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Theme park scares the Dickens out of you
Don’t all of us wish every day that we could have lived in Victorian England? No, me neither, so it’s hard to sugar-coat the idea of Dickens World, a brand new theme park, where for example one ride acquaints you with the sights and smells of that era’s London sewer system.
It’s pretty clear the idea here is to make your kids so damned happy to be living in 2007 that they’ll never complain about anything, ever again.
From the looks of Stefanie McIntyre’s video report, it really works. If Dickens World is a success, we could be looking at other theme parks like Spanish Inquisition Land, Donner Party Days, and Bubonic Plague World!
As Dickens himself might have written, “It is a far, far, bleaker vacation I go to than I have ever seen… ”
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The Wall
Please, Sir, may I see my mother?
His Victorian, torn rags seem a bit too cleanly and un-smelly like.
Dear Blog Guy,
Didn’t you cover this some time ago? Didn’t I say something like, “As long as they don’t have a ‘Boy for Sale’ exhibit it’s OK by me?”
Let me get this straight. They opened a theme park in southwest England to make it seem MORE Dickensian?
I’ll take, “Axle Rose is Risen” for $200, Alex.
Your wife didn’t do a very good job on that tear and your walking stick looks almost new. Wife-beaten much?
Despite appearances to the contrary, ‘the walking dead’ is an oxymoron.
John, try to keep up…. A few months ago I posted an item saying they were PLANNING the theme park. I predicted it would never get off the ground, so of course here it is. I technical jargon journalist use, then, today’s item is called a “follow-up.”
Can I go in the ‘life cycle of phlegm’ museum again, Daddy? Can I? Can I?
‘Jack the rip on his sleeve’ just doesn’t have the same cache.
Are you sure that’s not just Pete Doherty on an especially good day?