Okay...I guess...um...

[mapsedge]

I suppose that anything's fair game in this day and age...but...a theme park based on Charles Dickens? 

I'm thinking the food concessions need to serve beer to minors and nothing to eat but gruel...

The rides could include spinning machines where you get to walk on treadmills to run them while the rest of the neighborhood kids narrowly avoid having fingers amputated by the whirling machinery...

Oh, and pickpockets...gotta have them.

Couple quotes:

"You can't Disney-fy Dickens," said managing director Kevin Christie, "because he was better and he was first."

Promotional literature for Dickens World promises the "sounds and smells" of the 19th century.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070418/ap_on_en_ot/dickens_world;_ylt=Agy1u6oFa_aQnqZgkemS__PMWM0F

Comments

[dwimmerlaik.livejournal.com]

And hey, don't forget the character actors roaming the park. What would a day at DickensWorld be like without a charming encounter with Miss Havisham or someone with a big foam-rubber Fagan head?

[jehosefatz.livejournal.com]

Mmm.... Tiny Tim. Bet that would put the PC police on edge.

- Jeho

[tathataboy.livejournal.com]

The sounds and smells of the 19th century. London, 19th century, no doubt.

Aaaaaah the smells of 1800's life. Sewage in the streets, coal smoke and fog mixing for a lethal brew that blankets the city, perspiration undiluted but trivialities like soap or indoor plumbing or air conditioning.

And the sounds! Horses screaming when they're hit by trains/cable cars, people yelling to communicate, the huffing chuffing factories and mills and horse-drawn wagons and beggars, lots of beggars, bewailing their current stat d'affair.

I can't wait! Bring on the Tuberculosis Express. And the Spinster Spinner where you are twirled in Industrial Revolutions until you and your mate are dead. Wheeeeeeee.