The two UFO museums are both rathouse tourist traps, for suckers only. Lots of tinfoil, shiny plastic, and ‘little green men’ dolls.

ANd while yer there go 200 miles south to Carlsbad Caverns!
Make it a weekend!

(No wasteland Man is not affiliated with the New Mexico Tourist trade in any way.)

-Wasteland Man.

Entrance for adults is £12.50 …
… take up to four hours …

Wow…even The London Dungeon is 17pound 50. That is pretty much the same thing as what they’re describing.

Sounds like London Dungeon’s gonna have to lower it’s rates.

Anyway, that UFO theme park actually sounds cool. I’d go, if I ever found myself out in Arizona.

Wolfman on May 27, 2007 at 2:58 AM

You’d miss it by several hundred miles, it being in Roswell, NM. Just do yourself a favor, don’t go in the Spring or early Summer, the winds through eastern NM are incessant and unpleasant.

Memo to self: avoid the cafeteria.

Slublog on May 26, 2007 at 9:57 PM

Oh, you can have some. You just can’t have some more.

And if NH even thinks of a LovecraftLand, then there needs to be a theme park for Poe. The only question being it’s location; Boston, where he was born, Richmond, where he was raised (and where The Raven was composed), or New York where he did the bulk of his writing.

Dickens World will include the largest themed dark boat ride in Europe and the first 4D animatronics show in Britain…

I don’t think anyone ever told them that the fourth dimension is time. What, are animatronic puppets based on people from your past and future going to jump out at you and sing the chimmneysweeper song from Mary Poppins?

Anyway, that UFO theme park actually sounds cool. I’d go, if I ever found myself out in Arizona.

Entrance for adults is £12.50 …
… take up to four hours …

I’m just not sophistocated enough, ’cause I’m there. I mean, if I’m ever there, I’m there. Unless I’m missing some major point. Can I get a T-shirt? I hope they have some sort of confectionary that involves Marley’s chains …

(2) Not steppin’ foot in Lovecraft Land. I can’t afford the medication it would take to live a normal life afterward.

And (3)

Now city officials want to take it to another level with a UFO-themed amusement park,
“Mommy, Mommy! I wanna ride on the Anal Probe!!”
harrison on May 26, 2007 at 5:40 PM

Not fair! You totally robbed me of my opportunity to make my own probing joke!

Gee…..can’t wait to see the ride where Oliver asks for ‘more please’.

Limerick on May 26, 2007 at 11:14 PM

(You beat me to it.) Actually that ride uses Pink Floyd’s “Brick In The Wall” song as background music.

Memo to self: avoid the cafeteria.

… or AutoWorld in Flint.

P.T.Barnum once quoted.
There’s a “WHAT?” born every minute.

A Muslim Brit waiting to get rogered by a Christmas ghost with a jolly old blood puddin’

Nobody leaves the ride alive?

Alive, maybe. Sane, never.

You have to admit, “The Call of Cthulu” is a rollercoaster simply demanding to be built.

Blacklake on May 26, 2007 at 6:40 PM

Nobody leaves the ride alive?

I can’t wait to visit H. P. Lovecraftland!
Blacklake on May 26, 2007 at 6:40 PM

Yea, the Rats in the Walls attraction should be pretty cool.

You have to admit, “The Call of Cthulu” is a rollercoaster simply demanding to be built.

Now city officials want to take it to another level with a UFO-themed amusement park, complete with an indoor roller coaster that would take passengers on a simulated alien abduction.

Park ok, roller costers ok, umm I think I’ll skip the tour with the probes though.

- The Cat

I’ve been to England once, for the whole of May in 1976, and for an Anglophile like me, it was wonderful. I’m sure things have changed there since then, but sometimes England did seem like one gigantic theme park itself – Englandland, as the March 1975 National Lampoon called it, IIRC in a parody of a theme park poster.