Charles Dickens, Led Zeppelin Get Theme Park Treatment
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 04.13.07 | 12:52 PM ET
It’s the best of times and the worst of times here at the Planet Theme Park desk. On the one hand, we always have something to write about. On the other, our planet is being transformed into a giant theme park. Today brings news that Led Zeppelin will get its own roller coaster at the new Hard Rock theme park being built in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The park is due to open in spring 2008 and will have 40 rock-related attractions, but the Zeppelin ride is expected to be a key amusement. If he were dead, Jimmy Page would be rolling over in his grave.
In other news, Dickens World, the $115 million Charles Dickens theme park, will open a week from today in Chatham, England.
The park features the Great Expectations boat ride, among other attractions, and apparently has a dark London underworld feel. Said the park manager: “We are not Disneyfying Dickens.”
Right. In the words of Marshall McLuhan, the medium is the message.
That’s not to say we could resist a visit to Dickens World if we found ourselves anywhere near Chatham.
The park has a Web site, DickensWorld.co.uk.
Photo by Neil T, via Flickr (Creative Commons).
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
TambourineMan 04.14.07 | 1:38 PM ET
Cool. I can’t wait to vomit to Immigrant Song: “Aaaaaahhhhh…aaaaahhh…AAAHH!”