Life size Titanic replica planned for China with theme park style sinking simulation

I know who they should use as consultants. The developers of Hard Rock Park executed a wonderful Titanic simulation.

One of my "Pipe Dreams" was to have a Las Vegas Casino Resort themed after the Titanic. The hotel would be a 40 story leaning tower shaped like the ill-fated liner. In front was to have been the Iceberg, which would be the centerpiece to a waterpark. That all changed on a September day in 2001, I decided that glorifying a Disaster wasn't exactly in good taste, and that "Sank my Battleship".

PS, Across the road from the Titanic I had an idea of a Casino themed after Ohio's Idora Park, which would have its Coasters moved and restored. Unfortunately Those were demolished in 2001. :(

So, 2001 was a bad year for you all around, huh?

This seems absurd, but after visiting the museum in Gatlinburg, I think it might work. It has to be done VERY carefully though.

"It's been approached in a very delicate and a very sensitive way and they are very aware of the extent of the disaster in 1912," he said.
"I don't think it will belittle that disaster."

Well, ok.

They also promise that patrons will think they're about to drown, and must escape with their lives. Um... No thanks.

I've been past the Titanic attractions in both Pigeon Forge and Branson many, many times and I've thought about it, but can't bring myself to pull in. What confuses me are the ads for the attraction you see everywhere that feature some smiling, costumed, servant-type re-enacter ready show show visitors the grandeur of the ship. All I can think of is "girl, in a couple more hours you're all dead". I don't get it.
I visited a small Titanic attraction once, maybe at our zoo, (I don't remember), but it included a lot of actual artifacts from the ship as well as stories about the passengers including letters and such they had written once they realized they were doomed. I suppose it was interesting to some, but I found it to be morbid, if not downright upsetting.

The Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge was really cool. I found it very interesting, and kind of emotional at times.

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I know this is going to surprise every one of you, but this project got delayed, denied, and depos... wait sorry. That's something else.

This project got delayed several times and was totally going to happen soon but as of December 2024 the project's site has disappeared from the Web, according to the Wikipedia page. [Wiki Archive Link]

Construction stalled some time in or before 2017 and was due to restart in 2018. There were reports that the project was in financial trouble but they still said they'd open in 2018. They didn't.

The website was last updated in 2021 prior to being taken down. Their Twitter/X profile has also been deactivated.

Looks like if you want to experience a sinking Titanic you'll need to build your own.

[Edit: I swear, there have been at least three of these Rollback items I've hunted for updates on which either died or were wrapped up in December 2024. What a weird coincidence.]

You could sail on the Titanic II instead. June 2027. Though they need to build it first. And there have been many delays with building the replica for more than a decade.

https://fortune.com/2024/04...sail-date/

robotfactory:

I know this is going to surprise every one of you, but this project got delayed, denied, and depos... wait sorry. That's something else.

Crazy that the Italian plumber is the last hope for society.

robotfactory:
Looks like if you want to experience a sinking Titanic you'll need to build your own.

You could just sit in a pool of icy water, for a long time, in the dark.

Palmer even says that depending on the weather, they’ll have delousing for third-class passengers, just as the original vessel did.

Sign me the **** up! 🙄

By modern standards, the Titanic sucked. Not even the Carnival booze cruise people are going to want to bunk up in steerage. Why can't this guy just build rockets like a normal billionaire?

Speaking of modern day replicas of historic catastrophic failures, when is someone going to build the Hindenberg?

I've been to the Titanic Museum. I don't think it was glamorized at all, and I guess I'd liken it a bit to the Holocaust Museum. There is a way to handle this content with sensitivity.

I don't think simulating the sinking and giving guests the sensation that they are going to drown goes in the "sensitive" column, personally.

What's next? An attraction that simulates airlines crashing into buildings? Where's my Fastpass?

I mean, Disney recreated the Pearl Harbor attack for a few lucky guests every 10 minutes at Studios for, like, 15 years.

Which museum? I went to the one in Cherbourg, France, and I think likening it to a Holocaust or 9/11 exhibit is accurate.

The one in Pigeon Forge gives you a card with a passenger's name on it. When you leave, you find out if that person lived or died. I don't see that as glamorizing it.

Also, I recall a small sink of very cold water. You see how long you can keep your hand in that water. I could only keep my hand in the water for a few seconds. It is the same temperature of the water passengers had to endure for three hours before rescue came. The majority of passengers did not make it.

I don't know where this falls on the spectrum of somber vs glamorizing, but anytime you include the word experience, it's no longer just educational.

I disagree. Experiencing something can certainly be educational. How is experiencing what it would have been like to try and hold on to something on the deck that was sloped that much glamorizing anything?

LostKause:

The majority of passengers did not make it.

Whoa, spoiler alert! I'm just at the part where Kate and Leo do it in the car.

I too went to the location in Pigeon Forge. It really was a somber experience. Now that I see the sloped deck photo I do remember it, but it wasn't intended to be a "play area". I didn't hear kids screaming "weee" and sliding down it or anything like that.

The passenger's name card was an interesting aspect. It personalized it. Whether by chance or not, my daughter got a card of a young child who, as it turns out, survived.

My daughter is the one who really wanted to go. At the time she was into those "I Survived" books for kids and had read one on the Titanic. I admit to being a little apprehensive, as a lot of those Pigeon Forge attractions are really pretty gimmicky tourist traps. We still consider that one of the better "sidetrips" we've taken on vacation.

Yeah, the displays keep the tone. It's not meant to be fun and exciting. Sure, kids climb and play. Sure, people laugh when they can't keep their hand in the cold water for longer than a few seconds. The signs and videos still tell the story.

They teach that these were real people who experienced tragedy, but they don't want it to be a bummer. It's not a funeral. It has to be entertaining.

But I am recalling my visit there about ten or so years ago. It could have changed since then.