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racheymaus
old hand Rank: Chinny |
Millennium Point (less).
replied on: 1/9/2004 12:41:52 PM IMAX was good fun though. Very expensive but quite a treat. In this tired and jaded world it's nice to find something that can make you "aah" like a bairn. Maybe it says something about my gullibility (take note groomers! Susceptible, me.) but I found myself dodging simulated rocks and worrying simulated paint splodges would stain my clothes. Tsk. Never again. Holding the New Year celebrations at the Point speaks of desperation to sell the idea to us, does it not? Did anyone go? And if so, will they be suing the council for pneumonia. What's with massing out of doors to celebrate the fact we're a long way off the weather being warm? |
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liquorlicence
likes beer and blues Rank: Chinny |
Millennium Point (less).
replied on: 1/13/2004 1:39:13 PM quote: I’ve never understood the concept. Surely this kind of New Year social gathering consists of conversing with complete strangers, or fighting with them, freezing half to death and watching a disappointing firework display. And of course this year they had Jamelia to contend with too. I’d much rather be in a friendly boozer, attempting to set my personal best in my very own drinking competition. |
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peakyblinder
old hand Rank: Chinny |
Millennium Point (less).
replied on: 1/15/2004 1:05:21 PM I've heard that the council is considering proposals to make the Thinktank free. I think it's going to need a lot more than free admission to entice people in. They might consider actually putting real things in there instead of a load of stupid interactive jiggery-pokery that you could get off of a Playstation. And they should do something about the pathetic lifts. You get in on the ground floor and the lift says you're on L1 or something. Floor 1 is 0 and floor 2 is G1. I was confused, and I'm a university Professor. Heaven knows what the unemployed and ill-educated lower orders make of it all, but I could have a pretty good guess seeing as the place is always deserted. |
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peakyblinder
old hand Rank: Chinny |
Millennium Point (less).
replied on: 1/15/2004 6:38:39 PM Sorry, didn't mean to sound so pompous, but I was angry. |
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racheymaus
old hand Rank: Chinny |
Millennium Point (less).
replied on: 1/15/2004 7:16:18 PM I'd go loads if it was free, if only to get a headache. I've learnt from those morrissmen. There's an air hockey machine game thing at which I lost about ten squillion to nil. Such a thrill. And a thing where you can perform a hip replacement. I've never had such fun. Slicing into virtual tissue and dislocating a virtual hip from its socket. C'mon Vera, give us a go, I've got loads of experience thanks to THINKTANK (one word). Co Op tin foil is so much strudier than most, that'd do for a new joint, wouldn't it? |
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NH350Ariel
old hand Rank: Ozzy |
Millennium Point (less).
replied on: 1/15/2004 7:40:58 PM The Thoughtless Tank is in a list for the best museum of the year. The nomination is obviously from a twat that has never been there. |
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NH350Ariel
old hand Rank: Ozzy |
Millennium Point (less).
replied on: 1/16/2004 6:14:44 PM Wednesdays Evening Mail ran an article and an editorial on MP. A museum spokesperson told them that on one day last week they only had 37 paying visitors. The voice of MP also said that visitors had fallen by 50% since opening. Lets do a few sums. It costs £6.50 for an adult in employment to get in. on the day of the 37 visitors they will have taken a maximum of £240.50. Being a generous person I realise that 37 was a bad day so we will call the daily average 50. that gives takings of £325.00. We know that we now have half the people through the doors now than when it opened. That gives a maximum of 100 folks a day and draws in a massive £650. Could some one remind me of how much the place cost and what are the running charges? Museum of the year my bollocks! |
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NH350Ariel
old hand Rank: Ozzy |
Millennium Point (less).
