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ICON Park's new target shooting game, 'Bullseye Blast,' receives online backlash

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ORLANDO, Fla. - A new laser gun game coming to Orlando's ICON Park is getting mixed reactions on social media.

ICON Park, located on International Drive, announced plans to add a new game called Bullseye Blast to The Wheel ride, the park's 400-foot tall Ferris wheel. "As their air-conditioned capsule ascends above Orlando, players scan the rooftops of ICON Park to find 50 strategically pre-selected targets with varying degrees of difficulty," ICON Park described on its website. "To get the highest score possible, players need to hit as many of these as possible with their laser blaster during the 18-minute ride." Watch video above to see how it works.Each of the laser blasters has a scope on it that lets players view an infrared beam that helps them when aiming at the targets. MORE NEWS: Splash Mountain ride vehicle fills with water with Disney guests on board, video showsThe concept didn't sit well with many online who blasted the new game as "insensitive" given the mass shootings recently in Uvalde, Texas and at a Buffalo, New York supermarket.

Credit: ICON Park "Ahh yes, let’s allow tourists to pretend to snipe at a city that was FOREVER scarred and traumatized by an act of gun violence," one person wrote, referring to the devastating terror attack at Pulse nightclub in Orlando in 2016.Another commented under a tweet from theme park blog Laughing Place: "You would think at some point someone in the planning stages looked around and thought ‘Could this be problematic in any way?’ but nah, welcome to 'murica.""Mass shooter training," said another commenter. MORE NEWS: Orlando FreeFall owners hope to reopen Slingshot ride at ICON Park once it receives 'necessary approvals'"How did this make it off the drawing board?!".

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