How about a week-long virtual battle tournament, with loads of different genres, the highlights of which are broadcast every night on TV in the week running up to the festival. Then, the two winners of the tourney get to fight in out, in Marduk city, using light-and-sound only full-sized giant monsters, such as Godzilla vs. Mothra?
For extra kudos, SfX people get to compete in generating the real time collateral damage, as holographics (probably only AIs would be fast enough to pull this off, though humans aren't excluded). This might have people watching from now-invisible 'demolished' buildings, as the giant monsters continue to rampage through the city.
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind
For extra kudos, SfX people get to compete in generating the real time collateral damage, as holographics (probably only AIs would be fast enough to pull this off, though humans aren't excluded). This might have people watching from now-invisible 'demolished' buildings, as the giant monsters continue to rampage through the city.
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind