Magic!

[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.

[Long Run]

'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.

[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.

[Sue U]

They knew exactly what they were doing; there's no other reason to have that sphincter-like portal.

[Big RR]

[ex-khobar Andy]

Now you mention it . . .

It is big, and pretty gaudy. You could call it an anus mirabilis.

[Joe Guy]

And the building looks like a giant bowel movement on stilts.

[Bicycle Bill]

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"-