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Topic: They have built a Titanic!

Malcolm @ cruisepage
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Member # 301

posted 03-31-2006 03:25 PM

...well a museum, anyway in Missouri.

Visitors will enter through an ice berg - how tasteful.

www.titanicbranson.com

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Matts
First Class Passenger
Member # 4120

posted 03-31-2006 03:40 PM

This looks remarkably like the Titanic 'attraction' in Orlando, which also had replica rooms and the chance to touch a wall of ice (ooh calm yourselves now). You were escorted around by a Titanic steward. (Yes I went), even the souvenirs look the same. However it was in an out of the way shopping mall so maybe they moved?
When you entered you were given a ticket with the name of a passenger. At the end you got to find out if you survived. I suppose for something so tacky it was quite well done really.

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 03-31-2006 03:45 PM

Yes, I think it could be the same company?

American even does 'tacky' really well.

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lasuvidaboy
First Class Passenger
Member # 4527

posted 03-31-2006 08:49 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Malcolm @ cruisepage:
Yes, I think it could be the same company?
American even does 'tacky' really well.

And it is in Branson!! Branson, Missouri has even been featured in an episode of 'The Simpsons'.

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Caronia II
First Class Passenger
Member # 5223

posted 03-31-2006 09:35 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Matts:
...When you entered you were given a ticket with the name of a passenger. At the end you got to find out if you survived. I suppose for something so tacky it was quite well done really.

Sounds like the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC... very powerful...

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Maasdam
First Class Passenger
Member # 3858

posted 04-03-2006 04:18 AM

How tacky with the iceberg. But it looks in here own quite good. And till date saw the only time in such museum the mention of J.P. Morgen the real owner of Titanic. Not bad fore such (to say it nice) museum.

Greetings Ben.

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P&Ocruiser
First Class Passenger
Member # 5040

posted 04-03-2006 07:00 AM

THEY PROBLY DID A BETTER VERSION FOR THE MOVIE, BUT IT AINT BAD, IT LOOKS LIKE FUN, GOOD ON THEM

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elad
First Class Passenger
Member # 5150

posted 04-03-2006 09:36 AM

very good idea!
how noboady have thoughts about it before! i mean a "real" titanic structure...

but one thing is botter me - how can the museum's owners permitt pepoles to "rent" the museum for parties? beyond the attraction, this stracture/museum reflect an historic disasture were more then 1200 pepole have died in.....
so imagine pepole dancing and laughing in this sort of places... see hear

Elad

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J.S.S.Normandie
First Class Passenger
Member # 6253

posted 04-03-2006 09:50 AM

You can touch a wall of ice!!! Wow I've got to do that!!!

I think the iceburg is just a little bit tacky. I mean that's like entering a Lusitania museum through a torpedo doorway.

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BigUFan
First Class Passenger
Member # 1382

posted 04-14-2006 05:22 PM

So Branson beats Las Vegas to the punch! Only in Vegas' case, it was a hotel. Anyone know if that insanity is still going on?

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 04-14-2006 06:16 PM

quote:
Originally posted by J.S.S.Normandie:
I think the iceburg is just a little bit tacky. I mean that's like entering a Lusitania museum through a torpedo doorway.

Great idea!

I think the Vegas Titanic Hotel idea sank, so to speak.

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aravizza
Just Boarded
Member # 2898

posted 04-14-2006 09:47 PM

I was lucky to be in Branson last Friday when they had the official opening and "christening ceremonies" with Regis Philbin and his wife as honored guests out front. "Captian Smith" swung a champaign bottle from the deck (in a small burlap sack for safety reasons, I guess) against the hull. This Titanic is actually a 50% size mockup of the front half of the Titanic and abruptly ends just aft of the 2nd funnel. The museum inside includes quite a few artifacts and mockups, including the biggest and finest (they claim) scale model of the Titanic as you enter. The museum is set up for a self-guiding 90 minute tour. There are recreations of various staterooms/suites, as well as third class accomodations. Examples of actual woodwork and other interior decor that were removed from the Olympic are displayed at appropriate locations through the tour and are supposedly identical to the Titanic. At one point there is a recreation of one of the boilers with realistic coal and fire in the furnace. There is a room fixed up with the first class dining salon decor as well as menus, serving place settings, etc, etc. Kind of neat. Then you walk into a replica of the bridge, darkened, with a starry night scene twinkling up ahead and, lo and behold, if you look close you may see an iceberg on the horizon! You can also sit in a actual sized lifeboat in various seats and listen to comments of the night's events from overhead speakers. And of course there is the obligatory water tank with temperatures controlled to that of ocean of that fateful night. You can stick your hand (or arm) in a see how long you can hold it. It is COLD! And a 100% size grand stair case is a popular location for picture taking. There are quite a few actual artifacts recovered from the Titanic; they claim more than any other exhibit. And some short clips of the only known motion pictures taken of the Titanic and Captain Smith are shown in a little theatre on the tour route. The film gives a good overview for the unfamiliar and is are very captivating. Of course you exit through the gift shop! Overall it is similar to other exhibits that have made their way around the country, but this one is apparently the most complete. Incidentally you only have a view of the starboard side of the ship as you approach. If you come from the port side you only see the top/stacks/bow because the port side is mostly museum building structure. It is wierdly disappointing to not see the aft part of Titanic, as if it was cut off with a huge knife. For us historical ship lovers this is a good exhibit if you find yourself in Branson. Admission per person as I recall was around $17 or 18, which is on par with the theater shows.

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BigUFan
First Class Passenger
Member # 1382

posted 04-17-2006 12:26 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Malcolm:
I think the Vegas Titanic Hotel idea sank, so to speak.

As well it should have. That was the tackiest, most dreadfully poor-taste development I've ever seen, if indeed the website we saw was truly representative of the project.

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 04-17-2006 07:14 PM

quote:
Originally posted by BigUFan:
That was the tackiest, most dreadfully poor-taste development I've ever seen...

Ideal for vegas then!

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