What should OKC add to bring > people 2 visit it?

[ApplePearBerry]

Ubanized, that is really interesting and great to know.
Thank you. =)

[Larry OKC]

Mine was definitely Betts' father, I had the privilege of visiting the Worlds largest ball of twin, the Worlds largest pecan tree, a house made completely of glass, the Worlds largest tree house, just to name a few.

We saw all of that stuff too but it wasn't planned at all...purely spur of the moment type stuff. again, not based on ads or magazines etc but billboards and what we could see from the roads. Anybody remember the numerous signs painted on sides of barns and roofs for "Rock City" at Lookout Mountain
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[betts]

Reptile Gardens? We finally prevailed on my father on that one, but it took quite a few years. And then, while we were visiting said "gardens", someone put a bumper sticker on my dad's car, which made him furious. We discovered why we saw so many bumper stickers advertising it.

[ljbab728]

Quick poll:

How many here had Betts' father?

How many had Larry OKC's dad?

I think I may be their father. lol

[mmonroe]

I went to PCB last year in August. Talk about fun, until after dark and everything was closed... we just sat in our hotel the whole time except for when we visited the tiniest Coyote Ugly ever. We were trying to go to Club LaVida but apparently it's not open during this time, and for all the hype it had, it was really a tiny place too. We did happen to catch the Ripley's Believe it or not museum and that was awesome. We checked out the brochures in our hotel lobby and not one of them showed anything appealing to us. Pier Park was probably one of the coolest outdoor malls right next to Pinnacle Hills Promenade in Rogers, AR. We wanted to catch the pirate cruise, but no success either day we went to get tickets. We need a pirate ship on the river, HA! There was even a small park on the end of the main road along the beach front in PCB, I forget the name, but it was a nice small park to relax at. Anyways... i'm getting away from the thread.

[RodH]

A Star Trek based theme park would bring people here. Oklahoma is the home of a disproportionate number of astronauts so that could be used as a tie-in. I imagine an huge park of several hundred acres. It would be called The Worlds of the Federation. It would be an expensive project. There would be rides and science exhibits. It could trace the history of human space exploration from its factual beginings up through the ficional accounts based on the television shows. There could be life-size models of the ships and space stations. Some of the more interesting planet environments could be created. There could even be hotels run by delegations from other planets. Imagine staying in a hotel run by Klingons or shopping in a store run by Ferengi.

[Larry OKC]

Star Trek the Experience is looking for a new home (closed at the Hilton over a year ago now) was supposed to reopen in Downtown Las Vegas in time for the Star Trek film opening, but last I heard they haven't even started construction and they had a tag sale of everything that had been in storage from the Hilton attraction (hopefully not the Museum of the Future stuff that had props, costumes etc from the various incarnations). Found out about the sale 4 days after it happened. Was bummed out for a couple of weeks.

Would love to see something like what you described, but even the Experience required a Tier I convention city / tourist destination and we are hoping to get our foot in the door as a Tier II