Wait, So NJ is 'The Forbidden Zone'?

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1. well, if you want to go down that rabbit hole...

growing up still in the cold war, i always filled in the time gap simply with little geopolitical change until some spark ignites world war 3 and boom, virtually all humanity wiped out, then apes are able to take over. i'm guessing that's a common take, and we're probably meant to think heston's take when he sees the statue.


but plenty of time between "now" and heston's return in the 27th century or whatever.

magats are already talking about returning the statue of liberty to france. maybe it's just a joke at this stage, but maybe they're serious. anyway, point is, a lot can happen before earth go boom, so maybe they dismantled and/or moved the statue at some point.

hell, the london bridge is now in arizona, and they filmed the planet of the apes in arizona... hey, maybe it's actually arizona, not new jersey!