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Magic!
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 10:57 am
by Gob
An unfortunately named amusement park is set to become Israel's largest ever when it opens this summer.
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Magic Kass - named for Hanoch Kass, the investor behind the project - is an indoor theme park built in a settlement industrial zone outside of Jerusalem.
The Mishor Adumim site cost half a billion Israeli New Shekels (£111,700) to construct, the Times of Israel reported, and is expected to be the first of several parks in the area.
'It is providing amusement, all right – with its name,' Israel blogger David Lange wrote, quipping: 'I guess no English speakers were involved in that process…unless it was Bart Simpson.'
An exact opening date is yet to be announced for the park, which will include a 20-meter-high roller coaster overlooking the Dead Sea, video games and a VR area, according to the investor group's website.
Re: Magic!
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 1:58 pm
by Long Run
Gob wrote: ↑Fri Aug 06, 2021 10:57 am
'I guess no English speakers were involved in that process…unless it was Bart Simpson.'
More like Beavis and Butthead, but I guess no Americans were involved in coming up with that quip.
Re: Magic!
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 4:18 pm
by ex-khobar Andy
The Mishor Adumim site cost half a billion Israeli New Shekels (£111,700) to construct,
I'm guessing that they spent a little more than £111,700 - approx $140,000 - to build the entrance, or at least I hope they did.
Converting the new shekels gives around $150 million which seems a little more realistic.
Re: Magic!
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 4:26 pm
by Sue U
They knew exactly what they were doing; there's no other reason to have that sphincter-like portal.
Re: Magic!
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 4:58 pm
by Big RR
Re: Magic!
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 6:16 pm
by ex-khobar Andy
Now you mention it . . .
It is big, and pretty gaudy. You could call it an anus mirabilis.
Re: Magic!
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 7:26 pm
by Joe Guy
And the building looks like a giant bowel movement on stilts.
Re: Magic!
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2021 11:34 pm
by Bicycle Bill
Sue U wrote: ↑Fri Aug 06, 2021 4:26 pm
They knew exactly what they were doing; there's no other reason to have that sphincter-like portal.
I don't know. Round doorways worked for Bilbo and Frodo
(and Peter Jackson) in the "Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" trilogies.
-"BB"-
