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"Ark Encounter" Officially Open!
#71
RE: "Ark Encounter" Officially Open!
(July 9, 2016 at 4:23 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: Also---here is the entrance to the park on opening day:

It does seem to be a spectacularly bad business idea. Even amongst creationists, how many people would pay to see plastic animals in cages when the zoo offer live ones for less?
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#72
RE: "Ark Encounter" Officially Open!
(July 9, 2016 at 10:04 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:
(July 9, 2016 at 4:23 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: Also---here is the entrance to the park on opening day:

It does seem to be a spectacularly bad business idea.  Even amongst creationists, how many people would pay to see plastic animals in cages when the zoo offer live ones for less?

Don't they have plans of having a zoo with live animals?
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#73
RE: "Ark Encounter" Officially Open!
(July 9, 2016 at 10:17 pm)Spooky Wrote:
(July 9, 2016 at 10:04 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: It does seem to be a spectacularly bad business idea.  Even amongst creationists, how many people would pay to see plastic animals in cages when the zoo offer live ones for less?

Don't they have plans of having a zoo with live animals?

Not inside, they are going to on the outside.

Their replica was not built to float either. It's just another amusement park. I would not pay the admission fee they're asking. But it's probably a standard rate for amusement parks.
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#74
RE: "Ark Encounter" Officially Open!
Anyone who has ever been to the San Diego Safari Park (and others) might wonder why the ark is a couple orders of magnitude (at least) too small to do what it is claimed to have done.
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#75
RE: "Ark Encounter" Officially Open!
Most first cut amusement parks are $60-$70 now.

Aside from the petting zoo outside, this is going to be pretty boring for little kids/teens, for sure.

Although I'd go see it if only to count the Bad Ad-Hoc Hypotheses. Also, if you are wanting to practice your debate skills, it would be a pretty good venue. I'm sure there are plenty of people there just waiting for a chance to save some souls.

But I wouldn't pay $40 for that, or travel for it, for that matter. The Nashville Zoo is pretty freaking awesome, they even have a beer event once a month. It's only $16 for an adult.
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#76
RE: "Ark Encounter" Officially Open!
(July 9, 2016 at 10:17 pm)Spooky Wrote:
(July 9, 2016 at 10:04 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: It does seem to be a spectacularly bad business idea.  Even amongst creationists, how many people would pay to see plastic animals in cages when the zoo offer live ones for less?

Don't they have plans of having a zoo with live animals?

And can they make their zoo better than any moderately good municipal zoo? They plan to have elephants or giraffes? Municipal zoos are often free, most of them I've been to charge less than $50.
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#77
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(July 9, 2016 at 10:47 pm)lisah Wrote:
(July 9, 2016 at 10:17 pm)Spooky Wrote: Don't they have plans of having a zoo with live animals?

Not inside, they are going to on the outside.

Their replica was not built to float either. It's just another amusement park. I would not pay the admission fee they're asking. But it's probably a standard rate for amusement parks.

Yes, but most $50 amusement parks have rides and are fun.   The closest equivalent to this ark, on the other hand, is perhaps madam tussaud's waxwork museum.  Except madam Tussaud's probably didn't cost $100 million, and many more people would pay to see life like effigy of well known humans than well known animals.
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#78
RE: "Ark Encounter" Officially Open!
I've been obsessively checking the yelp reviews for the thing, for some reason, and it's funny that the one 5 star review so far got filtered out Tongue
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#79
RE: "Ark Encounter" Officially Open!
I wonder how carefully the animal models were vetted ??

Funny as hell if two of the same sex were in a display together . . .
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#80
RE: "Ark Encounter" Officially Open!
CBS Sunday Morning did a piece on Bill Nye included clips of his debate with Hamheaded dipshit.

Bill, paraphrasing, "How do you explain billions of stars being light years away older than 6 thousand years" FUCK YEA!
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