact that the creatures they're creating are not accurate to prehistoric dinosaurs, but are 'dinosaur-ish'. This is largely an in-universe explanation for the discrepancies with discoveries about dinosaur feathers and fluff that have been made since the first movie was filmed. |
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Doctor Who: "The Fires of Pompeii": Donna briefly thinks the Doctor has literally taken her to an Ancient Rome theme park when she sees a sign written in English, not knowing about the TARDIS' psychic translation circuits. "The Unicorn and the Wasp" is a homage to Agatha Christie. The writer deliberately went for the popular perception of what her novels are like rather than the actuality, resulting in a villain who acts like an over-the-top version of one of her villains because he's been accidentally brainwashed to act that way. |
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Ryse: Son of Rome does this to Ancient Rome, by taking wild liberties with History such as having Nero's Rome sacked by barbarians - the city also having hydraulic technology for lifts way ahead of its time -, as well as Romans fluent in Queens Latin, Exploding Barrels and shell shock, a gladiator duel between the Hero and some guy named Commodus, along with borrowing indiscriminately from Greek and Roman mythology, which end up playing as plot convenience | |
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Psychology is usually not taught at a school level and barely touched on in high school but unfortunately, it has to compete with Popular Psychology and misrepresentations on shows like Criminal Minds, Bones and other media works. The idea of psychology most people derive from such works is extremely simplified, misapplied, out of date, or outright wrong. Of course complicating the problem is that there are many contending theories and ideas about psychology and each group tends to insult and denounce the other, making it harder for people to grapple with the truth. The most common and pervasive idea is Freudian Psychology and even that is highly misunderstood and distorted. It's also been largely abandoned by actual psychologists (as has Jungianism), but lots of media hasn't caught up, in part as pseudo versions of these ideas seeped deeply into popular consciousness so viewers recognize it more easily than more updated theories. | |
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Spore does likewise for the cycle of life. And civilization... and, umm, Dune. | |
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Taken literally in The Sandman (1989). In one of the last issues, Hob Gadling visits a renaissance fair. Given that Hob is 500 years old, he is offended and depressed by the inaccurate portrayal of medieval life. And, incidentally, that's not even going into the issue of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance being two (mostly) distinct time periods. | |
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Westworld contains what is literally the theme park version of The Wild West, The Middle Ages, and Ancient Grome, inhabited by realistic robots that are there primarily so park visitors can "kill" them or have sex with them. All three are Ye Goode Olde Days for the park visitors, but less pleasant for the androids... | |
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The Care Bears: Adventure in Wonderland is this with Wonderland, compared to the actual place in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. | |
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Parodied in South Park where the kids ask Jimbo, who fought in Vietnam, about some info for a school report. Jimbo literally gives a theme park version and the kids get an F. | |
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Wednesday: The town of Jericho has Pilgrim World, a recreation of the town’s origins in the 1600s. Wednesday herself describes it as a whitewashed version of colonialism. It even sells fudge, which did not exist in colonial times. | |
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Quest for Camelot fits the trope description perfectly; pretty much everything that happens in the movie, happens because it's written to be textbook "anything goes" fantasy where everything is explained by "it's magic". The fact that it doesn't make any sense isn't meant to be paid attention to. | |
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Urbanus did this to the Netherlands in "De laatste Hollander" (the last Dutchman). And generally to Belgium itself, too (being a Belgian comic). | |
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One The Authority story written by Garth Ennis has a member of the SAS read a book a former teammate just published about his exploits, so filled with Hollywood-esque BS and Theme Park Versions of events he can't stop laughing: "What'd he do, pass seating contest when he was twelve?" When he meets the guy at his book signing, he laughs along with them, pointing at the adoring fans behind and commenting that "all they want is fucking Rambo". This is likely a jab at Bravo Two Zero and the minor fad for SAS veterans writing highly embellished or flat-out bogus memoirs. |
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Ace Attorney pares down lawyering to the bare essentials: evidence, witness testimony, cross examination, and yelling really loudly when you spot an inconsistency. No one's complaining. | |
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The later games rarely tackle the importance of class and social background. The blending mechanic allows a Native American like Connor to hide in a group of Colonial Bostonians, a cockney thug like Jacob Frye to talk on even terms with the British Prime Minister and for the Florentine exile and outsider Ezio Auditore to easily interact with a range of class groups in a time where costume, rank, title and appearance were crucial social signifiers. | |
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Used in Jenna Black's Replica. The Basement is a part of what used to be the state of New York. Anyone who is born here tends to be poor, undereducated, and make most of their money via illegal activities. There are several popular night clubs that are the theme park version of the Basement itself; many wealthy and better off tourists frequent these clubs. | |
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Assassin's Creed while praised for being (at least in earlier games) revisionist and subversive of tropes and Hollywood History still more or less presents simplified versions of actual historical periods, nations and cultures. Assassin's Creed and the other games more or less dials down the role of religion in the actual medieval era, insisting that such religious sects as The Hashshashin and The Knights Templar were Hiding Behind Religion and really secular humanists. While this compromise makes commercial sense and fits with the overall meta-narrative, it ends up giving a distorted view of the period and history. The later games rarely tackle the importance of class and social background. The blending mechanic allows a Native American like Connor to hide in a group of Colonial Bostonians, a cockney thug like Jacob Frye to talk on even terms with the British Prime Minister and for the Florentine exile and outsider Ezio Auditore to easily interact with a range of class groups in a time where costume, rank, title and appearance were crucial social signifiers. The games also codified Le Parkour in games as a climbing and traversal mechanic which simplifies both the human body and the surfaces and architecture of various cities to facilitate said gameplay. Other mechanics such as the naval gameplay of Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is more or less a simplified and condensed simulation of naval combat with ships easily navigated the wind and the waves. |
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Need for Speed II has tracks taking place in exotic locales such as The Outback (depicted as a rocky desert cutting through Sydney), The Himalayas (snowy mountains and a small village), and Northern Europe (which contains the Autobahn, a Germanic village, and castles within the same driving distance. | |
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Like Nintendo Land, the Super Smash Bros. series is centered around the long history of Nintendo's video game library and its various characters. | |
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