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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- Posted by Shawn HendricksHis Victorian, torn rags seem a bit too cleanly and un-smelly like.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksDear 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?”
- Posted by John C AbellLet me get this straight. They opened a theme park in southwest England to make it seem MORE Dickensian?
- Posted by Shawn HendricksI’ll take, “Axle Rose is Risen” for $200, Alex.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksYour wife didn’t do a very good job on that tear and your walking stick looks almost new. Wife-beaten much?
- Posted by Shawn HendricksDespite appearances to the contrary, ‘the walking dead’ is an oxymoron.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksJohn, 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.”
- Posted by Robert BaslerCan I go in the ‘life cycle of phlegm’ museum again, Daddy? Can I? Can I?
- Posted by Shawn Hendricks‘Jack the rip on his sleeve’ just doesn’t have the same cache.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksAre you sure that’s not just Pete Doherty on an especially good day?
- Posted by Charlene