Sharknado

KGB's 2025 Booth, made in collaboration with PRISM. The Carnival theme was "Hollywood". Turns out this just means specific movie themed booths, so our first choice idea of a movie set was promptly rejected. We instead went with one of modern cinema's greatest achievements: the Sharknado franchise. Our chairs for this year were jpwang2, klhansen, marinaw, and eplin, who led us to win 3rd place in the Blitz category.

The booth featured vibrant and chaotic murals depicting sharknado chaos across the globe, including in Pittsburgh. On top of the booth, there was a large shark head made of paper mache and a tornado made of chicken wire and plastic bags. Inside the booth was a long hallway with sharks swimming around and trash on the walls. At the turn, a visitor would then enter into a shark's mouth to play the game.

Thanks to the diligent research of ngaynor, the booth included many plot points from all 6 Sharknado films. Most notably, a big space laser used to stop the sharknados in Sharknado 3.

The video game, made by eplin was about sharknados hitting the CMU campus. Using Wii remotes, this two player game saw players take up a gun or a chainsaw to fight their way across campus to activate a space laser controller in Hamerschlag. isaacw composed the music for the game, which was based on the Sharknado theme song, "The Ballad of Sharknado" which is featured in the opening credits of most Sharknado films.

Somehow, the computer and projector for the game were left unprotected in the booth, both of which were destroyed from the water damage on the first night of carnival. This led KGB to scramble for a new computer and projector before midway opened and the judges came.

Preceded by The Dino Game (Booth)

Booth 2025

Succeeded by $BOOTH