Chapter 8, Page 21
The following is an excerpt taken from Klive Norem’s NetGuide, Attraction Historia: Inside the Hidden World of Theme Parks.
Most theme parks have a tendency to keep quiet about their behind-the-scenes happenings. One of the most common questions I often get asked is ‘if there are really secret utility tunnels and “backstage” sublevels in certain parks?’ The answer is yes. Many parks build utility corridors underground to allow employees ease of travel and to perform basic support operations—whether for running attractions or more mundane aspects, like trash removal.
Smaller theme parks may opt not to build an extensive—and expensive—network of tunnels beneath the park but, instead, may set up modest passages, or even basements, beneath certain attractions.
Unfortunately, much to many of my readers’ disappointment, what goes on below the park is usually rather boring.
Danger Zone One. Story by Midnight. Art by Salaiix.
We have learned none of us can defeat you individually… so we must all attack together GET HIM GUYS!
It is often a sound tactical decision unless you are attacking some martial arts expert. Treat it like a rugby scrum and just grab a part and hold on. You can subdue a single person, but everyone has to commit to holding on to their part and not letting go. If other parts come close to hold onto those too. Be like “tar baby”. If someone has a knife and you immobilize their elbows its no longer an effective weapon. The only exception is someone totally cranked on drugs. The stories of large number’s of police unable to subdue drug users is a two part problem. Every officer on the collar is hamstrung by not being seen to be too violent by onlookers and preventing someone who has no care for their own safety from injuring the officer or others.
Even martial arts experts can be taken down: if everyone doesn’t ‘punk out’ and jumps them all at once
The movies always shows the large crowd standing around ‘waiting their turn’ instead of simply ‘dog-piling’
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Can see why she is the Reena’s friend 😀
And now… we see who is a ‘plant’ amongst the captives
That art in that first panel with Miss Bliss is god-tier. Salaiix always finds the ideal angles.
Walt Disney was the one to come up with the idea of an underground tunnel system after he saw a cast member in a cowboy outfit in Tomorrowland heading to his station in Frontierland (he felt the visual was jarring). They weren’t really able to implement it in Disneyland as it was already built, but they went whole hog in The Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World: they built the Utilidors (Utility Corridors) on the ground floor, dug up The Seven Seas Lagoon to bury it, and then built the park on top of it (can’t do a whole lot underground in Florida).
Needless to say, tunneling underground (or covering your tunnels and building on top) is very expensive, so most theme parks don’t bother. Of course, if there’s already an underground at your build site (e.g. a never completed or disused subway station), it would be a crime not to take advantage of it.