What drove them to such violence? According to park policy, employees gave up their electronic devices to make FantasticLand more authentic. Yet the only ones who could have committed these savage and horrible acts were the college-aged employees. Evidence of grisly murders are all over the park. After the hurricane, detectives and others who make it to the survivors more than a month later discover a scene out of a nightmare. FantasticLand has been the theme park where 'Fun Is Guaranteed ' for nearly forty years.

Ideal for fans of Lord of the Flies and Battle Royale A gripping thriller in which an amusement park becomes the scene of a real-life nightmare Written as an investigation with first-person interviews When online personas take the place of private identities, what happens when those societal constructs disappear? The employees of FantasticLand find out after a hurricane hits the Florida coast.

If meticulously curated online personas can replace private identities, what takes over when those constructs are lost?įantasticLand is a modern take on Lord of the Flies meets Battle Royale that probes the consequences of a social civilization built online. This new social network divides the ravaged dreamland into territories ruled by the Pirates, the ShopGirls, the Freaks, and the Mole People.

Cut off from the world and left on their own, the teenagers soon form rival tribes who viciously compete for food, medicine, social dominance, and even human flesh. Park policy was that the mostly college-aged employees surrender their electronic devices to preserve the authenticity of the FantasticLand experience.

Presented as a fact-finding investigation and a series of first-person interviews, FantasticLand pieces together the grisly series of events. How could a group of survivors, mostly teenagers, commit such terrible acts? Photos soon emerge online of heads on spikes outside of rides and viscera and human bones littering the gift shops, breaking records for hits, views, likes, clicks, and shares. Five weeks later, the authorities who rescue the survivors encounter a scene of horror.

Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been the theme park where “Fun is Guaranteed!” But when a hurricane ravages the Florida coast and isolates the park, the employees find it anything but fun.

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