GERMAN VALLEY READY TO GO HOLLYWOOD.Byline: Terrence Petty Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. What's Up Doc? Bugs Bunny is getting a home in Germany, that's what. So are Elmer Fudd Elmer J. Fudd is a fictional cartoon character and one of the most famous Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies characters. He has one of the more convoluted and disputed origins in the Warner Brothers cartoon pantheon (second only to Bugs Bunny himself). and the rest of the Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . cartoon gang. Warner is nearing completion of a big theme park just outside Bottrop, bringing Hollywood to Germany's economically troubled steel-making region, the Ruhr Valley Noun 1. Ruhr Valley - a major industrial and coal mining region in the valley of the Ruhr river in northwestern Germany Ruhr Deutschland, FRG, Germany, Federal Republic of Germany - a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after . The Warner Bros. Movie World opens June 30, when actors dressed as the ``wascally wabbit'' and friends will mingle with kids and parents lining up for attractions such as a Wild West street, a ``Lethal Weapon'' Roller Coaster What a bad CD-R disc is often called. See CD-R and underrun. and a Looney Tunes Land. Warner Bros. and a co-investor, the German computer company Nixdorf, have spent more than $256 million on the complex, the only one of its kind in Europe. Tickets will cost $23 per day for adults and $18.50 for children. With its theme rides and cartoon characters, the 100-acre operation is something like the much larger Disneyland Paris. But Warner officials say their park has something more: five studios where Hollywood-style movies will be made and visitors can peek behind the scenes. Local officials hope tourism from ``Hollywood in Germany,'' as the Warner park
Warner Park is a community park in northern Madison, Wisconsin. is also being called, will boost the troubled Ruhr Valley's economy. Once the motor of German industry, the Ruhr Valley has been sputtering A popular method for adhering thin films onto a substrate. Sputtering is done by bombarding a target material with a charged gas (typically argon) which releases atoms in the target that coats the nearby substrate. It all takes place inside a magnetron vacuum chamber under low pressure. for some time. Coal mining has nearly died out, and steel-making is also in trouble. ``People have this vision of the Ruhr region being gruesome and unattractive,'' said Kathrin Hartmann, a spokeswoman for Bottrop. ``We hope the movie park can help change that image.'' But it's a sight that's hard to ignore: Within view of this fantasy land are the smokestacks of a huge oil refinery. At the park, visitors can walk down Main Street, whose shops are loaded with Warner merchandise; past the Roxy theater, where 3-D cartoons will be shown; and through Western Town. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Children from Bottrop, Germany pose with Warner Bros . cartoon characters at a new theme park. Associated Press |
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