Friday, April 20, 2007

Britain's Dickens World: Theme park with a Twist:

In Dickens World, rat catchers hunt vermin on London's cobbled streets, pickpockets roam the alleys -- and visitors line up for a fun-tastic water ride.

A new theme park inspired by the work of Charles Dickens aims to transform a 70,000-square-foot warehouse near London into a teeming -- and family-friendly -- corner of Victorian England.

Literary purists may balk, but the attraction's backers are confident.