replied on: 1/16/2004 6:44:12 PM The shortlist for the £100,000 Gulbenkian Prize for Museum of the Year has been announced. A list of four finalists will be revealed at the end of March and the overall winner will be announced on May 11 at the Royal Academy in London during Museums and Galleries Month. The shortlist in full: · Thinktank, Birmingham for its Futures Gallery - a cutting edge and challenging exhibition· Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh for the dramatic Landform by Charles Jencks - part sculpture, part garden, part land-art· Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow for Sanctuary, a thought-provoking project that used contemporary art to address human rights and the plight of asylum seekers· National Trust, Sutton House, Hackney for Black History Month 2003, a pioneering project for the NT in the oldest domestic residence in London's east end.· Henry Moore Institute, Leeds for Sculpture in 20th Century Britain, a landmark exhibition, the first retrospective for over 20 years· Royal Armouries, Leeds for The Knight is Young/Princely Weapons and Armour of Childhood, an exhibition both for and about children· National Gallery, London for Titian and Titian after Dark - one of the most high profile and highly acclaimed exhibitions of 2003· Prescot Museum, Merseyside for Creating History - The Story of a Lifetime, a joint exploration of local history by former Merseyside factory workers and school children· Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle upon Tyne for Reticulum, an innovative partnership betwen local schools and museum staff· Pembrokeshire Museum Service, Wales for Varda, a travelling exhibition based in a Gypsy caravan that explores local Romany history and culture· Clifton Park Museum, Rotherham for its Heritage Education Project, a community and oral history project meeting Basic Skills needs· Norton Priory Museum, Runcorn for Positive Partnerships, working with people with learning disabilities, as featured in BBC 2 Hidden Gardens Medieval Herb Garden project· Tyne & Wear Museums, Segedunum, Wallsend for Pontis, an innovative and witty public art project that captured the public's imagination. |
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NH350Ariel
old hand Rank: Ozzy |
Millennium Point (less).
replied on: 1/16/2004 6:53:11 PM Birmingham's Lottery flagship could be baled out of a crisis of falling attendances by offering free admission. The scheme, which would see Government grants replacing off-puttingly high entrance charges at Millennium Point - £6.95 for adults and £4.95 for children of three or over - is to be examined by city council scrutiny chiefs. It involves making the East-side visitor attraction unique by building it up from a high-tech entertainment centre into a national base for genealogy. The change would qualify the centre for Government backing on the same basis as museums in London and Lottery-backed attractions in the regions which have prospered by offering free admission. The move comes after Millennium Point's £90 million Thinktank suffered the closure of its Imax cinema . Overall attendances have nearly halved since it opened its doors just over two years ago. The rescue project is the brainchild of millionaire businessman and city Liberal Democrat leader Coun John Hemming. He said: "Millennium point has substantial difficulties. There were only 37 people there one day last week and unfortunately that is part of a continuing trend. The crucial element is to get bums on seats with a new approach which removes high admission charges and creates an attraction people wants to revisit." |
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peakyblinder
old hand Rank: Chinny |
Millennium Point (less).
replied on: 1/16/2004 8:22:29 PM It was on Central News tonight. The bloke in charge of Millennium Point said that he was considering showing Bollywood films in the ex-Imax cinema (probably after being told that it was too small for a lap-dancing joint). |
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NH350Ariel
old hand Rank: Ozzy |
Millennium Point (less).
replied on: 1/16/2004 8:53:44 PM If the Tabboo cinema club closes they could relocate to MP. The lifts might be a bit of a problem but I think you can wipe it off glass with a damp rag. |
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BrummieExpat
Rank: Jasper |
Millennium Point (less).
replied on: 1/16/2004 9:20:50 PM I've only ever seen the place as I went past it on the train but when I saw it on Central news tonight it just looked to me like Birmingham's half assed attempt to replicate the also pointless millenium dome. Is that the case? Did we have to nick an idea off the cockneys cos we're too dumb to think of unique ways to waste money? |
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peakyblinder
old hand Rank: Chinny |
Millennium Point (less).
replied on: 1/16/2004 10:27:23 PM You think, NH350Ariel? Don't you know? Ex-pat, yes and no. Yes in that it is very similar in some respects to the Millennium Dome because both were/are/will be for only a little longer filled with a big load of nothing that you pay through the nose for in the name of interactivity. I'm sorry, but when I and everybody else I know on this planet, including young kids, go to a museum, we want to see engines, bikes, cars, planes, sarcophagi, weapons, armour, precious jewels, vases, dinosaur bones, etc., not pathetic interactive games and strobe lights. No in that at least the Millennium Dome had something going for it because it looked a bit different. Millennium Point is just a great big ugly, graceless edifice that screams: "Well, the rest of Birmingham is pig-ugly, so why should I bother?" It's the architectural equivalent of an abortion and those responsible for it should be made to eat their own innards. |
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NH350Ariel
old hand Rank: Ozzy |
Millennium Point (less).
replied on: 1/16/2004 10:36:48 PM Coventry Transport Museum is bosting. It has everything except a giant squid. wooden bikes, spark plugs with no lables, the worlds fastest car and a tank. Not a thinktank a propper bugger with a big gun. |
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peakyblinder
old hand Rank: Chinny |
Millennium Point (less).
replied on: 1/16/2004 10:40:03 PM Do you mean bostin (as in very good)? Bosting is when you're dying for the bog, ennit? If you mean bostin, I'll give it a go. Have you been to the Imperial War Museum, Ariel? |
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