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James Bond Experience Theme Park
So I had an awesome dream 8-1-2013 just so it's documented on the interwebs of an amazing new theme park for James Bond Fans.
It would look something like
This museum in Spain mixed with Stromberg's underwater Atlantis lair /base popping up out of the water.
This mini-park would have all the cool Gadgets from all the movies on display and more from real spy history like the international spy museum.
But it will have more for us Spy fans like:
1. Stunt Driving Experience -either ride along or learn to drive real BMW's (nobody is going to give us Aston Martins)
2. Indoor Sky Diving or Real Sky Diving
3. Indoor Surfing with Green Screen of Die Another Day waves
4. Indoor Skiing like in Dubai (if you want to go crazy $$$)
5. Gun Range where you can fire all the Bond guns over the history of the series - with or without Silencer (suppressor)
6. Massive Gift Shop of all things Bond - books, toys, hard to find collectibles for resale like vintage stuff, replica props.
7. 2 iMax Movie theaters that play all the Bond films remastered in Digital HD and why not James Bond in 3D for evening showings each night.
8. Display all old movie props and any miniature sets still around
9. Q-Branch Lab of all Gadgets being built for next movie.
10. Bond fashion dresses on display (Something for the wives to go to)
11. Spy School for the young Bond fans
12. Covert Ops Training like Mi6 would provide for adults on double back techniques, debugging a hotel room or bugging one ;)
Now all we have to do is:
1. Get permission from the kind folks at (Insert name of company who owns rights to all Bond things) (Danjaq? Broccoli's?)
2. Get some land for the 3 worldwide locations in London, Bahamas, and Orlando
3. Go to Kickstarter, raise a ton of ca$h
4. Find Golden shovel
5. Start building!
Who's with me?
or What did I leave out?
Cheers,
Matthew Rings
CEO & Founder DBL07 Consulting Web Design Columbia SC
It would look something like
This museum in Spain mixed with Stromberg's underwater Atlantis lair /base popping up out of the water.
This mini-park would have all the cool Gadgets from all the movies on display and more from real spy history like the international spy museum.
But it will have more for us Spy fans like:
1. Stunt Driving Experience -either ride along or learn to drive real BMW's (nobody is going to give us Aston Martins)
2. Indoor Sky Diving or Real Sky Diving
3. Indoor Surfing with Green Screen of Die Another Day waves
4. Indoor Skiing like in Dubai (if you want to go crazy $$$)
5. Gun Range where you can fire all the Bond guns over the history of the series - with or without Silencer (suppressor)
6. Massive Gift Shop of all things Bond - books, toys, hard to find collectibles for resale like vintage stuff, replica props.
7. 2 iMax Movie theaters that play all the Bond films remastered in Digital HD and why not James Bond in 3D for evening showings each night.
8. Display all old movie props and any miniature sets still around
9. Q-Branch Lab of all Gadgets being built for next movie.
10. Bond fashion dresses on display (Something for the wives to go to)
11. Spy School for the young Bond fans
12. Covert Ops Training like Mi6 would provide for adults on double back techniques, debugging a hotel room or bugging one ;)
Now all we have to do is:
1. Get permission from the kind folks at (Insert name of company who owns rights to all Bond things) (Danjaq? Broccoli's?)
2. Get some land for the 3 worldwide locations in London, Bahamas, and Orlando
3. Go to Kickstarter, raise a ton of ca$h
4. Find Golden shovel
5. Start building!
Who's with me?
or What did I leave out?
Cheers,
Matthew Rings
CEO & Founder DBL07 Consulting Web Design Columbia SC
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Please tell me you're joking? You want to know what the price of admission is for a theme park he dreamed up last night?
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:))
10. Bond fashion dresses on display (Something for the wives to go to)
Yes, nothing like a spot of casual sexism thrown in for good measure =))
Anyway, it was a good idea, I thought this was a friendly forum to share it with, but I'm sadly mistaken.
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DBL07
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This is MI6, where everyone who has something different to offer get's called "spammers" or "trolls". It is tiring to read.
A cool idea, but unfortunaly not something that could become reality. The market is to small for something like this.
Great topic. Get me a VIP pass if it opens? ;)
Some realistic expectations:
A museum for the movies (i.e. set design, models, etc.)
A museum for real spy tech, gear, and techniques
A theater that plays a rotation of all 23 films (FRWL all day one day, CR the next, etc.)
A 'Bond Behind The Wheel' simulator you sit in as if driving in a car chase that pivots, spins, etc.
