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- From: jsbell@acs.ucalgary.ca (Joshua Bell)
- Subject: Re: Enterprise Hotel Idea
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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 18:21:04 GMT
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- In article <e7y0VB4w165w@scilab.lonestar.org> chuck@scilab.lonestar.org (Chuck Knight) writes:
- >OK, with all this talk about a scale model of the Enterprise as a hotel
- >at Disney, has anyone decided to make the pitch? I mean, it sounds like
- >a viable idea, and potentially VERY profitable. Perhaps, also, a
- >Starfleet Academy hotel, for the younger visitors, like high-school and
- >college kids, would be possible. So, to whom do we make the pitch?
-
- Unfortunately, Paramount owns Star Trek. Universal Studios is the
- theme-park owned by the same parent corporation, so it would be
- in direct competition with Disney.
-
- Now, having been to Walt Disney World and Universal Studios
- Florida this summer, I would not want to see an enterprise hotel
- run in the style of the Universal studios theme part. Compared to
- the slick style of Disney, US is sloppy.
-
- Lets just hope for a corporate takeover. :)
-
- Joshua
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