Swindon twins with Walt Disney World The picturesque Wiltshire town of Swindon has beaten 24 less magical UK locations to become the first real-world twin of Florida's Walt Disney World. According to the BBC, the home of Honda motors and Billie Piper secured the honour after 20-year-old building society worker Rebecca Warren "made a video of her home town and …
Easy - need a Brunel Statue. Short term loan of a King and a Castle, restore Evening Star and show them what real steam locomotives work like. Oh and a Western.
Sorry but Swindon to me means GWR, I forget about the miserable looking town centre.
Oh look the fire is lit, GWR 175 is next year!
You can make out an approximation of the outline of Mickey Mouse's head in the Magic Roundabout. I wouldn't be surprised if that's all that they took into consideration, especially given how so many people in Florida have never seen a proper roundabout.
Paris, 'cause she's a big fan of Hugh Wood.
Hmm, so WDW will now contain an exhibit with a few speed cameras, some clone-shops, a concrete station, FGW headquarters and maybe a steam loco or two? It'd have to have a fog machine to provide the permenantly overcast look too.
I cant wait...
I would imagine Milton Keynes was another contender, but got rejected on the ground that it looks just like what they already have in the states, only far more depressing, and no-one there known how to use a roundabout ;O)
Ahh so it has a name then?
I thought it was the Roundabout of Death as it's bloody evil, whoever designed it should be shot!
Having visited Swindon a couple of times, I can quite honestly say the only decent thing they had there was the Museum Of Computing at the old Swindon Uni site, I believe it's moved somewhere else in Swindon now, hopefully somewhere near the M4 so if I visit again I can avoid that bloody roundabout!!!
Rob
Everyone who sits their driving test in Swindon has to "do" the roundabout and it's really not that difficult. It's nice to know you can go round to the left or the right, or straight across. A joy, one of the few in the town.
I have also flashed across this roundabout unfortunately. I was cycling across and I must have been whizzing across at such a speed that my button up shirt unbuttoned itself, and while the roundabout it not as nasty as it looks you don't really want to stop on a bike in the middle. I hope I brightened up a few Swindonians mornings.
A girl from Swindon
It's a fecking advertising ruse that the Disney Corp. have spun. They've asked for a twin town in every major western country. The media have fallen for this and given them oodles of column inches. They don't give monkeys about whether it's Swindon or whatever; they just want publicity. So far they've had millions worth for the cost of a six inch brass effect plaque which will be lined up with countless others in disneyland, and the cost of flying some 15 minute hero and her offspring over for a photo-op.
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