Zed Faire
AUTHOR: Jeff
After we watched Zombieland for the fifth time (yeah, I’m serious), we had to add a new question to our post-movie-beer table discussion. Standing questions include, “If the zombie apocalypse started right now, where would you go first?” and, “What part of the world would be the best place to wait it all out?” After seeing the final battle at Pacific Playland, the new question is, “What is the most epic place you can think of for a final zombie showdown?”
I’ve got my answer.
During the Thanksgiving holiday I had the opportunity to go to the Texas Renaissance Festival, which, according to Wikipedia, is the “largest renaissance fair in the world.” I was a regular attendee at renfaires when I was a kid, because it was the closest I was going to get to living out my D&D fantasies (some of which I still harbor, by the way, but I can’t get my wife to wear the elf ears…).
As I walked through the fair, eating a turkey leg and wondering if I could convince the face-paint lady to make me look like I had blood dripping out of my mouth, I naturally started wondering what a renfaire would look like in a zombie apocalypse. Think about it: zombies in costumes with fairy wings, elf ears, and chainmail. Tons of weapons everywhere. Crossbows. Axes. Maces. Ball-and-chains. Swords.
Turkey legs one minute. Human legs the next.
Where’s that design doc?
Jeff
This is BEAUTIFUL!!!
Funny, lets see what we can come up with. A YMCA day camp-The great out doors with tons of creepy kid zombies. A read carpet event-fans reaching out to touch their favorite celeb, then that cleb reaching out to eat the fan. A young woman’s boarding school-it worked a lot of movies in the 80′s hah
At the same time, some overly used locations can all of a sudden bring new blood. The movie”Dance of the Dead” took the played out idea of horror at the highschool prom and gave it life(or death based off your opinion). The fact that zombies could be put into a trance with garage band music and then get their head split with the guitar. Plus, not since “Dead Alive” did we get a zombie makeout scene. So a old location with fresh ideas can be good.
Well to me of course the picture perfect hold out for a final battle would be a large Mall, I know done to death but still epic. Or here is something new a skyscraper battle having to clear out the tower in order to secure it to make a small survivor city? Does that sound feasable and fun?
That is hilarious, well done! And yes, Zombieland is a fantastic movie and I’m happy that it made you think what would be a realistic thing to do if an outbreak would actually happen. I think that you’d be safe on a boat, zombies can’t swim! And when you need food you grab your guns, get ashore and blast your way to a shopping mall and a Twinkie factory.
Haha, brilliant editing on the pics – like the knight and the cat girl best- and a great idea too!
For me I think it would be the ultimate irony if a zombie outbreak occurred whilst I was at ‘zombiefest’ (Live Role play weekend event where there’s a simulated zombie outbreak.. Run by http://www.terror4fun.com)
At the Bristol Renaissance Faire this past year, there was a “Plague Day” aka Zombies. There was even a costume contest. Hopefully there will be another next year!
When the zombie apocalypse starts, I’m heading north. The longer I’m alive, the farther north I’ll go. The way I figure it, zombie infection will be slow to hit northern communities, simply because of their remote location. Also, northern communities usually have top of the line survival equipment, along with enough beer and shotguns to keep me warm for the duration of the apocalypse.
I’ve always felt that a forest has a particular kind of zombie battle. Theres a large area to cover, theres not much noise, it really makes for a balanced battle. Humans have to use their hunting instincts and make sure to not get surrounded. Zombies use their undead instincts to slowly corral the survivors.
A forest has risks and benefits for both parties, making for an epic battle for survival!
Justin says head north. Beer, Guns, Woods…..Canada becomes the new superpower in the world. lol OR keep going north to Alaska, you can hunt the elusive Rouge Zombie(aka Sarah Palin)
Dragon*Con, or some other similarly-themed convention with so many attendees. Imagine snatching up a replica greatsword one moment, then a Klingon Bat’leth, and finally using a remote-controlled R2D2 to lure zombies into traps, or simply hurling the poor thing down a zombie-crowded escalator. So many crazy costumed-zombies, weapons and locations for carnage!