Theme restaurant
on September 28, 2019 at 12:01 amAnyway, Mars 2112 was a real-life, uh, theme restaurant where the theme is you traveling to Mars in the year 2112 and dining on Mars. There was a simulator ride that takes you “from Earth” all the way “to Mars,” which mostly involves moving a wall and turning on a blacklight while everyone’s on the 3-or-4-minute “flight.” There was one in New York, and eventually there was one in Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, Illinois, where I was previously working at the Warner Bros Studio Store while in art school. (AOL had recently bought Time Warner and closed down all the Warner Bros stores. Fuck AOL.)
Long story short, I worked at a Mars 2112.
And you should write what you know, I guess.
and what i know is that mars 2112 hated you calling their theme restaurant a “theme restaurant”
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now I wonder if Medieval Times has the same attitude
IIRC, they call themselves dinner theatre.
A version of the Project Runway “Shut up, it’s fucking red,” meme, but it’s “Dining adventure” and “theme restaurant”.
The idea of this restaurant sounds pretty cool. I got curios and searched on the wiki about it. It doesn’t say much about why it closed, only that it filed for bankruptcy twice, once in 2002 and again in 2007, and closed in 2012. And the other one in Schaumburg opened in 2000 and closed in 2001, it doesn’t say why it closed.
Sued by actual Martians.
If they had built one in one of the towns near Area 51, it would have been full during the Area 51 “Raid”.
Maybe it’s the Area 51 canteen.
I imagine bc it was expensive and unsustainable?
idk, we have all kinda places go under that we thought were perfectly cromulent
wait it’s closed now? Nooooo, I can’t relive my childhood anymore
ah shoot, was meant to be a reply to inqntrol
Calling it a “dining adventure” instead of what it is, a theme restaurant, reminds me of how car dealerships like to call their used cars “pre-owned”.
Did you pick the Warner Bros store because it had Batman merchandise?
More like that sweet, sweet Animaniacs merch.
Dot: “Por que no los dos?”
I miss all the Animaniacs merch.
That face in the second panel, that snobby, unreasonable attitude… proto-Galasso? uh, Galassa?
I can maybe see a tiny bit of resemblance to early Galasso? She looks a bit like an early Pamela, though not only would it make no sense for her to be here but I’m pretty sure she’d be dead at this point. Maybe Conquest has a sister?
We had one here in the Dallas area that was a haunted mansion theme. Staff in various costumes, lights would change and stuff came out of the walls, “Portraits” that were actually video screens or one-way glass with stuff behind that showed up when the lights went out, that sort of stuff. Lasted maybe a year? Jekyll and Hyde Club, I believe it was.
Yep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jekyll_%26_Hyde_Club
The NY location is still open!
Depending on the timeframe, I might have actually seen you back when you were working there!
I like to believe that it was still named after Mars in this universe too, and they had to change their name after the Martian invasion. 😛