I know you can visit some theme parks at certain times of year to avoid many children, however what I mean are theme parks built more for imaginative and fun-loving adults.
Take some of the park rides you might find in family theme parks that appeal to both adults and children, but instead of avoiding elements that may confuse/frighten children, they’re allowed to get more detailed or whatever may be more fun for people. Fwiw I’m aware of some smaller scale themed venues (particularly some horror-related ones), but I feel like I’m blanking on any obvious larger scale ones.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of one, and I’m not sure if it’d be profitable. I mean, a lot of elements of theme parks are designed to extract money from parents, and only work because they are there with a child.
How would the adult theme park make money? Expensive entry tickets maybe? We would want to avoid alcohol because we don’t want people acting without inhibitions near all this heavy machinery, plus it’d make cleaning more expensive, and might cause more vandalism. I guess you could not allow re-entry once they leave, to force them to eat inside the park. But that’s about all I can see happening. You could put a nice sit down dining place inside the park though too, because the audience would be more into that sort of thing.
How about the decor, what kinds of thing even appeal to adults? This one is tough. Maybe a western, or dystopian future theme? That could be cool.
You’d 100% be selling overpriced alcohol in an adult-centric theme park. If Six Flags and even Disney have figure out how to do it safely (and very profitably, I’m sure), so can other theme parks.
You can buy alcohol at Disney?! With everything being so prude about drinking in public in the US, this completely amazes me.
Prude stops being an issue when money can be made with it.
Not public, it’s private property, also this is California adventure.
Several of the global Disney parks besides California Adventure sell alcohol. Even in the original park, Disneyland, which has long had a nearly total ban on alcohol has relented and has started selling booze in limited venues (most notably, the Blue Bayou restaurant, which is a fantastic restaurant btw). Money talks, and booze is pretty good money.
In several of the parks, yes! Hell, getting drunk off of “drinks from around the world” at Walt Disney World’s EPCOT is a popular theme for adult guests nowadays. However, I’ll mention that Disneyland is still quite restrictive (though their neighboring park, California Adventure, is not and fully embrace alcohol sales).
You got a point, if we’ve seen it work there, it can work here.