A group of investors have announced that they want to create a new theme park in Las Vegas that will take the “best parts of Burning Man” and combine it with a space age Mars Adventure. “Mars World” as it’s being called by the designer John Spencer.
According to Spencer, the fully immersive experience will be on land somewhere between the I-15 Freeway and Las Vegas Boulevard. People will be able to dress up in space gear, take full walks on a low gravity ride, and even ride a tram into a crater where Mars City will be built.
Spencer isn’t a newbie, since some of his architecture work was included in the International Space Station and Japan’s already successful Space World theme park. He also was the designer for the Aquarius underwater laboratory used by astronauts during NEEMO (NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations) missions.
The experience is mainly targeted to over adults. “They’re pretty rowdy, independent, artistic. Don’t agree with authority too much. At Burning Man, clothing is optional,” Spencer said. “If you take that as a foundation and extend that out further in the controlled environment, then we have amazing characters, artwork and costumes.”
The project is estimated to cost over $2 billion and would take several years to develop according to Spencer. However, they have only raised $500k to date, meaning that we might be traveling to Mars before this actually launched.
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