Section: Misc. TV Shows
Genre: Reality TV Game Show
Rating: 7+- a mostly clean story, with occasional censored language and intense scenes.
Type: TV Show Format
Status: Finished, Thirteen Episodes, 112,000 Words
Latest Update: October 24, 2006
Starring Characters: An assortment of fan-picked characters and OCs from various forms of media, including King of the Hill, A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Incredibles and Back to the Future. See first page for full list.
Description: In a fictional world based off of your wildest imaginations, several fictional characters race through unimaginable, incredible obstacles for a fictional million dollars in The Amazing Race: Dreamland!
Review: This is perhaps the most detailed, thought out and incredible reality TV show reconstruction you'll ever see. If you're a fan of The Amazing Race like I am, this will sate your between season-induced appetite. Fans and friends of the author, Inspector Brown, sponsored their own characters, whether original fanfiction characters or already existing, to run through his version of the Amazing Race. But this is no ordinary Amazing Race- with fictional characters, you need a fictional world. And that is what makes this fic remarkable.
"You know," Klaus said, "I've studied a thousand or so maps and atlases, and never have I found such strange nations as the ones in Dreamland. I heard rumors that in Dreamland, there's a place that looks like an 1876 western town, but was actually built in 2004! Of course, these are just rumors, and not fact, but still…"
Every kind of fantastical, out there childhood storybook or video game-esque idea or world you could think of is here. A land inhabited by animals, a mall that houses an entire city, a leg through a suburban giantess mother's house, Inspector Brown acknowledges that the possibilities are endless and therefore he does not let the ideas stop. And it's a mesmerizing read.
But in order to make a reality TV game fic great, you have to tend to the game side of the story itself. He also does a great job at that. With the jittery, edge-of-your-seat race feel that the actual show trademarked, the defining of the teams' personalities, the tasks, the pacing, the attention to the actual rules of the show, it's all there, as if he were writing a season for the actual show. Another remarkable feat.
If you're ever curious for a fantastical, one-of-a-kind experience, there truly is no story like this one- fun, creative, thrilling and true to its source. The only true shame is that Inspector Brown hasn't written since 2006.
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