Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Randomly Noted Atlanta tourism thinking small
Posted by Scott Henry @ScottTheHenry on Wed, Jan 2, 2008 at 9:58 PM
I, for one, am quite excited by the news that a Dutch company wants to build a theme park in Atlanta containing miniature versions of familiar landmarks.
Miniature cities are quite popular in Europe and elsewhere. Fans of the film Hot Fuzz will recall the climactic shoot-out among the wee buildings of the model village, as they're called in England. I've actually visited the model version of the Cotswolds village of Bourton-on-the-Water. But it seems the builders of Japan's Tobu World Square clearly weren't informed that NYC's World Trade Center did not overlook Versailles.
The ADA press release claims it's looking around Atlanta for potential sites for such an attraction. But, honestly, America doesn't have the kind of quaint Tudor cottages, French palaces or Bavarian castles that give model villages their charm. So what would an Atlanta park commemorate in miniature? The Big Chicken? The Mall of Georgia? Spaghetti Junction?
At the very least, a miniature version of the U.S. of A. could help provide kids with something of a geography lesson so they don't turn out like Kellie "I thought Europe was a country" Pickler.
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