The Count of Transylvania
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The Curse of Count Dracula
The prospect of a tourist bonanza from a Dracula theme park in Transylvania excites some Romanians, but opponents see only red
A couple of earnest environmentalists warned author Rudy Chelminski that venerable oak trees on the plain where he was walking would soon be felled. A large billboard explained why. "Aici se va construi DRACULA PARK," announced the text: Dracula Park was to be built here.
Over the past year and a half, a furious controversy has swarmed around this proposal. It was Romania's minister of tourism who came up with the idea of a Dracula theme park. Few of his countrymen would argue with the minister's economic rationale, but proposing the city of Sighisoara as the site was another matter. Known as the "Pearl of Transylvania," Sighisoara was founded near the end of the 13th century; the old-town citadel remains perfectly preserved. It sits on a hill behind a 30-foot wall punctuated by nine defensive towers.
In the autumn of 2001, the tourism minister displayed elaborate plans for Dracula Park in a glossy brochure. It depicts a medieval castle complete with torture chamber, alchemy laboratory, vampire den and an initiation hall where "young vampires can be dubbed knights." The International Institute of Vampirology was to be located near Dracula Lake, a wide pond with a restaurant in the middle, and the Old Tower would house a workshop for teeth-sharpening. Restaurant fare was to include blood pudding, brains, and "fright-jellied" meat, a scraps and gelatin concoction.
Last summer England's Prince Charles, an architecture buff and preservationist, added his own voice to the rising chorus of dissent when he declared that "the proposed Dracula Park is wholly out of sympathy with the area and will ultimately destroy its character." Then, in February, the minister announced that the town of Snagov, just north of the Bucharest airport, would be the park site. Groundbreaking is planned for May.
The developers had lost; Transylvania had won. As for Dracula himself, it wouldn't have surprised anyone if the mocking sound of his demonic laughter could be heard echoing through the alleyways of the medieval citadel that has escaped his curse. -
Originally posted by The Count of Monte-Cristo:The Curse of Count Dracula
The prospect of a tourist bonanza from a Dracula theme park in Transylvania excites some Romanians, but opponents see only red
A couple of earnest environmentalists warned author Rudy Chelminski that venerable oak trees on the plain where he was walking would soon be felled. A large billboard explained why. "Aici se va construi DRACULA PARK," announced the text: Dracula Park was to be built here.
Over the past year and a half, a furious controversy has swarmed around this proposal. It was Romania's minister of tourism who came up with the idea of a Dracula theme park. Few of his countrymen would argue with the minister's economic rationale, but proposing the city of Sighisoara as the site was another matter. Known as the "Pearl of Transylvania," Sighisoara was founded near the end of the 13th century; the old-town citadel remains perfectly preserved. It sits on a hill behind a 30-foot wall punctuated by nine defensive towers.
In the autumn of 2001, the tourism minister displayed elaborate plans for Dracula Park in a glossy brochure. It depicts a medieval castle complete with torture chamber, alchemy laboratory, vampire den and an initiation hall where "young vampires can be dubbed knights." The International Institute of Vampirology was to be located near Dracula Lake, a wide pond with a restaurant in the middle, and the Old Tower would house a workshop for teeth-sharpening. Restaurant fare was to include blood pudding, brains, and "fright-jellied" meat, a scraps and gelatin concoction.
Last summer England's Prince Charles, an architecture buff and preservationist, added his own voice to the rising chorus of dissent when he declared that "the proposed Dracula Park is wholly out of sympathy with the area and will ultimately destroy its character." Then, in February, the minister announced that the town of Snagov, just north of the Bucharest airport, would be the park site. Groundbreaking is planned for May.
The developers had lost; Transylvania had won. As for Dracula himself, it wouldn't have surprised anyone if the mocking sound of his demonic laughter could be heard echoing through the alleyways of the medieval citadel that has escaped his curse.
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my eyes @_@ liao. read this kind of long long grandmother story at 2am.
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the maner in wich u speak not apreciated at all if eny of u dare to challenge the darknes of my cold dead heard then email me and perhaaps i will inlighten u of ower culture also if eny others of my race still are lingering in the shadows of the nightt out ther
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I'm waiting for the night to fall when everything is bearable And in the glow of the moon Know my deliverance will come soon
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Originally posted by The Count of Monte-Cristo:
you fever ah?
[b]the maner in wich u speak not apreciated at all if eny of u dare to challenge the darknes of my cold dead heard then email me and perhaaps i will inlighten u of ower culture also if eny others of my race still are lingering in the shadows of the nightt out ther
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Originally posted by The Count of Monte-Cristo:
call ambulance...
[b]I'm waiting for the night to fall when everything is bearable And in the glow of the moon Know my deliverance will come soon[/b] -
Vampire clone lah
good roleplaying
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By the way , count dracula isn't born on 1967
want to be vampire clone so lazy , at least get date correct wad..
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I rem the Count of Monte-Cristo is a character of a novel, since when it became a vampire?...
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Originally posted by Simple_Bear:I rem the Count of Monte-Cristo is a character of a novel, since when it became a vampire?...
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Well unless there is an additional part to the novel which I didnt know...Originally posted by Mao x 2: -
Originally posted by Simple_Bear:Well unless there is an additional part to the novel which I didnt know...
Dracula sneak into the prison and suck his blood.
Then he gained new power and break out of the prison and become the Count of Monte Cristo and marry Ma Xiao Ling. -
So U mean Kuang Tian You is Count of Monte Cristo?...Originally posted by Mao x 2:
Dracula sneak into the prison and suck his blood.
Then he gained new power and break out of the prison and become the Count of Monte Cristo and marry Ma Xiao Ling.
Dracula is Jiang Chen?... -
Originally posted by Simple_Bear:So U mean Kuang Tian You is Count of Monte Cristo?...
Dracula is Jiang Chen?...
My date with a vampire part 4. -
I heard they haf plans to shoot part 4, hw do U know the storyline before hand?...Originally posted by Mao x 2:
My date with a vampire part 4. -
I even know that his parents is called Count Pek and Count Bu..Originally posted by Simple_Bear:I heard they haf plans to shoot part 4, hw do U know the storyline before hand?... -
Originally posted by Mao x 2:I even know that his parents is called Count Pek and Count Bu..
U still haven tell me where U gt Ur info from?... -
Shhh......i heard it from Smappy..Originally posted by Simple_Bear:
U still haven tell me where U gt Ur info from?... -
Smappy going to Hong Kong to shoot the new series izzit?...Originally posted by Mao x 2:Shhh......i heard it from Smappy..
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Yeah... that would be the part 5 one lah..Originally posted by Simple_Bear:Smappy going to Hong Kong to shoot the new series izzit?...
I tink they need a new villian who can clone himself...
My Date with a Vampire Part 5, Attack of the Vampire Clones. -
Smappy the vampire...Originally posted by Mao x 2:Yeah... that would be the part 5 one lah..
My Date with a Vampire Part 5, Attack of the Vampire Clones. -
heh....smapy the lampah
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balls to youOriginally posted by alexkusu:heh....smapy the lampah