Titanic II : Wed Feb 27, 2013 9:30 am  

Eccentric self indulgence, poor taste? Going to cost billions but be ready by 2016 apparently?

Eccentric self indulgence, poor taste? Going to cost billions but be ready by 2016 apparently?

Re: Titanic II : Wed Feb 27, 2013 9:34 am  

I mean, you wouldn't want to risk a cruise on it, would you?

Re: Titanic II : Wed Feb 27, 2013 9:51 am  

I can't help but think though that making an exact replica of a poorly designed boat is a tad silly. Why not use it as an inspiration and make a modern vessel instead?

I would go on it. I would be one of the rich and immoral people who would have been first in the queue for the life boats anyway.

[Durham Giant]

Re: Titanic II : Wed Feb 27, 2013 10:05 am  

Hopefui;ly it will have lookouts to watch for icebergs, bulkheads that go all the way up, a thickened hull and enough lifeboats for everyone else.

I like the idea of making it nostalgic and you dress up as you would in 1910.

Hopefully they will have lots of poor people in steerage so the billionaires and millionaires can look down on without having to mix with them.

Re: Titanic II : Wed Feb 27, 2013 10:08 am  

Durham Giant wrote:

Hopefui;ly it will have lookouts to watch for icebergs, bulkheads that go all the way up, a thickened hull and enough lifeboats for everyone else.

I like the idea of making it nostalgic and you dress up as you would in 1910.

Hopefully they will have lots of poor people in steerage so the billionaires and millionaires can look down on without having to mix with them.

Lets hope they change company policy and give them binoculars this time round

Re: Titanic II : Wed Feb 27, 2013 11:19 am  

Mintball wrote:

I mean, you wouldn't want to risk a cruise on it, would you?

Apparently, its first cruise will retrace the route of the original Titanic, though they plan to detour that bit where #1 took a ninety to the bottom, and instead press on to NY.

They say that 40,000 people have already applied for tickets.

There is indeed going to be some sort of faux "Third Class", and toffs will be able to buy tickets to spend part of the journey down there with the hoi polloi.

Re: Titanic II : Wed Feb 27, 2013 11:28 am  

Where will they get all the riveters they will need, even the Geordie and Jock shipyard riveters will be over 80 these days.

Suprised it's not some American doing it.

Re: Titanic II : Wed Feb 27, 2013 11:40 am  

rover49 wrote:

Where will they get all the riveters they will need, even the Geordie and Jock shipyard riveters will be over 80 these days.

Suprised it's not some American doing it.

Being built in China, apparently

Re: Titanic II : Wed Feb 27, 2013 12:27 pm  

I might be interested if he's staying so faithful to the original that he's charging 1910 prices

Re: Titanic II : Fri Mar 01, 2013 10:16 pm  

The blokes a fruit loop.