Dracula Theme Park?

Found this article and thought I would share! Sounds interesting! With 24 million cost I guess they are not gonna beat CP! Haha!

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=817&ncid=757&e=10&u=/ap/20030117/ap_on_fe_st/romania_dracula

That park has been in doubt ever since it was first drafted because the locals said all these gothic people will come to the Dracula Park and destroy all the landmark stuff near it.

Well lets see. Quoting Jeff- "parks on two opposite sides of a country don't compete." I guess that would mean parks on two completely different continents wouldn't either. Right? Right. Also, this is a brand new park, CP is over 100 years old. Yet again, no comparison.

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The local authorities have been debating about this park for well over 2 years. So I don't expect this park to ever materialize..

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I was recently in Romania and took a look at the proposed site of the park.

Fact is, that the ministry of tourism WANTS this park to boost tourism in Romania.

Its a surprisingly beautiful country with breathtaking architecture and friendly people. Sadly the majority of people is still very, very poor. And you can sense an echo of communism all around.

But Romania sees itself to be an up and coming country, they have to avoid corruption and ruthless europeans who flock into the country with an "lets buy it"- ethic.

Anyway, the park faced extreme opposition, so the government is about to decide to build the park somewhere else. Apart from the critiziced location in Transilvania, they consider to build the park either near the capital Bucharest or on the coast of the black sea.

This is somehow ridiculous: Usually you have the government against you, if you want to buiild a theme park. In this case the government pushes the idea to build the park at all costs.

The park wont be too amazing anyway, but in the old location in original Transylvania, it woul have been quite an experience! The buildings and feel of the area is perfect Disney! The architecture is so astounding that tourists from all over the world would flock to Romania, if they just knew it was a place to spend a holiday (which by todays standards is still something they have to work on.)

Time will tell.

*** This post was edited by Fawcett_Towers on 1/18/2003. ***

My CP comment had nothing to do with competition. lol. It just had to do with the fact that they are building this park for 24 millionish, and Dragster cost 25 mil. Sheesh!Moosh, tell them how to tae a joke!