How about a Survivor Antartica where the losers get voted off the Ross ice shelf. Other possibilities might include Siberia and the Mongolian Gobi desert.
Underground in a cave or mine? Perhaps they could all be left stranded on the moon?
In a submarine. Losers exit through Torpedo Tube #1.
The High Sierras or the Rocky Mountains?
No, I’ve got it…the Andes, by a faux plane wreck. The rest practically writes itself.
Or the old bomb shelter underneath the Greenbriar Hotel.
The Pacific Northwest is beautiful and exotic, in it’s own way. (Think Survivor: Endor)
Survivor, Rochester (N.Y.) – Contestants try to weather the lake-effect snow and rusting cars, followed by the flooding as the snow melts and turns everything into a swamp. Just when they think they’ve survived into good weather, along comes the Lilac Festival. Some members succumb to Nick Tahou’s Garbage Plate. Those tossed off the show are physically thrown over the Genesee Falls.
You forgot the greatest reward challenge ever: Wegmans Scavenger Hunt!
The product placement writes itself.
Survivor Pennsylvania Turnpike: contestants spend a month living by their wit and cunning at the Midway Service Plaza near Bedford.
And I can envision the Chili and Lima tribes competing in the worst “bad food” challenge of all time - seeing who can drink the most Genny Cream Ales without puking.
The show has ruined me - I saw a travelogue on the Polynesian Cultural Center in Hawaii recently, and all my daughter and I could think of as the labeled rafts floated by was “That one’s been a Survivor locale, that one hasn’t …”
How about walking by the Gennessee brewery when they’re roasting hops and not passing out?
One woman came out of the Margaret Woodbury Strong Museum challenge in an almost catatonic state, only able to say “Eyes…Staring at me… doll’s…eyes!”
The unfortunate thing is the need for skin. Otherwise I would love to see a cold, winter Survivor. But Cunctator brought up a good idea of underground. Fire-light should be enough for video (as shown during tribal councils) And I’d like to see the visual of survivors coming out of the caves and seeing sunlight for the first time every three days. And then having to compete for immunity?! Wouldn’t the puzzles get a lot harder if you can’t focus for the first couple of hours.
I like the idea of a cave show.
Maybe Carlsburg Caverns. Some episodes can be shot with night vision or infrared and have the contestants in total darkness.
How about survivor air ship. A huge Hidenburg like blimp.