Theme parks are places where people go to have fun, but theme park trips also have so much going on that they can be quite stressful affairs. Trying to do everything you want to do in a limited amount of time, and with limited money can put people on edge. In an era when everybody has a camera, we’ve also seen tensions boil over, leading to not infrequent fights in theme parks.
The proximate causes of these fights can be all sorts of things, but it seems that one of the reasons that people can get in fights was actually specifically caused by theme parks themselves. Kevin Blakeney, a landscape architect who helped design the brand new Epic Universe park, recently told The Atlantic that the use of lineskipping systems can cause conflict when those in the standard line have ot watch the people who paid more walk on by. Blakeney said…
