alt Hacker NewsA Dododo Land on that premise would be more interesting than what is described, which is weak tea social commentary. A Dododo Land where the doors are confusing and you have to pull rather than push - where there's typos everywhere and the kerning is always inconsistent or sometimes the font randomly changes and everything is hung 1 degree off level - where you pay for a ticket but then it errors out at the entrance and the clerk tells you that your payment must not have gone through - where a few lights just flicker once in a while and there's an odd high-pitched sound that half your group can't hear but sounds like tinnitus - where the employees are reading manga and you have to get their attention by coughing loudly - ...
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That sounds like Shenzhen!
That sounds amazing, agreed!
Don't forget automatic doors on a timer: you walk into them and they stay shut, but then just as you walk away in disgust, they open.
Or a heater/airconditioning blasting unpleasantly cold or hot air in your face as you go through the doors.
I like your typographical examples, but I'm afraid they'd be lost on most people.
Yes exactly.
Where the map does not represent the actual venue. Where every route leads to the gift shop. Where some displays are only in English. Where the flow between the rooms is non-intuitive. Where the audio guide is too loud/quiet and you cannot adjust the volume, or pause it during an item. Where there are mind-your-head bars in the way for no reason.