The Week contest: Theme Park - January 7, 2011

Welcome to The Week's "What Next?" contest, an invitation to test your powers of imagination with challenges inspired by current events.

Click here for results of last week's contest: Wiki Leak

Results: With Kentucky planning to open a creationist theme park anchored by a giant Noah’s Ark, we asked you to come up with a theme park befitting another state. You flooded us with ideas like:

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THE WINNER: For New Jersey: Six “Whacks’’ Great Adventure.

Alan Parven, Commerce Township, MI

SECOND PLACE: For Florida, in the year 2050: The Entire State Underwater Fun Park

Ashley Ryan, Catonsville, MD

THIRD PLACE: For Texas: Bush Gardens

Jane Ellen Frazier, Florence, MA

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Alaska: The Palin-Drome — it can’t be spelled the same backwards and forwards, but you CAN see Russia from there.

Miles Klein, Frisco, TX

Detroit, Michigan: The Car Park—a giant, half-empty parking lot.

Gregory P. Casey, Medfield, MA

Minnesota: The Great Avalanche Experience (formerly, The Metrodome)

Bill Dorner, Indianapolis

Foreclosureland (Enter any state here)

Rick Glass, Arlington, VA