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Sub la Goon
05-25-2007, 05:46 AM
Dickens World! Opening today! (http://www.dickensworld.co.uk/)

I really don't have great expectations of getting there any time soon or if I would pay a Nicholas Nickelby to get in if I did. The AA rats could be worth the price of ad-mission though.

Here is a link (http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2007/05/24/PM200705248.html) to the story I heard accidentally on Marketplace last night on my way to Taco Bell for some swanky dinner foods. The previous night: Steakhouse 55. O, how the mighty have fallen... I like how this little article mentions the Disneyfication of classic lit in order to sell tickets. (And maybe even books!)

At any rate, maybe someone can get back to Merrie Olde and bring back some nifty pix!
Stan4dSteph
05-25-2007, 07:26 AM
I'm going to the UK in September, but I'm not going to get out to Kent. :(
Tref
05-25-2007, 11:14 AM
Someone might want to remind them to include an actual photo of the park. That is not to say I did not enjoy the time lapse film of a tree in a parking lot with some stuff happening behind it.
Ghoulish Delight
05-25-2007, 11:21 AM
It got pretty tense there when it rained and the camera lens got wet.
RStar
05-25-2007, 12:44 PM
And the person who has the boat of the far left didn't use it at all the first year or so.......
Ghoulish Delight
05-25-2007, 12:54 PM
And the person who has the boat of the far left didn't use it at all the first year or so.......
The entire span, according to the text, is between 5 and 6 months (Aug '05 - Jan '06)
Tref
05-25-2007, 04:39 PM
I read that the Dickens park is taking a page from the Renaissance Faire by sticking with traditional food of the Dickens age, such as fried bread with drippings, rotted meat pies & Hardtack bisquits. Sounds yummers! Just tell me where to line up for the gruel (and do not skimp on the saw-dust!)
RStar
05-26-2007, 10:38 PM
traditional food of the Dickens age, such as fried bread with drippingsDid you say drippings, or droppings?

The entire span, according to the text, is between 5 and 6 months (Aug '05 - Jan '06)
Oh, I thought it said two years. That explains it, I'm sure they don't take the boat out much in the winter.
CoasterMatt
05-26-2007, 10:57 PM
I read that the Dickens park is taking a page from the Renaissance Faire by sticking with traditional food of the Dickens age, such as fried bread with drippings, rotted meat pies & Hardtack bisquits. Sounds yummers! Just tell me where to line up for the gruel (and do not skimp on the saw-dust!)

Sounds just like Disneyland :D
Tref
05-27-2007, 02:42 AM
Did you say drippings, or droppings?


I believe I said, ducklings, though I have a thick accent.