Where is Shogunworld physically located?
At the end of HBO's Westworld, season 1, Maeve wanders into the control center / maintenance center for Shogun World. It is just adjacent to the control/maintenance center for Westworld.
My sense of the scope of the Westworld park is that it extends for miles and miles in every direction. The control/maintenance center is underneath it. I suspected it was in the middle of the park, though that's just an assumption.
If the control/maintenance center for Shogun World is just next door to the control/maintenance center for Westworld, but the Westworld control center is directly under the park, it doesn't seem as though Shogun World could be directly above its control center; the two parks would physically overlap.
How are the 2 enormous parks, and their control centers, positioned? I've thought of a few options that could make sense.
- The Shogun World park doesn't exist yet. They're just creating the hosts and the story lines, and they'll open the park somewhere else, later. It would be a big waste of money to have to move the center later, but it would be useful to have both control centers side-by-side while developing Shogun World.
- The sky in Westworld is fake. It's only some small distance (1000 feet, for example) above the ground, and it's just a big TV screen that they color blue with clouds in the day, and black with stars at night. The whole Westworld park is just one level of this multi-level Delos facility. The control centers & maintenance centers are underneath, and the park is above. Shogun World is just one more level of the facility, either above or below Westworld, and it also has a fake sky 1000 feet (??) above it.
- The 2 parks butt up against each other. The control centers are both positioned on the edge of the parks, rather than being positioned in the middle of the parks, or the control centers span an area just as large as the parks, so their "footprint" just matches the size & shape of the park.
EDIT:
In Season 2, it appears as though Shogun World just shares a physical boundary with Westworld. They're next to each other.
Best Answer
Firstly,
We Don't Know
In fact, we don't know where Westworld is either.
But...here's what we do know.
The Control Center (for Westworld) is in the park or at least on the edge of it. It's built into a mesa.
We also have maps (which evolve as the show progresses) of the Westworld park.
Now, the Control Center is not indicated on the overall map but since we see mesas in the park it's not a stretch that this is one of them. Probably somewhere along the long mesa "wall" we can see in the screenshots below.
All of this would weigh against the two parks being contiguous....but Westworld (the park) is vast (Nolan confirmed 500 sq. miles)....so the Control Center could be anywhere.
When interviewed by Entertainment Weekly per /Film, producer Jonathan Nolan said:
After last night’s finale, a lot of you are likely curious if we’ll see more of Samurai World. Although Nolan wouldn’t confirm if that’s what “SW” exactly stands for to Variety, he did discuss the other park.
"One of the things we’ve established is Westworld is the proto-park. It’s the first park. The other parks, you would imagine, are extensions."
and co-showrunner Lisa Joy
"We’re definitely teasing there are other worlds. How many other worlds and what is the nature of the other worlds is something we’ll start to explore more in season 2".
One final point...I found this on Imgur which is a reasonable analysis of where the Control Center is located...its a little large to add in so I'll just link it.
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Where is Shogun World located?
Sh\u014dgunworld is a Delos destination modeled and influenced by the Edo period in Japan. The world features a strong military presence, reflecting the military rule and political uncertainty of the Japanese period.Who is the Shogun in Westworld?
The Shogun (real name unknown) is a character on the HBO show Westworld, he is played by Masaru Shinozuka. He's a warlord and the leader of an army.Are there Samurai in Westworld?
A trained fighter and prolific Japanese actor in film and TV, Sanada plays Musashi in Westworld's Shogun World\u2014a samurai who has defected from his Shogun master.What was the point of Shogun world?
\u201cShogun World is an artfully-curated vacation destination inspired by Edo feudal Japan, where you can experience the full complexity of nature \u2014 beauty and danger, good and evil \u2014 in a place nestled from the passage of time.WESTWORLD | Season 2 Shogun World Featurette (HBO)
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