Cornucopia

The Cornucopia is a giant, golden horn (silver in the film), shaped like a cone with a curved tail. In each year's Hunger Games, the tributes launch into the arena and start off in a circular formation, equidistant to the Cornucopia. Its mouth is at least 20 feet high, and is filled with items that could help the tributes survive in the Games, such as weapons, clothing, fire starters, supplies, containers, water, food, and medicine. The Cornucopia can be anywhere. For example, in The 74th Hunger Games, it was in the middle of a field, which then the Career Tributes booby-trapped with mines. In The 75th Hunger Games, it was on a small island in the middle of an ocean where the tributes had to swim to the Cornucopia. In an unidentified Hunger Games, the Cornucopia was filled with only maces, with which the tributes had to bludgeon one another to death with. In the 75th Hunger Games in Catching Fire, it is filled with only weapons. Typically, the Cornucopia is the site of a bloodbath at the beginning of each set of Games because of the bounty available. The Cornucopia was also used for shelter, like in The 74th Hunger Games, where Foxface camped out. In the final battle of The 74th Hunger Games, wolf muttations chased Katniss, Peeta, and Cato to the Cornucopia. Cato got carried off by some of the muttations on their way to the Cornucopia. Katniss and Peeta made it but the muttations were still chasing them, so they climbed on top of it to stay out of the mutts' reach. In the movie the cornucopia is sliver and blocky. This goes more with a modern theme of the capitol. In the film, the cornucopia is actually real. It took 10 weeks to build, and is 2 stories high.