Burning Man Pranksters Change Death Guild’s Thunderdome Sign To Read “Hot Topic”

by Scott Beale on September 3, 2009 · 3166110 comments2009-09-03+18%3A47%3A51Scott+Beale

Pranksters at Burning Man have changed the sign on top of the infamous Thunderdome to read “Hot Topic”. Bravo!

Thunderdome, where epic Mad Max style battles take place between bungee suspended warriors, is run by the San Francisco goth/industrial group Death Guild and of course Hot Topic is where suburban goth kids buy their clothes at the mall.

Here’s a video by marclar of the Thunderdome in 2007.

See Previously: Burning Man 2009 Photos by Neil Girling

filed under Burning Man, Pranks

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J.D. September 3, 2009 at 11:50 am

Ha! Perfect.

Hearing about pranks like this may be the only positive thing to come from Burning Man being fully online.

Olivier Bonin September 3, 2009 at 2:32 pm

Too bad it’s not made out of wood… who knows someone might have burnt it down!!

mischief September 3, 2009 at 6:16 pm

I have the Envy that I didn’t think of that first. I do love me a deathguild, but this is just HILARIOUS.

Simone September 4, 2009 at 1:54 pm

I’ll bet it was @sfslim. It seems like the sort of thing he’d do.

p00n September 7, 2009 at 9:53 pm

It is possible that SFslim had some level of participation, but mastermind he was not ;) I’m not sure how I would know this….bunny camp must have told me.

edrabbit September 10, 2009 at 7:51 pm: I hear that the effort was spread across multiple people, multiple years, and multiple groups. They will not be found. All that exists is dark photos of shadowy people atop the dome:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edrabbit/3907933111/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edrabbit/3908715062/in/photostream/

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zalamander September 8, 2009 at 1:45 pm

Definitely made me do a double-take when I saw it.

StephenJr September 8, 2009 at 5:17 pm

Hey as being part of deathguild *medic for the thunderdome look me up at burning man 2010* i know that the prank was especially laughable by us for the fact of one of our members being a general manager for hot topic in thier area.

Roger September 9, 2009 at 1:56 pm