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Fantasy camps have existed for sports lovers for decades -- middle-aged guys can, for a price, play basketball or baseball alongside Hall of Famers and live out all of their jock fantasies that never came true. But there has never been an equivalent for the sci-fi geek or rabid movie lover. Why the hell can't we pay to, say, experience a real zombie apocalypse, or become a spy?

5 Experience the Zombie Apocalypse

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The Fantasy:

On some level we all know that an undead takeover of the planet would be a terrible thing, but at the same time, we're also secretly rooting for it. But the only way most of us can shoot a shambling corpse in the head is by investing in shovels and marionette strings. Unless ...

The Reality:

Just outside of London lies an abandoned mall that offers zombie enthusiasts a dream come true. Zed Events has decided to cash in on the zombie fad by taking the 250,000-square-foot edifice and converting it into a real-life zombie survival fun house. For about 200 bucks, visitors can spend the day seeing how well they would fare if the undead actually did rise up against humankind (or, rather, experience a fantasy version of that in which we heroically survive rather than get killed within five minutes when we discover that chainsaws are not actually effective close-combat weapons).

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It's difficult to get a gun in England, making this whole zombie scenario very unrealistic.

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The experience starts with a training session, where participants are given Airsoft guns and taught the basics of survival and combat in the mall. From there, it's a "running of the bulls" mad dash for safety, except instead of bulls it's zombies, or at least dudes convincingly dressed as zombies.

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Zombies with much better tailors than you.

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Once you've survived this stampede, you're tasked with missions throughout the mall, all while wondering if a zombie will be lurking right around the corner. And, unfortunately, your ammo is severely limited, so the experience is as much about being able to evade capture as it is about being able to shoot everything in sight. As far as experiencing the kind of adrenaline rush that only exists in the aftermath of a devastating horror movie apocalypse, it's as close as you can get without moving to Detroit.