Okay, let me tell you something.
First of all, when you open a UT response post with something like "Dude!!!", you just wind up making yourself look like a crass doofus who's totally out of his element within UT. (Likewise with your constant use of juvenile adjectives like "cool". Or "woah!", or the lack of apostrophes a la "its", "Wonderlands", etc.)
Secondly, as with your earlier post, when you use a Paradise Fun Park image with the message "You sound like the kind of person who wants to see this at OP", you wind up looking like a crass doofus who's totally out of his element within UT.
And thirdly: I don't think that anyone's denying that something should be done with/at Ontario Place; after all, that's why it closed in the first place. Not even in UT.
However, you're going to find very few thoughtful people around these parts who are willing to sacrifice Zeidler's pods and Cinesphere on that behalf. Much less on behalf of "a billion dollar entertainment complex with a casino".
The general tenor around here, you'll find, is whatever's done with Ontario Place, the pods-and-Cinesphere should stay. "Sympathetically repurposed", perhaps; but certainly not swept away--and maybe even in tandem w/casino facilities? In fact, perhaps there's more thoughtful wisdom in allowing the
existing complex be the "star attraction" of anything casino-like.
Yeah, maybe to you its *ahem* it's "looking old and nothing special"--but that's you. And judging from your posting history, I'm not sure if your kind of tastes are worth bending to.
And moreover. it intrigues me how, uh, people like you use the word "people" generically, as a self-aggrandizing euphemism for tyranny-of-the-majority/insensitive-philistine-masses-like-myself. Analogous to Rob Ford's "people hate streetcars, people want subways, subways subways subways". It's all about "people", as if anyone who
wasn't a vulgar philistine prone to apostrophe-elimination and overuse of adjectives like "cool" is a pointy-headed, "taxpayer"-disrespecting non-person.
In the end, you sound like the kind of person who'd advocate tearing down something like this
on behalf of something like this
and to those who object, you'd offer: "stop living in the past", "its not even looking that good anymore/looking old and nothing special", "people don't want that kind of house", etc.
Yeah, sure. As if that were shared sentiment within UT. (Well, maybe it *is* re the "people don't want" matter--but that's more a casual-sociological-observation measure of such fare being a specialty taste, i.e. it isn't for everyone, much less if it were to be handled w/any sensitivity.)
Oh, and re "seeing it as a tourist"; of course, it depends upon the kind of tourist you are. Like, one expects more sensitivity from "Copenhagen" types of tourists than "Cancun" types of tourists; or "AGO/OCAD" types of tourists than "Canada's Wonderland" types of tourists...
