China builds ‘Joyland,’ a World of Warcraft-themed amusement park

chrismaddox3d

I am just speechless,lol
I kept reading rumors about this off and on,
http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/china-builds-joyland-a-world-of-warcraft-themed-amusement-park/

Justin Meisse

hah, China: the land where copyright, trademark and patents aren't recognized

Skamberin

Justin_Meisse wrote: »

hah, China: the land where copyright, trademark and patents aren't recognized

and creativity is completely alien.

brandoom

Justin_Meisse wrote: »

hah, China: the land where copyright, trademark and patents aren't recognized

Who's going to stop them =\

ErichWK

Haha..oh..China. You so crazy.

Del

~ lol. I'm still laughing at the fact they built a Gundam and then took it down and denied its existence after the lawsuits came in. Even though we had photos.

crazyfingers

Justin_Meisse wrote: »

hah, China: the land where copyright, trademark and patents aren't recognized

And this is why they are becoming an economic superpower so quickly.

Purplepaint

brandoom wrote: »

Who's going to stop them =\

I'm sure blizz could hire an army or two.

crazyfingers

Hire?

Blizzcon 2012: Beijing
Bring your replica Frostmourns!

Marine

it'll collapse the first time someone rides a rollercoaster

Purplepaint

crazyfingers wrote: »

Hire?

Blizzcon 2012: Beijing
Bring your replica Frostmourns!

Touche sir, touche

DrunkShaman

Ok this all WOW's extensions have got to stop.

Seriously.

Yozora

Copyright infringement aside, a Warcraft theme park sounds like a awesome idea. Why was China the first to actually start building it?

Oh it's not just warcraft, theres actually 5 different franchises including starcraft too!
Pff that actually ruins it, Warcraft is big enough to have a theme park of it's own and would be much more awesome if the whole theme park stayed within that theme. Gogo Blizzard make it happen

Kwramm

the funny thing is, there's a copyright law in China... but it goes like this "just swap a letter around or change a color from the original and you're safe" There's all kinds of weird knockoffs all out in the public which are total ripoffs of western brands.
My favorite is the Chinese Lacoste store which features the same crocodile logo and products but has a different name, which translates to, well, "crocodile"... well then there's also fake KFCs, fake McDonalds, some car type that looks like a hacked together Mercedes, a store that looks pretty much like Nike (Erke), a store which uses a mirrored Apple logo as logo, and even more ripoffs which don't even bother changing anything about the brand they copy. It's amusingly bizarre though.

PatrickL

As strange as China (and Japan, and North Korea, and South Korea) may seem at times, I can only imagine the western world looks just as strange from the other side. For some reason I'm really thrilled to live in a world where everyone thinks everyone else is crazy.

xvampire

Dreamer wrote: »

~ lol. I'm still laughing at the fact they built a Gundam and then took it down and denied its existence after the lawsuits came in. Even though we had photos.

yea i remembered that too
.

but finally they changed it to something more original. well much ugly of course. because lack of creative effort ...

however japanese artists always appreciate anything that original.
and willing to spare time to make fanart out of it

Autocon

I cant believe Blizzard hasn't started this project already. Im sure its something they have thought off/had plans for/have plans for.

Jungsik

They're gonna build Everything !

chrismaddox3d

I forgot about this i found a while back,
It is concept art on how the park may look,
http://shanghaiist.com/2011/02/09/world_of_warcraft_starcraft-themed.php

Heartless

Maybe China will build Diablo 3 while they're at it. Someone needs to.

thatanimator

loving the soundcompression making that startrek-background-panel/kraftwerk sound all the time

pyromania

Sweet! Now the gold farmers can pester people face to face.

seforin

I want real life raids , I will gladly go there in full plate mail and bash the crap out of some foreign outsourcing team that.......er I mean some Horde Park Workers....

Kwramm

seforin wrote: »

I want real life raids , I will gladly go there in full plate mail and bash the crap out of some foreign outsourcing team that.......er I mean some Horde Park Workers....

Dude, they have Pandaren here...