^ "A BRIEF HISTORY OF WASTELAND WEEKEND". 
^ "Music Lineup For Wasteland Weekend". "California City desert transforms into wasteland for world's largest post-apocalyptic festival". The same team also plans to launch an original cyberpunk festival, Neotropolis, in 2022. The Wasteland World Car Show started in 2016Īnd The Wastelanders Ball started in 2017. The Wasteland Film Festival l started in 2013 There have been several official post apocalyptic spin-off events from Wasteland Weekend and its organizers including Ī 2019 episode of HBO's " Silicon Valley" included a video promo for a new desert event, Rust Fest, and was filmed on the Wasteland property and featured vehicles and participants from the event. Īdam Savage's Discovery, Science Channel show " Savage Builds" season 1 episode 3 "Mad Max Melee" featured Butler, several iconic Wasteland Weekend vehicles, and the festival's property. Wasteland Weekend 2017 was featured in the second season of "The Boulet Brothers' Dragula" in which the four remaining competitors had to take part in a photoshoot in a nearby desert and perform as a group at Wasteland Weekend. In 2016, an episode of " Jay Leno's Garage" hosted by notable tv personality Jay Leno, was filmed on the Wasteland Weekend property, featuring vehicles and participants from the event. Other influences include Wasteland and the Fallout series of video games. In the early years, Wasteland Weekend was billed as "Mad Max fun in the California sun". The theme of Wasteland Weekend draws heavily from apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, especially the Mad Max franchise, and requires all attendees to wear appropriately themed clothing. With 2020 being cancelled, year 11 was deferred to 22nd – 26th, 2021. īy the tenth consecutive year in 2019, the sold-out event had over 4,300 participants. In 2017, the event expanded from four to five days, beginning on the last Wednesday of September. The event is currently owned and organized by Jared Butler and Adam Chilson under their company Wasteland World Inc. Co-founder Karol Bartoszynski left in 2014. Ĭo-Founder James Howard left management in 2010. 
The event featured exhibitions of movie replica cars and bikes, a gyrocopter flyover, vendors, fire dancers, and contests. It was organized by Karol Bartoszynski, Jared Butler, and club promoter Jim Howard. ĭrawing on Mad Max-themed events in other countries, the first event was held in October in California City, California. It has grown from approximately 350 attendees in 2010 to approximately 4,300 in 2019. The first Wasteland Weekend received media attention and a video greeting from George Miller, director of the Mad Max films. Wasteland Weekend has been held annually since 2010.
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