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About 4,000 people have flooded California's Mojave Desert for the annual post-apocalyptic festival called Wasteland Weekend, and the pics looks out of this world. The festival, which was inspired by the Mad Max film series, is unlike most desert parties because it requires all attendees to be in costume. Yes, even staff members and journalists. The idea is to create a full-immersion effect, making everyone feel like they’re inside a Mad Max universe for 5 days. And it works.

More info: wastelandweekend.com

This year, the event ran from September 25thto September 29th., and included a number of themed distractions from the real world. There were live bands, DJs, car cruises, costume contests, a film festival, a post-apocalyptic swimsuit competition, Thunderdome battles, and much, much more.

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"We’re going to pull out all the stops for our tenth year celebration," Wasteland co-founder and event director Jared Butler said in a press release. "It’s amazing that we’ve been able to have this home-grown post-apocalyptic fantasy world last this long. It took a lot of hard work and dedication by our whole community and we want to celebrate that."

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Wow, this one had to take forever to create. It is very cool and they covered

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The event has sold five years in a row, and another sellout is pretty much inevitable. "Wasteland is run by a small staff and an army of volunteers. We want those volunteers to grow their skills with the event, so that our staffing and infrastructure never get overwhelmed by the size of the population," Butler said. Wasteland Weekend art director and Chief of Operations, Adam Chilson, added: "When we grow at a reasonable pace, it means veteran attendees always outnumber the newcomers. It helps the event keep the feeling of being one big returning family."

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Nice to see Humungus's (from Road Warrior) daughter has stepped up to threaten Mad Max. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2gVXd7FzhQ

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If they're hollowed out all the way through it would make breathing a hell of a lot more comfortable.

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Not a Progressive. Gas and guns? So not a global warming type of supporter.

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The one on the left reminds me of the "Warrior woman" in The Road Warrior.

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Love the new 2020 Nissan 300ZX. Needs the optional guns.

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You can tell this would be bad guys camp in apocalyptic movie because they are wasting water.

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