New Titanic Theme Park Slammed As “Disrespectful”.

There is no shortage of weird and wonderful theme parks around the world, there is an Angry Birds park in Finland and probably the weirdest of all is the Kingdom of the Little People in China which requires all its employees to be shorter than 4 ft 3 inches tall.

However the Chinese seemed to have out done themselves with their latest offering – The Titanic Theme Park. A park which simulates the monumental disaster in which more than 1,500 people perished at sea – a great big bundle of laughs i’m sure you’ll agree.

Work has started on the new attraction in China which features a life-size replica of the Titanic and will allow tourists to relive the moment the doomed ocean liner hit an iceberg. Su Shaojun, one of the founders of the £100m project, said at it’s launch last year:

“When the ship hits the iceberg, it will shake, it will tumble. We will let people experience water coming in by using sound and light effects, they will think ‘the water will drown me, I must escape with my life’.”

I’ve always thought there’s nothing quite like a ‘virtual drowning’ to while away the hours on a lazy summers weekend.

Unsurprisingly the park  has been criticised by the Liverpool Seafarers’ Centre, chief executive John Wilson said:

“I definitely think it’s in bad taste, having an attraction where it replicates what it’s like to sink is out of order and disrespectful to those who did lose their lives and their relatives, a lot of lives were lost and this is not something which sits easy.”

The theme park plans were revealed in January last year and work is now underway on construction.

Not sure if this one will make it onto my ‘Bucket List’.

What do you think, a celebration of a landmark moment in maritime history or a quite frankly bonkers insensitive waste of money?

I’d love to hear your thoughts, bye for now.