Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment hub, and neighborhood in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, and is one of its most iconic locations, prominently featuring in media depicting the city on a regular basis. Brightly lit at all hours by numerous billboards and advertisements as well as businesses offering 24/7 service, Times Square is sometimes referred to as "the Crossroads of the World, the Center of the Universe, the heart of the Great White Way", and "the heart of the world".[1]
Coverage[]
Documentary[]
The documentary briefly features Times Square in the intro, then in 1000 years after people where the transformation is most shockingly is Times Square as nature onslaught silenced the heart of the city and turning Times Square into a plains with a river passing through the once former streets, along with a few ruins remaining.
Heavy Metal[]
In Heavy Metal, Times Square is featured starting in 1 day after people where Times Square is still a glittering urban shrine but the streets turned eerily quiet. It then explains that Times Square is one of the loudest places in New York City in the time of humans where sustained exposure to sound over 75 decibels was dangerous to human ears yet ambient noise measured 80 decibels in Times Squares, with honking horns peaked at 90 decibels and a passing ambulance siren screamed at 120 decibel. Without people, the sounds are silence leaving just 50 decibel hum of air conditioning units.
In 2 days after people, the New York City power grid is failing and the trademarked glow of hundreds of illuminated signs start to black out. The show explains that Times Square have been plunged into darkness for more than 12 hours in 2003 cause by a massive East Coast power outage. 2 days after people have cause the blackout to be permanent and silenced [all] the illuminated signs.
In 6 months after people, the Ricoh Billboard is still glowing in Times Square thanks to its power being generated by 16 wind turbines and an array of 64 solar panels connected to a set of batteries. However, it eventually goes dark, not because of its turbines or solar panels failing, but because its lightbulbs wore out without anyone to replace them.
The square would later be used as a placeholder when collapsing, for modern buildings in the New York City great collapses by 150 years, and by 250 years the skylines would crumble, again using Times Square when decaying.
Errors[]
- If one pays attention to the time lapse, there are some noticeable mistakes seen in the Times Square time lapse.
- When the time of day turns into the early cloudy morning, some signs are still on, yet the blackout should have been completely finished by the night's end.
- While the signs begun to degrade, some of the signs didn't degrade (let alone turn off). The same applies for the cars (but they degrade very early on, even after only a second or two).
- During the blackout, some plants abruptly grow. This is even more evident in the original shot of the blackout in Heavy Metal.
- Even though the top floors of Two Times Square collapse, when the entire building collapse, the top floors is still intact. It is possible that it was meant for the building behind Two Times Square.
Gallery[]
Fanon Wiki[]
What? Times Square exists - but it's just a collapsed ruin here!
Times Square has some more coverage on the Life After People Fanon Wiki. (Note that the events' timelines may be different.) |