The attractions are all people being tortured, but only the children can see what's really happening.
Once a beautiful touristic attraction full of nature and diverse ecosystems, the park is now on a state of despair and decay with collapsed bridges and abandoned buildings abound.
Episode 2 of the three-part OVA Amuri in Star Ocean has the three heroines stumbling across one of these places in a space junkyard.but the whole place being a brainwashing facility. Friend Land in 20th Century Boys, though the "doom" isn't from the rides note Though one is a rather horrifying re-enactment of a tragic event earlier in the series.(Both were also adapted for Battle of the Planets.) Two episodes of Science Ninja Team Gatchaman are set in closed amusement parks that are actually fronts for the Galactor organization.Then Neo Hair Hunt Land MAX which is the battlefield for the Bo-bobo gang against the former Hair Hunt generals of the previous era. In Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, A-Block Amusement Park is run by Jellly Jiggler and the Hair Hunters who are after the title character same goes for Halekulani's Hallelujah Land who destroys attractions if they aren't making profits especially with people inside.Pierrot just happened to be controlling it at the time. The theme park is a regular affair which wouldn't look too bad if it was working as it normally would.
Features, among other things, dangerous looking indoor roller coaster, and cute giant robots that don't mind trampling people who get on their parade route. In horror-centric Cowboy Bebop episode "Pierrot le Fou", the title mad assassin arranges a showdown between himself and Spike in one of these.The attractions, constituted by his experiments, are alive - for example, the horses of the roundabout are real horses, pinned by the metal poles going through their bodies, but still living. In book 8 of Battle Angel Alita, the final lair of Desty Nova, Granite Inn, looks like an amusement park, but of the nightmarish kind.The threats include a game of laser tag against hired mercenaries with guns that give fatal electric shocks (Yugi and his friends have useless toy guns), a Ghost Train Ride that kills with Electric Chairs anyone who screams, a booby-trapped haunted house with a Child Murderer running around, a sealed pit where giant Tetris-like blocks fall from the ceiling, and a rigged game of Capsule Monsters where the loser is subjected to a Fate Worse than Death. In Yu-Gi-Oh!, Kaiba puts Yugi and his friends through "Death-T", a section of his "Kaibaland" amusement arcade laden with deathtraps, as revenge for the Penalty Game Kaiba was put through in his first appearance.