Thunderdome won't attend Burning Man 2021, if it happens. Others might.

The Thunderdome Death Guild, the gothic desert gang best known for its friendly human fighting cage, is tapping out of Burning Man 2021, if it happens.

The Guild since 1999 has annually erected a raucous battleground where friends and foes can swing from the ceiling of a massive steel cage and beat each other with foam clubs as Burners roar above blasting punk and metal tracks.

Yet the popular attraction, based on a scene from the 1985 movie Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, will not be showing up this year, no matter the Burning Man Project's decision, the Guild said in a Facebook statement Wednesday.

"We care a lot about each other, other people, and our impact on the world. Because we have a lot of very thoughtful people in camp, despite the immediate desire to 'do that thing we do' and to see each other, it is not a complicated choice to say, 'No, we will not do the thing,'" said Marisa Lenhardt Patton, camp lead of the Death Guild, the camp that hosts Thunderdome.

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(Reno Gazette Journal)