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Re: Cranes in Museum/Big Machine Summer
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Charles Carlson <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 29 Oct 2012 09:08:00 -0700
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STEM at any cost!  Of course this kinda stuff is big hit.  As a nine year old, operating construction equipment of every sort from D9 cats, to road graders and shovels provided endless hours of entertainment.  Most of this occurred in our imaginations after scampering up ladders or trundling over treads, to claim the coveted operators chair, and seizing the various control levers.  On rare occasions, some knowledgeable 12 year old would figure out how to fire up the diesel engine, which would sometimes idle over the weekend to our great wonder.

Such was growing up in a rapidly developing set of newly planned and developing suburbs.  It took a few years for the construction companies to figure out the compelling attractive nuisance features of big equipment and it's compelling power over mostly young boys, but they finally short circuited the experience, and now we're envisioning safe experiences in museums.

C

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On Oct 29, 2012, at 8:21 AM, Eric Siegel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> wow, that is very cool.  I think it was a brit who said "first, we kill all the lawyers."
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> Eric
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>> There is a chain of theme parks in the U.K. under the name DiggerLand where visitors use real construction equipment.  They have adapted some types of equipment as rides, and in other cases visitors sit at the controls of backhoes and actually get to dig.  This is not a Disney-esque cleaned up version, but the real deal — all of the equipment is real.  The owners originally owned a construction company and got the idea for the theme park from their annual family day — people were so excited about just getting to sit on the machines that it occurred to them to create an attraction around the concept.  
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