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• gravitymax - Apr 19 2007 | dickens

  Quoted: A Charles Dickens theme park opens in Kent next month. Don't go expecting grimy Victorian authenticity, says Simon Swift - just enjoy the Great Expectations log fume

  dickens world. um. ok.
• McToonish - Apr 18 2007 | books, Charles Dickens, London, literary, theme park, literary tour

  I first heard about this on the CBC yesterday. Sounds like it could be interesting.

  Redotted from eric.
• eric - Apr 18 2007 | books, Charles Dickens, London, literary, theme park, literary tour, thepugetnews

  They're going to open a Dickens theme park in Kent next month. Definitely a stop I need to add for the inaugural London trip I've been trying to plan for years. Now if the exchange rate could just get reasonable!

  Quoted: Sandwiched between a cinema multiplex and a factory outlet, and housed in a hangar the size of four football pitches, Dickens World is a theme park based on the Victorian answer to Mickey Mouse. Opening in Kent at the end of next month, it's a day out for the family that brings to life the 15 novels by Charles Dickens; actually make that 13 - they haven't managed to squeeze in Barnaby Rudge or Bleak House. Never mind that the books tackle child exploitation, poverty, murder and domestic violence; the indoor attraction is based on designs by the creator of Santa World in Sweden so the emphasis is firmly on fun, fun, fun.