After Watching Indian Influencers Play Squid Game In Real Life, I'm Convinced We Need A Full Theme Park

So, you cognize of Netflix's Squid Game. That amusement with the precocious stakes, life-or-death tasks that person america collectively going 'WTF' whenever a caller crippled is introduced. Its 3rd play released connected Friday.

It's besides 1 of Netflix's astir palmy shows, owing to its unsocial taxable and storyline. Want to cognize much astir the brutalities of being mediocre successful a hyper-capitalist, unequal world? Squid Game volition unfastened your eyes and support you connected the borderline of your seat.

To beforehand the merchandise of the 3rd season, Netflix India invited 19 of the astir fashionable contented creators to play a mentation of this game, and called for fans to witnesser it live.

I had a spot astatine the event, and here's my experience.

1. The Squid Game taxable was on-point.

As I and the throngs of fans waited for the gates to open, we were monitored by the masked men successful red—making the full happening consciousness ace realz. The assemblage was enthusiastic astir the thought of watching idiosyncratic play Squid Game live. Looking astatine those uniforms instantly activated my fight-or-flight. Thank you for that, Netflix.

2. The crippled set-up was, hands down, the champion portion of the event. And yes, the elephantine creepy doll was determination too.

One of the champion parts astir Squid Game is the crippled set-up—it is vibrant, colorful, and reminiscent of the participants' childhood, which makes watching it adjacent harder due to the fact that radical virtually dice connected these colourful grounds. I was funny astir however the games would crook retired to beryllium successful existent life, and I was positively floored.

The acceptable was perfectly grand, mimicking the games we've seen successful play 2. There was conscionable truthful overmuch to instrumentality in—the elephantine creepy doll, the merry-go-round, and the doors, waiting for participants to combat bony and nail to enter.

The meticulous attraction to item genuinely got me. Oh, and fun fact: the accumulation plan was headed by a woman! A large triumph each around.

3. The contention was hosted by Rahul Dua and Sumukhi Suresh, and the 20th subordinate was chosen from the audience.

It felt a spot unusual to spot an uneven fig of contented creators arsenic participants. But that was rapidly cleared up—hosts Rahul Dua and Sumukhi Suresh announced that determination would beryllium 20 players, and the 20th would beryllium one of us. The enactment process? Cookie tins were hidden nether random seats successful the stadium—if you recovered one, you could take to enactment successful the archetypal circular to suffice for the finals. Yes, that cookie—the 1 with the shapes from play 1. Told ya, the attraction to item was *chef's kiss*.

After a chaotic archetypal round, wherever participants had to carve retired the signifier from the cooky (throwback!), they moved connected to the infamous reddish light, greenish light—with the creepy doll watching, of course. We yet had a winner, and the assemblage absolutely mislaid it cheering him on.

4. The contented creators were welcomed by a roaring crowd.

Once the 20th subordinate was picked from among us, it was clip for the existent Squid Game to begin. One by one, the contented creators were called in—and their fans cheered similar it was a full-blown arena match.

Among the galore acquainted faces were Sakshi Shivdasani, Apoorva Mukhija aka The Rebel Kid, Vishnu Kaushal, Aaditya Kulshreshth aka Kullu, and Shreya Kalra. And of course, the pre-game banter? Top-tier.

5. We saw a glimpse of a crippled from Squid Game 3.

Because I intelligibly person nary beingness and person already binge-watched each of play 3, I tin present confirm—we did get a glimpse of a crippled this season. A classical from childhood, it was a skipping enactment crippled wherever participants had to, well, skip—and marque definite the enactment didn’t smack into them. The shifting velocity of the enactment made it amazingly amusive to watch. Once again, large props to the acceptable plan squad for pulling disconnected specified an over-the-top, elephantine set-up.

6. Content creators had to enactment successful games from Squid Game 2, and things got COMPETITIVE.

Everything was hunky-dory—until it was clip for the merry-go-round. It was 1 of the astir aggravated games successful play 2, and yep, it delivered conscionable arsenic overmuch chaos successful existent life. Participants were scrambling to find the close fig of radical and an unfastened door, and it got truthful hectic that 1 idiosyncratic had to beryllium eliminated from the country due to the fact that they were the unusual 1 out.

One of the creators literally clung to idiosyncratic else’s limb successful an effort to enactment successful the game. Desperate times.

7. The victor did spell location with a currency prize on with bragging rights, and the assemblage got to research the set.

I won’t spoil who took the win, but let’s conscionable accidental determination was a currency prize—and they made definite to flaunt it astatine the extremity (honestly, fair). But the existent cherry connected top? We got to spell down to the existent acceptable and walk clip there! It was ridiculously chill taking pictures with the red-suited guards, the elephantine merry-go-round, and of course, gawking astatine the sheer size of those creepy dolls up close.

All successful all, it was incredibly amusive watching radical enactment successful low-stakes Squid Game, which compels maine to repeat: we request to marque this a taxable park. And until that is simply a reality, here's a representation of maine with the giant, creepy doll. I was asked to pose; you can't accidental nary erstwhile you're successful the Squid Game.