A laser tag course on a set designed by Ken Adam (preferably Fort Knox)
A bungie jump off of a "crane" on the roof
A 'rock climb' on the exterior of the building as the entrance to a Scaramanga fun house maze at the top
An indoor skydiving set up
An arcade with all James Bond games, including Goldeneye 64 (which the entrance is the 'moon landing set' and there are astronaut actors you interrupt when walking in
A real bar with martinis always on special
Perhaps even a gun range allowing you to shoot the guns of the Bond movies (with trained professionals of course)
I vow that, if I ever come it to large amounts of money, I will work as hard as I can to invest and convince Eon to create a center in London for something like this.
The scope there to actually present something is immense, and with James Bond a global name, it could be as big a hit as Niagra Falls for example and could present itself as one great extravaganza but as the author did so himself, at this moment in time, we can but dream. It would have to include a cable-car ride, naturally, or even a volcano base, or Scaramanga type fun house etc. You get the idea, it would be an immense and fascinating project, but have to realize this may not even occur in some of our lifetimes
I worked once for a company who made a "magic mirror" for kids in which they had a virtual animated Sorting Hat on their head to play the Harry Potter scene. It was for a release of one of the later books in France and then in an Eastern Europe country. The queue were huge in both cases. We "forgot" to put an hack to force Griffyndor instead of the random choices so some kids did the queue several times.
IMO the cynical response he got were from people who probably never dreamt of being a CEO or even trying :) If CEOs are not enthusiasts and dreaming of the impossible, who will ?
Ok, so now I have at least one backer. Thanks!
NICE I forgot about the Scaramanga fun house!
(Something for the wives to go to)
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:-S
He just gave us a page of details and You balk at me asking for one more? You're a moron, don't address me ever again. @MrBond is right, anyone with somethig different to say is labeled a ttroll. Not everyone is out to ruin your virgin paradise. Get over yourself and get with the times. The mods are responsible for this rude climate by letting it happen and emboldening members to jeer and catcall new and foreign users
Well if the mods are watching DBL07 is clearly guilty of a homophobic insult (albeit with incorrect spelling) above so I wouldn't be averse to a ban.
The same for his odious chum BustedNRevealed. Not all new posters get lambasted. Willygalore himself only joined a few weeks ago but through intelligent and affable posts he was accepted immediately without question.
It's not how new you are it's what you post.
Anyway as for the idea, it has some merit and it would certainly have made money over the past 12 months but as a sound investment permanently I would be sceptical. We aren't always going to be surfing this wave of Bondmania.
However as for other attractions:
1. A TMWTGG car chase roller coaster with corkscrew loops (and staff dressed in comedy JW and Nick Nack suits while you are queuing).
2. A 'make your own gunbarrel' where you dress in a tux, do the walk and shoot and they superimpose a gunbarrel on it then you choose your preferred music and charge you £15 for a DVD of it.
I agree, @WillyGalore. I've got your back. IFM as I said. This user has already made a name for himself through his flagrant self-promotion of his website (statutory mention) from his first posts here. It seems that this theme park only exists in his own imagination. Those that name call as has been done in this thread against @WillyGalore often aren't very happy in themselves to start with. It's a case of being a lot braver sitting behind a computer than one would actually be in real life. Anyway, I'm a literary Bond buff, not into this sort of thing, so pray disregard what I said and continue with your discussion preferably minus the trading of insults...
Wise words from the Wizard there.
- 'Escape from Crab Key' (you must make your way through a pipe maze)
- Scaramanga's fun house
- DAD laser room (kind of like laser tag, but the room is your opponent)
- GF's mechanical bull
- TLD ferris wheel
- tank simulator: get Ouromov!
- MR shuttle simulator: shoot down the globes
- skiing simulator
- MR centrifuge chamber ride. WEEEEEE! Barf.
THEME PARK TRANSPORT
- 'Orient Express' monorail (circles the park from above)
GROUND TRANSPORT
- armoured missile train
- MR vehicles (the ones seen in Drax' underground HQ in the Amazon)
- Blofeld's monorail (the bubble-shaped one).
- OP circus train
I'm guessing you're an Alan Partridge Knowing Me, Knowing You fan then, @4EverBonded?
Go out and get them immediately on DVD. Funniest thing on TV - subtle humour. Plus, he's got a film coming out too - Alpha Papa, in August, I believe.
Always a sure fire way to win an argument - resorting to personal insults and homophobic abuse. How about you throw in some racism just for good measure? Oh and whilst on the subject, it would help i you could spell your discriminatory remarks correctly.
You sir are a legend in your own mind.
The idea of a Bond Theme Park per se is a very good topic for discussion, but that's not what the original poster had in mind. Its' ulterior motive is to shamelessly promote one's self, which was the initial point I was trying to make.
Thanks to @Dragonpol and @TheWizardofIce for also picking up on this :-)