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gavindoughtie
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TRAILHEAD manhattanairport.org
Central Park becomes an airport?

http://manhattanairport.org/

Trailhead or just a Very Bad Idea.

PostPosted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 9:17 am
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punkymonkey
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it actually looks pretty real to me. there were some articles on technorati and other places saying that the organization has been planning this for 3 years now. Looks more like a retarded idea than a trailhead to me.

PostPosted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 2:10 pm
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CarnageBlack
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That may be true, but the wiki is less then a week old, other threads I've found aren't that old anyway. If they were attempting this for so long, it would have hit major news media. I'll have to keep an eye on this. Might be of some interest.

PostPosted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 10:16 am
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Daeld
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ROTFLOL
Quote:
Dedicate a bench at Manhattan Airport

Laughing

I have signed the petition and I am now also a member of TMAF! Laughing

I agree that it is unlikely to be real (just look at the 2D photos!)

But equally, I am not sure it is an ARG...

It kinda reminds me of the "havidol" campaign (a dude - I think he was studying something to do with marketing - made a website about a new drug for a fake, made-up psychiatric complaint. Havidol (have it all) was the brand name of the drug avafynetyme (have a fine time) hydrochloride. Some ppl took the site seriously and started going to their doctors to ask for it! (apparently some doctors started looking into it too!)

I wonder if this is a similar fake marketing project rather than an ARG.
(Because it looks more complete than any ARG I've ever known, without actually having any puzzles, story plots, characters, etc).

[OT]
BTW the website for havidol is http://www.havidol.com/.
It really is worth a look. It is hilarious.
Havidol - for when more is not enough!
The molecular structure in the product info is in the rough shape of a smile
Laughing
[/OT]

PostPosted: Tue Jul 21, 2009 9:10 am
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dharma22
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Central Park Airport? That's crazy, a terrorist or an amature pilot could fly a plane right into the Empire State Building. I mean, look at the landing and takeoff approach. Plus, think of all that sound pollution the people have to put up with, and the JFK airport's just a few miles away.
I suppose if it IS a real ARG, then the player will be a part of some group that's trying to stop them from building over the park.

PostPosted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 9:20 am
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degravedi
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ARG or real, it will never happen. The area surrounding Central Park is prime real estate. If normal people in residential neighborhoods can keep a Wal-Mart from going up, just imagine what the extremely wealthy and well lawyered socialites of New York can do.

So I vote ARG, or some extremely misguided person's pipe-dream. Laughing

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