B-movie Theme Overview

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Since no limitation is specified, you may use this action to build from your hand or directly from the Market.

"Any park" means your park and those of your competitors, so the upgrade being "cast in wax" can be in your own park. 

The effect applies to built-in upgrades and non-built-in upgrades alike, including Theme upgrades that are indicated by the built-in theme icon, such as on super attractions.

As with all effects that mention a marked coin price, if a card's price is marked in a different currency, such as Alien Influence, then it doesn't have a marked coin price, and isn't a suitable choice.

The House of Wax is an extra option allowing you to use an action to build an item for a lower price, but it doesn't actually reduce the price of all the other items in the Market for you.

+ 2-For-1 Deal

If you used the House of Wax and paid a non-zero amount of coins to build an upgrade, and the upgrade came from the Market, then you can build a second attraction or upgrade from the Market for free using the 2-For-1 Deal if it is the active City event that round.

You don't get to choose a free build up to the marked price of the item, only the amount you actually paid, just like a real-world 2-for-1 deal.

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If you have a store that also has themes, you pay for each requirement separately. If you choose to close the store instead of paying for one requirement, you can choose not to pay the other requirements too, since closing a closed attraction has no further effect.

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Project Management

This event offers two separate options, each of which is optional. You can choose to use only one, or the other, or both.

This means it is possible to discard a blueprint if you wish, without being forced to take another.

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Sponsorship Deal

The effects of Sponsorship deal can stack together. You can play as many as you wish, and each one will give +1 coin per guest during the Guests step.

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Renovation

The effect doesn't stack with itself. You don't get half of half price if you play two copies of Renovation at once. This is because each one gives a discount based on the marked coin price, which is the number printed on the blue price tag on the card. 

If you play two copies, you simply have two different ways to get half price.

The same goes for other effects that give half price. You can have multiple ways of accessing half price builds, through different abilities such as Building Contractor, but they can't be combined together.

The half-price discount only applies to cards that are priced in coins. Prices marked in Alien Influence or any other currency are not reduced.

You can use Renovation on any of your closed attractions, no matter how they came to be closed, whether it be through the event itself, another event played by a competitor, a City event card, etc.  The pin symbol and the wording makes Renovation an enduring effect throughout the entire round. Whenever you build an upgrade, if the attraction is closed, you can build on it for half the marked coin price.

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Backlot Cleanup

You can rearrange the closed attractions in your park even when you have all attraction spaces filled. The rule wording specifies that you can exchange positions of attractions, as well as moving attractions into empty attraction spaces, so it doesn't require an empty space as a "working" area. The combined effect is that you can place any attraction into any attraction space in your park, as long as the attractions being moved are closed.

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You cannot use this billboard to reach 5 stars in order to build your Showcase super attraction, and then use the billboard's ability to demolish itself to build the Showcase.

At the time you proceed with the build, your park will have only 4 stars and fail the requirement for a super attraction.

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Since no limitation is specified, you may use this action to build from your hand or directly from the Market.

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Even though the card is from the B-movie pack, this staff member includes the card type Alien, and can be searched up using the Advanced Tech event from the Alien theme pack. The staff member counts as Alien for the purposes of the Human Resistance blueprint.

Note that card type and theme pack are not the same thing - the Alien theme pack has many Alien items, but it does not have a monopoly on them.

+Dismiss this staff member to...

When another staff member has an ability that says "dismiss this staff member to [do something]", you could make the argument that was affecting another staff member than the Pod Person, and so you could substitute the Pod Person as the target of the dismissal and dismiss her instead... but then you wouldn't have dismissed this staff member so the rest of the original rule couldn't proceed.

Thematically, a pod person can take the shape of another person, well enough to be convincing if they're fired or killed, but doesn't have their memories or skills.

+Cloning Lab

If you employ the Pod Person while you operate the Cloning Lab, you can use the Pod Person as a substitute target when the Alien Influence token would be applied to the newly cloned staff member. Since a Pod Person cannot have tokens placed on them, the rule fails, and you are left with a cloned staff member with no expiry date.

The Cloning Lab usually has the clones set on a 1-month lifespan, but if you can replace the operator with one more aligned with the goals of our alien friends, you can flip that switch to 'permanent'. Thanks Becky!

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Illustration elements contributed by Mr  Cuddington. 

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Once a card is built into your park, it becomes an attraction, upgrade, staff member, etc.. When an item in your park is demolished, it becomes a card again. "The card" in this rule refers to the card produced when the Red Carpet is demolished.

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The build requirement strip beside the price tag prevents this being built on or moved to an attraction that already has any other quality upgrade.

The ability rulebox prevents any other quality upgrade being built on or moved to this attraction.

Together, these rules ensure that an attraction cannot ever have any other quality upgrade while it has Acceptable Quality, no matter the order in which they are built.

Illustration based on the original Superior Quality design by Mr Cuddington.