Advantages: Interesting exhibits Disadvantages: a bit expensive, not for young kids
...a massive fan of the Ripley's Believe It Or Not! series of books which chart details of all things weird and wonderful in the world so the Ripley's odditorium was one of the places we simply had to visit when we were in Blackpool over Easter. ==Who Was Ripley?== Robert Leroy Ripley was born in 1890 and travelled to over 200 countries and reported on the strange things that he found in his newspaper column entitled Believe It Or Not! which was read ... ...published in 1929 and the Ripley's series of books are still being published to this day with the 2009 annual proving a massive hit in my household. Collections of the curiosities that he collected are displayed all around the world in a series of odditoriums in the USA, Canada, Thailand and of course Blackpool. == The Museum == The first thing that we saw when we entered the museum was a fertility statue. It was funny to see the girls step around ...
wigglylittleworm 15.05.2009
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Advantages: Lots of info, lots of variety and shelter from weather Disadvantages: Prices could be less steap
Ripley's Believe It Or Not! is situated on Blackpool's front where thousands of tourists come and visit all the time. Ripley's.. is a great place for a family, however some younger children may find some parts frightening. The prices arn't too good, but there acceptable. When me and my dad visited recently, I think it cost us just over £10, and I'm 16 so I'm not sure if they classed me as a child or an adult, but I would assume an adult.
The whole ... ...the world, each with a lot of information concerning it which means you can read up on things that catch your eye - pretty much all of it! For example, one of the first displays in the place is a range of "freak animals" such as a sheep with 6 legs, a cow with 2 heads, things like this.
In the same room, theres also a display of different people from centuarys ago, one including a man who had a candle at the tip of his head sprouting out of his ...
ConnorH 18.08.2009
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