Dickens World is certainly a specific twist on the living museum. It's got Dickens-themed animatronics as well. One hopes none of them forget Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics.
Diggerland is the one that really tickles my imagination. Who's the absolute visionary who thought up letting young visitors drive around in construction vehicles? At this point it's a hard-to-find sensation.
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That's a pretty amusing collection. Funnily enough, we've actually seen a couple of the Disney Dream cruise ships here - when they're ready to leave they play 'When You Wish Upon a Star' on the foghorn. I'm not getting on any cruise ship but that water slide does look like fun.
The bicycle at the top of the huge slide is a scary idea indeed - underneath it said the pic and the blade rider one was from 'Worth 1000'. How sad to see the site was shut down and the name sold. Of course, I can't say I spent a lot of time there in days gone by.
You're right that Diggerland is especially notable as a very dumb idea. Thinking it was a total joke I looked it up only to find there are a number of DL theme parks in N. America - but a much more tame variety.
Dicken's World was in Chatham, Kent where I was born. It looked pretty cool while it was still open for business. Unfortunately, it was another of the businesses that the pandemic hysteria shut down.
I remembered seeing another theme park that closed after the end of the (first) Cold War - the Dinosaur Graveyard of East Berlin.
I liked the Three Laws website. It appears Google's AI has
failed the first law already.
The idea of a foghorn--not an instrument generally known to play requests--playing "When You Wish Upon a Star" is funny. What's weird is the thought of all the cruise ship workers wo no longer even notice it. The water slide must be one of the more popular features onboard.
The caption said that the slide bicycle and blade rider are Photoshops, so those just seem to be thought experiments as of now. Of course it's not impossible that someone has at least proposed making them real. I sort of remember seeing pictures from Worth 1000 before, and it is indeed a shame that they shut down. Lot of that going around now.
Yeah, Digger Land seems to actually be a popular idea. I guess it's a bigger version of construction toys. Whether the kids find it as fun as they imagined is an interesting question.
Again, it's a shame about Dickens World getting shut down in the COVID rush. Britain doesn't seem to have had an equivalent to Florida.
I didn't mention Hershey Park before, but that's kinda weird too. Kids standing around a giant Hershey's Kiss like it's a holy relic.
Liked the pictures of the Dinosaur Graveyard. May have seen something about it before. In a way the stage of ruin just before everything is taken away is perfect for it.
Yeah, the team behind Google AI doesn't seem to have ethics the way you and I know them.
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