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By: Jacob Black

Jacob Black — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 02:33:15 +0000

Can’t wait for the next installment at the movies – I love the wolf pack and can’t wait to see Breaking Dawn

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By: Noel

Noel — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:22:43 +0000

What a load of twaddle. Your rosey glass eye view of London is distorting your view of the facts.
Yes Eurodisney was built in France, where the staff… being French… weren’t prone to provide that “Have a nice day!” feeling that Walt Disney instilled in his US parks, park numbers have not meet expectations resulting in cuts and staff actually striked during a Christmas period (Walt would have turned in his grave). Hence the enormous dept that it has found itself in since it opened being unable to generate the numbers to cover its costs…hardly a “triumphant success”.
The figures may show that you are more likely to be robbed or shot in Orlando than London, but the fact is I “feel” more likely that it would happen in London than Orlando.
Lets face facts… grey, rainsodden and dirty London will never attract the sort of numbers that a major groomed theme park like Universal Orlando can generate. The opening of the park has proved this.
Lets just tip our bowler hat to our American cousins and admit that they do it better.

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Harry Potter Theme Park - MeMiM — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:37:21 +0000

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By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 11:33:12 +0000

I took my children to the actual castle in Anwick, Northumberland where Harry Potter was made and left the rest to their imagination.
This is what will fire them, not some force fed, over priced American plastic.

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By: Inventor

Inventor — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:51:32 +0000

As the designer of a theme park myself I am struggling to get the idea up and running. If you are keeping up with this thread Boris then please get in touch. It is a veritable struggle as I am not an entrepreneur and have need of help to build this park. It is an idea that has never been done before and is totally undercover so will be brilliant whatever the weather in the UK. If the Americans can do it then so can we (meaning me) but the idea is in my head and needs to be brought out. Trouble is I don’t have enough of my own money to pay architects and other people. So, what do I do???

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By: Consultant

Consultant — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 02:40:58 +0000

“….we find that someone else carts it off and makes a killing from it elsewhere” Boris

Because Britain has played the sacrificial role since the empire era and as the inventor of the modern world.

“We have been increasingly operating beyond our collective experience, operating blind in a totally new world. The BP blow out is a good metaphor for our situation is economics and many other branches of what we used to call “science”, but more properly today should call raw experimentation.”

Now this is more interesting use for BP’s oil!!
“In fact, if any business person votes Dem, that person should be boiled in BP’s oil!”

by American bloggers in FT

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By: Consultant

Consultant — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 02:02:59 +0000

The real story behind sub-prime scenario is revealed from unexpected places! financial sector may have had sleep walking into the drama! the housing agencies’ commissioners were the real culpable as designers:

“The only ones who knew the sub-prime loans were bad and would be uncollecible were the borrowers who wanted a fancy house for nothing, the realtor and lender who paid a crooked real estate appraiser to appraise the property at an inflated price to increase the real estate commision and the amount of the loan (granted to anyone walking and breathing), and the ‘agent who wrote the inflated loan and got a percentage of that amount for just writing it. Low participants. The lender then sold the loan to a larger bank or inurance company who had no inkling of the quality of the loan. ‘Factoring’ and selling of loans is thousands of years old and not illegal. At this stage all knowledge of the fact that the loan was made to someone who could never in a thousand years repay it was non existent. The banks and insurance companies (Goldman Sachs. Freddie, and Fanny included) were simply doing what they had been doing for decades.

Thw loans were bundled and rebundled countless times so that an original amount of bundled loans of say 10 million dollars was actually the collateral for perhaps 5, 10, or more times that amount in bonds issued to individual investors but particularly to banks, large and small who bought the bonds not knowing that the collateral behind them was not only insufficient to cover the bond (MAYBE 10 PERCENT) most probably totally uncollectable. When a miilion in loans defaulted tens (or more) of bonds were worthless (pennies on the dollar). Congress quickly passed a law allowing banks to keep the bonds on their balance sheets at their face amounts, although the banks should have been showing them for what they were really worth: what they could sell them for in the open market. Congress therefore became a co-conspirator in perpetuating a frau. There are still trillions of these worthless loans still on the balance sheets of banks for their face value and not their real worth. “

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Sat, 12 Jun 2010 05:51:29 +0000

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By: DANIEL

DANIEL — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:25:22 +0000

i like harry potter and im really angry as well

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By: Roberto

Roberto — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:18:29 +0000

Good whinge, but in reality where would a 20 acre theme park be built in Britain, when even a Tesco has to battle with small-minded councillors for years to put up a small supermarket. How about Donald Trump’s golf course on a wind-swept Aberdeenshire beach that was soon thwarted by British nostalgia for bird habitat. Investors know that it isn’t worth the headache.

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