File this one right next to your Rascal Flatts: Greatest Hits album in the bad taste category.
A Chinese theme park has announced plans to build a $16.3 million life-sized replica of the Titanic, complete with a museum and – wait for it – a shipwreck simulator.
According to Su Shaojun, the chief executive of the project’s investment group, the simulator will allow a few hundred people to experience what it was like to be on-board the Titanic that fateful night in April of 1912:
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.”
Maybe.
Or…maybe they’ll be thinking, “Oh my God! This is horrible! So, this is what it feels like to be dying! I’d rather be at home applying a prescription fungus medicine to my husband’s feet! Why did I pay to do this? Getting on this ride was a bad choice!”
Call us crazy, but we’re pretty sure the survivors of the real Titanic in the picture below weren’t thinking, “You know what’s funny? Someday they’ll be making an amusement park ride about us.”
The “ride” is expected to open in 2016. No word yet as to whether or not the investment group plans on following it up with a Tiananmen Square Massacre simulator.
(via UPI)
