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TAR Wishlist - locations, routes, twists, teams, tasks & dreams!**NO SPOILERS**
Erebus1111:
Season 32: Theme (Military Personnel)
Starting Line ~ SS American Victory Mariners' Memorial and Museum Ship
What better place to start honoring our veterans than by starting at a memorial to them? There are probably some better ones.
Leg 1: Tampa, Florida --> San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago
Leg 2: San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago --> Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Leg 3: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil --> Cape Town, South Africa
Leg 4: Cape Town, South Africa
Leg 5: Cape Town, South Africa --> Amsterdam, Netherlands
Leg 6: Amsterdam, Netherlands --> Hamburg, Germany
Please have them visit Miniatur Wunderland
Leg 7: Hamburg, Germany --> Berlin, Germany
Leg 8: Berlin, Germany --> Stalingrad, Russia
Leg 9: Stalingrad, Russia --> Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Leg 10: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia --> Akita, Japan
Leg 11: Akita, Japan --> Sendai, Japan
Leg 12: Sendai, Japan --> Victoria, Canada --> Seattle, Washington
Finish Line ~ Capitol Campus
Anyone up for the idea of military personnel only? ???
Platrium:
:haha
Unless, there's a way to put much diveristy in it.
Zack.:
I'm sure one could extend it to former military personnel as well; you'd get more old people, parent-child teams, other teams that aren't just athletic friend teams or what have you.
Also I always thought the USS Arizona would make for a great finish line if filming were allowed.
Also also: The Amazing Race 29 - Food and Drink edition
START: WRP Headquarters, Marina Del Ray, CA because starting lines don't matter lol (in reality like...Catalina Island)
Leg 1: to Schwende Canton, Switzerland
Swiss summer <3 I'd have teams fly to Zurich for an ARI or Detour before giving them cars and having them slowly make their way here, with a stop along the way for a food related RB. The cable car creates some potentially awkward bunching but I figured a KOR would make up for it. :cheer:
Leg 2: to Minsk, Belarus
So while I knew I wanted a country that was a part of the former Soviet Union I figured Russia and Ukraine were both Really Bad Ideas and that certain other countries would be visited in TAR 28 so here we are ^_^. One of my co-workers who married a Belarusian assures me that travel isn't as insanely bureaucratic as history suggests and that the people are friendlier so that's really all the incentive I need. PLUS there are plenty of trains out to the next destination...
Leg 3: to Kaunas, Lithuania
Baltic leg <3 I don't know the viability of an ambergris-harvesting FF but I figure that the first Lithuanian leg was hilariously generic (in fact...possibly most generic leg ever?) and so there's a lot of leeway with tasks.
Leg 4: to Athens, Greece
GREEK SUMMER <3 I know the show doesn't really deal with mass-eating challenges or mass-baking challenges for that matter but I'd only go here on the condition that there's a baklava-related task. Bonus if there's a FF based on this with the difficult part convincing people to join teams <3
Leg 5: to Lefkara, Cyprus
While it would seem this is just a cheap way to get people in swimtrunks or else interacting with drunk locals there's plenty of time for that later ( :snicker:) so teams can presently focus on detail-oriented tasks like cutting lace and making jam and other pastries ^_^
Leg 6: to Musoma, Tanzania
Mainly for black-and-white footage of Colin dying trying to eat an ostrich egg <3 That said, there's still plenty of agricultural and animal-related hell that teams can encounter here (hopefully it makes up for the subpar legs from TAR 5 and TAR 20 in the similar region). NEL because again - making up for TAR 5 and TAR 20.
Leg 7: to Zanzibar, Tanzania
...speaking of making up for previous seasons, Zanzibar! As it turns out there's more to do there then solve puzzles (which can be done anywhere), haul logs (ditto) and throwing rungus at objects (which can be done anywhere in East Africa) and I'd like to reflect that.
Leg 8: to Sylhet, Bangladesh
Bangladesh often (always) gets used during the summer and the legs are actually not bad (in TAR 21 the AWFUL Indonesia legs overshadowed the fact that the Bangladesh legs were not terrible, just indistinguishable) but the problem is it always tends to focus on overcrowded, industrial Dhaka. In contrast, Sylhet is peaceful and green, which is perfect for teams to freak out as they pick tea leaves. ^_^
Leg 9: to Khumjung, Nepal
I've probably written about this leg before - sherpa culture, teaching or feeding adorable sherpa elementary school children, lengthy hikes - but it still works. NEL.
Leg 10: to Jeju Island, South Korea
There's a looooot of grumbling about a leg in South Korea and while I initially wanted two legs in Vietnam and Cambodia since they get bad raps, the possibility of Phil and the Pit Stop being amidst a stretch of phallic statues is too hilarious a mental image to ignore.
Leg 11: to Seoul, South Korea
Hilariously long ferry ride to get teams into Seoul at night, followed by strange food, singing, dancing, fun locals, and difficult tasks because it *is* leg 11.
Leg 12: to San Francisco, CA
Start off with a side trip to Napa (eliminating any extra teams in the process) for grape crushing, then a leg in San Francisco proper dealing with the glut of cultures and cuisines represented, leading up to the final memory task; a 12-course meal consisting of foods encountered during the race.
Erebus1111:
Food and drink would be interesting, but I think people would complain that it's too much like Fear Factor. (Which I will agree with you is as dumb of a complaint as most teens are too irresponsible to compete.)
Erebus1111:
Season 30: (Suggestions for Pit Stops and challenges are welcomed. Also different countries/cities maybe? Let's 'try' to make this race a reality. Get it? :funny: )
Starting Line ~ Seattle
1. Seattle, Washington --> Port Villa, Vanuatu
2. Port Villa, Vanuatu --> Sydney, Australia (NEL)
3. Sydney, Australia --> Newcastle, Australia
4. Newcastle, Australia --> Mumbai, India
5. Mumbai, India --> Cairo, Egypt (NEL)
6. Cairo, Egypt
7. Cairo, Egypt --> Athens, Greece
8. Athens, Greece --> Milan, Rome --> Lugano, Switzerland
9. Lugano, Switzerland --> Rabat, Morocco (Last NEL)
10. Rabat, Morocco --> Casablanca, Morocco
11. Casablanca, Morocco --> Bermuda
12. Bermuda --> Boston, Massachusetts
Finish Line ~ Part of the Freedom Trail in the Boston Common.
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